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A View of the Hard-Labour Bill..
which solitary confinement might be combined with
labour. This capital improvement (for as such I can nnot
help regarding it) in penal Legislation ) I sat wishing,
with scarce any mixture of hope, to see carried into exe-
- cution: for, some how or other, the progress that has been
already made in it, near two years ago, in the House of Com-
- mons, had escaped me. How great then was my pleasure
& surprise at seeing a plan (which had already been pre-
announced by the Judges in their circuits) originating as
appeared from a high department in administration, and
carrying with it every presumption of its being adopted, in
which not only almost all of the excellent matter of the book
I have been speaking of is engrafted, but many capital
improvements super added? This incident gave me fresh
alacrity, and suggested fresh designs.
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The Bill (or draught of a Bill as it is called in the
title, not having been as yet brought into Parliament) is
accompanied with a Preface, short indeed, but ample,
masterly and instructive. In this preface, an instructive
but general idea is given of the theoretical principles upon
which the plan of the bill is grounded; and a more ample
and detailed account of the documents which furnished
materials & reasons for the several provisions of detail.
A history of the steps that have been taken in the
formation and prosecution of the plan is also interwoven.
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Upon this it will naturally enough be asked, what was
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