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12 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

II. Objections to the making experiment of Mr Bentham's
Panopticon Plan obviating obviated: viz.
partly by Answers, partly by fresh Offers.

Objection
1. You will overwork them (it has been said). You will
underfeed them (viz. those that you say by the underfeeding
of whom you can gain an there is anything to be
gained) you will overfeed them (those by the overfeeding
of whom there is anything to be gained), you will pamper them with luxuries, you will
neglect work them so that you will not have keep sufficient time for their receiving any moral and sufficient religious
and moral instruction. (Report pp. )

Answer 1. No tolerably intelligent man, howsoever
selfishly disposed, would do so in my plan. This is what⊞ ⊞ I had pleased myself
with the thoughts of
having made tolerably
clear, and
used to be considered
as having done so,
viz. in and by
I am flattered desire in my the Panopticon Book, (herewith submitted to your Lordship) Part 4. §. 2 intituled
Management Why by Contract: from which plan Honourable
Gentlemen have taken all their objections, forgetting to say
anything about the answers.

2. As to the or underfeeding them, by the terms of
the Contract I be stand bound to give them to each man as much
as they he can eat.

As to luxuries I really do not understand what there is
that on any intelligible grounds can so it be paid for stated as a pernicious luxury, might
it be a fermented linquors
which by my the contract
at my own sollicitation
I should precluded from
giving admittance to, –
and with such securities
against contravention
as had b
never before been so
much as imagined.
Offer. But if any Honourable
Gentlemen in whose
view of the matter in
question expurgatories
of mouth and drink,
would in this situation in question be an article seriously subservient either to religion or to morality, will be pleased to frame one, and obtain the requisite orders, I am
ready to pledge myself for its being observed.

3. As to the neglecting their religious and moral instruction,
I should violate forfeit all my pledges?
should incur reproach by such neglect, and I could
not get anything by it: for I could not work them
on a Sunday without a breach of the law of the land, such
as by to persons in abundance besides the prisoners themselves must be notorious could not but be of the utmost notoriety.

4. To I would humbly entreat Your Lordships
perusal for at least that section, together with the antecedent
one intituled Leading Practices: the rather as being applicable
to Pauper Poor House as well as Prisoner Management.

Identifier: | JB/118/391/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	391	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 b4 / c1 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39445
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