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past Honourable Gentlemen have given to this agreement of theirs
a degree of form as well as is some other of their arguments and
expedients, beyond what I could have wished, and seconded
by such treatment as it has been my lot to experience at their
hands and to which unless stayed by the intrepidity of
Your Lordship's justice this last measure will have given
the crowning stroke, the chances of life and death were
certainly in favour of the plan so perseveringly pursued for
ridding the powersof high seated darkness of the encumbrance,
for already (as many be seen by the calculation printed in
Report 28th of the Finance Committee of 1797-8) it has
been my loss to live several year more than according to
the Tables I ought to have lived. Yet still considering
the counter consideration above submitted, this agreement
will not, I hope be found to have so far accomplished
its purpose as to be in Your Lordship's account a conclusive one.
Offer 4. On the Non Panopticon Plan what the space
is that is deemed requisite for the 600 Prisoners, I do not
know. On the Panopticon plan in case of necessity I could make less than
what there is serve for the experiment. On that supposition,
should there be also a sufficiency for the Non Panopticon
system, the two could be carried on together.
Here then, if the honour of Honourable Gentlemen
could be reconciled to the idea, the benefit of composition and
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