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6<lb/><head>Letter X. Choice of the Trades should be free.</head><p>the "convenience" <add>of</add> which (though I know not <add>what</add> <del>the</del> convenience there could be<lb/>distinct from profit) was another land-mark given them to steer by.</p> | 6<lb/><head>Letter X. Choice of the Trades should be free.</head><p>the "convenience" <add>of</add> which (though I know not <add>what</add> <del>the</del> convenience there could be<lb/>distinct from profit) was another land-mark given them to steer by.<lb/>If you cast an eye on the trades exemplified (as I believe I must beg you<lb/>to do presently) you will find some difficulty, I believe, in conceiving<lb/>that in the choice of them the article of profit could have been the<lb/>uppermost consideration. Nor was this all. For, besides the vesting of<lb/><del>these</del> the choice of the employments in Committees of Justices in the<lb/>first instance, the same Magistrates are called upon to exercise the<lb/>judgement and ingenuity in <hi rend="underline">directing</hi> the prisoners into classes; in such<lb/>sort that the longer a man had <sic>staid</sic> in the house, his labour should<lb/>be less and less "severe": exception made for delinquency, in which case<lb/>a man might at any time be turned down from <del>the</del> <add>an</add> upper class to<lb/><del>the</del> a lower. But, had the matter been left to a Contractor, and his<lb/>prisoner-workmen, they would have been <sic>pritty</sic> sure to pitch upon and<lb/>to stick to, what would ve most conducive to <hi rend="underline">their</hi> profit, and by<lb/><hi rend="underline">that</hi> means to <del><gap/></del> the profit of the district; and that without any<lb/>recommendation. Whether the effect of that recommendation<lb/>would have been equally sure upon the above mentioned<lb/>Magistrate, would have remained to be decided by experience.<lb/>Understanding one to be speaking merely of a magistrate in the<lb/>abstract, you will forgive my saying, that in this one point I<lb/>have not quite so great a confidence in a set of gentlemen of</p> | ||
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Letter X. Choice of the Trades should be free.
the "convenience" of which (though I know not what the convenience there could be
distinct from profit) was another land-mark given them to steer by.
If you cast an eye on the trades exemplified (as I believe I must beg you
to do presently) you will find some difficulty, I believe, in conceiving
that in the choice of them the article of profit could have been the
uppermost consideration. Nor was this all. For, besides the vesting of
these the choice of the employments in Committees of Justices in the
first instance, the same Magistrates are called upon to exercise the
judgement and ingenuity in directing the prisoners into classes; in such
sort that the longer a man had staid in the house, his labour should
be less and less "severe": exception made for delinquency, in which case
a man might at any time be turned down from the an upper class to
the a lower. But, had the matter been left to a Contractor, and his
prisoner-workmen, they would have been pritty sure to pitch upon and
to stick to, what would ve most conducive to their profit, and by
that means to the profit of the district; and that without any
recommendation. Whether the effect of that recommendation
would have been equally sure upon the above mentioned
Magistrate, would have remained to be decided by experience.
Understanding one to be speaking merely of a magistrate in the
abstract, you will forgive my saying, that in this one point I
have not quite so great a confidence in a set of gentlemen of
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