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not to be forbidden to restrained by law from exposing themselves to
such dangers, they ought to it does not follow that
they can with justice be driven into compelled to encounter them by law:
exposed to them by compulsion by force: that there is a wide difference between tolerating duellists
and pressing now for gladiators:] that to expose a
convict to a cause of mortality from which if by
his sentence he was left not unconvicted he would have been free would be an
indirect extra-judicial and expost-facto conversion
of an a infer sentence of inferior severity into a capital one: and
that on these very grounds a situation at Limehouse was has had in the instance
of this very establishment been rejected by very reputable
judges peremptorily
been rejected for this very cause on these very grounds. reason The
present spot at present already appropriated at Battersea contains
low land it is true, as low some of it for
aught your Memorialist knows, as any of in
the tract of ground last mentioned: called Battersea Common Field some of it which
may even for aught your Memorialist knows
may even with propriety be deemed termed Marsh-land. But
on no Marsh-land or no low land such dangerous
land spot would most assuredly any building for the habitation
of prisoners be under your Memorialist's direction
be erected: on no such dangerous land spot would any
individual be employ'd on whom the slightest
suspicion of injury danger to his health had begun to
manifest itself. In Battersea Common Field if
buildings for the habitation of prisoners are erected at
all




Identifier: | JB/541/564/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.

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1794-08-16

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Jeremy Bentham

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