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Letter XVI. Houses of Correction.

mise you any thing like the success that I would to "poor old England."
Your Contractor's Jail-birds, if you had a Contractor, would be
perpetually upon the wing: the short terms you would be sending
them to him for, would seldom admitt of their attaining to such a
proficiency, as to make a profit upon any branch of industry. In
general, what in a former letter I termed the good hands, would
be his chief, if not his whole, dependance: and that, I doubt, but
a scanty one.

I will not pester you with further niceties,
applicable to the difference between Houses of Correction, and Work-houses,
between the different modes and Poor-houses, if any there should
be, which are not Work-houses, between the different modes of treatment
that may be due, to what are looked upon as the inferior
degrees of dishonesty, to idleness as yet untainted with dishonesty,
and to blameless indigence. The Law herself has scarcely
eyes for these microscopic differences. I bow down therefore, for the
present at least, to the counsel of so many sages, and shrink from
the crime of being "wiser than the Law."

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