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21 Jany 1812
Panopticon

Panopticon – 21 Jany 1812. Facts on the occasion of the
opening expected to be made of the adverse plan in the
House on this day. N.B. Such points have been are selected as seemed
most in reason at this earliest stage.

1. Mr Holfords Report can not be adopted without passing
censure on the Finance Report June 1798. That Committee
was not appointed by Administration for this particular purpose: Holford was.
Compare them together.

2. Holford's Report can not be adopted without passing
the most decided censure on one of the most deliberately judgments adopted and
supported plans, of Mr Pitt. 1. It was submitted to him in general terms as
long ago early as Jany 1791. 2. In more detail resubmitted
in March 1792. 3. July 1794 came the Act to empower
the adoption of it. 4. In August 1795 the Contract was brought by the Treasury into a state waiting for nothing but signature. was prepared 5. In June 1798 came the reproach of the made
by the Finance Committee to Administration for having so long delayed the giving effect
to it. 6. In October 1799 came the purchase of the Land.
7. March 1800 came the D. of Portland's Letter to J.B. ordering
him to prepare for 2000 being double the number
stipulated for. Not many months A few months after without reason
assigned (The inconsistencies that followed are not to this
purpose.)

3. It was Pitt's judgment – his most deliberate judgment
(as well as Lord Melville's) that was in favour of Panopticon.
For the any such imagination as That his judgment were in this instance warped by his affections
not the least pretence been. On the conclusion of the matter no pretence. On the contrary; at the last meeting at of the
Finance Committee about for the purpose of the 28th Report, in which Panopticon
considered was included – (present amongst others, the present Lord Harrowby
and Cairns) – by whom ( ) it was by P.C. the Report was drawn) Per Abbott
then in the Chair. "We are not sitting here to try causes." But
"as to the treatment that in this case has been given to the Author
"of this plan, this I must can not but say – (thereuponafter communicating in⊞ ⊞ when, to characterize
the strength of the impression
made on his mind
a strain which though
by a of the transaction
course of dealin
question be much some of the most
noted barbarities had
been communicated glanced at) – "In all
"this" be (concluded he) I do
"not see a strain of barbarity
"comparable to that
with which this man has for such a course of years been tormented."

Identifier: | JB/118/315/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-01-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	315	Info in main headings field	panopticon
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	39369
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