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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.
I mean the mills, the forges, the engines, the timber-yards and the
rope-walks. The seal which stamps my contract, dispells as if it were
talisman, this great town in nubibus; and two or three plain
round-houses take its place. Either I am much mistaken, or a sum inferior
to what was paid, or destined, for the bare ground of the proposed Penitentiary
-houses, would build and compleatly fit up those Round houses, besides
paying for the ground.
To this account of the dead stock, is to be added, if I may
say it without offence, that of the live stock of Inspectors of every
rank and denomination: I mean the pyramid of Under-keepers, and
Taskmasters, and Store keepers, and Governors, and Committees of
Magistrates, which it builds up, all to be paid and salaried, with allowances
rising in proportion to the rise of dignity: the whole to be crowned crowned
with a grand triumvirate of Superintendents, two of whom were to have
been members of Parliament, men of high birth and quality, whose
toilsome dignity a minister would hardly have affronted, by the offer of
salaries much inferior to what are still to be found anexe annexed to
Sinecures.
I will not say very much of the "other officers" without
number, which, I see by my view of the Hard-Labour Bill, were to
were to have been added, and of course must have been added, in
such number as the "Committees" of your worships, to whom this business was
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