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B.3. MrBentham to MrRose. 3 April 1798

Temporary Panopticon Proposed – till the land for the other can be got –
Money wanted only in advance – No ultimate addition to expence –Objections
answered – Proposer's interest in delay removed.

It is, I understand, in contemplation to send a
Vessel soon to New South Wales with 300 Convicts. What
the disbursement requisite for that expedition would amount
to is not within my knowledge; but altogether
within your's: hardly much less – possibly much more than
the expenditure, which I would beg leave humbly to propose
in lieu of it. The Penitentiary establishment being
retarded by the causes you are apprised of, if I might
be allowed, in manner herein after mentioned, a sum
of £10,000 – payable - not over and above, but on account of,
and in due time to be deducted from - the £24,000, which,
together with the purchase money for the land, it was intended
I should have had this Summer for the Building,
I would engage (and I think if necessary I could find collateral
security) to have erected, and ready for use, within
six months after the receipt of the money, a Temporary
Penitentiary House of wood, upon a plan similar to
that of the intended permanent one. The spot I have in
view is a spot that belongs to nobody: the licence I have
to employ it depends upon the City of London, as Conservators of
the Navigation of the Thames, and it is upon the event of
my obtaining such licence, (an event which however I regard
as probable) that the proposal, I am now submitting, consequently
depends. In extent, the spot includes little more than would
be necessary for the site of the Building itself, with some
Outworks for greater security: it is a small bank, about a
quarter of a mile above the Sand-Wharf, called the Charlton
Sand Wharf, about midway between Greenwich and Woolwich,
between the navigable part of the River and the Embankment
Wall. It stands so high as to bear grass, and not
to

Identifier: | JB/117/219/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-04-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field	earlier symptoms rose
Image	001	Titles	mr bentham to mr rose
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e1 / f32
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 1321, vol. 6	ID Number	38836
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