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interest, by the end of a term not longer than that of
a short lease: — the best system at half the expence of the
worst: and that too not fell for a moment in the shape
of a public burthen.
Mr Blackburn, in the event of the plan's being
adopted by the Irish Parliament, was under my direction
to have had the construction of the building, if the Irish
Government had thought fit to accede to the extra-
demand he made for lending himself to the execution
of a plan which he foresaw, and reluctantly and unwittingly,
though very pointedly, acknowledged, would
turn his own into waste paper universally supersede his own. It was from him I
happened to learn that the Penitentiary system possessed,
at least no longer ago than last year, a place
of some favour in your thoughts.
Considering
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