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DISPOSAL of ACQUITTED CRIMINALS 2
whenevr such a supply is to be procured in by that irregular and unhappy manner <add</add>, there
will be one the less wanted for every one the more than was bfore. It must be allowed
however that in the case proposed he is taken before that absolute necessity has commenced
A similar course might perhaps be expedient to be taken with persons convicted of
Attempts to some crimes; with this difference that here being some degree of guilt implicitly
proved, they might be sent not into the at large, but specially into <add? to </add> some state
reputd peculiarly hazardous, as in Africa or the East-Indies. The honor of the Service Army
which cannot be very scrupulously regarded in the choice of the lower of it's the lower subordinate members
would be in some measure consulted, by the persons into circumstances respecting then placed in it, of the interception of their guilt
before it's [arrival at its'] final consummation.
But of this it belongs rather to the Gentleman dignitaries of that profession, than to any
one else, to judge.
It might also possibly be approved of as a means to prevent the desertion, that
such should be marked in some unconspicuous part of their body (as on their back) by in the
manner of the lesser stigmatisation. with the date at which their service is to expire +
After all there may be danger with regard to the of the provision here proposed
to this better class, least the punishment for the attempt being regarded by some
as greater that that annexed to the crime when consummated, might frustrate the design
of makng a difference between <add> in favor of the attempt former and serve as as a motive - for instead
against the on to accomplishment a criminal enterprize begun.
By way of remedy to this, it might be left to the option of the Criminal to submitt
either to this obligation, the term proposed for its continuance being declared to him, or to the punishment
specifically allotted to his offence.
Or it might be an instruction to them not to inflict this impose it without the alternative except
where in such case they should be satisfied there was no room for [a repentance] an alteration of Will to intervene between
the attempt & the consummation.
N.B. Observe there is always an Oath against them which obviates abuse.
If the proposal be not admitted absolutely and universally, it might be admitted with under these restrictions
1st Thatthe culprit ne not unmarried: 2nd That he be underage: 3rd That it be
his 2nd ,/del> trial.
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