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after it became cold, so often as 

 ten or twelve times daUy ; always 

 stirring up the salt deposited at the 

 bottom of the bason, and incorpo- 

 rating it again with the water, be- 

 fore I applied it. On the 1 1 th day 

 from the first application, while 

 shaving, I observed a small dis- 

 charge ; which assisting by a gen- 

 tle pressure, the whole contents 

 were soon emptied, without the 

 smallest pain, and without blood. 



Being informed of some others 

 who had been benefitted in like 

 manner from the same application, 

 and knowing myself of some late in- 

 stances under my own immediate 

 direction, I feel it a duty thus to 

 make it public ; being convinced it 

 can produce no bad effect, and 

 every person having it in their 

 power to make the trial. At the 

 same time, I beg leave to caution 

 that no one should be disheartened 

 from the length of time it may be 

 necessary to continue the applica- 

 tion ; as, in some cases, it has re- 

 quired three or four months, though 

 in the last only thirty days ; but in 

 all, without pain or inconvenience 

 of any kind, or any previous notice 

 of the discharge, till it actually took 

 place. 



William Chisholme. 



Proposals for a new and less ex- 

 pensive Mode of employing and 

 reforming Convicts; submittted 

 to the Lords of the Treasury, 

 by Jeremy Bentham, Esq. 



THE author having turned his 

 thoughts to the penitentiary 

 system, from its first origin, and 

 having lately contrived a building 

 in which any number of persons 

 may be kept within the reach of 



being inspected during every mo- 

 ment of their lives ; and having 

 made out, as he flatters, himself to 

 demonstration, that the only eligible 

 mode of managing an establishment 

 of such a nature, in a building of 

 such a construction, would be by 

 contract, has been induced to make 

 public the following proposals for 

 maintaining and employing convicts 

 in general, or such of them as 

 would otherwise be confined on 

 board tlie hulks, for 25 joercewMess 

 than it costs government to main- 

 tain them at present, deducting also 

 the average value of the work at 

 present performed by them for tlie 

 public, upon the terms of his re- 

 ceiving the produce of their labour, 

 taking on himself the whole expense 

 of the building, fitting up, and 

 stocking, without any advance to 

 be made by government for that 

 purpose, requiring only that the 

 abatement and deduction above- 

 mentioned shall be suspended for 

 the first year. Upon the above- 

 mentioned terms he would engage 

 as follows : 



1st. To furnish the prisoners with 

 a constant supply of wholesome 

 food, not limited in quantity, but 

 adequate to each man's desire. 



2nd. To keep them clad in a state 

 of tightness and neatness, superior 

 to what is usual even in the most 

 improved prisons. 



3rd. To keep them supplied with 

 separate beds and bedding compe- 

 tent to their situations, and in a 

 state of cleanliness scarcely any 

 where conjoined with liberty. 



4th. To insure them a sufficient 

 su pply of artificial warmth and light 

 whenever the season renders it ne- 

 cessary, and thereby save the ne- 

 cessity of taking them prematurely 

 from their work at such seasons (as 



