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Queen's Square Place July 16th 1792.

Dear Sir

Excuse the liberty I take in taking you for my confident.
I am duly sensible to the honour of your good opinion
in favour of the Panopticon plan, and to the endeavours you have
so kindly used in support of it. — What I apprehend, and what
I even suspected from your letter is, that they have been ineffectual:
if so, the last favour I have to ask of you, nor that an
inconsiderable one, is that you will have the goodness to tell
me so. I have been assured most positively that the plan never
will be adopted, let what will be thought of it: for that the
gentleman to whose department it more particularly belongs has
personal predilections which are incompatible with it, and connections
much too strong for a stranger like me to get the better of.
Useless as it would be for me to allow myself to think about the
cause, I will state to you with equal simplicity the grounds I
myself have found for being apprehensive of the effect. At different
times variety of people have mentioned it to him — always with
approbation — no token of disapprobation on his part — nothing
of

Identifier: | JB/541/347/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1792-07-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	347	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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