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12 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

III. Saving in respect of the dead annual expenditure
composed of Official Salaries.

Under this head, the saving proportion of saving
would be found to be at least equal to what it would be under
the head No I. See my Letter to the Penitentiary
Committee as printed in the Appendix to their First Report.

4 IV. In case On the Panopticon plan, in case of a supposing the experiment satisfactory, ad the advantage of being able to make provision
for the whole convict population by with such
gradual steps graduality of progress as may be deemed advisable have been indicated by experience,
upon the same ground; what for vicinity to the seat
of supreme inspection is not to be matched altogether matchless.

On the Non Panopticon plans, any considerable addition
addition is not supposed to be considered as impracticable out of the question
seems not to be looked upon as capable of finding sufficient room:
and by the expence and proposed rate of progress together
is in intention plainly enough thrown to an infinite distance.

5. Observation N.B. Should Suppose the experiment of
the Panopticon plan unsatisfactory, still the expence be
upon it might would not be lost. For being, the whole
of it, exposed inspection at one view, there is not surely any
part of the covered space that would be in any respect the worse. for
If it were, there is no difficulty in cutting off the inspec
putting an end in the inspectability, whatever this might
be in may have been the ingenuity necessary to the the existence of it.

The experiment of the Panopticon plan might thus
be made, not only without retarding, but in such
sort as were to expedite the Non-Panopticon plan.
Suppose the Non Panopticon plan to have been tried
and proved unsatisfactory, the subsequence advance, of a so large
a sum as would be necessary for the Non Panopticon plan, would the less be
grudged. What would otherwise have occupied five or more years
as above, might be effected in two years, added to the two
occupied (suppose)
one of them in the
setting on foot the
Panopticon establishment,
the other one
affording the supposed experimental part of its unfitness.

Identifier: | JB/118/409/001 "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	409	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a13 / b3 / e3 / f13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39463
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