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Letter x. Choice of the Trades should be free.
doing pretty well, with as many hands as he was able to get upon the
ordinary terms, might hope to do better still with a greater number,
whom he could get upon much better terms. Now, whether there are
any such manufacturers, and how many, is what I cannot so well
tell you, especially at this instance: but unless you think it worth while to
ask Mr Daily Advertiser, or Mr St James's Chronicle, If any
it will not be long before you got some answer.
In my View of the Hard-Labour-Bill I ventured
to throw out a hint upon the subject of putting the good hands to
their own trade. Whether any and what use was made of that hing,
I cannot recollect, for neither the Act what which passed afterwards, nor
any chapter of that history, has travelled with me to Critchoff:
nor should I have had a single scrap of paper to help each express refresh my
recollection memory on that subject, but for the copy of my own pamphlet
which I found on my Brother's shelf. The general notion seemed
to be, that as the people were to be made to work for their punishment,
the works to be given to them should be somewhat
which they would not like: – and, in that respect, it looks as
if the consideration of punishment, with its appendage of reformation,
had kept the other of economy a little behind the curtain.
But I neither see the great danger, nor the great
harm of a man's liking his work too wel: and how well soever he
ought might have liked it elsewhere, I should still less
apprehend
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