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could not keep his people at home at less expence than it would take
to send them abroad, yet is he could keep them at no greater expence,
I should presume that even this would be reckoned no small point
gained, and that even this very moderate success would be
sufficient to put an end to so undesireable a branch of navigation.
Nor does any preference that might be given
to the transportation plan supersede the necessity of this or some
other substitute to it, in the many cases to which it cannot be
conceived that plan should be intended. Transportation to this
desert for seven years, a punishment which under such circumstances is so
much like transportation for life, is not I suppose, to be inflicted
for every peccadillo. Vessels will not be sailing every week
or fortnight upon this four or five or six months navigation:
Hardly much oftner, I should suppose, than once a twelve-month.
In the mean time, the convicts must be somewhere: and
whether they are likely to be better qualified for colonization by lounging
in an ordinary Jail, or rotting on board a ballast-hulk,
or working in an Inspection-house, may now, I think, be left
for any one to Judge.
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