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Territorial Confinement and Banishment
The 2 inconveniences attending Banishment are
apt in some respects to be greater than those of Territorial
confinement at home, in others less: but
nothing can be more uncertain than their as well in point of quality
and as quantity. They apt in some respects to be
even greater than those of Simple Imprisonment.
The liberty of seeing ones enjoying the company of one's friends
and relations which in Imprisonment and Territorial Confinement
is apt only to be abridged, in Banishment
is apt to be taken entirely away. Nothing however
can be liable to greater variation than this
circumstance. The liberty in question may be as
compleatly taken away by Relegation as by Banishment.
Imprisonment if the man happens to be
taken at a distance from his abode, or if the
prison serves for a large district, may have the
effect of Relegation. All this depends upon the extent
of the state, upon that of the judicial district, and
in a large state or a large district upon the
particular circumstances and connections of the
delinquent: circumstances too vague to come under
any tolerable calculation.
The Liberty of beholding on the beauties of Art
and Nature which was taken away in a manner by
Imprisonment, and apt to be abridged by Territorial Confinement
is
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