JB/118/416/001

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13 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

Reduced as I am After so many fruitless laws and
other acts of government, as, it has been my misfortune
to give birth to in the course of twenty years passed
in hot water, I it has been my misfortune to give birth to, reduced as I am to the condition
of a suitor, Your Lordship has not hitherto found
me an impertinent one.

Relying with the most respectful implicit confidence in
the presence the assurance which, on the 15' of June last Your Lordship had the goodness to give me
to me that that in relation to the further Penitentiary business in this had been assigned no further step should be taken till the opportunity
of being heard, and heard upon paper to me for had been given me of being heard and that too in black and white, I⊞ ⊞ coupled with the still more obliging assurances, that up to that time Your Lordship's mind was in the relation to this whole subject state of blank paper on the subject never having conversed on it so much as with Mr Bragge Bathurst
I should begin being to to Your Lordship have given attempted giving to Your Lordship been thus troublesome
now even the trouble were in this way even now, but for the purpose necessity of one on
the occasion of the transmission of those papers.

Those papers being now in Your Lordhips hands
I can speak to be understood in stating my hopes
know that The business being having now so happily found its way into hands such
as your Lordships and Mr Vansittarts f (not to
speak of (Lord Liverpool's who I suppose will
scarce find much any time, (I suppose,) to bestow upon it) now that
those papers are also in those same hands, I can may hope
speak so as to be understood be capable of being to be found speaking intelligibly to be apparently in understood, when speaking
of my hopes is susceptible of the following gradations

1. That, on perusal even of that Report which had
no other object than the telling of the Panopticon plan
aside, (First Penitentiary Report Ao 1811) no sufficient reason will for taking so extraordinary
step will be found.

N.B. Notwithstanding the late Act, (52 G. 3. c. 44) Government are remains
as fully at liberty to give execution to the contract (authorized by the Act if 1794) or
to rescind it: and by under an existing clause in an existing
Act, G. 3. c. §. £24,000 of the £36,000
therein ordered to be paid to me by remainder.

Identifier: | JB/118/416/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	416	Info in main headings field	to lord sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a5 / b5 b1 / c1 / f5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39470
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