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the purpose of a any a Penitentiary House without the concurrence Establishment
of equal vicinity equal elevation to the Metropolis and equal and
upon whatever plan and from whatever resources carried on: without
equal vicinity to the River, it can in addition
to those other circumstances of advantage, it can
never be equally convenient for the particular a Penitentiary establishment
of Penitentiary House which your Memorialist to be carried on upon the particular plan proposed by your Memorialist and from the particular resources on which he depends.
is to set up. Equal elevation especially on a spot which is must be one
to be in the vicinity of the River, is necessary to afford
your Memorialist an equal security for the health
and longevity of his Prisoners whose lives he is to injure: equal vicinity to the
Metropolis is necessary to in good order to place the conduct of the establishment
and guardianship of the public eye: a point which
so well known to have been regarded by Howard
as a fundamental one. Equal vicinity to the River
is more particularly necessary to the a Penitentiary
House upon the plan of your Memorialist whose
materials for manufacture as well after as before where worked up
working up insofar as raw stone to wit and wood are absolutely of the very bulkiest kind.
Will your Lordships engage to convey to and to him by land carriage from
London by land carriage and London to his supposed inland situation and back again all the stone he can
saw and polish, all the wood he can saw and
plane by machinery that can be kept in movement all the with the benefit of his system of machinery
or should and convert to use, all the shipping vessels he can build by a thousand men added to such
further numbers as your Lordships may at any
time be plea think fit to place under his care?
Upon those terms and no others may equal vicinity to the river thus and the Metropolis
be dispensed with.


Identifier: | JB/118/025/003
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

34

Box

118

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

025

Info in main headings field

memorial

Image

003

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f53 / f54 / f55 / f56

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

draft of letter 988, vol. 5

ID Number

39079

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