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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.

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Many are the data with which a man ought
to be furnished, and with not one of which am I furnished, before he
pretended to speak upon any tolerable fooling of assuarance, with regard
to the advantage that might be expected in the view of pecuniary
economy from the Inspection plan: On the one hand, the average annual amount of the
present establishments, whatever they are (for I protest confess I do not know) for
the disposal of convicts:—The expected amount of the like average,
with regard to the measure which, I have just learnt, have has been resolved
upon, for sending colonies of them to New Wales: Wales including as well
the maintenance of them till shipped, as the expense of transportation,
and the maintenance of them when they are got there. On
the other hand, the capital proposed to have been expended in the
building and fitting up experimental Penitentiary house: — The
futher further capital proposed to have been expended in the furniture
of it:— The sum proposed to have been allowed per man for the
maintenance of the prisoners, till the time when their labour might
be expected to yield a produce. These points, and a few others, being
ascertained, I should then be curious to know, what degree of productiveness,
if any, would be looked upon as giving to the measure
of a Penitentiary-house, either of any construction or of this extraordinary
one, the preeminence upon the whole over any of the

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