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Establishment Enlarged &c.

In both these ways together, or in either of them to the exclusion of the other,
(except that females of course cannot be consigned to the Hulks) it authorizes
the Crown to provide for them, in any numbers; assigning Funds for the expence.
It does not authorize the providing for them in any other way. With the purest
and most honourable intentions
(b)(b ) See Notes, but as clearly without authority from
Parliament, unless in so far as authority may be inferred from connivance, so it
is that of late years the Secretary of State's Office has, of its own authority,
added a third mode of providing for Convicts viz: the detaining them in the
several County and other Jails, from which by law they ought to have been sent.

From what cause comes it that, at the expence of the two legal modes
of provision, this illegal mode has been thus long pursued & Clearly from this:
that both these legal modes have been all along regarded with disapprobation:
nor can the degree of disapprobation have been slight, considering how it has
thus vented itself at the expence of law. The cause would have been no other.
There never has been or could have been a want of Hulks: yet the number of those receptacles
instead of being extended, has been reduced: at one time there were five
six
seven at present there are but three. There never has been, or could have been
a want of Transports. Transports, it is true are expensive: but expence, though
a cause of regret, is no bar to execution: such as it was, it was foreseen and
provided for: and (by a comparatively recent arrangement)the rate of it has
been reduced.

The Penitentiary System, in its original form, was appointed by
Parliament, as an advantageous succedaneum to both those other Systems: the
Penitentiary System, in its present intended form, has been prescribed by
Parliament (in 1794) as an advantageous suceedaneum to the same System
in its original State. Urged by experience, the Secretary of State's Office,
by a stretch of power, has extended the System of imprisonment Confinement in the
County Jails, at the expence of the Hulk System and the Transportation
System
. But shall the same stretch of power be employed, at the expence of the
Penitentiary System, in that this its improved shape? Were this to be done, it would
be in effect bestowing, upon this untried System, a treatment much worse
than what has been bestowed upon the Hulk system, upon the Ground of experience.
The Hulk System might have been given up in tote: yet it never has been
given up: much less has any thing been done to render the employment
of it impracticable. But if the Penitentiary House were limited to such
a



Identifier: | JB/121/063/002
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Date_1

1799-09-21

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

121

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

063

Info in main headings field

Establishment enlarged etc

Image

002

Titles

Mr Bentham to Mr Nepean / Convicts consignable to Panopticon should not be purposely kept in the Jails / Reasons

Category

Correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.

Page Numbering

F31 / F32 / F33 / F34

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

See note to letter 1471, vol. 6

ID Number

002

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