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§.9. Services by the Contractor and his Co-Claimant

1 Reduction of the Hulk price. So long ago as the 10th of Feby 1792[+]
in the Second
of my addresses
on the subject to
Mr Pitt, I expressed
my hope
that supposing
the offer in
question not to
obtain acceptance,
it
it might still, with relation to the public Service be not
altogether without its use; viz by enabling him to reduce the
price, at that time paid, for the maintenance of Convicts on
board the Hulks. If my memory does not deceive me, a Service to
the amount of some thousands of pounds a Year was thereupon
actually rendered to the public by this means. At the time of my
giving in the above proposal, according to two contracts of which I
have copies. x x Campbel with
Treasury 10 Mar
1786.
Bradley with
Treasury 10 Mar
1786.
See On this head
Mr Bentham to
R. Hon W Pitt
23d Jany 1791 or
to do 10th Feby 1792 the price paid to the Contractor was 1s per day per head —
£18..5 a year, besides £1625 a year for the pay of the Masters and
Crew of each of the Vessels by the Master and Crews of which
the function of Jailor was performed; to which was likewise added
the unliquidated expence of fitting the Vessels for that purpose.
If my Information on this head did not deceive me, sometime
after the presentation of that proposal, upon the renewal of the
Contracts relative to the Hulks, a considerable abatement was made
in the price. Whether I myself saw the Contract, containing such
reduced terms, or was only informed of it in substance, I do not
recollect, at any rate, for the effect in question, if any such was produced,
I never heard of any other cause. How the matter stands, might
easily, I should suppose, be learned at the Treasury, if to any purpose it
were at any time thought worth while. If, at any time, any such
reduction was made, in that case by the subsequent depreciation of
money, the difference can scarcely by this time have failed to be much more
than replaced.

II Pecuniary Service tendered by the Claimant's brother, in
consequence of the business in question.

It was by the ingenuity displayed by my brother, in the
invention of the Panopticon principle of Architecture, and in
the invention of that system of Mechanism which there
has been such frequent occasion to speak of, that Earl
Spencer, at that time first Lord of the Admiralty, was
drawn to the spot (I mean my present residence) where
those objects were exhibited. It was by the scientific
information, displayed in the course of the conversation
and correspondence that ensued, that the Admiralty Board

Identifier: | JB/122/484/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	484	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	Note (a)
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F69 / F70
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	001
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