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*' to that unfortunate gentleman. Hadthejudg- 

 " mentbeen capital, I fhould take a warm part 

 " for its mitigation. But I have very different 

 " fentiments with regard to tranfportation. A 

 " perfon without fortune or profeflion, and who 

 *' has the misfortune, by the fentence of a court 

 " of juflice, to lofe his reputation, cannot pof- 

 " fibly live but by a repetition of the fame, or 

 limilar pradlices to thofe, which have firft 

 brought him into his difficulties. I venture to 

 fay that it is nothing at all fhort of a moral im- 

 poffibility he fhould. Now, I fubmit it to your 

 very good fenfe, whether, in fuch a cafe, the 

 very worll fort of puniihment, and that which 

 admits no hope on this fide of the grave, does 

 " not become an event very much to be appre- 

 hended; and whether you or I would like 

 hereafter, to confidcr ourfelvcs by an ill under- 

 ftood lenity, to be the means of his lofing his 

 life with aggravated difgrace to himfelf and 

 to his family ? For my own part I look upon 

 tranfportation-, to be, without queftion, an 

 *' unpleafant remedy; but flill a-remedy in a dcf- 

 " perate difeafe. He goes to a place where he is 

 ** notoppreffed by the judgment he has fufFered ; 

 ** and where none but honeft ways of life are 

 *' open to him. The climate is good, the foil is 

 ** not unfavourable. There is even fome choice 

 " in the fociety. God knows that they who have 



" fufifercd. 



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