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Police Revenue Bill
16
Penitentiary

Suspecting Apprehensive from the length of the interval that
had elapsed since the impress made of the that same
above alluded of into the hands of Mr Bentham
that lest whatever might have been the views in with which
it was originally issued, a maturer consideration
might have placed the expediency of the measure
in a less favourable light, Your Committee even
previous to any exy examination of Mr Bentham
and previously to its
being known in what
light it was now actually
considered by the Treasury
at the present period
were desirous of obtaining what lights
might be obtained obtained from undistracted
questions respecting the complection of this business.
Accordingly Mr Colquhoun having come been
before Your Committee to be examined several times for the other purposes
above stated, was they took the opportunity of
inquiring whether what were might be the sentiments of
that gentleman in regard to a plan which
from the reception given to it by authority, as well as
from the nature of it compared with the nature of
his functions and pursuits would not well fail to be supposed
to have escaped from his notice have come under his cognizance. Mr Colquhouns and from a gentleman
known to have been
professionally conversant concerned
with in mercantile concerns affairs
they thought it no unfavorable
occasion of
learning in what light
it appeared to him in
a practical and mercantile
point of view.
To The
answer was as no less satisfactory extremely simple as it was simple: that
to Your Committee as may it was honourable to the quarter person from
whom it came - That Mr Colquhoun
he himself had had a plan relative to the same
object - that after his plan had been matured
and completed, Mr Bentham's plan fell into his
hands: that he found in it every idea that had
occurred to himself - that he found in it many several
that had not occurred to himself - that he approved
of all of them - that he regarded the
Plan in toto as adapted in an eminent degree
to the compleatly adapted fulfillment of its
purpose: and that he had no sooner seen this of Mr
Bentham's, than he gave up all thoughts of prosecuting
his own. By way of fixing the views pointing the attention of
Your Committee and shewing precisely what it was he view had
in view while speaking of Mr Bentham's plan, he produced
and by order of Your Committee left with them a
paper
paper, which though
printed does not appear
to have been published, in which the principal
features of Mr Bentham's
plan are delineated in
terms little varying in
substance from those of
the engrossed Draught
copies of which as
stated had been
in from the Draught
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Identifier: | JB/150/340/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	340	Info in main headings field	police report
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50561
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