JB/116/537/001

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22 Novr 1802 + 4

Letter 2o XV Hulks
116b

To facilitate the comparison, I will beg leave to submitt
to your Lordship a Table, in which the points of resemblance
and contrast between the three systems, under some of the
principal heads, are set down, side by side.

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I. Penitentiary System —

1. Drunkenness, norm.

2. Association — with one another,
select: with strangers,
none.

3. To health, supremely favourable:-
by sobriety, cleanliness,
and constancy of occupation;
by mixture of light
with heavy, indoor with
outdoor, work.

4. To comfort, for the same
reasons as to health, universally
favourable; as also
by security against uneasiness
from quarrels and oppressions:
saving always the
salutary discomfort resulting
from the necessary discipline.

5. To reformation eminently
favourable, in respect of
the inviolable sobriety, the
select associate aggregation, the constancy
of occupation, and
the constancy subjection to
inspection, more or less uninterrupted,
according to the
plan of architecture and management.

6. To incapacidtation for first
offences during the final term,
completely effectual.

7. To prevention of fresh offences
[after the final term] eminently
conducive, in respect of
example as well as reformation.

8. To economy supremely
favourable; by constancy of
profitable occupation, mixture of
light with heavy work almost unlimited
choice of the most profitable work and
more or less facility of inspection.

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II. Hulk System

1. Drunkeness, none

2. Association — with
one another, promiscuous;
with strangers, none.

3. To health, favourably
sobriety; unfavourable
by want of mixture
of light with heavy
work, and total want of
occupation for the many
incapable of hard and
out door work.

4. To comfort eminently
unfavourable; by
reason of the promiscuous
associate aggregation
in a crowded space:
— under exposure to discomfort
uneasiness from quarrels
and oppressions.

5. To reformation,
eminently unfavourable,
by reason of the
promiscuous and unbounded
association
and the ascendant naturally
garnist by the
most corrupted characters.

6. To incapacitation
for fresh offences during
the penal perm, effectual
for the most part.

7. In prevention of In respect of fresh
offences after the penal
term, little conducive preventive in
the way of example; —rather
conducive than preventive,
by corruption instead of
reformation.

8. To economy imperfectly
favourable, by want
of light work for the weakly
and to mix with heavy
work.

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III N.S.Wales System —

1. Drunkenness universal.

2. Association, altogether
promiscuous: Convicts
one with another
by thousands: with Soldiers and
Seamen, each by hundreds

3. To health unfavourable
constantly by drunkenness.
To vitality, favourable
notwithstanding, by
the salubrity of the climate:
setting aside experienced frequency
and perpetual probability chances of
famine on the spot, after and
pestilence during the passage.

4. To comfort supremely
unfavourable; — by the universal
insecurity in respect
of property; as well an in
respect of uneasiness from
quarrels and oppressions.

5. To reformation supremely
unfavourable
by reason of the promiscuous
and unbounded
association; joined to
much opportunity of sloth
and unbounded to unbounded drunkenness.

6. In respect of offences
during the final term,
rather conducive than incapacitating.

7. in respect of fresh offences
during after the penal term,
altogether unpreventive in
the way of example; supremely
conducive by consummate
corruption instead of
reformation.

8. To economy supremely
adverse; by the presence of
every cause of expence, and
the absence of every source
of profit and frugality.

Identifier: | JB/116/537/001 "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	537	Info in main headings field	letter 2d
Image	001	Titles	penitentiary system / hulk system / n. s. wales system
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38070
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