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Panopt July 1798
Country Convicts
Number say 400
Profit per head
say XII
—
4400
+ 1/2 year 2200
—
6600
Labour of do
400
Labour of the
320 unemployed
on board
the hulks
Say 700 x 22}
for the 1 1/2 Year } 15,400
at £15 a year }
Deduct the first }
1/2 year 5,133
Remains - say 10,000
Add as above 6,600
—
16,600
—
Real profit —
6,600
Add to the above
Saving by the suppression
of the establishment
of both
Hulks at Woolwich
Do of 1 do at Portsmouth.
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To The Prisoners Officers
Passage there need
be either two one
Flights of steps in
the middle, the
two, one on each being on
each side underneath,
or two
flights of steps
one on each side
the Prisoners being
in the middle.
The latter will be
the plan, if females
are admitted.
Points to be ascertained.
1. Highest High-water
Mark
2. Lowest Low-Water
Mark
This with a view
to the level of the
Frigidarium &
Tepidarium
Barge building
might be carried
on at the Charlton
spot. Barges for
conveying the brick,
while the Bricks
were making.
The reversed Bed-
stages will make
good ironing dressers.
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Bulky articles
for the lower half-floor
may be introduced
at the
lower whole floor.
If there be any
Craning work
the Crane should
if possible be at
top of the House
and moveable from
division to division.
Bed-pan for the
Sick on Count
Rumford's principle
the cover
to put on in the
Bed, before the pan
is taken out.
In the Temporary
Panopticon cheaper
to multiply Guards
than expensive physical
securities
Strong wire network
might perhaps
do every
where with only
Bars enough for
the support of it
How to manage
the entrance so
that the Convicts
shall have a
different passage
from the Officers,
Visitors &c — leaving
room at the
same time for the
Staircase?
Answer. -The
Convicts may
have a different
level, viz: the
lowest, at that of the
Dress
Characters to be
distinguished by
Dresses - to enforce
Separation
1. Thorough-bred
Town Thieves —
Habitual Depredators.
2
2. Casual Depredators —
Town.
3. Casual Depredators.
Country
4. Enterprising
by violence
5. Enterprising by
fraud.
6. Quiet and
resigned.
7. Already mixed
with the mass
in the Hulks
8. Unmixed with
the mass in the
Hulks.
9. Cleanly.
10. Filthy.
As dying might
be expensive, let
the distinction be
constituted by the
colours of the shreds
of cloth comprizing
the identification
numbers.
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Lowest floor — which
the officer &c may
enter the building
by the level
of the next floor
above.
The Officers entrance
overlooking
and commanding
the Prisoners do
The Prisoners do
narrow being a
continuation of the
Intermediate Area.
Temporary Panopt.
Iron Bars on the outside
to only the lowest
floor and 1/2 floor.
To the other stories,
horizontal laths projecting
horizontally,
to prevent the prisoners
from hanging by their
hands in order to drop
down,
So on the inside
man high — above
this net-work pier
sufficient -
Observe the Barricado
in the Hulks
The post principally
to be fortified
is the Lodge. with the
Storerooms underneath.
This being impregnable
no matter for their getting
into the intermediate
Area. And here
the surface being less
extensive other expence
will be less.
The Intermediate Area
might have a concentric
palisade of
laths running all
round to separate the
Prisoners part from the
other — or of netting —
It might be at the
distance of the Gallery
rail all round.
Place for the admission of
long Timbers for sawing
and planing. This
can only be at the
Ground floor. This
must be by a sort
of iron Gate — flapping
up or down — or in
folding doors, with
iron plates - with Sections
in them to be let down, and
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