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6 Letter X. Choice of the Trades should be free.
the "convenience" of which (though I know not what the convenience there could be
distinct from profit) was another land-mark given them to steer by.
If you cast an eye on the trades exemplified (as I believe I must beg you
to do presently) you will find some difficulty, I believe, in conceiving
that in the choice of them the article of profit could have been the
uppermost consideration. Nor was this all. For, besides the vesting of
these the choice of the employments in Committees of Justices in the
first instance, the same Magistrates are called upon to exercise the
judgement and ingenuity in directing the prisoners into classes; in such
distributing
sort that the longer a man had staid in a the house, his labour should
be less and less "severe": exception made for delinquency, in which case
a man might at any time be turned down from the an upper class to
the a lower. But, had the matter been left to a Contractor, and his
prisoner-workmen, they would have been pritty sure to pitch upon and
to stick to, what would be most conducive to their profit, and by
that means to the profit of the district; and that without any
recommendation. Whether the effect of that recommendation
would have been equally sure upon the above mentioned
Magistrates, would have remained to be decided by experience.
Understanding one to be speaking merely of a magistrate in the
abstract, you will forgive my saying, that in this one point I
have not quite so great a confidence in a set of gentlemen of
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