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' | <p> <note>1793-8-11</note></p> <p> My Lord </p> <p> <del> Three or four and thirty years ago the <lb/> hand which now addresses you was not unknown to <lb/> you (The occasion of its now troubling your Grace <lb/> is as follows</del> It may perhaps be in <del> your <add> the </add>Grace's </del><lb/> recollection <add> of your Grace </add> that in the month of Sept:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 1782 <lb/> in virtue of <add> the provision created by </add> the Act of 19.G3 ch.74 commonly <lb/> called the Penitentiary Act a piece of land <lb/> at Battersea-Rise wherein your Grace in right <lb/> of <del>the</del> <add> your </add> See <del> fo yr</del> and <add> the late </add> Earl Spencer were jointly <lb/> interested, was <add> after great consideration </add> pitched upon <add> to be purchased as the fittest possible </add> for the site of the <lb/> then intended Penitentiary Houses, the value <lb/> <del> found</del> <add> assessed </add> by a Jury <add> at £6600, </add> and every thing done towards <lb/> the completion of the purchase, but the <del> payment</del> <add> paying </add> <lb/> of the money, which was to have been issued <lb/> by the Treasury. <del> the plan was to have been <add> execution was to have been <add> conduct of the establishment </del></add> <lb/> <del> executed under the direction of three Supervisors <lb/> Sir Gilbert Elliot, Sir Charles Bunbury and <lb/> D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Bowdler, among of whom <add> only </add> the two latter alone <lb/> acted upon the occasion abovementioned <add> I am speaking of</add>. </del> a joint <lb/> invention of my Brothers and mine has enabled <lb/> me to form a plan for carrying into execution <lb/> <add> the </add> </p> | ||
1793-8-11
My Lord
Three or four and thirty years ago the
hand which now addresses you was not unknown to
you (The occasion of its now troubling your Grace
is as follows It may perhaps be in your the Grace's
recollection of your Grace that in the month of Sept:r 1782
in virtue of the provision created by the Act of 19.G3 ch.74 commonly
called the Penitentiary Act a piece of land
at Battersea-Rise wherein your Grace in right
of the your See fo yr and the late Earl Spencer were jointly
interested, was after great consideration pitched upon to be purchased as the fittest possible for the site of the
then intended Penitentiary Houses, the value
found assessed by a Jury at £6600, and every thing done towards
the completion of the purchase, but the payment paying
of the money, which was to have been issued
by the Treasury. the plan was to have been <add> execution was to have been <add> conduct of the establishment </add>
executed under the direction of three Supervisors
Sir Gilbert Elliot, Sir Charles Bunbury and
Dr. Bowdler, among of whom only the two latter alone
acted upon the occasion abovementioned I am speaking of. a joint
invention of my Brothers and mine has enabled
me to form a plan for carrying into execution
the
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Jeremy Bentham |
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