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27 April 1811
Penitentiary Committee – Topics proposed to be touched upon in a First Report
to be confined to the subject of the Panopticon Plan antecedently to the engaging
in any ulterior enquiries.
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1. As to the delay
enquiry into the
causes of it waived
(conditionally at least)
waived
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2. But promptness
in future urgent pressed.
Reasons for such pressure
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3. 1. Urgency of the
case of the Female
Convicts.
4. 2. Merit of the proposed
Contractor Manager in
meeting what he understood
to be in the
opinion of the Committee
the exigency of
the public service,
and without profit
to himself, and to
his eventual loss.
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5. 3. Considering his
advanced time of
life (upwards of 63)
danger of being by
death the services of
a person whose attention
to and mastery of
the subject is evidenced
by those various writings works
of his that are lying
on the Table of
the Committee.
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6. 4. Recommendation
given of dispatch
6. 4. Dispatch recommended
by Finance
Committee so
long ago as June
1798 – Treasuring on
that same occasion
declaring their disposition
to go on with
the business: reproach
not the Reasons
of an objection ever
brought forward by
anybody: unexampled
neglect
of acknowledged duty
aggravated by breach
of faith, unexampled
in length of continuance:
reproach in
the whole frame of Government
in case of
ulterior delay.
5. If approved by experience
7. 5. Extensibility of
the Panopticon principle
viz. by Temporary Female Panopticon
as per Mr
B.s Letter II to Committee
(intended to be
printed) and do.
Letter III to do (intended
to be sent,)
extensibility, viz. if
approved by experience
further reason for commencement
of the experience.
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6. Irretrievable injury
to sustain done to
Mr B. and his Brother
Gen. B. injuries for
which no compensation
can be made.
Loss of the money spent
on the inventions which
were the ground of
the manufacturing
concern, actal products
of which were seen by
so many Members of
the House, including
several of the Committee.
Loss of the money spent
upon it, as per Finance
Committee 2. N.B.
Examination in Finance
Committees 28th Report.
Recommendation
accordingly that the
state of the family be considered
in the amended terms.
(☞ Quere whether
this topic to be ventured on?)
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Twenty years since
Mr. B.'s Proposal was
first given in: 18 since
it was accepted, and
Mr B once by
Mr Pitt and Mr Dundas
together at his own
House in presence of Gen. B. desired so to take
"his arrangements" – then
again by Mr Dundas
at the office called
upon so to do.
This with every other
fact stated in Mr B.s
said Examination must
to be entire unquestionable,
so many persons being thus urged by
self-defence, and none
of them venturing to
question it.
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Aº 1798, the profits
if any, from the Contract
being by the terms of it
to be received by Mr
and Gen. B. to the end
of the life of the survivors
of Mr & Gen. B. and
no longer, an Annuity
for that term was on
the 19th of June 1798
estimated by Mr Morgan
as per Fin. Comm.
28th Rep. p.81. had it
then commencement
immediately at not
so much as 12 1/2 years
purchase: and since
the that time
13 years have elapsed
already.
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Recommendation to
Treasury to compleat
the purchase out of Tothill
Fields &c according
to the printed notice given
by Treasury Solicitor
Aº 1799. The obligation
of such completion is
necessary imposed not only by
the terms of the Contract
as necessary to compleat
the stipulated quantity
of 79 Acres, but to the
purpose of the Subsidiary
Establishment as
per do (number of which
was forgotten to be made
by Mr B in his first
Examination 27 March last). N.B. Not many
days ago Tothill Fields
was let by the Dean &
Chapter for 40 years
at £12 a year per Acre.
Out of the increase of expence
produced by the
delay and of
Treasury, the danger is
that they will make a pretence
for breaking their part
of the Contract.
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Recommendation to
give to the Panopticon the
size necessary for the
2000 Prisoners determined
on by Treasury Letter to
Mr B. 25 March 1800.
Of this extension of size
of the Building, the obligation to commitment if any beyond the Contract Number of 1000 will not be an obligatory consequence.
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