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1. That the means which your Memorialist relies on, for the
enabling him to carry on the establishment in question, so much to
the advantage of the public, as well in respect of pecuniary economy, as
in respect of the safe-custody & prospect of reformation & future subsistence
of the prisoners, consist of two main articles —

1. A building of new invention and of a peculiar nature, in & by
means of which any number of persons may, in as far as it should
be thought proper, be kept under the inspection of any person in charge
thereof, during every moment of their lives —

2. A system of mechanical inventions, by the help of which a
great variety of works, and in particular almost all branches of
wood & stone work, may be executed without the exertion of any dexterity
at all on the part of the greater number of the persons
therein employed, and with a very trifling degree of dexterity,
such as any person whatever may be sure of acquiring with a
very little degree of practice, on the part of the remainder.

That for the invention of the species of building aforesaid,
your Memorialist is indebted in great measure, and for the system
of machinery aforesaid altogether, to his Brother Samuel
Bentham Knight of the Order of St George of Russia and
Brigadier General in her Imperial Majesty's service, but
at present residing with your Memorialist at his house
in Westminster.

That it had been the intention of your Memorialist's
said Brother, by the assistance of your Memorialist or otherwise,
to carry into effect the said inventions by the power of Steam, by
means of which, according to the most approved calculations, force
may be obtained at as cheap a rate, as if, the same quantity
of force being obtained from men, such men were to be paid
no more than from 2 1/4 to 3d or thereabouts a day.

That on the faith of the treaty aforementioned, and at
the earnest sollicitation of your Memorialist, your Memorialist's
said Brother was prevailed upon to quit the design of
carrying

Identifier: | JB/118/106/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1794-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / c2 / c3 / c4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see notes to letter 1020, vol. 5 and letter 1309, vol. 6	ID Number	39160
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