The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

F P I i e(r is : 4 1 )Ip i 04 Will ...o. HOLDITCIPS GUIDE TO EMIGRANTS. Ott Saturday nest will be published, la Sr.., prised fid. la Maeda. mint EMIGRANT'S GUIDE tn UNITED JIL STATII et Abt ERI CA t cassia*, the am +Mace aad direction , resperloß Votyage, Peeserviasitia of Health. Ctwke of Sc. : alu , the West idantiaties imiceto itartbe Climate, Productions, P Mimeo% prices of Laud. Labiate, aid Prosigiora. and other subjects. Eceanualeal and Political. *Swim tit -*Ware of misses &beat to emigrate ta the United Rates awt British By ROBERT HOLOITCII. Pte. Mealier ..f the Moral, Cullece n 1 Seeress. Printed far William 11. w, 45. Laditate-bill. Tokah TO le Leade SO L d D NY PropertyAUCTlON,. Hertfordshire. BR • . Re W. LBI.CHILD. by order of .the Aasignees of Messrs. Bekleris and On.. me WEDNESDAY, she 9th of September. at Twelve o'Clork et Noon, at the George Ism, Bontiogford, In Five Lan. /FRE several ESTATES and INTERESTS foe LIVES, Of sail in two valuable She extermiive M HORSos espislSHAffpow-frepostatsd PARK. Old ow atry-dadmitk.F4l BAC Qiesste mar Hontineford. I. the o.lkniy of liens. e .etainteg is the whole about ISO acres ..f floe oars , dow. plistere, arid arahle lend. Descriptive Pamir:slime moy he had of MINIM Lash' and Hawke. lailleitme.• Prlaielpetreet, Beak Delldiass Seer.- sores Mire, Sorting Mast, Leading ; Angel, Huey Si. U nwed. ; Ram. Newleatiim ; Son, Combrider; Three Cope, Cnktbmter; BelL Chshosfrivit Swan, Bedford t Witior Karl, St. Albans; Red Lion. Basel t Half Moon. H. rtford ; Sirs- Imo% Head, Were; plate of Solo ; and of W. Leifehild, Laud and Timber Sorrinor, Bolield. Middlesex. A proper perinea will 'mead at Beitermilk-hall Farm, for the purpose of u s the Martel Lots. BRITISII PAINT MANUFACTORY, Quetta street, Cheapeide. Landau. IMPENETRABLE AND ANTIXORROSLYE PAIN - TA. Invisible Green, per Cwt. fos. Hlaekper Cwt. 56. Olive ditto . . 78.. White . . 46 Bright Olive ditto . Ills. Yellow . . 36. Bork Red . . 30s. Shoe and Lead Colours 484. Bright Red . 365. Sone . • b 6. Chocolate 48s. Prepared 011 . to Ibis them for eye be. per ir alien. Relied Coal Tar Brown23s. per Cwt.—Common Ills. Best While Lead,per Cwt. Nis. Turpentine per Gallus sp. Second Mite do. 46. Linseed Oil, per Oslo* 6. 9d. LAM . OILS. Per Galina. , ~ Per Gallon. Genuine Spero Oil 8.. 64. Relied, Oil tar Palest - . Cood Earning do. 7s Od. Lampe N 3s. 01. sale Seal Oil 6. OIL Pale W kale Oil ed. Common Ditto 3 . . Sd. The Impenetrable Paints are suited in all eat-deer work. where.. hoodiame appearance and great deratbiiity are required. The Coal Tar limbos. particularl) she Relieved. will preserve wood for many 'eau. however ouch exposed to the cruets of the weather, nod is a remit! core for Ye. win and Dry liit / Owes a souring benslv equal in appearance io the best 4' int 4. The Vi bite Lead, Turpentine. Littered Oil. and Paihters' Colson. are at the best quallies. The Lamp Oils are war ranted Rennie', and final the moaner is which they have deep purified, will no hand soperio• to dime severally told. GEORGE UPTON' sod Ca. Merriam» and the Trade supplied no advantogroto terso . .o 11. B. No q u antity leis than lObt. of the Impenetrable Patios and 1 Cwt. of Cool Tar, sold. FRAUD PREVENTED. rcoentereet the many attempts that are daily reautle to impose on the nun tory a spurious cotapositite ho. Weed of the ORNUINE BLACKING prepared by DAY stud MARTIN, they have adapted a new Label, in which their signature and address, 97, HIGH HOLBORN, is so troaspicuously placed In the centre of the Label, that they trust an attention WM% and the &emote of the type, which is us. ike all letter•press, will enable purchasers at owe to de tect the in.position. Tice Real Japan BLACKING, made sad sold wholesale by DAY sad MARTIN. 97, High Holborn, and retailed by the principal Grocers, Maoists, Booksellers, iroosnongerr, Per fusers, Boot-makers. etc. is the United Kingdoni. In Bottles at Sth. Is., and ls. 6d. seek. IMPRESSED with 'jest and humane sense of the calamitous results arising from the injudicious treatment of a certain malady, Contended is a neautter ton well kwion It• require comment, and often entailing on its nehappy victim 1, sears of distressing nod almost imrappottable of iction/ l Di. EA DY respectfully calls the emotion ..f share entere,/ed, Iv Lis peculiar aid most efiretual method of cure. unlike the ad venni% empiric of the day, or the equally criminal emidnet of those • who bold the word of promise to the ear and break it to oar Impe." Dr. Eady will not presume to pledge infalli bility ia every decriptioa of cure. but as far to% human nisi, tis• Matti by ..edlcal and surgical skill can be applied. he promise: a certain. speedy, and permanent re:toration; having made every species of Syphilitic affection, and its 1i1fi.916 train of din eases, inet primal.% objects of his professional stuffier, a , .1 rein flattered by the transcendent success which has accomp:miett hi• mode of treatment during the course of a long non laiiiirions practice, he is enabled to offer, with the fullest confidence, pre tensions at tame the Most hopeful nod encouraging. lsnumrrnhle instances ran be adduced illustrative of the superiority of 1).. Eady's system, which has been found to prevail, even where ambient talent, remised by public institutions, has been in effectual. in addition Sc otiose consolatory advances, Dr. End, mill be found equally fortunate in reviving the cluwbaring.awb debilitated energies of the human con,titution. which embitter, and if not timely arrested. frequently render nugatory the very principal of existence. From this desolating state of homily and sterility, by re-animating the frame and affording tone anti elasticity in the relaxed organs, Dr. Eady is happy in (convey the most cheering and positive afsuranccs that the sufferers of both sexes may be rescued; a steady perseverance in the means dictated being oaly required.—Dr. lady is cuusalted daily, at 46, King-street, corner of Dean street. SAN by patients of both seta.—Country letters meet respectful attention by realm of second post. THE long-established reputation of Messrs. CUItRI IL and Co.. combined with their well-known experience and success in the treatment and cure as lew reign ing complaints. entitles them t• superior claims and a decided preference over all other practitioners. Messrs. Currie and Co. as regular Surgeons, and Members of the Royal Colleges nf Lon don and Edinburgh, present to the Public the result of thirty years successful priietice in the Metropolis, where their treat ment and cure of Venereal Complaints. Nervous Debility. Vascular Relaxation, and Atooy of the Organs, Strictures of She Urethra, &c. ite. has proved uniformly triumphant. In Ark and recent cases of intection, a perfect Cure is complete mi in the short period of two days ; and in those cases of a more Complicated nature, where other Practitioners have failed of sweets, a proper perseverance in their plan of treasroent in sures In she Patient a sound and perfect re-ritatiliAtinent. In limner' Debility, whether produced by convivial escesses, by the immilderate enjoyment of sensual pleasures, by sedentary and over studious habits, or by any other cause, the Medicines they prescribe will produce the happiest effects, in improving ewers faculty both of body mid mind. Several Noblemen and Geatleme• •f the first respectability, have been under the cure of Messrs. Carrie and Go. for the removal of Complaints o f the Urethra, Strictures, Ste. and having received a rodeosl and permanent care, request that reference may be made so them, assasidoctory evidences of the decisive superiority of Milos. 'Currie and Co.'s plan of treatment ; many of thew Geroleolen have had Strictures from ten to twenty years, and had Bern un der the care of Messrs. Home, Ilenvi-ids. and other Surgeons •lequal eminence, who attempted the cure by the tippliratioa of the I.•twr Caustic, withoni rucce, 4 . Messrs. Carrico 41 Co. may be consulted by either sex, with the grentrat delicacy, seeress, and bermour, at their haw, N 0.107, llattou-gorden,— Patients in the country are requested to slate the parti culars of their lease. age, and general habit of living. &c. en closing a remittance for advice and medicines, when the same will be give• or seat to their part of the kiogdoin. To homy that secrecy so essential to cur undertaking. the postage of letter. may be Wel to the account for Medieines.-107,11at teu-gordess Tfilso-11 0 01.10? itspoint Paper of Yesterday.) coMrskrain saps rftisoti. Your Committee proceeded to visit the Hada of Correction in the Geld llsithAelds: and heoloslsol - the different OEkers of the establishment be. fora them, subiait to the Hone the molt of their Its. The Cold Beth4elds House of Correction was established by Aet 4 Parliament 28 Geo. 111. chap. ?A, and is under the jurisdiction of the itegietrates of the county of Middlesex. Your Committee re fer to the Report sf the Commission of Enquiry, dated Nov. 1, 1800, which details with great minute sties the structure and management of the prison ; with some few alterations it remains in the smears. ration; uncut.is point of fact basil% taken,pleco in this form of the prison. °encase OW TUE PRISON.--The Governor (Mr. Adkins) enjoys a salary of 4001. a year, with a house, coals, and candles; the Surgeon has 2001. a year, for his attendance here and at Clerkenwell, with a boom; and the Chaplain for the two jails (that of Clerkenwell at.d the Cold Rath-fields) 1201. per an num. For the whole event of the establishment, sod its costs, which amounts to 20801. per annum, your Committee refer to the evidence of Mr. Ad. kins, annexed to this Report. The Governor was directed by your Committee to lay before them 111 rules sod orders by which be managed the prison ; and to their great surprise he informed them, that he had none; though he had beers keeper for seven years, be had never received any rules or regulations, and that none were hung op in the prison. There 'were committed to this prison in the coons of the. year 1815, 2100 persons of both seises : in 1816, 2875; in 1817, 3667; being an eacess of 792 per sons above that of the preceding year. Whets the Committee visited it, there were confined in this prison 379 persons; 295 males, 76 females, and eight children : the averams for the last two or three months being about 400. Your Committee found in the Cold Bath- fields noose of Correction, three !entities committed for want of sureties to keep the peace ; one of them has been there for two years, and was confined nominally in the in the infirmary of the third yard, which is open to the Moos belonging to that pert of the prison ; with whom he had constant intercourse; this mass is Omitted to walk unattended in the garden ; he is sometitnes•very dangerous ; and as the peculiar mis chief of Ms manners is to follow sod insult different women, to whom be professes an attachment, your Colllllllltye cannot but conside► the liberty which be enjoys, of having an easy access to the female side of the prison, es one likely to be abused. Your Com. mime are full► of opinion, that this prison is an im proper place for lunatics; they are associated with the felons, and they have neither the medical nor the moral treatment which is suited to their condition.— Your Committee recommend the attention of his Me. jesty's Gosernment being directed to this subject ; and they beg leave to suggest the propriety of some Legislative measure, which shall remove from all the prisons in the kingdom that class of persons. Dae•Rooms.—Tu each yard or subdivision of the prison is a dsy.room,several of which are insufficient for the number of persons who are confined there; so that it is impossible for them its the winter time to be warmed by the fire which is kept up, or even to have access to the room itself. Your Committee think, that generally speaking, throughout the pri son, the day rooms have not sufficient accommoda. tion for the prisoners during the winter season ; and as the only employment they have is the sedentary occupation of picking of oakum, theymest suffer most severely from cold. St.zsrvers Cum.—There ars between 280 and 290 cells in the prison, VI of which are double, the others are all single; the women sleep two in a cell ; and when the number of male prisoners exceeds the regular ac:ommodation, barracks of wood are put op for them, where from 15 to 30 sleep together in the same room. The Keeper however states, that, he never puts two men in the same cell ; each cell is 8 feet, 3 inches long, 6 feet 3 inches wide, and 8 feet high ; the cubical contents being 476 feet : they are all arched, are airy, and well constructed, those however that open into the courts are necessarily damp and cold, and to them the prisoners have access daring the day ; they hayp all shutters which are closed at night; the allowance of bedding is a straw patio's., two blankets, and a rug; the bedstead is made of wood, in the shape of a trough. A practice formerly existed, of letting est a better kind of bedding to persons who could pay for it ; but that is now done. away with; all persons, whether they 'are confined' as felons, or for misdemeanors, or committed for re-examination, or as King's witnesses, are placed in the same sort•of cell, and have no other bedding, but that above-mentioned. Your Committee are of opinion, that it is fitting some distinction should be made in the treatment of persons committed under these different circumstances, and that some accom modation should be provided, and such regulations made, as should distinguish their treatment f►om t het of convicts, or those committed forthemore atrocious.' offences. Your Committee concur also in the opinion es. pressed by his Majesty's Commissioners in 1800: that it does not follow, because cells' are and ought to be bare walls in penitentiary houses, they must remain in that state in prisons designed for a mil* application of punishment by imprisoment ; and they see no reason why cells might not, for ibe lesser cri-1 minal description of convicts, be Atted up with so. perior circumstances of accommodation and comfort ; nor does there appear any reasonable objection to the addition of some article of furnitere whieh would retie,* the mind from the gloom •bids the entire alitsaea of accestomed comfoits presses upon it : occupant of these Cells should herb access to deijr tomtit capable of being comfortably *armed. Tilit boys are plited two or more in a cell. Your Committee suggest the propriety of a change in thie practice • but they refrain from dwelling upon this ' part of the subject, referring only to the minutes of evidence annexed to this report. PEtiITENTIAO.PIIISONERII.—...Ther! are three gel. . lends in the prison, each containing b 0 cells, 10 on each side, for the pu r pose of c o nfining p enitentiary prisoners : they are divided into three classes,' slid your Committee are informed these classes are not .suffered to bold any Converielion together; a *hart period in the day is allowed to each class to *alk in the yard below • the rest of their time is passed - in ;he respective tells, Ware they : ere employed in the risicting of oaks., as ocospation that is Deities, Is-- boar to the body, nor employment to the mind.— Religiose books and 'tracts are given to them, bat your Committee fear, though penistfment may be suf fered, little reformation is effected by the treatment which the prisoners receive in this part of the prison; and that as a penitentiary establishment it has en tirely failed. Your Committee think' these cells must be very cold during the winter ; and they ob serve that the Act ifith Geo. lii. c. 74, s. 33, which directs the warming these cells, has not in this prison been complied with. Your Committee trust, that the attention of the Magistrates will be directed to this subject, and that the prison may be kept for the original purpose. of its construction. As a house of correction, under pro. per management, it may be the means of working the reformation of the offenders lodged within its walls; but the necessary Police of such a place of confinement is unfitted for a prison to which persons are committed before trial. Your Committee concur with the Magistrates in their letter to the Duke of Portland, in which they represent such intermitter, of prisoners as a burthen to which the persons en. I trusted with the management of a haste of correct lion do not feel themselves equal; such establish ments being for the purposes of legal punishment, tempered with humanity, and peaceful confine ment rendered subservient to the reformation d criminals. ADMISSION or Vistrons.--The regular hours of visitiog the prisoners are -from twelve to tyro each day. No convict prisoner can see his friends with out an order from a Magistrate; bet the practice is, to admit all to the grating between the hours shove named, and if they come from a distance, some ad ditional time is allowed : no one is, however, suf. fered to enter within the walls or into the jars, hot strangers are admitted on one side of the grating, within the principal gate of the prison, and the pri. soners are on the opposite, a turnkey, walking in the space between. The male and female prisoners are allowed to see their friends at the same time, a practice which your Committee think highly objec. amiable • and the evil can easily be removed by as signing different hours,, for the two seses, each day. WcansmeN.—The wardsmen of the different wards of the prison are almost all felons; they are selected by the Governor, and appear to be chosen more in reference to their good conduct within the walls of the prison. than from any consideration,of their crime or previous character. They are ezempt from labour and bare an additional allowance of food ; until lately, they levied a contribution from each prisoner in the nature of a garnish ; but this has recently been put an end to, and your Committee hope will not again be revived. Your Committee found two of the conspiratina l Vaughan and Brock, filling this office of trust! And they cannot avoid expressing their surprise at meet ing with two persons convicted of crimes of loch an infamous nature and character, invested with any au• thority, or advanced to any situation which entitles them to superior privileges of exemptions over and above those which other persons, committed to this prison, enjoy. They tbiuk the system of wardsmen, carried to its present event, very objectionable; ell the offices entrusted to them, might be performed by the turokeysosho now seem to do little more than the opening and closing the doors. They trust the Ma. gistrates will remedy this evil; and your Committee can hardly believe that their attention could have been directed to the subject; for if it had, they feel assured, that two of the conspirators, one (if not both) of whom owed his life to the nice- and scru pulous interpretation of our penal statutes, should be invested with power, and be in the enjoyment of ad vantages over their fellow-prisoners, whose crimes, though offences against the law, are in no degree of that malignity of moral turpitude which stamps so lad a character on the guilt of the criminals, above alluded to. Woac.--There is little or no work in this prison; whatever common in-door repairs are wanting, are performed by the Prisoners. The females wash the linen and make the clothes which the county allows. The principal employment of the male prisoners is the picking of oakum; the value of that labour, during the last year was 3471.; the number of pri soners 3,667. It is stated to your Committee that about one-fifth of the prisoners 4o net work ; and that there are besides between 12 and 1300 emigrants, whose labour is very small, though not altogether to be pet out of the account. Your Committee consider the question of work, as one of the greatest importance. The law sentences the convict felons to hard labour, and the practice under the law is to supply nothing that can ' be called labour; here no babies of industry are formed, and the convict is discharged at the end of his term of imprisonment, corrupted by the prisoners with whom be has been associated, de based and hardened by penisbment, corrected of no idle habit or wicked propensity, and less t h in ever • disposed to earn his living by labour, from the long continued idleneis in which be has indulged doting .. his imprisonnient. The Keeper saps; that there are ' - various kinds of useful labour in whith prisoners could be employed; and Oar Ennuisittee wish ,to ptese strong ispbh the attention of the Magistrates, the ithmerrie importance of this great subject. They 'have no doubt, ender proper management; the pri. .soneri bald be unibled to do meth mote by their labour towards their daily support ; and efiur Coin. mitt." are decidedly of opiniori that plenty of pliln food, such as pod *heaters bread; shodid he fur. niched to the prisoners • but - that all IndolgenCei be. yohd that ought to be the result sif thaic nob litho*. In i' pecuniary point of Slew, a saaterlal *Meg would thereby be made to she t ' oenty ; but limiting ' lon labeler le a house of correction sea Mont regiiidy, they hove ne hesitation todiclarit it ti be their ..pinion, that without_ regdlar sod • crintnint ticcepateeti 'heir* afforded to each prisoner, no reasonable [rife do be entertained of his amendment. Fooo. The allowance of food ii if foliose!: end - pound of the - best wheaten bread a ay, a pint of good water gruel in the morniiig, sod iis bootie of meat, when boiled, every other day; and the days they have not meat, they have a quart of coop each t the bread is given oat early in the therningi the gruel at eight, and the meat or soap at two o'clock. The prisoners ire allowed to porches/ potatoes, Ohl& are cooked lothe kitchen for them; end their friends are permiltel to bring whit fbod they please, pro. ' Tided it is dressed; no malt liquor is allowed, stiles. ordered by the Doctor, viewing to the debtors, and to the prisoners under tmesatifinatiOn. Your Committee are informed, that this regulation id Strict. ly attended to; hot they cannot avoid remarking, that the quantity consumed in the prison is very great, supposing only the two classes of pereette above mentioned are in the habit of purchasing the same : the porter is brought into the prison three puncheons at a time, and one of the turnkeyi hag the sale of it, at the same price as out of doors, tot the profit of Mr. Shepherd, of Clerkeewell.green. 110SPITAL11.—There are several hospitals in fhbn prison, and they appear to be clean, well ventilated and proper accommodation provided for the sick. On the female division of the prison, a wooden' staircase has been made on the outside, by which weans all communication is closed, and the Sorrell expresses a hope, in which your Committee join, that if practicable, a similar arrangement may take place in the infirmariewfor.the males. Your Committee wish to remark here, thdt there -1 2 f*Veeettritag- piece in the prlson a lts which' prbower en his ordeal con;.be pieced berate ke is eisodnied 'by tbe.,,Sergeon. At present the tees from 111esigate are, on their commit Meet, 0111,In a yard with other primmer.; a practice which 4 its the opinion of year Committee, it - highly -objectionable. In the. first place, it is contrary to law; as In all tooms of• cot. rection a receiving doom ne yard is expressly tom mended by the 17 G. 111. c. 74. s. 37: and secood• ly, the state in which prisoners are committed from Newgate, renders them liable to introduce disease, into the prison. The Surgeon says, " They are go. nerally in a filthy state; indeed so much so, that their flesh is so much grained in with filth, that we are under the necessity of potting - them into a hot bath or slip, and having them washed all over, other wise it would be imposaibler to discover whether they had the itch, or any other disease upon them." Your Committee have beers informed, that the' nurse in each hospital -is a prisoner, who gives the medicines which are prescribed : one of these, a con ' vict, states, that in his hands are left drags whith„ to say the least, are most hazardous to be so In.. trusted to an ignorant man; vitriolic acid and opium being certainly medicines which persons who are net medical practitioners, are unqualified to prescribe.— On the female side of the prison, your Committee think a matron ought to be appointed, who would be a fitter person to direct the administration of the medicines than a female convict. • FUEL AND Itants.—The allowance of coals it stated by the Keeper to your Committee, to be am. pie; no regular quantity is apportioned to each fire, but the prisoners have as much as they can burn : at the same time your Committee think it their duty to state that they heard from the prisoners some corn. plaints of the want of fuel, and that they 'offered severely from cold. The prisoners are shut op in their respective cells, in the winter, at foot o'clock; mud is the summer, at eight o'clock in the evening ; they are not permitted to have the use of candles in their cells ; none are furnished, and they have no liberty to boy any ; the lights are all pat out, except those in the Infirmaries and the Of f icers' rooms, as soon as the prisoners are shot up. CLEANLINtss.—The general appearance of the pri..: son is remarkably clean, the interior well ventilated. The small number of sick and the little morality de monstrates the healthiness of the situation; the good discipline of the • establishment; 'and the result is highly creditable to the 'medical treatment of the house. CLoTuirre.--The convict prisoners ere ell clothed at the espence of the county, ; the males have a jacket, breeches, shoe., stockings, and shirt ; the females, jacket, blue petticoat outside, flannel pet ticoat underneath, shoes, stockings, and shift. The I listen is changed weekly. This allowance of cloth ing is aivee to all prisoners who come in for more than seven or fourteen days: if those who are thus committed, excepting the felon convicts, have good clothing and • linen, they have permission to wile them ) and their linen is washed for: them in the prison. laoss.None are ironed except throe who are committed for re-examination on capital charge' : your Committee object to this practice of potting risers in irons, eke are notate committed for trial; the . . . ,e "g•