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' | <head>Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.</head> | ||
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<p>The Patrons of the Hard Labour Bill, proceeding with <lb/> that caution and tenderness that pervades their whole system, have denied <lb/> their <hi rend="underline">Governor</hi>, as they call him, the power of whipping. Some penal power <lb/> however for putting a stop to mischief was, under their plan, absolutely <lb/> necessary. They preferred, as the mildest and less dangerous power, <lb/> that of confining a man in <add>a</add> dark dungeon underground, under a bread <lb/> and water diet. I did then take the liberty to object, against the choosing <lb/> by way of punishment, the putting of a man into a place, which differed <lb/> not from other places in any essential particular, but that of <lb/> the chance it stood of proving unwholesome: proposing, at the same time, <lb/> a very simple expedient, by which their ordinary habitations, might be <lb/> made to receive every other property of a dungeon; in short, the making <lb/> of them dark.</p> | |||
<p>But, in one of my Brother's Inspection-houses, these the <lb/> man in his dungeon already; (the only sort of dungeon, at least, which <lb/> I conceive any man need be in) very safe and quiet. He is likewise <lb/> initiating himself with his bread and water: with only one little circumstance <lb/> in his favour, that whenever he is tired of that regimen, it is in <lb/> his own power to <unclear>fuel</unclear> himself under a better: unless my Contractor chooses <lb/> to <del>find</del> fine himself for the purpose of punishing his boarder; an act of <lb/> unity which I am in no great dread of. </p> | |||
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Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.
The Patrons of the Hard Labour Bill, proceeding with
that caution and tenderness that pervades their whole system, have denied
their Governor, as they call him, the power of whipping. Some penal power
however for putting a stop to mischief was, under their plan, absolutely
necessary. They preferred, as the mildest and less dangerous power,
that of confining a man in a dark dungeon underground, under a bread
and water diet. I did then take the liberty to object, against the choosing
by way of punishment, the putting of a man into a place, which differed
not from other places in any essential particular, but that of
the chance it stood of proving unwholesome: proposing, at the same time,
a very simple expedient, by which their ordinary habitations, might be
made to receive every other property of a dungeon; in short, the making
of them dark.
But, in one of my Brother's Inspection-houses, these the
man in his dungeon already; (the only sort of dungeon, at least, which
I conceive any man need be in) very safe and quiet. He is likewise
initiating himself with his bread and water: with only one little circumstance
in his favour, that whenever he is tired of that regimen, it is in
his own power to fuel himself under a better: unless my Contractor chooses
to find fine himself for the purpose of punishing his boarder; an act of
unity which I am in no great dread of.
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