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will follow - And by the time their Sentences expires as they will have been so long weaned from their former Companions (being at so great a distance) and proper care taken (as before mentioned) of their Morals there will of Course Numbers take to usefull employ and become usefull Members to Society, The bad Consequence arising by their being Confined on Board the Hulks at Woolwich Portsmouth and Plymouth is very evident all Persons indiscriminatly may Visit them and Converse with them or give them any thing they want such as Cloaths &c: and they may get Clad as the Circumstances of their Friends will admit, therefore they not being put on an equal footing servers only to irritate them and make them worse. W. R. does not think it proper no difference in either their Dress or Food should be permitted the Contractor being paid by Government for all of them.
W. R. Conceives that the meaning and Intention of the Sentence they are ordered to is to punish