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persons of all classes, but particularly toof the superior ranks of
life, whose inspection as such would afford the most powerful check
to mismanagement; on Sunday in particular it would be my endeavour
to render it, by means of the Chapel, which is inclosed
in the center of the building, a sort of place of public entertainment
suitable to the day, like that afforded by the Magdalen,
and the Asylum, Your Lordship will judge how far it
would be possible to carry on any such plan, if the establishment
or any thing belonging to it ever, suffered to be in the
smallest particular an object of disgust.

It is in that view, as well as in the view of making the residence
to which I have doomed myself the more comfortable, that I should
make a point of giving to the place considered at large what embellishment
it may be susceptible of: nor does it appear to me its that
it would be a departure from the true spirit of the institution,
if, while, with reference to the class of persons
for whose correction it is designed, it is seen to have
the proportions of a prison and an establishment for forced labour,
to the Neighbourhood and to the passengers it should wear
the aspect of a Ferme ornée.

Allow me here to represent to your Lordship, how
much reason the neighbourhood will have to rejoice reject at the
change of plan which in the room of of , room



Identifier: | JB/541/425/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.

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1793-08-16

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