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melancholy character. The executioners
might be veiled in black crepe, that the
terror of the scene might be heightened, and
these useful servants of the state screened
from the hatred of the people.

Care must however be taken lest
punishment become unpopular and odious through a
false appearance of rigour.

VI. Frugal Economical Frugality

If any mode of punishment is more
apt than another to produce superfluous and
the needless pain it may be styled unfrugal unfrugal uneconomical, if
less it may be styled economical frugal. The perfection
of economy frugality in a mode of punishment is where
not only no superfluous pain is produced on
the part of the person punished, but even that
same operation by which he is subjected to pain
is made to answer the purpose of producing
pleasure on the part of some other person.

Pecuniary punishments possess this
quality in an eminent degree; nearly all the evil
inflicted felt by him the individual punishment the party paying
turns to the advantage of him who receives.

There are some punishments which
with reference to the public expense are
particularly uneconomical unfrugal; – for example
mutilations, applied to offences of a frequent
occurrence, such as smuggling. When an
individual is rendered unable to work, he must
be supported by the State, or rendered dependent
upon public charity, & thus rendered fixed as a burthen upon
the most benevolent.

Identifier: | JB/141/022/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	v exemplarity / vi frugality
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 / f6 / f7 / f5
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48239
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