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18 Letter 3d

Even as to the eventual amount of the expence,
intended or not intended , that the rule of three ,
as above employed should, without any further
data be correctly sufficient , is more than I
would undertake to answer for: I would not
haggle for a few millions * * The prison architecture , Blackburn's plan for Battersea kin would perhaps not have been more than about 15 times as much as the Panopticon plan ,instead of the 20 or: no, my Lord, nor for a
few dozen millions . A point I can speak to
with more confidence , is — that the talents which
gave birth to that determination , or at any rate
to the professions made of it , are the very same
which the public is every day experiencing the
benefit of under Your Lordship's auspices : and if
the check which Your Lordship is thus fortunate
enough to possess , for the correction of any error
that may have unintentionally attached itself
to so unavoidably rough an estimate — if so
powerful a security against misrepresentation be
not yet sufficient , I would by leave to refer
Your Lordship to the still more resplendent splendid talents of
the late official sub-professor of political economy ,
whose share in the glories of Mr Pitt's poor plan
is without dispute , and who on all agreable
occasions is so fond of "arithmetic and its calculations ". Industry houses upon the gallagher scale and

Identifier: | JB/116/615/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	615	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d18
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38148
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