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removed; and the trouble of going into such a room as the Lodge, is no more than
the trouble of of going into any other.
Were Newgate upon this plan, all Newgate might be inspected
by a quarter of an hour's visit to Mr Akerman.
Among the other courses causes of that reluctance, none at present so
forcible, none so unhappily well grounded, none which affords so natural
an excuse, nor so strong a reason against accepting of any excuse, as the danger
of infection: a circumstance, which carries death, in one of its most tremendous
forms from of the seat of guilt to the seat of Justice, involving in one common
catastrophe the violator and the upholder of the laws. But in a spot so constructed,
and under a course of discipline so insured, how shall should infection
ever arise? or how should it continue? — Against every danger of this kind,
what private house of the poor, one might almost say, or even of the most
opulent, can be equally secure?
Nor is the disagreeableness of the task of superintendance
diminished by this plan, in a much greater degree than the efficacy of it
is increased. On all others, be the Superintendant's visit ever so unexpected,
and his motions ever so quick, time there must always be for
preparations, blinding the real state of things. Out of nine hundred
Cells he can visit but one at a time, and, in the mean while, the worst
of the others may be arranged, and the inhabitants threatened, and
tutored how to receive him. On this plan, no sooner is the superintendant
announced, than the whole scene opens instantaneously to
his View.In
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