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Memorialist
Majesty's sign manual to a Warrant for the sum of £10,000
in addition to the nominal £2,000 (reduced by taxes & fees
to £1878.15.6) which your Memorialist in part reimbursement
of his expences has received already.
To recommend himself to your Lordships justice in respect
to the dispatch which your Memorialist thus humbly
prays it becomes necessary for him to sollicit and as he
may say with reference to some of your Lordships to recall
the attention of your Lordships to the following particulars —
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 structure,
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 persons 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-work may be executed without the exertion
of any dexterity at all on the part of the greater number of
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 your
Memorialist is indebted in great measure, and for the system
of
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