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many of them have been detected immediately afterwards
in the Commission of New Crimes: from which it may
be inferred that this Species of Punishment has not
answered the intentions of the Legislature, sofar as
relates to the reformation of the Convicts: but the
chief cause of the general corruption of Morals which
traced is so apparent, may be traced to the indiscriminate
mixture of hardened and irreclaimable Thieves
with County Convicts, who under other circumstances
might have been reclaimed; but with so many evil
examples before them, too often become as hardened at the
period of their Discharge as the worst Class of Felons thereby
thereby rendering the Establishments a complete Seminary
of Vice and Wickedness. — In giving however such
a decided opinion against the System of the Hulks, I
would wish to be understood as not imputing the
smallest blame to the Contractors. — The error is in
the System, not in the management: and the evils
arising from it must continue, until a better mode is
adopted, whatever the management may be —

Qu 12.

Qu. 12. Does the plan proposed by M.<hi rend="underline">r Bentham appear to you
to contain an easy and practicable remedy to those abuses?

It certainly does: and its immediate adoption would
be a most important object to the Public, not only in
a Financial, but also in a moral point of view.

Identifier: | JB/117/100/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	copy / of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire, / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report / of the / committee on finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th june 1798) / as relates to mr bentham's penitentiary plan
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38717
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