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the land that had been purchd for the purposes. On my
plan in which on the report of my brother no more than
£27,000 ws to be given by Govt. for the buildg for which
£27,000 1000 prisoners were to be lodged, the present
penitentiary was erected at a cost which by difft persons
at different times has been computed at £1000 for
every convict confined in it. The site on wh the buildg was
erected was the Bank wh the Review speaks of – Mine
was to have been the elevated ground above spoken of –
I think it was £12 a year a head I was to have had.
The Reports that have been published from time to time
among the parliamentary papers will show the present
cost. I was to have done it by contract – of the
advantages of which see Panopticon – The plan of
management adopted was that in which the business
was to be carrd on in public a/c – 3 Commrs
being appointed for that purpose. At present, in the decayed
state of my memory, I do not at this moment recollect
the names of any of them. The present Lord Fenton
was active in this part of the business – I forget whether
he was one of the Commissioners or not. One I think
was a Clergyman – the – the Secretary of
State's Office (Mr George Rose) was zealous & active in
support of the plan, in subordination to Mr Pitt &
Mr Secy Dundas who, Dundas more particular was
enthusiastic in support of it. A vivid eulogium of his on
the plan may be seen in the H. of Commons Debates
of the time, – so also of Sir Charles Bunbury who I believed
was the first to mention it in . To put me in
immediate possession of the land in such sort as to enable
me to commence the building of it, the sum of £1000 for
the purpose of buyg out a lease that was on it was necessary.
When at last the principal if not the sole cause of the
retardation it had experienced became no longer capable of
being . The King's Signature to the advance of
the £1000 was necessary. His dispatch of business was
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