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No direct answer was given to the above Letter of the 30th of July to Mr. Long: but on

the 8th of September 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. —

Notice is hereby given That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave to bring
in a Bill and obtain an Act to explain and amend an Act
made in the 34th year of the present Majesty intitled, "An Act
"for erecting 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 Acts to treat with the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the Rector and Vestrymen
for the time being of the Parish of Saint 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 within the boundary of Middlesex,
for the purchase in one intire bargain or otherwise of their
respective rights and interests in to and out of such piece of
Waste Land, and to divide allott and inclose the same. —

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

C
Mr. Bentham to Mr White ()

() On the subject of a
Paper such as the
foregoing, 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
written to Mr. White.

Hendon Middlesex 11 Septr. 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 a date, but was received as I understand according to
its direction at my abode in Queen Square Place on Saturday
last the 8th Instant. No other paper having accompanied it
for the purpose of explanation, I know 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

Identifier: | JB/117/104/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-09-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	correspondence
Image	003	Titles	mr bentham to mr white
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter 1366, vol. 6	ID Number	39054018
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