JB/118/011/001

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As an enhancement In aggravation of the supposed injury,
your Memorialist has heard the quantity of capital
invested in buildings and other improvements
within the circle of the neighbourhood in question, whatever
extent may be meant to be given to that circle,
has been estimated at about £200,000. Your
Memorialist has no suspicion of any thing like
exaggeration in this estimate: were he had he been obliged to guess,
he should rather have expected to find it the such a sum short of the
truth than beyond the truth it. But in
speaking of this value, gentlemen speak of it as
if a great part, there is no saying how great, but
a very great part of it would be lost destroy'd. Here it is that
your Memorialist has the mortification or the satisfaction
shall he say, to be obliged to differ with them.
The instances of new prisons are not rare: and it
will be difficult he believes to find a single one in which
any such an effect has been produced by such a
cause. The damage, if there were any, would be
damnum sine injuriâ: but no damage even can be
seen: so far from it, instead of damage he sees advantage: and in this opinion, as will be seen presently
he does not stand alone. The nature of his intended difference, wide as
it is may be tolerably well accounted for, even without
taking into the account the difference there may be with in establishment
regard to the affections through the medium of which it
may may

Identifier: | JB/118/011/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	25
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	011	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39065
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