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8 June 1812
Panopt.

Any goodness beyond what is necessary to avert disease is luxury.
1. First article of charge. Whereas none but good provision
and necessaries ought to be sent in to the prison in question for the use of the
prisoners he the appointed Governor would have sent in to it and
causes to be have been consumed in it by and for the use of the said prisoners, articles not good or not having a sufficient degree of goodness.

1. Observe in the first place the mischief and absurdity
couched under the word goodness.

The mischief abuse here designated if it be and in so
far as it is a real one can be no other than that
which consists in mischief to destruction to life or health
and forms the matter of a succeeding and separate charge,
"a condition" or mode of being "attended with bodily sufferance,
or prejudicial or dangerous to health or life.

On this subject, for a as the basis to his system of management
the appointed Governor had laid down in his
work laid down three propositions in the declared character of
"leading positions".

Those propositions were in the hands of the Author of the
Report: they have not any one of them been controverted:
and for this plain reason, that there is not in
any one of them a syllable which with any hope of success
supposing then to find readers and those attentive intelligent and
candid unprejudiced readers could with be attempted to be controverted.

1. The ordinary* condition of a convict doomed
to forced labour for a length of time ought not to be attended
with bodily sufferance, or prejudicial or dangerous to health
or life. This is These are the words of the position therein designated by the
appellation of the "Rule of Lenity".

"2. Saving the regard due to life, health, and bodily
"ease, the ordinary condition of a convict doomed to a punishment
"which few or none but individuals of the poorest
"class are apt to incur, ought not to be made more
"eligible than that of the poorest class of subjects in a state
"of innocence and liberty. Those are the words of the position
"therein designated by the appellation of the Rule of Severity.

Identifier: | JB/118/331/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	331	Info in main headings field	panopt.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	39385
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