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A View of the Hard-Labour Bill.

take the measures actually taken for circulating publications
among the people, he acted as of course under the
influence of Parliamentary habits. For this publication
I am speaking of has nothing to distinguish it from
Bills printed in course for the members of the Houses,
except the preface (which must ever distinguish it with
advantage among all publications of this kind) and the
circumstance of its being printed before, instead of after
its being introduced in form.

There is one passage more in the same paragraph
which, I must confess, I had rather not have seen. I mean
that which disclaims "any disposition either to propose
or promote novelties in the executive "justice of the
+ Preface page 5.
nation." + — I shall be understood, I hope, to refer
solely to what I apprehended may be the effects and by no
means the iintention of this passage, if I venture
to observe, that discourses of this complexion can never
upon the whole do good, and may not improbably do harm.
The meaning of the passage is not very explicit: but
the tendency of it (in the way in which it is natural to
understand it) seems to be, to throw a stumbling-block
in the way of political improvements. As to this motive
which it is thought proper to disclaim, I must confess

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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	010	Info in main headings field	preface a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[jb monogram] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	john heide koe
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39521
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