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be forced. For the same reason, and because the privation of such comforts
of any kind as a man's circumstances allow him is also punishment,
neither should the free admission of such comforts, as far as is
consistent with sobriety, be denied; nor, if the keeper Keeper is permitted to
concern himself in any part of the trade, should he be permitted to
make a greater profit than would be made by other traders.
But amongst persons of such discription and in
such a multitude, there will always be a certain number, nor that
probably an inconsiderable one, who will possess no means of
subsistence whatever of their own. These then will, in so far, come
under a predicament not very dissimilar to that of convicts in a
Penitentiary-house. Whatever works they may be capable of, there
is no reason why subsistence should be given to them, any more than
to persons free from suspicion and at large, but as the price for
work, supposing them able to perform it. But, as this ability is a
fact the judging of which is a matter of great nicety, too much
it may be thought by far to be intrusted to such hands if to
any, some allowance must therefore be made them gratis, and that
at least as good an one as I recommended for the Penitentiary-house.
In order to supply the defects of this allowance, the point then will
be, to provide some sort of work for such, who not having trades of
their own which they can work at, are yet willing to take work,
if they can get it. If to find such work might be difficult, even
in a House of Correction, on account of the shortness of the time which there
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