The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-09 00:00:00

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turnmite wiien MIMI from that e emit point remem•
bored the elielotol gong of rotten. whom I hod 11111111 hell
in Moir before at the rellwey etothi,uu, throwlog them.
'vireo down on the pletform, 111111 iofiuetuig to 61"11111
forellily tomipallell to enter the mine, In *Mel', yelling
like demons, surfing mid lerveuhing, they were to be eon.
veyed to their
IYliet would his good old king, whew' loping le omit on
the lone of the oltelk down to iny left luonul, Piece litunght
of 'melt ileeeeretion I The figure repreeents (limp 111.
un horaelinak, am he wed to tide, unwontedly, tiring omit
hie hungry eqiiirlea, tont elartling quiet gentlefolks not
of their troliquility by his harried end unceriononloua
vlelle to their emintry Note. It is still kept elver of
weeds, anti is pleinly visible on the elite of the hill thel
rises lq hold gorsmorowited sweeps and palmy curves
'bons the villogee of Prouton 111111 011111111111111. 1 VOlllll
loopy the old Ming wiergelleolly queelliming Colonel
t lohleworthy
' Mlit what I how Is Shia/ Ootivleta—ell Pot them
somewhere else I Weymouth he icy meet wa4rilltplool.
Whet, what, what—fin 'm d other jell. Genet You Why
eliouldn't you Another I Bey, for tips peer
wretelica, I like to enjoy lured et the lemiltle.'
Alas I the good 11111111114111, Wlllllll/ 11101111117 IN still
revered by Ilitilhe hiliolliteiste of Weymouth and Mel'
combs Nagle, he no longer elite to 'nerd hie Mane Mown,
The Imld Portleinlere are now compelled to tolerate the
evil they 0411110 k our., My eye, AA I loot Nowerd, rune
over the long rows of lodifng•lioitees along the Noah it
Weymouth, the lent.like hiuuthluu maeliince, the Mem
heim, ansioired In Weymmith tiocute, the yaelita end
ealling.veesele pawing to and fro there, and rests upon
the white walls of the witivlet whom,
I lied lieenl, In mowing through the town, Mot the
convict* lied impulsed a mutiny hut thet it heti been
promptly defected. The li'eaforti Militia, though lint II
111111111 topes, had held their umi I and the Owing laitl by
the prisoners to make use of their wurking•toolii, murder
their minion', 111111, after plundering and burning the
villages, to sesepu to the mehilend, hod providentially
been °robed in lie birth, The prawns* of the Ihlsniteitut
In the harbour gene to the euthorltlce, who
all did their duty admirably. The ship's guns were
*hotted, and one of them wee reedy to be sent on shore
etc Inoinent'a notice,

My companion, an officer stationed at Weymouth,
showed its the formidable preparations which are to re•
suit in turning Portland into a "'Gond Gibraltar, After
cur tour of imipectlnn of theme and the breakwater we.
over, we visited the quarries where stone was being
hewn by the convicts.
There ii no truth in the assertion that the lailf.fa.
mielied Dorßotshire peasant envies the ocoupanta of that
stately jail. He may say that the prisoner is better fed
and more warmly clothed than many an honest labourer ;
he stilly 'twiner at his own lot when old age or Riekness
omen upon him ; but no free man covets the garb and
diet of a oonviete.l felon. Nor is there need of more
than one 'enrolling glance at the sunken countenance of
the prisonere to show that no food is "west that Is doled
out by the hand of a jailer. It may be that the bread
baked at the Portland prison hi better than that which
ii aervl by many • London baker to his customers. I
hated it, and pronounce it excellent ; and all the stores
of provisions seemed the beat of their kind, and the
quantity sufficient for nutriment; but there is no
excess. You moat not starve caged birds ; but will
they find the water ea sweet which they have to get at
through interstioem between gilded bars, no the rippling
streatulet beside whose course they have perched on
waviag 'prays? Will the contents of their tray of seed
be as plealant to their taste as the scarlet hips and hews,
or the Apollo of the garden in whieh they flew sauoily In
freedom from tree. to
.tree? . . . .. .

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And now my brief holiday linnet—that reit for which
the London nrofeasional 111.111 loop during inn, pert of
bugy year, and regret* during another, lint .1 alien
carry bails to my chambers refrealting reoolleutione of
that dark lime wen, of time Imam gorge-covered lieightg,
with their /Nat dock of block-float grasing cheep, of
that here rook +Ming co nromily on the waters, like a
camuliant bum, awl of the hogyitable and warnidiearted
tweet otimitrvfolka, . . .

ninny In Dimetehlre, thongli It le
mit thiJkly lionilleteil county mallows le a oordlel
10 lit Iltete unwary hounds whloh Winne the linnti like
the ring of the cherry notti of their the
mulcuutut inuolu ui their cue, ant the lend Weems their
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