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which is should naturally appear much less considerable
than in any other place: in any other town or towns
at least, to which, otherwise, this part of the Convict population
would be to be consigned.

Milbank and Tothill Fields being, by the supposition,
the spot fixed upon already for one Panopticon,
I see not what should hinder its being made to receive
as many others as can be required.

Within a few hundred yards of Tothill Fields
is constantly stationed a boy of regular troops,
to the amount of some thousands: the distance so
small, that, in case of commotion, communication
might be made by signals of both sorts: signals not only
signals to the ear, but signals even to the eye, if
an apparatus to that effect were though fit to be
provided.

In Tothill Fields, at one end of Rochester Row, stands,
& has stood for (I think it is) about 8 or 10 years,
a military infirmary, in which is constantly
stationed a military guard, consisting as I have
just been informed on the spot, of nine soldiers.

On one side, the waste is called Tothill Field has for its
boundary has for its boundary this Rochester Row, on the
opposite side the parcel of ground already purchased
for the Panopticon Penitentiary house. On no part of this
ground is there any building but what may at present be
actually seen from the Infirmary just mentioned, and by the guard there
stationed.

On a subject so plain, I should never have thought of troubling

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	13
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	416	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / f11
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	39033
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