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General scheme &c

attention by the curiosity it excites will excite, and the terror
it will inspire.[a]

With a view to Reformation: For offences punished
by Temporary Imprisonment let part of the Punishment
be to get by heart a certain part of
the Criminal Code including that part that relates
to the offence for which he was punished. It might
be digested into the form of a Catechism.

The Cells when fitted up in such a manner
as to exclude not to admitt the Light might be termed Dungeons.
This might be done by fixing to the outside of
the Windows a funnel of the same aperture, but
made to take one or more turns at right angles.
This would serve to exclude the light, without excluding
the Air. This circumstance of the excluding
the light is the only use of making Dungeons
underground.

Those speculators who have mean to propose proposed
the making that Darkness a part of the punishment should be an ingredient in penance
penitential Imprisonment, have done it by proposing exposed themselves
that a Dungeon for the place of confinement.
But a Dungeon confinement underground is, for want
of the lateral apertures of Doors and windows, imparts

NOTE

[a] How powerful the effect of this little circumstance may
be even in narration, has been experienced I suppose
by every one who has [happened to have] read eve the Histo account of
the man with the Iron mask as given by M
Voltaire. in See his Essai sur l'Histoire Generale. The man
with the Iron Mask was a State prisoner of the first distinction who was kept in
confinement for many years during the reign of Louis 14, and whose
name and quality remain to this day unknown.

Identifier: | JB/159/207/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	207	Info in main headings field	general scheme &c
Image	001	Titles	penal catechism / cells convertible into dungeons / note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54030
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