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11 Jany 1802
3 Jail Improvements

you. My Lord, I him from that time
forward, and him in all plans a
he never would see me, till the letter, such as
your Lordship sees it, was dispatched and gone.

Now then, my Lord, as the expence of the
County Gaols and their improvements, was nothing
or was borne by nobody, thence came there you have the arithmetical
reason for keeping Convicts
in hundreds of J Gaols instead of the Penitentiary
House, in spite of state of Parliament: now
And now Your Lordship understands & compleatly and
distinctly, why and how it was that Mr King made his
Grace concurr that that a building large
enough to contain 500 convicts will be sufficient:
the same building which perhaps Mr King, certainly Mr Long had determined never to see
erected. Convicts A convict lodged in that building national Jail would cost
something: a convict in a Jail of 20 times the
expence – that Jail being a Town or County
Jail – would cost nothing not cost any thing. – Why not cost
any thing? – Because neither Mr King, nor
the Duke of Portland – nor any set of men
to whom they belonged or with whom they were in connection would have to find the
money for it.

⊞ ⊞ What the people pay
what the whole aggregate body of his
Majestys faithful subjects
pays, they neither know
nor care. To exempt For the adversity save
themselves and their friends of saving
from their a Right Honourable Colleague Mr
in the Exchequer the
trouble of finding one thousand
pounds they would
hold a cheap is what
they would be read to pay
for: and hold it a good bargain
– by thirteen thousand
pounds extracted from the
profits of the
over burthened classes of his
Majesty's subjects in a smug
way, and without Mr Pitt's or
Mr Rose's hands being seen
at work on them.

such are the principles of economy which your
Lordship has seen governing the conduct of these guardings
of he public purse.
⊞2 Such are the thoughts of
Mr King – Such, if the
D. of P. were capable of thought
would be the thoughts of the D.
of Portland. Who They hide expence and look portend big, as if they had
annihilated it.

Identifier: | JB/121/230/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-01-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	16
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	230	Info in main headings field	3 Jail Improvements
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D13
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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