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them for their Former Deeds to wean them from their Idle and Bad Companions and work a reformation in their Morals that they may not return to the same Crimes again. W.R. again repeats that the present Mode pursued is not Capable of doing it and so far from reclaiming one it makes all worse and more Abandoned, should he have the Care of them he means to make their Morals a leading principal and if he Succeeds in getting it he intends to leave London and live on the Spot that he may be an Eye Witness of the Conducting it agreeable to the plan proposed.
W. R. Hopes that on a proper Comparison that Government will find that the Charges he puts himself to in regulating them more than any former Contractor ever did they will find that the additional Expence to him by the Mode proposed will be found nearly as much as the real advantage reaped by Government and the Poor Wretches will have to thank the Laws of their Country in sending them to such a place to reform