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other spots of land for building on, should accordingly be
definitively and utterly broken to the utter relinquishment of
the Penitentiary system by any means and at any price. —

14
Not absolutely
certain but that
before the purchase
was made a determination
had been
taken to sacrifice
Panopt to Ld Belgrave

It is necessary, for the sake of truth & candour to paint
with the cloud of uncertainty envelopping it what remains
in the reality still envelopped in that cloud. I must therefore
set out with stating it as a matter in respect of which,
I am still unable to form any decided opinion, whether even
at the time when the first overtures of the purchase was
made to me as above by Mr Long, a determination had
thus early been taken either by him, or by somebody else
for him that the land when purchased should never be
applied to its professedly intended purpose, or whether the land
having been purchased partly in Compliment to Lord Salisbury
& partly in the view of applying it to that only lawful purpose
the design of keeping it from being ever applied to
that use, and thence, by necessary consequence, of keeping
the Penitentiary Establishment from being ever set on foot, was
a design conceived and determined upon, not till after the
purchase was made & solely in compliment to Lord Belgrave. —

15

This uncertainty respecting the first date of a plan, which
in either case, I am inclined to think, will appear to
your Lordship a sufficiently perfidious and in defensible one
(for as to punishable criminality it is a question beside, as
well as above my competence) will not be found to be attended
with any correspondent uncertainty with regard to the practical
result & inference so far as concerns the establishment which
ought by law so long ago to have been committed to my charge.
In shaping the proposition to be proved, I shall therefore, in
the first instance at least, give it that form which belongs
to it, on the supposition that the notification of Lord Belgrave's
pleasure was the event from which the determination of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14-15
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
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