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Mr Bentham's
Penitentiary Plan
Applying to the Treasury it was with increased
satisfaction [+] [+] though a satisfaction not altogether unmingled with surprize that Your Committee learnt
in answer that from the first to the last there
had been but one opinion with regard to the
propriety of the measure — that accordingly
a disposition to carry it into effect had never
been wanting in that Board [+]2 a disposition from neither the public however, not the individual are likely to be much the better, if by the predominance of an opposite tendency whatsoever , that disposition should be kept much longer from carrying itself into effect. Difficulties now
at the same time represented as all along existing — Great
difficulties, and the choice of the apot is mentioned
as the source. A choice however,
Your Committee can not help observing a
choice superior to all exception, had over and
over again been made: nor can the Act
be opened without seeing that no difficulties
had existed or would have existed in that
subject which the Treasury are not authorised
by it and required to overcome. [Speaking
of the answer freely, justice will not
permitt Your Committee to have it without
observing how much true honour lies at the bottom
of it. Had but the slightest change of
opinion been expressed relative in regard either to the propriety
of the measure, or the fitness of the individuals for
carrying it into effect, an immediate end would
thus have been put to all sorts of difficulties. No
such change having in fact taken place, it
was thought, the door was left open to observations
much as the case could not but suggest,
in preference to the shutting of it at such a price.
Enquiring
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