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Continued, Thursday,
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31st. Jany. 1799
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Reported
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Select Committee
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greater degree of real reform and of profitable labour wod.
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be obtained; and lastly, if Boys and Girls could be taught
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some easy and useful employment in a shorter period, more
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young Persons might be endower with the means of an honest
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livelihood than can be upon the present mode of an
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Apprenticeship for Seven Years.
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No appearnce
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benefit upon of
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epresent system
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ye. great defect
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no distive him in
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food or treatment
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bety eieled indust
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rious. the proflijate
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dwell disored
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Prisns. no share
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Jearnings
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refer to Dorchester
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Oxford &
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. of
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whene diet is
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in purportion to
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earnings & behaviour
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Print. whene
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share of Carning
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afforded
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Your Committee observed with great concern that there
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is no appearance and very little prospect of any reformer
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amendment being effected upon the Present system in any
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of the Persons in Bridewell, and that some of them, of the
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Women at least, are likely to continue for some time an
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expence to the establishment. Stappears that one great
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defect of the present system is, that in Bridewell there is
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no distinction, either in food or in treatment, between the
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Edle and the industrious and between the profligate and
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the well disposed; but that those who are capable and
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would be willin to work, receive the same dict, the same
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unpositable task, and the same uniform measurer with
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those who persevere in the disgraceful resolution of living,
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as the drones of Society on the labour of others. It appears
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also that the Prisoners receive no Share, whatever of their
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carnings, either given at the time as a present gratification,
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and inducement to exertion, or husbanded for them till they
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quit the House and then applied as the means of placing
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them in a way of livelihood. Your Commitee however.is
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aware that the present produce of their labour is not of an
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amount to allow them any benefit out of it, at the same time
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it cannot help referring to the regulations of the Houses of
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Correction at Dorchester, Oxford, and Gloucester, and to those
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of some other well regulated establishments of that Kind,
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where the gradations of diet are in proportion to the
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carnings and good behaviour of the Prisoner; and where
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a large and liberal Share, of his earnings is reserved for him
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to set him off on guitting the House in an advantageous course
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