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drunkard himself, little mischief would be
apt to result from drunkenness. The ground,
on which it sinks to the level of New South
Wales, is the ground which touches, and in
the tenderest part, the interest of the whole
community, into which the prisoners, after
the expiration of their respective terms, are one
after another continually let loose. It is in a
state of matured corruption, exceeded by nothing
but that of New South Wales, that they are
thus discharged into that society, from which
in a state of less perfect corruption
they had, in consideration of that corruption,
been expelled.

To facilitate the comparison, I well 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 principle heads, are set down, side
by side.

I. Penitentiary Systems

1. Drunkenness, none.
2. Association — with one
another, select: with strangers, none.
3. To health, supremely
favourable: by sobriety,
cleanliness, and constancy
of occupational by mixture
of light with heavy, indoor,
with outdoor, work.

II. Hulk System

Drunkenness, none.
2. Association — with one
another, promiscuous:
with strangers, none.
3. To health, favourable by
sobriety: unfavourable by
want of mixture of light
with heavy work, and
total want of occupation
for the many such as who are uncapable
of hard and outdoor
work.

III. N.S. Wales System

1. Drunkenness, universal.
2. Association — altogether
promiscuous: Convicts,
one with another by
thousands: with Soldiers
and seamen, with each by
hundreds.
3. To health, unfavourable
by drunkenness. To vitality,
favourable notwithstanding by the
salubrity of the climate:
setting aside experienced
frequency and perpetual
probability of famine
on the spot, and pestilence
during the voyage.

Identifier: | JB/117/258/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	258	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	i penitentiary system / ii hulk system / iii n. s. wales system
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38875
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