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or any thing else that to them seems reasonable and
necessary, rather than secure to themselves the regret of
seeing 300 or 600 prisoners precluded from the possibility
of being provided for upon a plan which, by the
supposition, they do not even now disapprove, and the utility
and security of which will, by the same supposition,
have been demonstrated by experience.

"But if your agreed-on number of 1000 males is
"reduced" (it may be said) "to 700 you will have so
"much the less profit wherewith to cover the supposed
"loss upon the 300 females whom, unless your proposed temporary
establishment be rendered permanent, you are
to have at all events: and if reduced to 400 you will
have still less: while the expence of the official
Establishment, the reduction if any reduction there can
be, will be far indeed from being proportionable.

All this I am fully aware of: and to this my answer
is the same as to that respecting the introduction of the
females as above. Let the profit, so long as there is
any, upon the 700, or though it be upon no more than the 400
effectives, be employed in covering the deficiency produced
by the non-effectives.

The superintendance bestowed by a promiscuous assemblage
of unknown and therefore unpaid, ungarbled and
uncorruptible Inspector — in a word by the public at
large, that is by such individuals as curiosity or love of
amusement (the most universally operative of
action that apply to such a case) mixt with any better
and rarer motives, may happen to attract — this is what,
from first to last, I have all along spoken of as being among
my principal dependences, viz. for security against
abuse and imperfection in every shape.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	367	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2110, vol. 8	ID Number	38984
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