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§ 14 The Intrigue blabbed by King

F.181 NL.1 – Mr Bentham to Mr Nepean. 10 Septr. 1800.(a)
Chance discovery King's chance communication – Number cut down to 500. – Impracticability
– injustice.

Queens Square Place Westmr 10 Septr 1800

This Morning, by accident, I met Mr King; who, on my enquiring
what news, told me it was a good as settled, that I was to have
but 500, and building money accordingly.

Not to mention the flagrant breach of faith, the reduction would
be much more than the figures would seem to indicate. –

1. I cannot pay half a Deputy, half a Chaplain, half a Surgeon &c,
nor can I do with half the number of Guards, especially exterior
Guards, the number of which cannot be at all reduced.

2. The space within the walls, and consequently the expence of the walls,
(little less than £2,000 including Block Houses) could not be considerably
less, for the 500, than for the 1000.

3. I all along said, that, in such a situation, I must have artificial
elevation for the building:(b) expence, not less than £3,000.
This I should not have charged, if I could have got money for the
2000: but what am I to do, if the 1000 are to be reduced to 500?

Do they suppose, that, if the content of the building were to be
reduced by one half, the expence of the elevation would be but
one half? – it would be three fourths.(c)

What an intricacy of calculation would be necessary for all these
adjustments! & what would be the saving from all this injustice?

Had I got the two thousand, I should have surrounded
the whole of the Ground with a high Wall, either at once,
out of the Building Money, or by degrees, as I could afford
it. This would be impracticable with the building money
for the 500. And what would the Ground be worth, for
Prisoners, without Walls?(d)

If they gave me building money for no more than
500, I suppose they would not give me any more Ground,
than

Identifier: | JB/121/266/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1800-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	266	Info in main headings field	The Intrigue blabbed by King
Image	001	Titles	Mr Bentham to Mr Nepean
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D22 / F1
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	Copy of letter 1596, vol. 6	ID Number	001
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