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ranged, a terrible shew !" But granting this to be the number likely
to require provision of some kind or other, it surely does not follow,
that all that require it, must necessarily be provided for in this
manner or in none. If the eight hundred and eighty eight
appear so formidable, gentlemen may strike of the hundreds, and
whether the country will be ruined by an establishment inferior to
that which an obscure ex-countryman of theirs, is going to amuse
himself with.
What I have all along been taking for granted is, that
it is the mere dread of extravagance that has driven your thrifty
Minister from the Penitentiary-house plan, not the love of transportation
that has seduced him from it. The inferiority of the latter mode of
punishment in point of exemplarity and equality, in short in
every point but that of expence, stands, I believe, undisputed.
I collected the reasons that against it that were in every body's
mouth, and marked them down, with, I think some additions (as
you may, or may not remember) in my view of the Hard Labour
Bill, Supplement included. I have never happened to hear any
objections made to those reasons: nor have I heard of any charms,
other than those of antiquity and comparative frugality, that
transportation has to recommend it. Supposing therefore, wh
what I most certainly do not suppose, that my Contractor could
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