The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-08-17 00:00:00

CO &C3L A • 1 . 1 "" .r - ^ — 777 , awir." l " -- - - :11777r --- ? • ~7 . \';" 7. 1 .7. 1 ,711 r -7, 1r7 . 7 '• * • • Lae • ' l r • •dlka. • "' lt • • f t ) 1 • Zbe • \ ,• , • \. . . 47' wvis4l(` ;~; I~ el . ''.~ ~. LONDON ; S.A TOR 6A Y, A U T 182.2. . "r p ` ~' ~ ~ 1 *s The Cases for which IiIiMPIMIN fill is the Fie 4. g SYDA'lli aid 4 die .tefilro:4l* NUMBER 5452. PRICE Szvirx Pytsciii GENERAL BENEFIT INSURANCE OFFICE, A L DEItrGATZ•IiiIntIET. ACGUST IS. I 9113,—At s COURT' of DI AECTORs held on the 42d instant, H. LIDUERDALE, N. D. or Patron-square, was appointed PHYSICISN to this INSTITUTION. MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY. Jut Published, with a Coloured Plate, etched by Mr s Q. Crolksltsnk.`priee IL • ; I THE POLITICAL and ItartaTs LIFE of the MAR QUESS of CONDONDERRY, late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ac. dm. Inchsding most important and authentic Particulars of his Lux NONE/ITS and naArn, with numerous ANICDOTES EMI REELECTIONS Illustrative of the history of the Noble Lord. " Nothing extenuate. " Nor set down aught in ***** . By T. P. FITZGERALD, Esq. Published by John Fairborn, Broadway, Lndmite-hill. Whammy be bad. The HEATS BED CONFESSIONS of the late Coy WSW of Gu SR MIRY, in Octavo DOM), rid IS. J E A N . - ' ILCH 'WA. GAOL. TV , IIIIDLE. • : • foffitiving gentlemen were empanelletl:—li i rineis Akterst WWq.',. Simnel adbern, Esq., H. E. Hedgebill, Eit, D. Stanton, Esq., W. Dam_p ier, MSi Esq.; J. Wilkins, Esq..Hoe,cgsq., W. Walters , Esq., C. Simpson, Esq., and two others whole names we could not obtain. r • The'Connsel for the Crown were Sergeant Pitt.i;, Mr. Mr. Ssioss, and Mr. LITTi.EDALE. For Mr. Bridle, Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, Mr. Exam*, eld Me. 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It Is presumed the trade will consider the value of this new Edition much enhanced, by the addition of •• Laws affecting Publicans and Innkeepers." and the " Usprut litats" wh!tdi it coutair.s. - . Mr. Sui.trro opened the proceeding's. The fleet count charged, that the defendant on the let of Jaupary, 53th Geo. 111., was Keeper of the House of Correction at Ilehester. That being such keeper, ael a person of wicked, cruel, and malicious disposition, and /sot regerilint his ditty as snch keeper, but unlawfully, I wrongfully, wickedly, cruelly, and maliciously devising and intending to huff, injure, and oppress, one Mary . Cure, whoot the eeriest times of committing the Wenn iiii*this count mentioned,was a prisoner in the cameleer 4 6fendant ; and which Mary Care then and there bad an infant child with her of toung and tender age, of the ate °Toil months, to suckle at her breast, and to cause the said Mary Cure to undergo and endure great bodily pain, suffering, and hardship, and to injure her health, on November IS, 59th Geo. 111. and on divers days did wickedly, maliciously, fee. without any justifiable cause, and against the will of the said Mary Cure, did pat up, abut, thpl confine, and cause the said Mary, &c. &c. to endure great bodil y pain and suffering, &c. fire. so that the infant childwas deprived of its necessary subsistence, and the milk failed, to the great damage of the said Mary Care, contrary to the duty of defendant as such keeper, and to the evil example, &c. Ike. The other counts fol lowing varied the charge, and the ninth count charged Thos. defendant at great length, that he did cause one Thos. Gardiner, to endure great pain and suffering on the 20th of December, and slid wickedly maliciously, and without any justifiable rause. and against the will and consent of the said Thomas lierdiner. fix a blister upon the head of 'him, the said Thomas Gardiner, and also forcibly put on him a straitjacket, and put him in soli tary confinement, by means of which, &c. the said Tho mas Gardiner did endure great bodily pain and suff*e ing, fire. The other counts charged him with assault and battery, &c. Sergeant Psaa opened the ease for the Crown. He represented it as one of the most solemn and import ant nature. The Learned Sergeant gave a history of 'the origin of the present proceedings. la the early part of last year, when him the representation of Mr. Hest, Commissioners were appointed to examine late the state of the gaol, and in consequence of their report to the House of Commons, his Majesty through the medium if the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, had gives directions for the prosecution. awl be (Sergeant P.)had new the honour to appear as the pith lie prosecutor. There was nothing in the present pro ceedings which would in the slightest degree touch on the chanted of the Magistrates of the county; and . wbalnecsisitbLite idquirin hereafter inetltnied would relate wifely to the conduct of the gaoler, Mr. Bridle, on two particular occasions. The ease was 'certainly one which, on the part of the public, se tinily required investigation, and the intermeshes oonfiaed itself to the charges against Mr. Bridle for cruelty to two of his prisoners—the one named Mail Cure, and the other named Thomas °Annear. The Learned Sergeant then stated the case, which would im given in evidence by Mary Cure; and certainly if be rested ea this case alone, where an unfortunate women bad been, fur some offence which she bad rive., shut i up in a dark and solitary cell, without fire, in 'the depth of November, with an infant at her breast, aid in that state denied the proper sustenance, he should have established that. for which the defendant would be deserving of the se t punishment. But the other case went far beyond this, and if it were true, equalled say thing that had ever been heard of in the angle of wanton cruelty and atrocity. In November' 1820, for some offence which Gardiner .had given to : the Governor, Bridle, the latter bad him pat into se.' litary confinement, on bread end water; and if the punilhment bad been merely solitary confinement, no one, perhaps, would have complaleed, and the law fully sanctioned the mere confinement, though it might be solitary; bat if such inflictions as had been visited upon Gardiner were to be tolerated, it were better that there should be no gaols at all, and that people should wander about like wild beasts; for no thing could be more intolerable than the existence of sbch a state of things as that he was 'beet to state to them. The prisoner 0 .riliner was cert. inly a man of an extremely bad character, but whatever might have been his character er conduct; he could nut possibly have done any thing that could justify the treatment he bad endured. Ile was eo sooner put into solitary confinement, than a fellow convict was sent to cut off his hair and shave his head. He was confined in a strait waistcoat, and after this was done, a blister was pot en his head, of a pungent nature, and over that was placed a can to keep it down; and in this most miserable state he was kept for four days, in inconceivable misery. and in pain intolerable. But this was not all. He was supplied with soars. and miserable food, which was laid before him on a bench, and as his bands were tied. be was obliged to kneel and eat it as a beast from the trough. Whilst he was in this state in a cell of darkness, the tonnes of the blister became unbearable. His hands were confined to prevent his removing it, and in his agony, he was actually reduced to rub his head against the stone wall of the cell; and with the cap and blister, off came the skin of the poor wretch's bead! Dryer, the surgeon Of the gaol, who, to his lasting disgrace, had supplied the blister for the purpose, would be cal.. led to prove that be bad done it at the request* the defendant Bridle, and would prove; as confirmatory of his conduct, that 110 entry was made of the fact on the day when it took place, bat that it was entered by Beyer. some time after, at the request of Bridle, when the lecuiry %to the case was set on foot by Mr. Hunt. The Learned Sergeant said be did not wish to intro duce the name of that gentleman unnecessarily, but, 'perking of him only as connected with this trainee tio,,,s he should say as long as he lived, if the present charge were tree. that Mr. Heat had Wed. in this in stance, as the benefactor of his country la bringing it . foriard. Mere was esteem, disposition to applaud this _part of the Learn ad Sergeant's speech mani fested iu the gallery.) - The Juno* said be should feel it his duty . to commit any one who offended again in the coarse of the trial. • The Learned Sergeant restimed, and after sonsAvt ing with ability on the details of the east, *IAN he said he should - prove satisfacto r ily t o thins, •• implored their utmost attention to it. ilary Care was then called dmi examined by Mr. Heattaa.—She deposed that about three years and a half ago she was confined for having bad a bastard child, in ilchester gaol, when a quarrel took place be tween her nod Mary Smith. In consequence they were both had down and locked up. It was cold, sod there was sleet and snow on the ground. She had an infant four months old at her breast. It was on Thursday bee mato come and two o'clock. There was no fire to the cell until Saturday morning. The cell was very cold and bad a stone &or. Her food was bread and Geld water. She bad not water 'attach, and on* day she was without wider. She was locked up all day and raw no one to ask for water.. It was on a Friday. On - Be turday some.water was brought t o h e r in a bucket, and. which was left io the bucket which sbe was obliged vs drink out of, until she came out. She was let out om Saturday morning; for an hour, into the yard sad ahs drank at the pump. She was not allowed to come out • at all on Friday. She had a fire in another cell on Sa- • • torday. She bad nothing at all to supply the Want with, and on Friday evehing she had no milk to give it: nor any water to drink herself. Os Saturday morning she drank igreat dell, being very thirsty. She was well when she first went to oo Thursday. She was very cold when she was let out on Sunday morning, and l en Sunday night she was Cul: ill, and obliged to call up Mr. Hobbs, for she w. s sick and ilNin Pier bowels. Mr. Bridle himself locked her up on the Thursday. She knew a mum named Trion:a. On Thursday morn ing she was locked up io a cell called the tied-bell; which was neither light nor dark. She had before slept up in the women's ward. Cross examined by Mr. Wt I.LI A MS.—She was not mar ried and had had three children, and had two now. She had a basin, and cup, and saucer; in the pantry of the ward with the other women, She was locked op for th e first time at Aimee one o'clock, and was let out •-it seven o'clock. She was let out to go from one cell t) another. She did not take her basin with her, because she did ono: know where she was going. She was never asked on the first day whether she would have a fire, nor did she say she would bed--d if she would. Site never used such an expression daring her confinement in the gaol. No one came to her on Friday, nor was any additional rag sent to her. -She never did eWpf on any former occasion, that she hail asked repeatedly for water on Friday, and that she could not have any • until Saturday. She never saw any o-ne to ask for water . She asked particularly for fire on Saturday morning, as she and her child were very cold, and begged Mr. Treganza, to speak to Mr. Bridle. Traganza said Mi. Bridle was engaged with company. Tragapsa brought her a candle, upon her application, and she lighted a in is the cell. This (Saturday) was the first time she asked for a fire. She knew Mr.. Bridle. lie never tiled her ill before. But cannot you say more than that for him, Mary ? No., I cannot. Why. did not he subscribe to pay a fine to get you out ?—lics, be gave the last shilling. What were you then in confinement for?--She was at that time in prison for taking a few turnips. She did not make any complaint to the Magistrates when thy called. She saw Fir. Hit nt last Thursday. He is a very kind and good•natared man, is he not ? I know nothing of him but by his talking,. She knew Mrs. Shepherd. She did not remember hav ing said to Mrs. Shepherd, that she did not know what Mr. Hunt wanted her for, as Mr. Bridle had behaved kindly. to her when she was first imprisoned. She need to go with gooseberries and what fruit she had to sell to Mr. linnt's room. She was never examined by Mr. Hunt: He ha•! tasked to her once or twice about it when she went with her things. She hail eighteenpence a week fur lice child, but she had no opportunity of laying it out. . '(be next witness was Jane Hobbs, who state! that for five years she wakmatron of Ilchester Gaol, and left it in 1820. The dnty of the matron was to superintend females. She recollects the last witness bs:ng in prisms three or four years ago. She recollects her being 1 a :in close confinement on a Wednesday or Tbarsil iy, into an infant four or five months old. She was absent from the female ward until the Sunday morning following. The witness herself fetched her from a cell behind in the back part of the prison. It was a small damp cell. On this Sunday morning she complained of great cold, and wit ness requested the cook to give her some tea and gruel Witness remembers her (Mary Care) being taken ill on the Sunday night. An alarm was given and witness's hu-band got up and gave her some medicine. Witness's husband was the task-master of the gaol. Cross-examined by Mr. ERSNINE.—She b-lieves her husband sent to Mr. Bridle in consequence of the quar rel between the last witness aad the woman Smith. Each prisoner has small articles of crockery-ware, and when they are put in solitary confinement they carry them with them. Witness cannot speak positively, but she thinks Mary Cars carried with her i. pint basin. All the cells for the refractory prisaners are alike damp. Mr. Eils and Coles, the Clerk of the Peace, produced the Occurrence Book of liehester Gaol. He turned to an entry of the date of Thursday, the 19th November, ISIS, in which it slated—" Put Elizabeth Smith and Mary Cure in solitary confinement, for being disorderly and fighting in their ward." On the 22d was the en try—" iteleased Elisabeth Smith and Mary Cure from their solitary confinement, on promise of fittare good behaviour." Thomas Gardiner, a decent-looking young man, de. posed that he was near twenty years of age. Three years last March, be was committed to llchcster gaol. (In the 27th of last December he was discharged. He has worked as a blacksmith, and is now living with his uncle and aunt at Bristol. In Novembrr. IS2D, a charge was made against him for having picked one of the pri soner's pockets. He was not none any thing to then. It was reported to the Governor on a Sunday, and he was bad in before him. Witness told him he knew ac thing at all about it. Mr. Bridle stopped his wages fur it on 'the Sunday. On the Monday he was taken very ill, ar•d could not work, as be had a bad pain in his in- side. He saw Mr. Bridlepass. but did not speak to him. At I nig,ht he was taken worse. No one came to him. Ile saw Mr. B. on the next day, when he asked him what was the matter with.him ? Witness told hint he was very ill in his inside. Mr. Bridle said be considered that the fryer was quite strong upon Lim, and he would put him is a dark bed•cell. wherehewasconfined for three days. Mr. Bridle never came to him. At the end of three days Dr. Valen tine came to the cell. The stints% remained there nine days longer, at the end of which Mr. Bridle easwe into him. He asked the witness het, be was ? and be said be . /h . 1 ~ 7 . 1. ../...