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prefer the punifliment of the galleys to 

 banifliment of that kind ? What advantage 

 does foctety derive from thofe miferable ob- 

 jects, galley-flaves? The people neceflary 

 for guarding them, the idlenefs of man 

 when ftigmatized and degraded, and the 

 means which he is continually devifing to 

 avoid the tafk impofedon him, render them 

 much more burthenforae than iifeful. Be* 

 fides, the union of vicious men fpreads cor- 

 ruption indifcriminately to every individual 

 It is a certain fad, that the leaft gmlty be- 

 come in a little time as corrupted as the reft 

 of the profligates with whom they aflbciate. 

 In flK>rr, fuch cftablifliments have carried 

 the worft of moral and phyfical evils into 

 every place where it has been thought ufeful 

 to form them* However important the 

 nature of this digreffion may be, I ought 

 not to extend it farther, but leave to fome 

 abler pen tht trouble of difplaying, with 



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