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To Dundas

In the case I put was putting to Mr Long I spoke only of
the thousand men for which by the agreement I am
to be paid at all events. But what, if all the prisoners
who would otherwise go tot he Hulks or to Botany
Bay New South Wales were to be sent consigned to the Penitentiary establishment?
They have been frequently above 2,000, they may be more –
call them 2,000 at a time. This number would
I presume sooner or later be given me: for when which Penitentiary
management is to be had at £12 a head,
Hulk-management at £21 a head⊞ ⊞ or even Botany Bay New South Wales management at for I don't know ow much more per head, on will in regard to sentence for short terms at least I presume
hardly be preferred. Here then £6,000 a year at the least instead
of £3,000 is the amount of the expence the public
would be put to to afford me an indemnification
even upon the narrow scale, which so narrow that
I declare at the same time it would not satisfy me.
This annually: and that without a farthing abatement
of in the expence of purchase money, since as I have
stated in the Memorial, if there be a farthing, worth
less of new land given me than what the old land
would have come to, justice is not done me. Number
you will be pleased to observe, Sir, makes no
abatement in the this part of the expence: if one man works up in a year
as much yo wood or stone as it will cost £3 to convey
from the length of Battersea to Hounslow Heath, and back again,
2000 men will work up as much as comes to £6,000.
£200,000 is the loss apprehended from property on the part of the gentlemen
at Clapham &c. £200,000 is accordingly the loss
apprehended by ther those gentlemen upon supposing (with
whom the

Identifier: | JB/118/031/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	to dundas
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39085
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