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A View of the Hard-Labour Bill..

which solitary confinement might be combined with
labour. This capital improvement (for as such I can not
help regarding it) in penal Legislation ) I sat wishing,
with scarce any mixture of hope, to see carried into execution:
for, some how or other, the progress that has been
already made in it, near two years ago, in the House of Commons,
had escaped me. How great then was my pleasure
& surprise at seeing a plan (which had already been pre-
announced by the Judges in their circuits) originating as
appeared from a high department in administration, and
carrying with it every presumption of its being adopted, in
which not only almost all of the excellent matter of the book
I have been speaking of is engrafted, but many capital
improvements super added? This incident gave me fresh
alacrity, and suggested fresh designs.

The Bill (or draught of a Bill as it is called in the
title, not having been as yet brought into Parliament) is
accompanied with a Preface, short indeed, but ample,
masterly and instructive. In this preface, an instructive
but general idea is given of the theoretical principles upon
which the plan of the bill is grounded; and a more ample
and detailed account of the documents which furnished
materials & reasons for the several provisions of detail.
A history of the steps that have been taken in the
formation and prosecution of the plan is also interwoven.

Upon this it will naturally enough be asked, what was

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