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the public, as well in respect of pecuniary economy, as
in respect of the safe-custody and prospect of reformation
and future subsistence of the prisoners, consist of two
main articles.
1. A building of new invention and of a peculiar nature,
in and 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. the machinery for
employment
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.
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Advantageous undertaking
foregone on this
account
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
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