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all the stone he can saw & polish, all the wood he can saw
& plane with the benefit of his system of machinery & convert
to use, all the vessels he can build by a thousand men added
to any farther number as your Lordships may at any time
think fit to place under his care? Upon these terms and no
others may equal vicinity to the River & the Metropolis be
dispensed with.

Even beauty, the supposed result of the three properties
abovementioned, beauty, that unfortunate and much envied
quality, the source of all the efforts which have been used to
deprive the institution of a soil it had so long called its own,
is perhaps not more essential to the value of the spot for
the purposes of private luxury, than to its fitness with a view
to the public service. The more beautiful the scene, the more
disposed will the respectable part of the public be to visit it:
and where one man could derive entertainment from it if
monopolized by a Villa, thousands may derive entertainment
and instruction from it too, while without thought or effort their
curiosity is operating as a security for good management, when
crowned, and your Memorialist will venture to repeat, adorned
by a Panopticon Penitentiary House. After this explanation, and
with a view to those public purposes which he will be bold to say,
and that without fear of contradiction, have always stood foremost
in his thoughts, he can not help looking on the spot as being
in the words of the Act an eminently convenient & proper
one, were it only on the score of beauty: a property which accordingly
as far as depends upon him he would be studious to
cultivate: though instead of beauty, he should rather have said
capacity of receiving beauty: for, when viewed in its present
uniformity

Identifier: | JB/118/121/003 "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	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / d34 / d35 / d36
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39175
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