xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">

Transcribe Bentham: A Collaborative Initiative

From Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk

Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts

JB/117/367/001

Jump to: navigation, search
Completed

Click Here To Edit

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.




Identifier: | JB/117/367/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

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

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

letter 2110, vol. 8

ID Number

38984

Box Contents

UCL Home » Transcribe Bentham » Transcription Desk