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dation. Once affected established the communication might endure for ages.
Once covered up, the precise course of it might remain unknown
for ages. In aid of the all <add>these</add>physical safeguards, political ones Political safeguards would naturally be applied.
in aid of the physical. A purposed attack on any of these
instruments of public security would be might and ought to be made punishable
as an attack upon Government and Justice.

As to secresy, my op notions of the importance of it will Offer of Secresy in case of Orders from Government
be implicitly governed by your's. If I receive no commands
from you to the contrary within a week, I shall conceive myself
left at liberty to speak of it as of any thing else. But Mean time
with these ideas floating in my mind you will easily conceive
that I could not avoid giving you this trouble. Putting yourself
for a moment in my place, and conceiving the possible utility
of the contrivance, and the possible importance of secresy to the
full success of it, you will easily conceive that in the eventthe regret that would
have been in store for me, in if in the event of its presenting itself hereafter of its being thought by the proper Judges to have promised fair
the proper Judges, as an instrument of <add>public</add>security that might have had its at the hour that it was seen to be appeared to be no longer practicable, it
use, if indolence or indifference on my part had not suffered it could not but give me great concern to think that through
to perish any neglect of mine the opportunity had been lost.

You best know whether there is any thing particular in the
times that calls for such precautions: but a man can not be an
Englishman without having his surmises and apprehensions. If
in quiet times the use may appear less necessary. in unqiet the
times the execution might be less easy. If in quiet times it should
appear premature, in unquiet it might come too late. I have the hounour tobe with great respect Yours &c

If the pipes were wanted for any othe purpose the space or at present made in sufficient without beingexpressed of putting them together <note>and<add>in </add> for the purpose of the experiment</note> unsoldering them would be no object. I myself would not grudge defraying it.

P.S. In the ground at Battersea Rise, pitched upon for the Penetentiary Establishment, the practicability of the such a Communication from London to the most distant Sea Port might be ascertained without any intimation given of the purpose. In that ground will admitt of a length of above 1/2 a mile in a strait line, of which length a tube would not improbably been laid down for the purpose of the establishment. Hundreds of miles might be made but by returns of such a the tube: and if the experiment the it would a forb in a strait line. By this means the practicability of a in into of the sort with Dover for example might be compleatly and off only while would be a for longer purpose
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Identifier: | JB/106/006/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1793-11-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	jeremy bentham esqr to evan nepean esqr under secretary of state
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	sir samuel bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34594
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