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Forgery — Death
an improper Punishment
A man has ruined himself by his extravagance
he sees himself ready to fall sink into poverty and contempt:
he resolves not to endure live in that condition
Shall he kill himself? better than live so.
But first it may be worth his while to try make an
experiment and try whether he cannot retrieve his
future. He may try whether he can not get a
good round sum by Forgery. If he succeeds, all
is well. If he fails he is but where he was
He can not die an easier death than what the
Law will help him to.
It is much easier to incur meet death at the
hands of another person, than to procure it by ones
own: The first requires the effort of but a moment,
the other requires a continuation of efforts. In
the first use the man knows not the precise time moment
when he is to suffer, nor the precise circumstances
of his suffering: in the other case he knows the time
to a moment, he now , he examines & dwells upon
every painful circumstance. See View of the Hard Labour Bill.
52
Confession & Discovery —
means of procuring
Let a part of the Chaplin's daily function be to exhort
the convicts to confess their past crimes & their
accomplices: and let him have a reward for every
offender convicted by such confession.
For this purpose where any man is suspected
to be an old offender, dieting for a month happen
may be part of his punishment.
It is sufficient ground of to suspect him of being an
old offender if he can not shew that he maintains himself
by some honest employment.
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