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Penitentiary House
projected

£ 16 a year, a sum adequate to the subsistence by which maintenance is afforded
of three men, or two men and two women,
or a man and his wife and three children
among the industrious poor, Glasgow Porhouse pamphlet
capable of being authenticated
by Mr Colquhoun.
See also the Sutherland
case the last case in
Davies on the Poor.
was bestowed upon provided
the mere lodging of a felon in the first instance.
The two Houses as they were called were to be in
fact two Towns: containing between them as many
Houses as there were to be prisoners, besides public
Buildings. An official establishment was had been provided
by this Act upon a scale similar commensurate in dignity, that
is in expence: The labour was to be kind, and those particulars upon the
variability of which economyprofit depends, were made the subject of
yet not too kind. Economy, the humble virtue
regulation. Economy the humble virtue of private
life, was either negligently passed by unheeded,
or openly disdainfully rejected as a clog upon
the exertions of official discipline. This opinion
to with which the rest of the system was but too much
of a piece, alarmed struck an alarm as it should seem into into those
by whom was what arrested (it should seem)
the hands from whence the money was to come.
The Penitentiary plan system, though the final dereliction
of it was neither declared nor, as it should seem,
intended, was suspended: and for the in concurrence
with it, or as experience might suggest recommend
in lieu of it, Battersea Rise was left unoccupied:
a new idea obtained
the preference.
and the scene of punishment was removed transferred to a
Colony to be founded planted for that purpose, in a newly
discovered island or rather continent situate in
point of length time of voyage at about twice the distance
of the East Indies.

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Identifier: | JB/150/350/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	350	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50571
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