Proposals for the National Penitentiary continued, however, and were given a legislative basis in the Penitentiary House, etc. After various changes in circumstance, the Panopticon plan was abandoned in 1812. The site at Millbank was originally purchased in 1799 from the Marquess of Salisbury for £12,000 by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, acting on behalf of the Crown, for the erection of his proposed panopticon prison as Britain's new National Penitentiary.
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