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pe6led from it. There is, thereforcj little temptation to chap. 
purfue it to a further extent. The employment of cri- " 
minals in works carried on under the public eye, is per- 
haps too repugnant to the feelings of Engiiflimen ever 
to be tolerated. Reafon, indeed, acquiefces in the me- 
lancholy neceffity of punifliing, but chains and badges 
of fervitude are impleaiing objedts, and compaffion will 
always revolt at the fight of a6tual infiiilion. Gonvidls 
fo employed would cither by an ill placed charity be re- 
warded, cr the people, undergoing a change of chara6i:er 
far from defirable, w^ould in time <5;row callous to thofe 
imprellions which naturally impel them to give relief. 
It remains therefore, that w^e adhere as much as pof- 
fible to the pradlice approved by long experience, of em- 
ploying the fervices of fuch criminals in remote and 
riling fettlements. For this purpofe the eliablifnment ' 
on the eafiern coaif of New liolland has been projedled, 
and carried on with every precaution to render it as bene- 
ficial as poilible. That fome diuiculties v/ill arife in the 
commencement of fuch an undertaking mi-ft be ex- 
pelled ; but it is required by no moral obligation that 
conviils fliould be conveyed to a place of pcrfed; conve- 
nience and fecurity ; and though the voluntary emigrants 
and honourable fervants of the flate, muft in Ibme mea- 
G fure, 
