JB/117/403/001

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Apr. 1811
Panopt. J.B. to Committee Letter Country Convicts

1
Subject of this Letter – Best
mode of providing for Country
Convicts in the Penitentiary Plan.
Occasion – that
information from J.B. was desired.

⊞ ☞ Omitted in Fair Copy.
⊞ 2
Bias from personal
interest confessed: but by
that bias neither facts
nor observations can be
rendered less relevant or
just.

3
Presumption by J.B.
1. Panopticon to be recommended
by Committee
on Ground of engagement.
2. – and as preferable.
p.1.

4.
This presumption erroneous,
what follows
need not be read. p.1.

5
London Panopticon
being recommended for
the Contract numbers,
remains for consideration,
the surplus. p.2.

4 6
For Home Convicts the
supposition is that
London Panopticon may
suffice: remain to be
provided fo the distant
County Convicts.
For these what mode
the best? p.2.

5 7.
answer – three existing
options.
1. In the open ode
on the large scale,
London Panopticon
only –
2. In do, London and
Country Panopticons.
3. In the close mode
on the small scale,
Penitentiary prisons, one
for each County or aggregation
of Counties. p.3.

6 8
Of the open mode on the
large scale preferability
to close mode on the
small scale, supposed to be demonstrated
already; management
in every part
better; expence less. p.4

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7. 9
Between London Panopticon
plan, and London
and Country Panopticon
plan, difference
not so great: yet in
all points London
Panopticon plan preferable. p.4.

8 10
Chief reason, in London
best public – Functionaries,
– administrative,
judicial, legislative. p.4

9. 11
Objections.
1. Encreased danger
of forcible and general
eruption.
2. Accumulation of
convicts to be provided
for after discharge.
3. Remoteness of the Convicts from
their desired abodes on discharge.
4. Expence of conveyance
from Assize
& Quarter Session
Towns.
5. Fund improper.

10
I. Danger of erupton
answered.
Per J.B. this danger
no where considerable
but in London least.
In Tothill fields
they might all be
within a few hundred
yards of Tothill
the Par with
its Guards.
Signals to eye &
ear possible.

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10 12
I Danger of eruption
answered.
Per J.B. the danger
no where considerable;
but in London
least.
In Tothill fields
they ight all be.
Within a few hundred
yards of Tothill
Fields the Park with
its Guards.
Signals to eye and
ear possible. ⊞2 ⊞2 * 10 13
In Rochester Row,
on the opposite side of
Tothill Fields, is habitually
stationed a
military Guard of nine
men. Being in view
they would be under
command of a Magistrate
in the Panopticon.
Drummers go
there habitually to
Practice Drumming. p.6.

12 14
To the assurance of
the prompt presence
of a guard of any
required strength, might thus be
added the habitual
presence of a small
one. p.7.

II Accumulation
after discharge answered.
Option here is between
London and
a County Town.
Population of the
largest County town
80,000 – Do of London
1,100,000.
Though all the Panopticons
were in London,
the ratio of dischraged
Convict Population
to General do. would
in London be least. p.8.

13.
III Expence of Conveyance
answered.
Conceditur this lessened
if to London Panopticon
were added three viz
East,West, & North.

Identifier: | JB/117/403/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-15
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