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public works : it can hardly be set down at less than 5 years
even exclusive of the now current year
Upon the Panopticon plan, the establishment might
and would be completed in one year. Witness Drury Lane
Theatre. Upon an establishment of this kind the allowance
of a sum any thing near so large as £300000
within the space of one year would naturally be grudged.
It might not be grudged if the £ 300,000, even reduced
to £100000
the only possible resource would be on the part of my Brother
and myself, a public declaration, whereby as in such case
character could be pledged to the securing against
any addition to the sum of money required.
In regard to the excess the existence of under the course
of proceeding which is customarily pursued in relation to public
works and which in the instance of the proposed Non. Panopticon
plan is actually pursued may however uncertain the amount
may to some amount be looked upon as being to some amount
matter of absolute certainty. I would venture to submitt to
your Lordship and through your Lordship with your Lordship
approbation to Mr Vansittart, whether to assist in forming
an expectation in relation to it, it might not be of use to
have an account taken of the difference between expences
per estimate and expence as per experience, in the instance
of such public work as have been carried on at the public expence
for a certain number of years back.
character of a of economy applicable in
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