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From p.6
But along with the good company, it may
be supposed, may come bad — No such thing.
they and will come, were it only to visit their
friends in durance; [and so the neighbourhood will
be exposed to their depredations.] No such thing, my Lord.
See them they may indeed, but not hold the smallest converse with
them, unless I please: such is the construction
of the building. No man who does not come decently
clad will be admitted; every man will be
liable to be examined searched were it only that
he may not come need armed: conceal no any instruments of hostility or escape every man will
be liable to be examined questioned as well as searched if I or mine see cause:
He can not come Nor can any man get in at all without presenting
himself to be examined: to the officers of the
Police the establishment will be open of course,
and thither they will come at hours not foreknown
to be in search if there be any prospect of prey: to a man malefactor who is once
enclosed within my gates escape will be impossible.
Under the circumstances will a man whose
conscience accuses them of crime him of a crime come and
offer themselves to plunge into himself the net? — Impossible.
He has every thing to fear, he has nothing to gain
by it. In Margate and other prisons upon the
common
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