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the present enormous expence, and of preventing that
Shocking corruption of Morals which is generated in all
Gaols where Prisoners live Idly together — Since that
Period, I have had occasion to consider a Plan, digested by
Jeremy Bentham Esqr. of Queens Square Place Westminster,
in which all the Ideas I had formed on this
Interesting subject seemed to be concentrated, with many
other Improvements which had not occurred to me: and
I have no difficulty in giving it as my decided opinion
that if the Plan proposed by that Gentleman is adopted
and carried into effect, infinite and incalculable advantages
will arise to the Public, not only by a very
considerable diminution of the enormous expence at
present incurred, but in the improvement of the Morals,
and in the future utility, of the Convicts who may be
placed under such an Establishment

The Witness in explanation of hte Outlines of
Mr Bentham's Plan delivered in a Paper Entitled
"Proposal for a new and less expensive mode of
"employing and reforming Convicts together with
the Outline of a new Plan of Construction for
a Building adapted to that purpose.

Qu 11

What Ground have you for supposing that a great
Corruption of Morals arises form the System of the
Hulks?

As far as my observations have been directed, to
Convicts who have been discharged form those Establishments,
I have seldom or ever known an Instance of
their return to Honest Industry. — On the Contrary
many

Identifier: | JB/117/100/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	copy / of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire, / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report / of the / committee on finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th june 1798) / as relates to mr bentham's penitentiary plan
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38717
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