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The object and resultation of the communication
made to Parlt. should have been to
shew to how much a head per annum the
expence has amounted and may be expected
to amount to – This is not stated – and from
the data I do not see how it has been can be collected.
Were any calculations of this sort made
at the time of planning the establishment?
Might it not be of use to ask them in Parlt.
They would either one of three four things. They
would produce their calculations – they would
confess they had made none - or they would
be silent – or they would expressly refuse
to answer. In another any of these events, the question would
not be thrown away.

Some time ago I took the liberty of
sending you a copy of the Irish edition
of the original Letters which comprise the
body of my book – I now send the first plan
part of the Postscript printed which is printing
here: along with the 2d part when compleated
will be sent the reimpression of the Letters.

On what grounds can they think of defending it?
As a means of the mere ground of a drain provision for mere contrivance for carrying off convicts?
It is of all the most expensive, to say
nothing of good morals. As a scheme for colonialism
with a view to national wealth by the increase of trade, it is surely of all
that

Identifier: | JB/119/083/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1	1791-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::letter 768, vol. 4; "sent a fair draft of this with great additions and alterations may 6th 1791 by a gray's inn porter" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39594
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