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1831 March
For J.B. and George III. Short History of Panopticon for Westr against Quarterly Review
Abridged in Westmr or April 1, 1831,
and thus superseded.
Superseded by Article in
The Swamp was not to be chosen – his proposal had for its basis
about 80 acres in Battersea rise, which he found already
allotted to the purpose of a penitentiary house in virtue of an
Act obtained for the purpose in consequence of a proposal
which originated with Sr (afterward
Lord Auckland) – A Jury was summoned in pursuance of the
Act to value the land & the land was valued at about £6000.
His proposal was accepted by W. Pitt, but to his surprise the
acceptance after having been given was so far as regarded the land
in question revoked. The Arp of York in such his quality & Earl
Spencer were proprs of the land – the Arp (Markham) consented, but
Ld S refused. Ld Spencer kept sd to me a first that tho' he wd not consent
to that he wd consent to my having another part of his Estate
bordering on the river – He kept me in suspense 3/4 of a year
& at the end of that time put an end to my hopes altogether – I
was at different times in search of different places for the purpose.
At last W. Pitt's ministry consented to my having the an Estate that
belonged to the Earl of Salisbury at Millbank. To complete the of
I had stipulated for, it was necessary I shd have some part of Tothill
Fields – There was one part more elevated that the rest & I was
anxious to have it on that a/c – But Tothill F. belonged to the
Dean &of Chr of Westminster. Havg nothing from W Pitt I
negociated w. them for that purpose & was . The business
was several times & taken up. It was taken
off namely by Ld Colchester's important & celebrated Com – the
of the Finance Committee – it sat in 179708. Lord colchester
on that occasion after allusion made to some of the most &
unrelenting courses of cruelty that are left from history, said
he would not think of any one of the that
that which had been practised – in my case & yet between
Ld C & in (the ) there was no sort of
intimacy or sympathy. It were too long to say how it
was but so it was that at last I found at the bottom of
all this was G III. In the year 1811 it was that a
Common was put up by Ld Sidmouth, the Minutes of
for affair I forget which of the express purposes
of setting aside my proposal & applying the same to a
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