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30 May 1811
Penitentiary Committee Report – Observations on

Ætas
Furiosi
Menti Capti
Infantis
Impuberes
Judæi }
Mauri } contra Christianou

Not the least of the
assertions, the option
between and
being degraded in the
scale of true honour
and public estimation
to a with
&c
he with whom it had
been a principle not
to receive any the smallest
profit
most ample one had
been reaped by the
public &c

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Your objections to
Panopticon were are

1. Supposed impossibility
of preventing
sexual irregularities
notwithstanding universal
and constant
illumination as
well as inspection.

2. Supposed Inefficiency of the
degree of separation
in the daytime.

3. Danger of hard
usage from the influence
of sinister
pecuniary interest
in the case of the Contract
plan.

Yet you
to any examination
of witnesses
you passed approbation,
and recommended
continuance
of the Hulk System
in which there is no
separation by night
in view or day
in which the general
prevention of those
irregularities is
notorious, and in
in which there is
no illumination,
no inspection, and
in which the supply
is afforded upon the
Contract plan, without
any of those checks which
have place in the Panopticon system.

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You pretend not
to set aside the Panopticon
plan without
giving compensation
to the Inventor.
That compensation,
if it were
anything worth acceptance
would
not cost you less
than it would would
to erect a Temporary
Panopticon
as proposed by
the Inventor, in
which experience
would show what
foundation there was
if any, for those
objections on which
you rely as peremptory
ones – and
on the ground of
which you refuse
to recover collect the
evidence of experience.

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Caution not to suppose
that because individual
interest would
be injured by the perfidy,
public would
be served by it.

C Long, when young
in office confessed it
and the cause of the injury had
scarce not continued in your
confessed spontaneiously
to J.B. that nothing
he had ever witnssed
since his being in office
had ever hurt him
so much. After
the active instrument of its
being multiplied sixfold,
i.e. for six years and to
of it for eleven
years more, he becomes
an active instrument
in the course taken for
consummating of and
rendering it irremediable placing it
the reach of remedy.

To my
of the dagger I like
not to add the flea-bite.

Identifier: | JB/118/236/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1811-05-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	236	Info in main headings field	penitentiary committee's report - observations on
Image	001	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to my complaints of the dagger i like not to add the flea-bites" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39290
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