23 Dec r 1809

Parl y. Reform

Ch.5. Both situations

'.1. Errors

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Of the present inquiry the result in this respect /on this head/ will be seen to be that in the whole business there is no proper ground for punishment: that from the application of punishment to this case the best /least bad/ effect that can happen /result/ is the evil of punishment consumed in waste and without any abatement in the disorder: but that its natural and usual nay and even intended effect is to aggravate the disorder: that very disorder to which in shew and pretence it applies a cure.

But that although by punishment the disorder can only be aggravated, yet without punishment it may very effectually be cured.