JB/118/069/002

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In the case I 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 to the Hulks or
to New South Wales, were to e 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 while Penitentiary management is
to be had at £12 a head, Hulk-management
at £21 a head, or even New-South-Wales management
at I don't know how much more per
head, will, in regard to sentences for short terms
at least, hardly be preferred. Here then £6,000
a year at the least, instead of the £3,000, is the amount
of the expence the public would be put
to, to afford me an indemnification even upon
this narrow scale, so narrow that I declare at the
same time it would not satisfy me. This, annually:
and that without a farthing abatement in
the expence of purchase-money, since, as I have
stated in the Memorial, if there be a farthing's-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 this part of the expence:
if

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 f3 / d8 f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39123
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