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No direct answer was given to the above
but on 8th of Septr
a written Paper, of
which the following is
a Copy, was left at
Mr Benthams abode
in Town, in
a cover directed
to him, without
any Letter or other
paper to explain
it.

Letter of 30th of July to Mr Long:

Notice is hereby given That application is intended to be made
to Parliament in the insuing Session for leave of being in a Bill,
and obtain and Act, to explain and amend an Act made in the
34th Year of his present Majesty intitled "An Act for enacting a Penitentiary
House or Houses for confining and employing Convicts"- and
to enable the Feoffee or Feoffees to be appointed under the authority
of the said Act to treat with the Dean and Chapter of Westminster,
the Rector and Vestrymen for the time being of the Parish of S<hi rend="underline">t</hi>"
Margaret and Saint John, and with the several other Persons, interested
in a certain piece of Waste Land known by the name of Tothill
Fields, situate in the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John
in the City and Liberty of Westminster, and with the County of
MIddlesex, for the purchase in one intire bargain of otherwise of
their respective rights and Interests in to and out of such Piece of
Waste Land, and to divide allot and inclose the same —

Josh White Solicitor for the affairs
of his Majesty's Treasury. —

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Mr Bentham to Mr White. ( )

( ) On the subject
of a Paper such
as the forgiving,
it was evidently
impossible for Mr
Bentham to address
himself to
the Dean and
Chapter without
some previous
explanation, to obtain
which, the
following Letter
was accordingly
without Mr
White.

Hendon, Middlesex, 11 Sept. 1798.

Sir,

I have to thank you for the communication of a paper
inclosed in a cover addressed to me with your signature purporting to be a Notice or
copy of a Notice, given or intended to be given to the Parties interested,
respecting the intended application to parliament for the Division and
Inclosure of Tothill Fields, for the purpose of the intended Penitentiary
Establishment. It is without Date, but was received (as I understand)
according to its Direction, at my abode in Queens Square Place on
Saturday Last, the 8th Instant. No other paper having accompanied
is for the purpose of explanation, I knew not whether to consider it as
the copy of a Notice already given, in the form of a Notice proposed
to be given, but not as yet delivered. It is in contemplation of the latter.
case, that I take the Liberty of observing, that in one part thereof
the two Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John are spoken of
as one "Parish" and that Parish having one and the same Rector. -
In point of fact, the precise state of the case is, that though, for certain

Identifier: | JB/117/102/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	mr bentham to mr white, in reply
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter 1368, vol. 6	ID Number	39054015
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