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A View of the Hard-labour Bill

who is should be in a state of private servitude is would indeed be equally
within the reach of pardon with those who are should be in the
labour-houses; but he would not however stand on equal
chance of being pardoned upon equally just grounds.
But Convicts in the Labour houses will be continually under
the inspection of persons who will have no personal interest
in letting him out sooner or detaining him
longer than may be expedient. A private master will
generally have an interest of his own in keeping
him longer or parting with him sooner according
as the terms are upon which he had him. The mode punishment however being milder,
it's being less open to pardon is of the less consequence.
The great danger upon the whole is that
pardons should or indulgences will be too frequent rather than that they
should will be too rare: this sentence pronounced by the
law will lose its force by being seen to be frequently remitted. On this account it is almost
a question with me with whether

As to the advantages which belong to the mode
of punishment in question the only ones are that
of its frugality and that of it's obviating tending to obviate
in this case above mentioned the danger of impunity.
There are only grounds upon which it
unusually-spelled textseems to be in any case recommendable eligible in preference
to made of public servitude instituted in the labour-houses.

I will now leave the reader in possession of the
arguments on both sides, as far as it seemed worth which
to enter into them: subjoining only one caution that
applies to this as well in common with all new proposed

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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	supplemental hints and observations a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f77 / f78 / f79 / f80
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39523
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