22 Nov r 1802 + 2 Letter 5 (3. XV.

Hulk System compared with Penitentiary and N. S.

Wales Systems.

From the foregoing demonstrations — if such by curtesy

at least they may be stiled — may be deduced, in

inte in the form of a corollary, a short estimate on the subject

of the Hulks. In the scale of utility, its

station would be found, if my judgment does not deceive

me, in the

midway between penitentiary

imprisonment, taken without the benefit of the panopticon improvements, and the punishment of penal colonization, taken on the footing on

which it stands in New South Wales. With the former, it agrees in

respect of its severity from drunkenness with the attendant miseries and

mischiefs: with the latter, in respect of the promiscuous

aggregation; with the universal corruption

issuing

from it. As a preservative of physical health

On the ground of healthiness, meaning physical healthiness

as it is from drunkenness, it may rank not much below the

penitentiary system: on the ground of moral health as a school of

As a preventative of present

mischief

of mischief considered as under and during the punishment

— it may rank not much below the penitentiary system: it stands

at a prodigious height above New

South Wales. On the ground of

healthiness as (meaning physical healthiness),

cleared as it

of drunkenness is from drunkenness, it may again rank not

much below the penitentiary system: on the ground of moral health, as a school of post-liberation

wickedness, it stands scarce at all above the level of New South

Wales. In

the article of comfort. it can never

come up to considering the miseries of forced

and crowded association, it can never come up to — it can never

do otherwise than fall deplorably short of — a well-ordered

Penitentiary House. In the article of economy,

in our point of view it can not but fall considerably short of

it, since

among