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VICTUALLING OFFICE, Sept. t 6, 1817. 1 /l IE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING, his MAJESTY's NAVY d o her e by give Notice, it 'ilat on TUESDAY, the olst of October next, they will be eady 1 0 receive Tenders in writing, sealed up, and treat fcr th eSale,,f the PREMISES at VALLEYFIF,LD, in the immediate vi ';'lltY of Pennvcnick, and neighbourhood, of Edinburgh, with th e le Teral Buildings and Erections thereon, lately occupied a 11 /ep6t for Prisoners of War; and also of I ' 4 Two DWELLING HOUSES on the high Grounds mediately adjoining the above Premises, which were °cen t° by the Agent and Surgeon of the DepOt, with the uroends surrounding the same. neptit Premises were formerly used as an extensive r 74 anirf , ..;.'-i,-'foic'Whieb, or any .thee !tlrpote, they are well calculated, having. a most abundant Itt PPIF of ‘VattU-, and containing extensive Ranges of Build ?noF various. descriptions : and the Houses, which were ""IY erected, are ve-y commodious and well finished . . Further particulars may be known by applying to Mr. 4T",ander Nlunro, at Valleyfield, who will spew the Pre and point ont their respective Boundaries. Persons disposed to become Purchasers upon this occasion 'sa y offer eith er foethe whole Depdt Premises, and for the t Dwelling-Houses conjointly, or for the Depot Premises Aithout the Houses, or for one or both of the Dwelling kuses separate from the DepOt Premises, at their option ; ^tiserving, however, that no Tender will be received in which the Price shall not he inserted in words at length, or that * ail not be delivered to the Board before One o'Clock on the 441 c 1 Tuesday the 21st. of Oct.ber next; nor unless the Person Oho makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends answer when calla for. • • PrenrelltrArd-0 FPI CE, Sept. 9, 1817. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING .11,1;TESTr S NAVY d 0 hereby give Notice, That , 97 2 F. ridery, the 191 h Instant, they will be ready to receive .41'enders in Trriting (sealednp), and treat for One Hundred .441trand BAVINS, for the servim of- his Majesty's Bake- OcptfOrd; to be delivered in eyreat weekly proportions th e enit Arovember next ; and to be paid for by Bills l'lNal,/,,,,•;!!„„F in' sixty days after date. 7. 4 ConriVions of the Contract wtay be seen at the Secre- ttl izel Offer. e., 4 " l regard will he had fn awl 7%'nrler in which the Price all n°l be inserrftd iip ?rords at length, qr that shall ,lot he :ilivo•cd to the 17...1ard befa-e One o'clock on the saint Fri .4.'l, Pk(' Oth I/tyrant; nor uptirss the Person mho makes ` 4 e Pewter. or same Person on his behalf, attends to an wi,enealletl for- ric7't7:4,,r,livl OF !CR, Sept, le. ;nl7. t r l iE COMM r,sR rn N rps,for VICTUALLING 14.• His jr z u r .V. : 17}r- do hereby give Notice' Priday, the 24th of- October nest, they will be ready 4 ,; rl ' r e C D'e Tenders in: writinz (sealed up), and treat with ech Persons as Mill undertake to srepplir (ha separate Con 4r'f.ts) all smell Quan'ities ofS 7 A PROVISIONS and FRESH 11 P. F:P as eerie be :eTrirert r.r Vs ilfoiesto's Ships andrls ";h4 " TANIAICA. and NEW PROVIDENCE, during the ;: ece of Twelve Months certain ; the former from thr 31st of "ecei nlie f the 94th of January fol tozo. • r next. on , , the latter rO7ll " R . a/a:Pr/Ler Unlit Sr; Months' IFarning shall be ih • t : 7".1 . 0r the termination of the Con'racts ;the .. Conditions of • '` ie4 "ty be seen at the Secretary's Office. '\'n regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price fall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall r t I, e delivered to the Board before One o'Cloch on the said r ' rl pat the,24th. of „October next, nor unless the Person who the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to when edited for. Nor will any Tender for the Sea , : t pi 'ifms Contract that contains extravagant prices upon . 4 , 0 :D - tierce, and prices muck inferior to the real value upon v ' , he considered as proper to be admitted. must be accompanier( by a Letter signed by l t , ' ' re 'Ponsible Persons, engaging- to become bound with the : . . 1 . 11 tendering, in the Penal Sum of 15,6001. for the due •` /.°r nianc e of the Contract for Sea Provisions, and of 1,0001. it-Ta Beef Contract. Pt r 'ICTUALLING-OFFICE, Aug. 8, 1817. . % E COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING sh 1174 21 1.1JES'rY'S NAVY do hereby give Notice, That tQ 46 day, the 23rt of S4dember-next, they will be ready v rec e;t;e Tenders in writing (Sealed up), and treat for a a n " "f. 7 / ati ; rirte IRISH BEEF and PORK, net exceeding, j iie 17.7;re:fate, Twelve Thousand Tierces of each Species, (lc cured in the enSning Season; one iighthPart thereof to 4 lreeh . d fit 11n lf-Puneheons, six-eighth parts in Tierces, 410 1 ,!r rm•iining one , : eighth part in Barrels to be delivered 4'4 .illajosto's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Ports o:4l4, Pl ymouth, and Cork, in regular proportions of each • o : iPlitn z of caVes, ty the periods under-mentioned,iviz. ointhipl part of the whole by the . I.!tli Februa ry,) , 4 , 1 ; t € 6 ?ert p art more by the 15th April, lB 18 , q,,, t the remai n i ng thi r d part by the Sist May, 'cl„„ r u be paid/or by Bills payable, without Interest, sixty • 'e rifler date. • .77,, ,rct Conditi4ns of the, Contract may be seen at the Se r)477ll‘' ° Sive, at this Office; or by applying to Mr. J. IV. .gent Victualler at Cork: to .the Collectors of • T t „ s Custo ms a t Li mer i c k, B e lf as t, Newry, and 4t ael f g rd: iind to the Secretary to, the Postmaster-General 4r..11 respectively. !Ifef,i;. 4 Y o Tenders ,a less quantity than 500 Tierces o f i it , _ "L• 80.0 tan; . 14 Of Pork, will he admitted nor wi 4 , Le lead to an; in which the Price shall not be inserter, Jl wt d o'er- at len o • that . shall not be deliVered to the j. eie o ' 'elock on the said Tuesday, the 23d ' n oel' next ; 'nor unless the Person who makes the 1° 4,, 4 Glae Person on ' his -behalf, - attends to answer le cte VlV fbr. _ty ce r c4 . l , ,, c: iie r must te accompanied l t ty teiide:in• r„ P hi rs t r . ." ,, ez i a= t oj o . e i c s a ni . o L te ct io ri n . n s Pw n it e g the per Cent. on the de' clue performance of the Contract. CAUTION. BEST SUPERFINE BEAVER HATS. THE frequent complaints made by Gentlemen, in the abeve article_ not being obtained of a good qua lity, at a moderate price, notwithstanding the very great re duction which has tither) place in almost-all the • articles used the manufacturing of Hats, has induced GEORGE FRANKS, of Wei lingt6n-House, Corner of ,Redcross-street, Barbican, to acquaint the Public be is selling the VERY BEST LIGHT • SUPERFINE BEAVER HATS at the very reduced price of only . 18s.—G. F. warrants them superior to those selling at other houses at 27s.—And his IMPROVED PATENT WATER-PROOF SILK HATS un BEAVER BODIES, at only 16s. They are light and pleasant wear, and have a handsomer appearance than the finest beaver, and will wear two of theirs;, will never lose their shape or spot with the rain,.and are a naucit superior Hat to those offered by other houses at 265. The great. sale and repute of these matchless Hats haying caused base imitations to he offered by several unp-incipled Retailer* of I - lats, anti which are not Patent, the Public should be particular as to the above address, as there is a house in Beech-street, corner of Beech-lane, same natne , and trade.— No Credit can be allowed. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1817. VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Auch 20, 1317. NOTICE TO PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE VICTUAL- LING BOARD. WHEREAS it is, provided, by the Act of the 5 7th of the King, Cap. 121, that Monies on the• head of Victualling, Old Stores, and Imprests, should be paid into the Account of the Treasurer of the Navy, at the BANK OF ENGLAND, on an order signed by the Treasurer, Pay Master, or Cashier-of -the Victualling to receive the same. The COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING HIS MIMS. TY'S NAVY do hereby give Notice to all Persons indebted to the Victualling Board, that. on and after the Ist Septem ber, 1817, application must be made at the Navy Pay-Office, for the necessary Order to the Cashiers of the Bank, to re ceive the Money; and on paying the Amount into the Bank, a Certificate or Receipt for the same-will he given. No Bill Ur Order in favour of the Treasurer , of the Navy, or any 01feet in his Depaitment, can be taken, it being con trary to the provisions of the Act. THE LOT TERY, gri CARROLL, the Contractor; has . the plea `4.fil • sure of annottncing the following Scheme of the NEW GRAND LOTTERY to his Friends and the 7 satisfied that the perusal of it will be sufficient to secure their approbation. It contains 7100 Numbers, Two Tickets of each Number:— IICTUALLING-OFFICE, Sept. 16,, 1.817. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICYCHLLING 211.4.TEsrrs V,II'Y dos hereby give Notice. that on Friday, the,26th Instant, ther e will be ready to receive Tenders in ,riting (sealed up), and treat with such Persons as will undertake to . furnish what TALLOW CAN , DLES may be demanded for the Service of Ills ri , tualling Department at Deptford, for One Year irlitn the date. of the Contract; to be paid for by Rills payable, without Interest, sixty days rifler date. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the Se cretary's Office. No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be delivered to the Board before One o'Clock on the said Friday, the 26th Instant, nor •unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf; attends, to answer when called for. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Sept. 17, 1817. A. rr H E -COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENC - LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give. Notice, That the present Interest of 5 per Cent. on the Company's Bonds shall cease and determine on the 3tst March next, from which day they are to carry• Interest only at the rate of 4 per Cent. per :Ural/11; and that the Proprietors of. Bonds be allowed to bring them in, to be marked, until the 20th Febrnary ; and that such Bonds as shall not be marked on or before the Roth February, shall he paid off on the said 31st March, with the Inttiest due thereon, and from that date unmarked Bonds shall not carrying Interest. • J AMES COBB, Secretary. ORDER OF THE BATH. - POUND' l'A LL-MALL, •a• few days since. the INSIG IA of a KNIGHT COMMANDER of the Ot;.PEA of tti , BATH—For farther information apply. , (if by letter post-paid ! to Mr. HIIION, Grocer, 449: Strand. SUFFOLK. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, A CAPITAL FARM, called WETHERING rx SET LODGE ; containing Three Hundred and Sixty four Acres, great part whereof are old Pasture, in the Parish of Wetheringset, and within a Mile Of the Turnpike Road leading - from IpsWich to Norwich, and now in the occupation of Mr. James Press, nuclei a Lease for a term expiring at Mi chaelmas next, and containing customary Covenants. . - This Farm is Tithe-free, except about Eight Acres, and lies within a Ring Fence; is Freeindd, and the Land-tax is redeemed. ' The House has been lately re-hnilt, and is very convenient, and the Out-buildings are in good condition. The Estate is well worth the notice of Gentlemen wishing to make Investments, or of a wealthy Farmer, who is desir ous of an Occupation. Printed Particulars, with a Sketch of tike Farm annexed, may he had on application to Mr. Wade, of Dunmow, Essex; Mr, Whitney, of Yoxford,S::tfnlk ; or Messrs. Exle , Stocker, and Dawson, Furnival's Inn, London. A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. OF all the numerous Cases that have appeared • in the Public Prints for the last ten years, of the good effects of the AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRITP, none are inure entitled to the attention of every Mother and Nurse, than the undt:i-mentioned :—The infant" Daughter of Mr. !resort, No. 291, Oxford-street, was, at the tender age of two months, taken very ill. The Physician could not find out thechild's 'disorder ; it was every day getting worse. Mrs. I. asked him if he thought it was its teeth ; his answer was, the child was too young.—However, Mrs. I. having experienced the virtues of the Syrup, both in her own family, as well as of several Ladies of her acquaintance, thought she would try. As soon as the child's gums were rubbed, she begat: to get better, and by the time the infant was 16 weeks old, she had fire teeth through. To be had of the Proprietors, Johnson and Williams, No. 94, Newman-street, Oxford"-street; and by all the principal Medicine Venders in Town and Country, at 2s. pd. a Bottle. CAUT/ON.—Be suv to ask for Johnson and William's Ame rican Soothing-Syrup, as there are several spurious sorts. N. B. Mrs. Johwon relieves the infant poor as usual, at her House, every Tuesday and Saturday morning, from nine to ten o'clock, by bringing a letter from a respectable House keeper, to certify that they are-real objects of charity. SCHEME. 2 cf.. I , £ eo,boo Money. ... are... - .,C40,000 2 2 2 5,000 Money 2 l,OOO Guineas 2 l,OOO Money 4 5OO Guineas ti 2OO Guineas ........ 1,20 S . 200 Money , 1,600 100 Money l,OOO 50 Guineas 100 _ 21. Guineas - ' ' • 2,205 . _. .... 20 .... 1,34 First-drawn Blanks to receive 101. Money each.. 13,420 5,700 {Next .drawn Blanks to be readrawn - 6th Dec.) •;63'400 or to receive 121. each on or before Dec. 3d ' 1,340 Last drawn Blanks to receive 61. Money each.. 8,040 8,54. Pr izes, and only 5,658 - 131anks. 9.23,17.5 Each of the 15,0001. Prizes to hare 5,0001. more. The Eighih-dfawn Prize above 2001. to have 20,0001. Money more. The First-drawn Prize ad Day to have 20.0001. more. TICKETS and SHARES for the NEW LOTTERY. which will commence Prawiag on the 7th of NOVEMBER, and which, as the Public will perceive, contains SIX: Prizes of 20,0001., are on Sate.at the CONTRACTOR's Offices. No. 7, CORNHILL, and 26, OXFORD-STREET; where 7,735, the last Prize of 80,0001. ever drawn, was sold in Shares.—Ap plications for favourite Numbers should be made as early as possible, to prevent disappointment. ST. - THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. R. ASTLEY COOPER and Mr. HENRY IVA'. CLINE will begin their COURSE of ANATOMICAL and SURGICAL LECTURES .ou WEDNESDAY, • the • Ist of October, at Two o'Clock. This Tlay Avert published, Handsomely printed- in (ine Volume, Octaro, price tOs. Gil. in boards, TRAVELS thri.tigiv, FRANCE and GER. MANY, in the Years 1 gl5, 1816, and 1817; comprising a View of the Moral, Political, and Social state of thoSe Countries. InterspersM with numerous Historical and Poli tical Anecdotes derived from authentic Sour6es. • By J. JORGENSON, Esq. Printed for T. Cadet' and W. Davies, Strand ; and W. Blackwood, at Edinburgh. NEW POLICE REPORT. (Continued from Tuesday's SUN.) The opinion of the Police-officers themselves on this subject is of no §mall importance, and your Committee refer to the remarks which sonic of the most intelligent of them havt: .m.ule in strong and forcible language, and which present a true picture of the danger and evil of this syste s John Townshend, one. of the officers Of Bow-street, who has held' that situ ition for 34 years, says, ." I hare with every attention that man could bestow, watched the conduct. Of • varioos persons who have given evidence against their fellow eeeetorea rot tire and death, net only at -tile OW Dailey, but on the circuits; I consider officers as dangerous creatures, who have it frequently in their power (no question about it) to turn the scale, when the beam is level, to the other side he swears against the wretched man at the bar; and why ? because that thine e —nature says, profit—is in thesea le ; and nitlanelfoly to relate, but I cannot help being.Perftetly lied, that has been the means of convicting many and !many; a main. I have always been of opiAion, that an officer - is 'a' dangerous subject to the.cemmutiity." John Lavenacr, of the Queen-square Office, remarks upon these rewards, " Th it it is a subject which he always declines, if he can, as.no Where can go into the box at a witness with any comfort to himself." John Vickery, of Baw 7 street, says, ".That be knows the public opinion is against the officers entirely, in consequence of that reward-by Act of. Parliament; and the officers are not considered by the public so respectable as they would be "if those rewards seeredone away." Mr, Philip IJoldsworth, the Upper Marshal of the City of LondOn,.informed your Committee, that he has wituessed officers giving evidence against criminals swear hard against the prisoner, evidently for the sake of the reward ; that he knew one, instance where a wrong person was cOnvicted in consequence, and has heard of several more. 'Thomas Shelton, Esq. clerk of the Sessions of Oyer and termioei amid Gaol delivery, at. the Old Bailey,. for London and:Middlesex, unit who has held that situation for 33 years, noon a question being put to him. if he observel the effect of the rewards ou the evidence that is tendered in Court, in formed you' Committee, that it appeared evident to him that Witnesses have oven desirous to obtain them ; that he believes officers sometimes get briefs given to counsel, when there are difficulties in the case, which shows an anxiety for conviction, and that not only among officers hut among other Witnesses he. considers it probable that these rewards warp the minds of witnesses, and occasion stronger testimony on points that are dotibtful, than would otherwise he given ; he adds also, that he has witnessed cases where it has happened that.persons are put on trial for the crime of highway robbery, when on exa mination, although property had been taken from the person, there has appeared little or no reason for the offence being - so' laid, except for the sake of the reward on conviction.— But it is 'not only that the system, of rewards stimulate wit nesses to forswear themselves, in order to obtain them ; tacts have recently come before the Public that prove the existence of conspiracies which have been formed by a Police officer and others, in order to induce people to' commit crimes for the purpose of swearing away their lives, and obtaining the reward on their conviction. The dif terent magistrates who have been examined on this - subject have denied all belief that this crime has been often cons mitteffe but your eotionittee swish to observe, that where the temptation is so strong as that which the reward offers to the cupidity of police officers, as.well as to that of all other men, time crime not having been before'proved, is no evidence - of• its non-existence; and they feel themselves further obliged to remark, that the 'First Report of thin Police CoMmittee in tald, bad hardly been issued from the press, containing, as it. did, the praises of the magistrates of their Own Officers, as ,! well as their positis'e denial of its being possible they could be affected by any temptation to sacrifice the public interests to their own, when Vaughan, of the Bow-Street - Office, was tried and cast for death for the "crime above mentioned. And also, that in the last summer no less than three other per ionsavere sentenced to a capital punishment for similar --of fences, on three different charges. To what extent the evil • has extended, and how many innocent persons have suffered, and what crimes have been planned and perpetrated, or how far the increase of offences may be caused .by I hose whose • ditty it is to leSsen their number, by the early apprehension • of offenders, your Committee have no means of ascertaining ; but in closing this subject they are decidedly of opinion that the system, as it is, cannot be too toots abandoned, as fur nishing allurements to officers to betray their.trust—to wit nesses to break their oaths, as bringing punishment on the innocent, and affording encouragement to a description of , persons of all others the 'most fatal to the peace and well-be ing of Society—those who go about to ensnare the guiltless and entrap the unwary, who, whilst they shut their eyes to the commission of offences for which no reward can be ob tained, plan the perpetration of crimes, in order to profit by the conviction of the perpetrator. The next head of inquiry opon which your Committee wish particularly to direct the attention of the House, is that of the propriety of establishing a penitentiary system-for the ju venile offenders in the metropolis, Your Committee refer ge nerally to the minutes of evidence that they have taken on this subject, but more particularly to that of. Mr. Crautord, [Parc r. -SEIitiNPENCE.. the Secretary to the Society, Of which the object is to inquire into the causes of juvenile delinquency. It appears, then, from the evidente - of that respectable and inteHigent person, that from a minute investigation of the subject, there are sereral.tbousand Goys in the metropolis who arc engaged in thecommission of .crinte : that the - causes of ibis k t4rorable evil are to be traced to the improper and criminal Fondact of parents, the Willa of education, the ti. ticiency of emplil nelit, the violation of the Sabbath, .the pr• tailing habit of gambling in the public streets, which, to the disgrace if our police, is practised daily with intAtoity : ail these may be considered as the principal incitements to crime iropel•ed into extraordinary action,. during' _the last - few year , , by an in creased ,powilation, and by the distress among the lower orders, utiiing from the want of employment. To these causes allay be added t lie.onstence of dash holt es and .bro thels; almost exi.in i - vely.set apart for c hi , ldten of hoth.SOltes - ; and, lastly, to Abe bad management at the prisons, which in stead of correcting the erintitial itelinghent by disri , dl:ne, are schools and academies of Vice, which corrupt and'vniate their - wretched inmates, and throw them back upon society'con firmed in every bad habit. • Your Committee refer to the evidence given by Mr rennet . (a Member) as ta the present situation of the different of this metropolis, as well as to Oat of Mr. Cranford and Mr.Poynder; and they feel that they should be - wontiug itt - their duty Pi they did .not protest against the preseift sylteta ; and if they failed to state it to he their opinion that ilte! . giails" are a discredit to those WOO hare the direction - of thrhi , and .who are deepiY amenable to the public far the evils-that arise trom their mismanagement. If these prisons are too small for the number of criminals who are cimriaed herein, it is thi , duty of thosa woo call itiOile bring furwa'al such subjects, to propose to their respective county or city, or to Parliament, that necessity of a prison upon a wore enlarged phti: but it 'is many years since this subject has been tir-t agitated, and yet. even now, in all the prisons, offenders of dilfereut clia racters-and stages of crime are mixed indiscriminately toge ther. It is scarcely possible to devise a system netter calcu lated to vitiate and corrupt titan the mode iii vi hiolo offenders are thus confuted : a number of boys ai - e tie xe d in discriminately together, front right to sixteen jr eightern years of age, exhibiting a great variety of character, and 'differing in degrees of guilt, the tried and untried, and the first offender tvith't he hardinreil tonviet. ' Your Conentltlee. have au` ionsly soUght for infarniation as to the number of jareaile deilo q who are annuallf mit ted to the different prisons in the; myle pubs, an 1 find that in 1813 the number committed to Newgute, on •-i• the age of sixteen, were 43 buys and 19 girls, total 62, of ahom was of nine, 3 of ten, mid 3 of t !even years of et.;e.—ln 1814, there were 89 boys and 9 girl,, total 9Q, of IN' h9ni 4 were of nine, 8 of ten, and 12 of eleven Years of 1815, there were 76 boys and 12 girls, total 88, of hum 3 were of ten, and .8 of - tieven years of lege t here were 124 boys and 14 girls, total 1 46, of whom 1 was of trine, 3 were of ten, and sof eleven years of age. 7 In the other prisons of the`met ropolis the ages of the .pri sailers were not then tal,en ; but your Commilteeare unalded to state, that in the year I,i there were confined in the dif ferent prisons 1,6-13 persons under 40 years of age, inv.. • In Newg , te. 429 males, 85 females. (jell:cowed • :lf•i9 • 92 Cold,bath-fielas 221 50 . Horsertionger-lane 67 18 . To: h 2OB . 76 ' Ciltspor-street 33 5 1,357 3-2-1,G83 Total, • Of seventeen years and tinder : In I ., :ewgate 247 males, , 48 females. Clerkenell 259 . 91, Cold-bath-fields —292 ,--- 83 lior.votuger-lane lO 29 Giltipur-street l7 3 1,017 264-1,481 Totai And of seventeen years and under, for felonies alone --. In Newgate 247 males, 48 females. • eferkenwell 298- 43 Cold-bath-fields 135 .37 FLirseinonger Vine 44 TOtbill-fields 147 Giitspur-street i 7 3 169-957 Total. Yodr Committee remark, that the greater part of these jr.• venile tiffeuders, some of them infants of 9, 10. and I I years of age; are mixed indiserimmately with old' blfenders of all ages, and ad of them with boys or. the ages of 15 or its, many of whom have t,en long praeticed lathe commissiub tat Va► rious acts of fraud and-crime.- Nu one but those who have witnessed such rintul exhibitions cat, be aware of the plea sure which the older thieves take in corraptirig those who have just entered into vicious courses, hythe detail of their exploits., the narrative of hair-breadth escapes, the teachlog or technical phrases all of which are great allurements to a youthful ntind, being the amusements of theistic and the re sources of the desperate, and sea. tog to enliven 'and 'dispel the solitude of a prison. its order to demonstrate to what an. extent this intermixture of children is carried. your Com mittee observe, that there were in Newgate, at the commence ment of the last Sessions, 84 boys of all ages and offences confined together; that in the New' Prison, Clerhenwell, there were, in May last, 13 boys confined, four of whom awaited their trial fur burglar) ; three were er:striated for tossing up in the street, and would be brought up and misted the next. Sessions ; one was confined t ,r an assault; and 5 were committed for re-examination; they were all con fined in one yard with . the Men. It is scarcely possible that a boy should be a single day in this prison without being con taminated; and yet it is usual fur boys to remain there until within a few days of their trial, a•periodsometimes of three or four weeks. At the House of Correction, Cold-bath-fields, there were then 45 boys confined, who were committed for misdemeanours, for felony, and fur re-examination ; the un tried and the convicted were together in one yard. • A boy was lately committed and confined in this yard for offering for - sale sonic numbers of a work without having a license ;• he was there three months; the only sun of poor but reputable parents. From a return which your Committee have received, it ap pears that in the New Prison, Cierkenwelt, where young and old are all mixed indiscriiiiiiiately together, and where net classification according to age or offences exists, t -599 boys under 20, were confined for felonies in Slit last year, of whom one was of 9, 2 were ot• 10, 7of 1) 14 of 13, and 32 of 13 years of age; 17 were for misdemeanours, 15 for riots, and 31 for assaults: of which last, 3 were of the ages of 11, 12, • and 13. That of females, 92 were for felonies,. 6 for misde meanours, • 10 for riots, and 29 for assaults. Your Committee observe, that it is in evidence that the most numerous class of delinquents err street ssilferers, said for stealing privately from the person ; many of those boys • may be considered as just commencing a course of crime: the mode theta in v:Mich they are treated On apprebenslon,has a tiattual tendency to encourage theta its vicious practices ; for the greater number found guilty of the former offeike are usually committed for a shMt time to prison, suoietimes ,e -verelyllogged,• and then, without a shilling in their .pockets, turned loose upon the world more hardened in aurae- ' ter than ever. The condition of these poor children is o f all others the most deplorable; numbers are brought • up-to Thies's. , as a trade, are driven into the streets .every morning, and dare not return house without plunder; others are orpbant, or . completely abandoned by their parents, who subsist by begging or-pilfering, and at night sleep under the sheds, in the streets, and in the market places; when in pri son no one visits them, nor do they seem to possess one friend in the world; they are occasionally treated with severity, sometimes' sentenced to be flogged, a practice than which nothing tends more to harden and degrade, Mr. Crawford, who gives this affecting. picture of -the sufferings of, these.children, adds, that many of thew occasionally- apply to • the memberi of the Cotsamittee soliciting their advice and relief, and declaring their readiness toshon their former connexions, 'and to abandon their vicious pursuits; but how are they to subsist;' without friends' or character, who wilFgive themera ploynient ? Without temporary aid, where can they procure food ? He is convinced that many are driven to renew their t depredations by their necessities. Ile knows of several in.- : Stande in which this has been the case; and thus some bops are nrisooner discharged froth prison ,than they.'are again brought in, for itt reality a prison is their oaly tanue. ETo be eoutinuidd en ce, . 00 cr) wa, ,