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ear, laid open even to the inspection of the eye, of the whole
body of constituted authorities: of the members of the
administration: of the immediately superintending
judicial authority: of every Member of the legislature.

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not that objections are altogether wanting: but,
neither from report nor from imagination, have I been
able to collect any, the united force of which seems sufficient
to constitute a preponderant one.

1. Danger to the metropolis, from forcible and general
inspection, increased.
2. Inordinate Accumulation of convicts for whom
provision may be to be made after discharge.
3. Remoteness of the convicts from their respective
desired abodes as the time of their discharge.
4. Inordinate expence of conveying the convicts from
the place of conviction to the place of punishment.
5. Supposed unsuitableness of the fund, upon which,
on this plan, the expence of maintenance, with or
without the expence of conveyance, would be charged.

these are all the objections to which I have been able to discover:
and to these I proceed to submitt such answers
as the nature of the case has suggested.

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Objection 1. Danger of general and forcible eruption.
In Answer. In any own particular it will be readily enough
be conceived, considering the peculiar guards which the
peculiarities of the Panopticon plan provides, this danger
can not appear very considerable in either case.

But, if it be considerable, the Metropolis is the spot in
which

Identifier: | JB/117/415/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	415	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / f9
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39032
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