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I Expence of punishment
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Chronical punishments
the only class
of punishments attended
with expence
First branch of the expences of Police
(including that branch of the expences of
which is subservient to Police) — Expence of
punishment.

Among punishments, such as (by analogy
to those physical natural evils to which it is the study endeavour
of mediums to provide a remedy) may
be sure to be of the kind, are attended
with no expence worth reckoning on that weighing in the
scale of finance vice: the use of a whip costs little: the
use of a gallows not much more. Punishments
which by a similar allusion may
be termed chronical, [over spread over a more or less
considerable extent of time, and] are [thence]
necessarily attended with an expence, which
in this country will be sure to have swelled
already to an enormous a very formidable pitch. In announcing
an engine of punishment the keeping of which though
as yet but in miniature, and waiting
to be enlarged, costs already £137,000
a year to keep up, and that but one out
of a number, [Your Committee have
pointed out an object, which they scruple for it is they scruple
not to bespeak the attention of the
will be entitled to very serious
[+] they regard themselves as
not all warranted or bespeaking
the attention of the Throne.
regard] which will probably be thought to possess
some claim to the attention of the Throne.

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5 Chronical punishments
in use in this country
Simple imprisonment, transportation to an
existing colony, confinement to hard labour in
a floating prison called a hulk, confinement
to a spacious prison with or without a tract of land
annexed to it called a Penitentiary House,
transportation for the purpose of hard-labour to a new Colony to be founded
for the purpose, such were the modifications by
which chronical punishment has in this country
been diversified.

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Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	336	Info in main headings field	police report
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