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<p>Sir</p> | |||
<p>I shall take it as a very great favour if you will be so good<lb/> | |||
as to permit me to wait on you or if would <gap/> the trouble<lb/> | |||
of calling at N<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> 37 in <hi rend="underline">Wigmore</hi> Street.</p> | |||
<p>There are several <add>circumstances</add> connected with the penitentiary system on<lb/> | |||
which I should beg leave to ask your opinion; I think in doing so<lb/> | |||
I should give you less trouble than by correspondence on so complicated<lb/> | |||
a subject.</p> | |||
<p>I had read the papers <add>to</add> which you are so good as to direct<lb/> | |||
my attention.</p> | |||
<p>An officer in Ireland called Inspector of Prisons brought me a<lb/> | |||
<gap/> to <gap/> the practicality of the earnings of prisoners exceeding<lb/> | |||
their maintenance.</p> | |||
<p>I have procured him a power of superintendency, the labour and<lb/> | |||
maintenance of a number of persons in confinements in hopes<lb/> | |||
that experience may justify his reasoning.</p> | |||
<p>I fear that the even <unclear>partition</unclear> prices of labour and provisions<lb/> | |||
may be less favourable to the system in Ireland than in England,<lb/> | |||
but much advantage must result from the plan suggested,<lb/> | |||
and if some <sic>expence</sic> should remain not provided for, the<lb/> | |||
<sic>publick</sic>, who must be considerably <sic>benefitted</sic> by the exchange between<lb/> | |||
the habits of profligacy & <unclear>there</unclear> of reformation, ought cheerfully to pay<lb/> | |||
for it. I am Sir,<lb/> | |||
with much respect Y.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> most obed<hi rend="superscript">t</hi><lb/> | |||
Hum<hi rend="superscript">er</hi> <gap/> I <unclear>Pacnell</unclear>.</p> | |||
<p><hi rend="underline">Wigman</hi> Street<lb/> | |||
August 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1790 Jer.<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> Bentham Esq.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></p> | |||
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Sir
I shall take it as a very great favour if you will be so good
as to permit me to wait on you or if would the trouble
of calling at No 37 in Wigmore Street.
There are several circumstances connected with the penitentiary system on
which I should beg leave to ask your opinion; I think in doing so
I should give you less trouble than by correspondence on so complicated
a subject.
I had read the papers to which you are so good as to direct
my attention.
An officer in Ireland called Inspector of Prisons brought me a
to the practicality of the earnings of prisoners exceeding
their maintenance.
I have procured him a power of superintendency, the labour and
maintenance of a number of persons in confinements in hopes
that experience may justify his reasoning.
I fear that the even partition prices of labour and provisions
may be less favourable to the system in Ireland than in England,
but much advantage must result from the plan suggested,
and if some expence should remain not provided for, the
publick, who must be considerably benefitted by the exchange between
the habits of profligacy & there of reformation, ought cheerfully to pay
for it. I am Sir,
with much respect Y.r most obedt
Humer I Pacnell.
Wigman Street
August 9th 1790 Jer.y Bentham Esq.r
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