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for on their account or his ownhis own account more than that of the public. I
am however assured that to the Intents of which you have
a specimen before you he adds a talent for general management
and a thorough knowledge of the branch of
manufacture to which he was bred: whence it seems reasonable
to expect that in an establishment where a watchful
eye and a tight hand could be kept over him his
acquaintance with the manners of convicts and the mode
of managing them might render him of considerable use.
If therefore the powers possessed by your department should
warrant it, you may perhaps concurr with me in thinking
that the relief the best adapted to his ationqualities and
character is the specific relief he himself sues for, reserving
for a future contingent period the transferring him to the
projected Penitentiary-House in Ireland, if such a thing can be
done. In this point of view one of the improved prisons
such as the Gloucester or Oxford Penitentiary-house wouldbe
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