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Letter IV. Part II.

10 Apr. 1811

In the County Panopticon expence of conveyance would be hard on the distance ones.
This might be by the .

The Panopt. experiment unsuccessful, Government should build or for the whole Kingdom
or not itself from the County rates: better not.
department jealousy.

The experiment successful any advantage derivable from the
experience should not be derived.

In the country, towns affording a good public should be preferred.
They should not be fixed upon till the experiment has been tried
therefore experiment all might shrink from it: after, all might want it.
Thus J.B's impatient to have the experiment tried soon.

True it is, that The smaller the number, the more unequal unequally would the expence
be it what it may whatever it may be of conveyance from the County Jails fall upon
different Counties: higher caeteris paribus in proportion of the vicinity nearness of each such Jail
to the District Penitentiary House, if lower in proportion to the remoteness
Undeniable it seems to be that if this expence, be it more or less, ought
what is durable in point of justice is that it to be rendered every where as equal as possible. But Upon
the contract plan of management this equality might be effected
to perfection. The manager of each such Penitentiary House
might be in his Contract be made to made to charge himself take upon himself this charge.
The average site of each such Penitentiary House being determined
together with the Counties to be comprehended in the district allotted
out of which it was to be supplied the population if it was to come, the average of this expence
for the whole district might easily be taken, this average
would in the particular in question form the basis of that part of the Contract.

To wait till the managing hands of |^^^| Counties
had come to an agreement amongst themselves and formed themselves
into districts would be to wait till the river had run
itself dry. Suppose If there be any sort of business which is a
national concern, and not standing in need of any conflict
of local interests and particular opinions, this surely is one of that sort.

Neither for such part of the Convict population as is sent consigned to New South Wales,
nor for such part as is consigned to the Hulks, does Government
set the local authorities upon negotiating with one another, and thwarting
one another each in the within Polish stile with its veto in the Polish
stile. Why should it in the case of such part of the same population
as are meant to be consigned to Penitentiary Houses . The most
exceptionable

No such difficulties
are thrown in the way of
the most exceptionable modes of
providing for this part
of the population
why should this or any
other difficulties be
thrown in the way of
the most unexceptionable
modes? Inclosed is a comparative view of the three modes prepared for a once intended continuation of the my Letters to Lord Pelham.

Identifier: | JB/117/309/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-04-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 9, 10
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	309	Info in main headings field	1o letter iv
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	see note to letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	38926
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