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So much regard to security — Is the establishment likely
to present any thing disgustful or unpleasant to the Neighbourhood?
Your Lordship may soon judge. Adopting in their fullest energy
the ideas of Howard with regard to the importance of publicity, it is
part of my plan, as Your Lordship may have observed, and indeed the
main pillar of it, to give the Establishment such a face as may attract
to it persons of all Classes, but particularly of the superior ranks of
life, whose inspection as such would afford the most powerful check
to mismanagement: on Sunday in particular it would be my endeavour
to render it by means of the Chapel which is inclosed in the center of
the building, a sort of place of public entertainment suitable to the
day, like that afforded by the Magdalen and the Asylum.

Your Lordship will judge how far it would be possible to carry on an
such place, if the Establishment or any thing belonging to it ever suffers
to be in the smallest particular object of disgust.

It is in that view, as well as in the view of making the
residence to which I have doomed myself the more comfortable that
I should make a point of giving to the place considered at large what
embellishment it may be susceptible of: nor does it appear to me that
it would be a departure from the true spirit of the institution, if,
while, with reference to the class of persons for whose correction it is
designed, it is seen to have the properties of a prison and an establishment
for forced labour, to the neighbourhood and to passengers it should
wear the aspect of a ferme ornee.

Allow me here to represent to your
Lordship, how much reason the Neighbourhood will have to rejoice
at the change of plan which in the room of three men of rank, subject
to no controul but what has reference to the prosperity of the Establishment
itself



Identifier: | JB/541/412/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.

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1793-08-16

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