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2 is the Atlas on whose shoulders the world rests, or at
least this part of it. Shaken off by these superior shoulders
the best that can have happened to it is, that in its fall it
should have already been caught by some subordinate ones.
Already, before September was at an end, so teazing was
the burr become, with all its lightness, that the time of completion
was transferred, from that finite period to another
infinite one. The time for "sending to" the man was to
be — not as at prst before Parliament had met — but after
three volumes not expecting any such reading "had been
"read," and thirteen personages not expecting any such
conversation had been "conversed with." This is what a
Ryot in this country gives by presenting Nuzzeers to Omrahs!
the Great Mogul, my lord, would not have served me so.
"What can I say more?"
After this explanation, confessing hiberninism, and calling
in so much of fiction and inconsistency as may be necessary
to my aid, I keep on making marks upon paper, just
as if any such "exalted mind" as your Lordship's were still
to be applied to it; just as if any such things as reformation,
economy, life, personal property, public faith, parliamentary
authority, and forsooth, were worth your Lordship's
notice.
From the foregoing demonstrations — if such by curresy at
least they may be etiled — may be deduced, in the form of a
corollany, a short estimate on the subject of the Hulks. In
the scale of utility, the station of this system would be found,
if my judgement does not deceive me, in the midway between
that of penitentiary imprisonment, taken without the benefit
of the panopticon improvements, and that of penal colonization,
taken on the footing on which it stands in New South
Wales. With the former it agrees, in respect of its purity
from drunkenness with the attendant miseries and mischiefs:
with the latter, in respect of the promiscuous aggregation, with
the universal corruption issuing from it. As a preventative
of present mischief — or mischief considered as commissible
under and during the punishment — it may rank not much
below the Penitentiary system: it stands at a prodigious
height above New South Wales. On the ground of healthiness
(meaning physical healthiness) cleared as it is from
drunkkenness,
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xv hulk systems compared with penitentiary and new south wales systems / i penitentiary system / ii hulk system / iii n. s. wales system |
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