JB/118/425/001

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8 Sept. 1812
J.B. to Ld Sidmouth

Upon the Panopticon plan – upon that plan which
scruples not to bestow upon labour bestowed upon the management
in question is natural and proportionable proportionate
reward, I avowed the persuasion from the first my persuasion as avowed declared from the first, and in
which every subsequent thought has confirmed me
is that it might be put upon such a footing as to
be in a source rather of profit rather than
expence to government; and this all over the kingdom
all over all three kingdoms.

Had the public faith been kept with me, the
experiment at any rate would have been tried long ago and without
any expence: for by my offer the expence of the
Hulks was reduced, as the terms of the subsequent
Contracts if the Treasury Books were examined would
show.

The public faith was broke with me – and now
I could not make the experiment without that large advance expence:
the hypothetical £100,000 abovementioned.

The £100,000 it is said on behalf of the then
Panopticon plan would not afford room enough,
the £800,000 is necessary. Well: if it this is found necessary
let it then be expended, but why not first commence
with the £100,000 expence. If, for being constantly
under actual inspection prisoners apartments
and the operations carried on in them are never the
better, at any rate they will not be any the worse.
But the determination that was taken is to begin and
end with the maximum of expence.

Identifier: | JB/118/425/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	425	Info in main headings field	jb to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39479
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