JB/118/230/001

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Subject of this letter
Part: 1. of Harrison's of
4th of Jany viz that
relating to Panopticon.
p.1.

2.
Misdate as to date of
JB.'s last as dated in
Harrison's. True date
of J.B's supposed to be
in view, 8th May 1810:
erroneous date 15 Dec.
1810. p.1.

3.
In Harrison's – two questions.
1. Will JB engage
on a scale for 500? p 2

4
Answer. J.B.'s regret
that no greater encouragement
is afforded
than the repetition of
a question in the old
Letter of 1802, declared
in J.B.'s of 8 May 1810
to have been considered
by him as a relinquishment.
p 2.

5
This therefore J.B.
knows not how to consider
but as a preparative
now made for a
relinquishment. p 3.

6.
Under such circumstances
J.B would have been
warranted in calling
upon Treasury to say
whether they mean or not to
go on with Panopticon,
because if not J.B's
trouble in making
calculations would be
thrown away. p 3

7
But then being in hand
J.B. proceeds to give the
information called for. p.4

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8.
(NB "Limited not the
proper term but reduced.
"Limited" instead of reduced
employed to
cover the shame of
arbitrary power.) p 4.

9
1. Answer. Nothing
but refusal of the 1000 will
engage J.B. to accept
of the 500. i.e. to do
but half the good
he was promised, thence

10
1. Waste of public
money an addition per
head being indispensable.

11
Causes of the demand
expence the same for
the 500 as for the 1000:
with but half the fund.
Instances
I. Official Establishment.
1. Resident Governor.
2. Chaplain.
3. Surgeon
4. Porters. 5. Turnkeys.
6. Instructors various.
7. Watchman for the
surrounding wall. p 5.

12.
II. Building a considerable
portion, viz.
1. Lodge
2. Approach walls
3. Four surrounding
walls
4. Towers at 2 of the
four
5. Descending chapel
apparatus.
6. Officers private apartments, &c.
7. Surrounding wall of
the whole land. p.6.

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13.
Under these heads the
deficiency would have
to be made up at the
public expence. p 7.

13* Postpone.
This said to be no concern
of J.B.'s. – Negative.
It is his concern not to
be accessary to public
waste – to leave his

conscience and reputation
clear. p.7.

14
III. Retribution for J.B.'s
time and trouble but
but half what it was
agreed to without
(talents estimated at
nothing.)
Retribution in all
shapes emolument, repuation
consciousness of
doing good.
For this defalcation
no retribution so much
as thought of; not that
any would be accepted.
p.7.

15.
Magnitude of the scale
its importance as a
security for good management.
This security will be
as the quantity of attention
bestowed by the
public upon the management.
This attention will
be as the quantity of
1. The magnitude of
the establishment.
2. The variety and number
of the interesting and
attractive objects that
can be exhibited.
This security would be
reduced to half. p.8.

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16.
V. Injury to J.B.'s
reputation from such
a change: the change
forced upon him and
pro toto to his prejudice
would to appearance
have been applied for
by him and to be pro
toto to his profit. p.9.

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Injury to the establishment
from the injury
done to J.B's reputation
by the mark of
disesteem imprinted
on him by such a reduction.
In requisites
moral & intellectual
he was deemed eighteen
years ago he was deemed
adequate to the whole
– now it is not thought safe
to trust him with more
than half. p 10

18.
By lowering him in
public estimation
such a stigma can not
but diminish his power
of doing good. p 11

19.
For all this injury to the
public service and the
individual strong reasons
will naturally be
looked for and no reason
at all has ever has been attempted
to be given, or ever can.
p 11

20.
Conceditur as at preparation
for relinquishment the proposed
seduction may serve;
but if meant seriously
comes the questions by what
reasons admitting the project
to be fit to be executed upon
half the scale agreed upon,
it can be proved not to be
fit to be executed upon the
whole do.

Identifier: | JB/118/230/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1811-01-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-20
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	230	Info in main headings field	jb to treasury brouillon letter ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	39284
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