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§.6 (7) + 33
The following passages, from a Speech, purporting to be
made by M<hi rend="superscript">r Secretary Dundas</hi> 9. May 1794, as reported in
Woodfall's Debates, on the occasion of his moving "That leave be
"given to bring in a bill for erecting a Penitentiary House", have
been just now extracted for me by a friend; the work itself not being
accessible to me.

When first the plan was mentioned to him "(Mr Dundas)
"and when he was told, that many of those Convicts, who were transported
"to Botany Bay for life, might be usefully employed in
"manufacturers in this country, he owned he thought the
"scheme a visionary one: but on more closely examining the mode
"proposed by a Gentleman, whose manufactory was not far from
"that house, he found that the plan was not only practicable, but also
"very easy to be carried into effect, viz by means of a machine"
(a system of machinery was Mr Dundas's expression) "which enabled
"everyman to be a manufacturer, without the assistance of any skill
"whatever - It might be said to be a machine, which gave the power
"of sight without eyes and of feeling without hands: merely moving
"the machine" (putting the machine in motion) " answered all the
"purposes of completing the manufacture. A great number of
"persons, he was persuaded, might be employed here, where their
"labour would be very useful to the public: and he believed that
"with very little additional expense, the produce of the labour would
"equal the expence of carrying on the work."

In remarking upon some observations from another
speaker he said "The plan would not only be lucrative to the
"persons employed, but he was extremely well satisfied, would
defray its' own expense.

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