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Note to Long letter to J.B.

1 On Letter (8
9 July 1801

They had determined
to crush the plan
Notwithstanding
Long & H. Addington's
assistance to the

In one interview I had about June last, with Mr
Hiley Addington by mistake (for my attendance was by at the desire of Mr Vansittart on another business) the only one I have ever
had with him, Mr Long being present, but (as I understood)
by accident,[+] [+] both gentlemen joined
in giving me to understand,
as a thing
determined upon at
determination of —
the writing
an intention entertained
and expressed by in this
letter entertained preformed
before the writing
of this letter, and
expressed and meant to be expressed
by it — that the establishment
was to go on,
only that the number
of prisoners to be h maintained
and built for
was to be reduced from
1000 to 500, and that
I was to have compensation
was to be given
me for the difference.
Mr Long even with vehemence The course they took to impress me with
Mr H. Addington with equal vehemence, upbraided this idea was the joining in upbraiding me, and even with vehemence
me as if it were with stupidity for not believing being satisfied as it were with stupidity for not seeing understanding/being satisfied
or for with insincerity for pretend affecting not to be satisfied
of an intention on the part of the Treasury to afford of the existence in this his official letter to me the
me
intention to give me compensation for the reduction reducing of the number
of prisoners from the originally stipulated number of that such was the intention expressed as well as entertained. [ ]
[-] "he was not himself
conscious of
having joined in
maxima, by which
he was assured that
I had been stood prevented
from ever having it
if at the very
that he was upbraiding
me for not
expecting the cut-down
Penitentiary
establishment he
was not himself
assured that I
should never
have it.

same to 500. Here the letter is, and Mr Long
spoke from his imagination: from his own imagination:
Mr H. Addington, from Mr Long's: there
the letter is, and I would be thankful if as should I be to any
body who would enable me not to see to avoid seeing the direct
reverse. Two events are mentioned: one in which
compensation I am allowed to think of compensation
another in which nothing is said of compensation.
I am to say to on what terms I am willing to
contract to build for half the number that had been from the
on the assurance of which I had been called upon
in July 1793 "to take my arrangements" but as for of compensation
for the loss of the other half there is not a single syllable.

I can go somewhat further: further than Mr
Long I comp am apt to think is aware. If I
were to say that at the time of marking settling that very
letter Mr Long was not determined that I should
not have no such number to build for, nor any
number at all, to build for — and that the vision
of a compensation was not to what I was it was
not intended I should indulge myself with in any
other event than that of the total ruin of my plan, should
should speak
against all probability,
supported
by direct


Identifier: | JB/121/111/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.

Date_1

1801-07-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

Not numbered

Box

121

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

111

Info in main headings field

Note to Long taken to JB

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

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

Page Numbering

D1 / F1

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

001

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