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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan
the other modes of disposal now in practice or in contemplation. Many
distinct points for the eye to rest upon in such a scale, willl readily occurr
1.st The produce might be barely sufficient to pay the expense of feeding.
2.d It might farther pay the expense of feeding and clothing.
3.d It might farther pay the expense of guarding and instructing: vis: the
salaries or other emoluments of the numerous tribe of Visitors, Governors,
Jailers, Taskmasters &c, in the one case, and of the Contractor
and his assistants in the other. 4.th It might farther pay the wear—
and tear of the working-stock laid in. 5.th It might farther pay
the interest of the capital employed in the purchase of such stock. 6.th
It might farther pay the interest of the capital laid out in the erecting
and fitting up the establishment in all its parts, at the common
rate of interest for money laid out in building. 7.th It might farther
pay, at the ordinary rate, the interest of the money, if any, laid out in
the purchase of the ground. Even at the first mentioned and lowest
of these stages, I should be curious to compare the charge of such an
institution, with that of the least chargeable of those others that are as
yet preferred to it. When it had risen above the last, then as you
see, and not till then, it could be said to yield a profit, in the
sense in which the same thing could be said of any manufacturing
establishment of a private nature.
But, long before that period, the objections of those,
whose sentiment are the least favourable to such an establishment, would,
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