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F.3. Establishment enlarged &c

£65,000, divided by 235, gives the expence per man – £276
£80,000 divided by 235 gives the expence per man – £340(b) ‡

N.B. This expence, thus bestowed on separation, answers no moral
purpose whatsoever: since, if they are separate at some times, they are
are associated at others. The only effect of it is to screen them
against inspection, and to prevent their being put to any profitable work.
and £200 per man is mentioned in several printed Statements
of mine as the expence agreed upon to Blackburne's plan for the
formerly-intended Penitentiary House. But this, if taken as the
expence that would now be incurred by the execution of the same
plan, is very considerably under the mark: as, if any thing
turned upon it, I could pledge myself to shew. Even £250 per man would
be found too little.

Mr. Rose once (being then, as it seemed, in bad humour) did
not choose to hear of any such comparisons: – but, unless it be by
comparison, how is good or bad economy to be judged of?

The reason, why he would not hear of it that comparison was – because he (Mr.
Rose) regarded that estimate as an extravagant one. Be it so: yet,
while Mr Rose, in his single person, was regarding it as an extravagant
one, an assemblage of 15 persons appointed by Parliament – an assemblage,
of which the Lord Chancellor and Speaker were two, and the 12 Judges
12, were declaring it under their hands not to be excessive. But let it
be excessive: for I myself have the honor to be in the minority
with Mr. Rose. Still, may not the expence in question be an outrageously
extravagant one, and at the same time an expence of no more
than to be 1/18 or 1/23 for the attainment of the same object, be a most
extraordinarily frugal one?

The conclusion is (and I flatter myself not an unfair one)
that if £57,000 were to be allowed me, on condition of finding Room for
3,000 prisoners, (the whole to be laid out on the premises) the allowance
would not be an unfrugal one.

Note (b) ‡ in the original paper Sept. 1799.
Upon enquiry of an Architect, the encrease of the expence of building,
since that Prison was finished, has been 30 per Cent. Adding
this 30 per Cent to the above sums, this expence, to be charged for the purpose
of comparison with the expence of a Building now to be erected, will stand thus.
| Expence Total | Expence per head | Ratio of expence between Plan and Plan
Least Estimate | £80,000 | £359 | 1/18
Largest Estimate | £104,000 | £444 | 1/23

Identifier: | JB/121/064/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1799-09-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	064	Info in main headings field	Establishment enlarged etc
Image	003	Titles	Mr Bentham to Mr Nepean
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	F16 / F35 / F36 / F17
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	Letter 1467, vol. 6	ID Number	003
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