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of boiling down the flesh of Horses and other animals
unfit for food. It is bounded on one part
by No 1 (the 2-Acre piece) a great part of which
is occupied by a private Road running from the
Wharf, and opening into Tothill Fields. — No 3,
containing about 17 Acres, is almost contiguous to the 11-acre
piece; but not quite, being separated from it by a
narrow road, as well as by a small piece of land extent of private ground.
It is bounded on the north, by the Foot-Road called
the Willow-Walk, leading from Tothill Fields to Chelsea.

The possession of the 11-acre piece with the Wharf
not only might, even without the 17-acre piece,
be made to answer the purpose of the Temporary
Penitentiary House, but, with reference to the Permanent
Penitentiary Establishment itself, it would also
be attended with great advantage.— 1. It would be
an effectual bar to any opposition that might otherwise
start up (not that I have any particular
reason for apprehending any, but the contrary) grounded
on the wish of preventing the establishment from fixing
itself in that neighbourhood. 2. It might even (notwithstanding
the extra price of about £1500 that
would be to be paid for the Wharf wit its )
tend upon the whole rather to keep down than
to swell the amount of the sum total of purchase
money for the ground: for the establishment being once
fixed to that neighbourhood, the proprietors of such other land

Identifier: | JB/117/086/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	not sent; see note 7 to letter 1348 and note 2 to letter 1357, vol. 6	ID Number	38703
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