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Letter to Mr Foster Petersburgh

for finishing changing the punishment of Transportation
into Hard-labour, to be performed in Houses
which it proposed to establish for that purpose
throughout England. The Bill I understand to
be the composition of Mr Eden, Author of the Principles
of Penal Law, Under Secretary of State under
Lord Suffolk, a Lord of Trade, and who within
these few days is gone out care of the 3 Commissioners
to America. The subject of their project This coming under within the
plan of my book on Punishment, I thought this
to The proposal of a project measure which like this
came within the plan of my book on punishments
was an occasion I thought not to be neglected, of
trying whether my speculations were likely to be of
use. The Bill had been already announced by the
Judges in their circuits; and as I understood was
intended to be brought into the Parliament in the
course of the present Session. Having no time to
lose, I got put together a few thoughts on the subject
which in the compass of a few little more than about three
weeks I made up into a Pamphlet intitled
A View of the Hard-labour Bill. It has been
out about a fortnight.

Among the friends to whom I meant to make
presents of a few distribute copies I naturally turned my
thoughts to you. I had heard from my father
of your being at Petersburgh with the Dutchess
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
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Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56924
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