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In considering my Brother's Inspection plan as
applicable to the purpose of establishments designed to force labour, my
principal theme has hitherto been the national establishment of
Penitentiary-houses. My first design however, was to help drive the nail I
saw a going: I mean the House-of-Correction, which the advertisement
informed me was under consideration for your xxxx County. I had little
notion, at the outset, of attempting any such uphill work as the heaving
up again that large stone, the Penitentiary-house, which the builders
at last had refused, and which after the toiling and straining of so
many years had tumbled to the bottom. But the greater object grew
upon me as I wrote: and what I found to say on that subject I grudged
the less, as thinking it might, most of it, be more or less applicable
to your establishment. How far, and in what particular respects
it may prove so, I have no means of knowing: I trouble you with
with it at a venture. In my last I propposed, if the nation were poor
and fearfull, a Penitentiary-house upon a very small scale: so
small, if such caution were thought necessary, as not to contain
so many as a hundred prisoners. But however poor the nation may
be, the xxxxx of xxxx County of surely is rich. What then should hinder
your xxxxx County from standing forth and setting the nation an example?
What the number of persons you may provide have to provide for
in this way is supposed to be, I have no means of knowing: but I
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