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Mr Bentham's Parliamentary
plan
Delay Causes
Treasury
Legal delay.

Mr Bentham's plan
Such being the complection of the plan,
and such the light in which it
still presented itself to eyes
which would not naturally
be shut against
its defects
the merits ope of it even in the eyes of
a rival though a generous one.
those whose plans had been superseded by it
it was became impossible to Your Committee not to
make some enquiry into the causes which
for such a so enormous a length of time had have been
depriving the public of the benefit of the measure.
On this head it was not without concern
that Your Committee came at length to learn
from Mr Bentham whose
appearance was tardy and
his answers reluctant
came to learn
that the difficulties that had attended the
pursuit of the spot at Battersea Rise had
been the principal and insuperable obstacle: that the acquisition
of that spot was regarded by him as
altogether hopeless: that upon his proposing
the only other spot existing which combines fully includes all
the properties conditions of required pointed out as
requisite by the abovementioned Committee
(viz: elevation, vicinity
to the Metropolis and vicinity
to the River)
assurances (he understood) had been given,
such as rendered the aq acquisition of
this other spot equally desperate: that his
only remaining hopes centered at present
in Tothill Fields: a spot which he had
been led to by the consideration of
circumstance
of its being
within sight of one
of the spots places where in which
convicts are confined
at present
that that spot does is
not possess deficient indeed one article of those requisite,
viz: elevation, an article which he had a condition to which he had
been particularly anxious about clung with particular pertinacity in the under the
so score idea of its importance with regard to
health: that notwithstanding the loss of this
extraordinary advantage he is confident of
by

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Identifier: | JB/150/367/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
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Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	367	Info in main headings field
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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