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calculation 20,000 living from day to day on the
of others. I cannot but think and hope that he is
mistaken in his estimate, or at least, that this alarming
number includes all those who sin against justice
in a moral as well as in a legal point of
view. Upon good authority I am enabled to state
that there in the Hulks at Woolwich, Portsmouth
and plan 1500 Convicts, in London 500[?], and in
the respective Country Gaols 700 more, making
in all 3000: and I have been assured by an able
and sagacious Counsel, that each on an average costs
Government 1000£ (which you will the more readily
perceive by considering that the gross charge
of the maintenance & of the ship wear & tear &
all contingencies include amounts annually to
near 40,000£ i.e. 5s a head daily) so you see
lose is a dead sum of 3.000.000 fruitlessly cast
away upon the outcasts of society. The numbers
detained for trial, and those who reason[?] I cannot
so accurately describe, but from all that I can collect
they are exceeding[?] many, bold, daring and outrageous
as injurious to the morals of the lower orders of society
by the wanton and insidious[?] display of oppresive
is the houses they frequent for entertainment, as
they are hostile to the and industrious by fraud
and violence. — With these melancholy truths, I will
suppose Sir that you are well acquainted, not so the
remedy involved is the desiderata of evil polity. To
me it appears very obvious : for the number of delinquents
might be continually and prodigiously decreased by
a more wise and discriminatory treatment of offenders
by action so terrific punishments upon outrageous,
cruel and hopeless offenders; and by a more humane &
cleanness to all those who shall appeal after
sober and well directed to be unaccounted
to violence[?] and plunder: nor do I hesitate to declare
it both hard and impolitic to decrie such society
as absurd and unreasonable as the practice of
that physician would he who for lopped
a leg or arm: for the major part of culprits at
the time of Committal before baser associates have
hardened is used robbed them of every
of share and sensibility however weak
& faulty this may be as by no means lost or hardened.






Identifier: | JB/117/252/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

1803-01-24

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

252

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

george lee

Watermarks

[[watermarks::1800 [bell motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

38869

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