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XV. Hulk System compared with Penitentiary and
N. S. Wales Systems.

From the foregoing demonstrations — if such by curtesy
at least they may be stiled — may be deduced, in inte
in the form of a corollary, a short estimate on the subject
of the Hulks. In the scale of utility, its place station
would be found, if my judgment does not deceive me,
in the midway between penitentiary imprisonment, taken without
the benefit of the panopticon improvements, and the punishment
of penal colonization, taken on the footing on which it
stands in New South Wales. With the former, it agrees
in respect of its severity from drunkenness with the attendant
miseries and mischiefs: with the latter, in respect of the
promiscuous aggregation; with the universal corruption that issuing
results from it.As a preservative of physical health On the ground of healthiness, meaning physical healthiness as
it is from drunkenness, it may rank not much below
the penitentiary system: on the ground of moral health
as a school of As a preventative of present wickedness mischief
of mischief considered as under and during the
punishment — it may rank not much below the penitentiary
system: it stands at a prodigious heighth height
above the sink of New South Wales. On the ground of
healthiness as (meaning physical healthiness), it cleared as it
of drunkenness is from drunkenness, it may again rank
not much below the penitentiary system: on the ground of
moral health, as a school of post-liberation wickedness,
it stands scarce at all above the level of New South Wales.
In point the article of comfort. it can never come up to considering the
miseries of crowd forced and crowded association, it can never
come up to — it can never do otherwise than fall deplorably
short of — a well-ordered Penitentiary House. In the article
of economy, in our point of view it can not but fall considerably short of it, since
among

Identifier: | JB/116/535/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	535	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	xv hulk system compared with penitentiary and n. s. wales systems
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38068
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