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Insp T P
would be a powerful temptation to me to engage in an
undertaking, of which, if crowned with success, the utility
might be render'd so expensive.
Inventions in the mechanical line, of which, such as
they are, I have some stock, are my chief amusement
here; and the opportunities, which my situation affords me,
of carrying them into practise, form one of the principal
ties which attach me to this country.
In the course of these amusements, the nature
& circumstances of some of the people I have to deal with
has led me to pay a particular attention to the means of
making work go forward in unskilfull unexperienced or
otherwise unskilfull hands; in which view various mechanical
contrivances have occurred to me adapted to the several
natures of the different kinds of work. This circumstance
forms the ground of a conception I am disposed to entertain,
of being able to ensure a comfortable subsistence
to any such convicts as might be disposed to embrace it
after the expiration of their terms. To p. 3
From p. 3 With these views I think I could content myself
to exchange the command of 900 an independent Batallion
of 900 honest Russian Soldiers, who in the natural
course of things, must shortly be augmented to a Regiment
of 2000, for that of even a smaller number of British
malefactors: provided it could be done, without descending
too low from that line of service which in this country is
the most honourable [and which in the highest degree of it
confers rank superior to any other.] and is the regular road to
the highest situations.
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