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is Chief Justice, of all England. Either I am much mistaken, or
I could save money to the Gentlemen of the County, to say nothing
of what they will look upon the more important saving, that of
misery & wickedness, to the Prisoners. But if those gentlemen, upon
your favourable report, should do me the honour to think so, what
I should be inclined to recommend, & what I imagine would recommend
itself to them, as the most cautious & prudent course, that can
be adopted, is to wait, if the exigency be not too pressing, till the
practicability and utility of the Panopticon mode of construction has
been proved or disapproved, by the experiment which is so speedily to be
made, & upon so large a scale.

I am at present occupied, at the recommendation of
authority in preparing a Bill for Mr Pitt to bring in for that
purpose at the opening of the Session.

I submit this Idea, not through laziness, but merely
but merely as that which seems to bid fairest for the approbation
of third Persons. Should dispatch be preferred, I am now and at
all times at the command of the Gentlemen in Question, for there
is



Identifier: | JB/541/475/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.

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1793-10-31

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475

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Jeremy Bentham

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