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<p>M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Bentham to Earl Spencer. Letter 1. 1793_8_11</p> | |||
<p>Queens Square Place Westm<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Aug. 11<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1793.</p> | |||
<p>My Lord, <lb/> It may perhaps be in the recollection of your Lordship,<lb/> that in the month of Sept<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. 1782, in virtue of the Statute<lb/> 19 Geo: 3. Ch. 74, commonly called the <hi rend="underline">Penitentiary Act</hi>,<lb/> a piece of Land at Battersea Rise, wherein the late Earl<lb/> your father and the Archbishop of York in right of his See<lb/> were jointly interested, was after great consideration pitched<lb/> upon as the fittest possible to be purchased fo rthe site of the<lb/> then intended Penitentiary House, the value assessed by a <lb/>Jury at £6600, and every thing done towards the completion<lb/> of the purchase, but the paying of the money, which<lb/> was to have been issued but of the Treasury. The <add>documents</add> <del>Penitentiary</del><lb/> communicated to me by the <sic>Sollicitor</sic> of the Treasury, he before me. The Penitentiary<lb/> System is a subject, to which I had turned my thoughts as<lb/>early as John Howard, or any body he has left behind: and<lb/> <add>at</add> </p> | |||
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Mr. Bentham to Earl Spencer. Letter 1. 1793_8_11
Queens Square Place Westmr. Aug. 11th 1793.
My Lord,
It may perhaps be in the recollection of your Lordship,
that in the month of Septr. 1782, in virtue of the Statute
19 Geo: 3. Ch. 74, commonly called the Penitentiary Act,
a piece of Land at Battersea Rise, wherein the late Earl
your father and the Archbishop of York in right of his See
were jointly interested, was after great consideration pitched
upon as the fittest possible to be purchased fo rthe site of the
then intended Penitentiary House, the value assessed by a
Jury at £6600, and every thing done towards the completion
of the purchase, but the paying of the money, which
was to have been issued but of the Treasury. The documents Penitentiary
communicated to me by the Sollicitor of the Treasury, he before me. The Penitentiary
System is a subject, to which I had turned my thoughts as
early as John Howard, or any body he has left behind: and
at
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Jeremy Bentham |
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