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it not only eligible, but necessary, to the more important purpose
of a Penitentiary House: more especially to a Penitentiary
House to be conducted upon the plan of contract which your
Lordships stand engaged as well by Act of Parliament as by
the treaty to adopt. Ground at least equally valuable for Villas
may be found without equal vicinity to the River, without
equal vicinity to the Metropolis, or without equal elevation: it
is so at various spots, and Clapham may be instanced for
one. But without the concurrence of equal elevation and equal
vicinity to the Metropolis, it can never be equally convenient
& proper for the purpose of a Penitentiary Establishment,
upon whatever plan and from whatever resources carried on:
without equal vicinity to the River, in addition to those other circumstances
of advantage, it can never be equally convenient
for a Penitentiary Establishment to be carried on upon the
particular plan proposed by your Memorialist and from the
particular resources on which he depends. Equal elevation, especially
in a spot which is to be in the vicinity of the River,
is necessary to afford your Memorialist an equal scarcity for
the health & longevity of his Prisoners whose lives he is to
ensure: equal vicinity to the Metropolis, is necessary in order
to place the conduct of the establishment with equal effect under
the Inspection & Guardianship of the public eye: a point
so well known to have been regarded by Howard as a fundamental
one: Equal vicinity to the River, is more particularly
necessary to a Penitentiary House upon the plan
of your Memorialist whose materials as well worked up as
raw stone to wit & wood are absolutely of the very bulkiest
kind. Will your Lordships engage to convey by land carriage
from London to his supposed inland situation & back again all

Identifier: | JB/118/121/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	33
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / d34 / d35 / d36
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39175
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