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Quasi-Imprisonment &c examined.

to Dunkirk, and how great a change in going from
the first of those places to the East or West Indies?

In point of variability or except in respect of time, no punishment⊞1 ⊞1 Being chronical punishments they are variable of course in point of time. But can rarely of the chronical
kind can be more ineligible than these. Although the quantity But in point of intensity although
the degrees of forms suffering they are liable to produce in
different persons are as in point of intensity so different, the numerous, yet⊞2 †2 they are not by any means subject to the regulation of the Magistrate. It it is not
in the his power of the Magistrate to fix the quantity
of punishment upon the whole to any thing near the
mark he may pitch upon in his own mind.

In point of Exemplarity, they are all yield to every ex
other mode of punishment, and Banishment to the
to the other two. As to Banishment what little exemplarity
it possesses, it possesses upon the face of the
descriptions,⊞ ⊞ The descriptions of orators and Poets have [given it some degree of terror] render'd it in some degree formidable upon Paper. Upon the bay On the score of this execution it has is
the essential character of it to have none at all. Removed out of the observation of his countrymen,
his sufferings, were they ever so great, can afford no example
to his countrymen. This is the lowest degree
of inexemplarity a punishment can possess
when even the person of the sufferer is out of the reach
of observation. The two others are upon a fooling
with pecuniary forfeiture punishment; in which the person
of the sufferer is under observation and occasionally
perhaps his sufferings, but there is no circumstance to mark point point
the dependency out the derivation sf the latter upon from the punishment
that produced them. They are inferior to Imprisonment: because there are objjects the in are not the main instrument
of punishment, the prison, is continually before
his eyes. To Quasi-Imprisonment and Relegation
there belongs no such instrument: the punishment as we
have

Identifier: | JB/141/081/001 "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	081	Info in main headings field	quasi-imprisonment &c examined
Image	001	Titles	variability / exemplarity / subserviency to reformation
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48298
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