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at length some new ideas in Architecture have enabled me to form
a plan for carrying into execution the spirit of that system
with some alterations and additions, which in the eyes of his
Majesty's Ministers, as well as those of the gentlemen to whom
the execution of it was at that time to have been committed, have
appeared in the light of improvements: and the plan, after
having been mentioned in Parliament by Sir C. Bunbury, has
been honoured by the acceptance of Mr Dundas and Mr Pitt.
The cost of building, which, when added to that of fitting up
and stocking, could not upon the former plan have been set at less than £250,000, is
upon the present plan struck off at a stroke, together with almost half the present annual
charge of disbursement for maintenance. The Prisoners are to be maintained,
the Buildings erected, and the Land paid for on my account,
though the purchase money is to be advanced by Government
in the first instance.— The intention was accordingly to
have issued the money immediately out of the Treasury, and
to have taken possession of the Land as a matter of course under




Identifier: | JB/541/396/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.

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1793-08-11

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396

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Jeremy Bentham

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