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is , that even when every improvement looked to has
also actually been made the advantages , even setting
aside what Your Lordship has just been seeing in
Chapter economy , sections architecture and official
establishment , would not be every where alike indisputable . —

In proof of the latter proposition I will beg
leave to take for an example the most favourite of
all then "improved prisons": the prison in which the
admirers of improved prisons would be most at home ,
if in any : the prison honoured by their most especial
protection , and which it was their especial care should
note "become neglected" for want of inhabitants . The
prison sevi serving for example , for proof I will beg
leave to refer Your Lordship to a very recent publication
from a pen which as far as depends on intrinsic indications ,
prefers though anonymous the most irrecusable
claim to confidence . * * The True State of the House of Correction in Cold Bath Fields &c by a Middlesex Magistrate . 1802 . To Your Lordship , is such things
were worth knowing , the name of the Author could
scarcely I think be unknown : although to me , who
knuows nothing , it remains unknown , choosing it
should be for the sort of reason above mentioned . —

The passages in question are as follows : "industry,
"order , discipline , subordination , economy" are the points
they touch upon .

No 1. Page 11. "The due employment of the Prisoners
"according to law in such work as they have been accustomed
"to , & for which they are most fit , has been discontinued ;
"& since that time there has been a gradual decline of
"industry , order , discipline & subordination in the Prison" . No 2.

Identifier: | JB/116/629/001"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	629	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d35 / d36
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38162
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