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6 May 1811
Panopticon J.B. to Penitentiary Committee. Letter III. Country Convicts

☞ Proposed subject of consideration for Tuesday morning
22 May 1811. To be understood in relation to each article.
1. Whether proper to be presented to the Committee from any quarter.
2. From which quarter it would come with most
propriety and prospect of advantage?—from the Witness, or from a Member
of the Committee?

1

Sir,

Understanding, at different times, from different
gentlemen, members of the Committee, that, in calling
me before then, the object of the Committee has been
—not merely to scrutinize into the Contract
to which I am a party, but also, for the purpose
of forming their judgment, concerning the most eligible
mode of disposing of such part of the Convict
population of the Country as it may not be thought
fit to confine in Hulks or employ in colonizing,
to collect from any such information, as, in any
shape, I might be found capable of affording,— I take
the liberty of submitting in this mode to your consideration,
and that of the Committee, a few suggestions
on the subject of the Country Convicts.

2

In the handling of any such questions, the
bias that can not but be acting on the mind of
any person standing in the situation in which
it is my lot to stand, is too obvious to escape any
body. Accordingly if all I had to offer were
mere matter of opinion unsupported by reasons, it is
what, most assuredly, I should never have presumed
to trouble the Committee with, it being impossible
for any person to set a lower value upon
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any such opinion communication than I do
myself. But if like arguments of Counsel, there be any
facts or observations which, in the character of
reasons, may in the judgement of the Committee,
appear

Identifier: | JB/117/413/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	413	Info in main headings field	panopticon jb to penitentiary committee letter iii
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Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39030
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