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*Lich it would eecary, and the oddities:las ■.—
tnodationa which it
.might revile objecis
your Committee trust, will not he &unit of sufn-
cieut weight In impede • measure of great im-
ports:ice to all parties concerned. They Nod tint
prisoners or this deireription are woritilly tried at the
Old Bailey. by the Recorder, mooted. as his other
ocrispatious ins, require, by the Common Serjeunt.
and that many of these trials take place in the even-
ing ; a practice whit h has generally been Nind
inconvenient in other criminal Courts in the coun-
try, soil consequently abolished. As these See.
slims sometimes last for three week•, and the time
for trying the Middlesex grand larcenies is preen-
firms, it often happens that prosecutors and wit-
nesse., in such cases, are obliged to attend ten or
twelve days; and as the expenses of these prosecit-
: tions are in general paid by the county of Middle-
; sex (to the amount of 5,844/. in the last yecr), it is
obvious that a very considerable reductiou m this
expense must take place. if the time of attendance
was shorteced, which must be the result if trey
mode or separate trial of these offences was adulated :
to which considerattots must be added, a &minis-
tion in the expenses of the individuals concerned.
bey I what is covered by the county allowance, us
well as the prevention of much personal incouve.
nietice. and interruption of private business. Your
Committee have adverted to these circuniststicee,
as obviating. in a considerable degree, tiny objec-
tions that might be urged opium, the adoption of
the arraogrnteot above suggested, from the expense
which would be thrown on the county of Middle-
sex, by the support and maiutenance of such pri-
soners during the whole time of their euulinem►ent.
as well as by the accommodations which it might be
necessary to provide for conducting these trials at
Clerketowell.
In the course of the inquiry on this subject, it
had occurred to your Committee. that as the time
of the Chairman of the Q.iarter Sessions fur the
comity of Middlesex is so fully occupied, that this
proposed additiou of business must require the ap-
pointment of an additional Chairman; and as this
descriptinn of prisoners are at present usually tried
by the Recorder or Com Seijeant, whose offi-
cial character would give them a weight and au-
thority in discharging these functions, which► might
not be possessed by private individuals. it might be
advisable to recommend the granting a Special
Comnsiseion to these officero of the city. in can-
junction with the Magistrates or Middlesex, for
trying such offenders in that county. as often as
the Sessions are usually held there; and. tenni'''.
attending some objections which have been made to
this part of the plan. and which they have not had
the opportunity of fully examining. they still think
it worthy of consideration.
A third mode has. however. been suggested to
them. which, perhaps, on the whole, is the most
simple. and has the advantage of producing the
least change in existing establishments. It is pro-
posed that the Commission under which the gaol
of Newgate is now cleared. should he extended, so
as to comprise the prisoners committed fur grand
larceny in any prison in the county of Middlesex ;
and that the Recorder. with the assistance of the
Common Srrjeant, should try such prisoners (as
they now usually do), hut in a separate Court, at
the Old Bailey, duritig the time the oilier trials are
plug on before the Judges. This would prevent
she siecesoity of any such prisoners being oribinalb
committed to Newgate, or sent Own isuattlintr
previous to the Sessions, which would, therefore,
equally tend to effectuate the great object which
your Committee have in view, of diminishing the
numbers confined in that Kitson. It would only be
necessary that a certain number, probably not more
than twenty, should he daily sent up from Civic-
enwell to the Old Bailey, who might possibly be
■ccotnn►odatetl for so short a time in Newgate, or
if that was found inconvenient, in some Once of
temporary confinement to be provided for that pur-
pose. The only other alteration which thus plan
requires. would be the erection of another Court
at the Old Bailey. which, if provided by the City.
instead of the county of Middlesex, as in the two
former plane, would rather tend to equaller the re-
►pective burdens and alleVistions produced by this
arrangement.
As your Committee see no occasion to submit
any measure to the consideration or the House
upon this subject. conceiving that an adequate re.
medy may be found its one or other of the modes
suggested, under the authority of the Crown and
the directions of the Magistracy, they have only to
express their confident hope. that some such mea-
sure will. as early as possible, be adopted. as on
the whole, with a due attention to local circum•
stances and established usages, may be found
adapted to ensure so beneficial a result.
Itth Jahr, 1819.

The latest accounts from Jamaica state, that in
consequence of the distressing continuance of mor-
tality among the British troops there, the camp at
Up-Park. neat Kingston, composed of the 93d
Highland regiment, and the 50th foot, had been
broken up, and the troops sent ou board the vessels
on the coast. By this judicioad mrangement, the
numbers of deaths had been decreased in the daily
proliortion of from 7to Sf: Of the Old regiment
alone. nine officers and 275 rank and tile, together
with all the women and children which had OCCOII3
ponied it from this country, had fallen a sacrifice
to the extreme unhealthiness of the climate, during
the last six months.
It is understood in the military circles that Lieu,
tenant-Cholera' Sir AMMAN OgaCAintext., Bart.
is destined to take the command of the troops on
the Madras station, its place of Sir Tilos. Humor,
who is on his way home. Sir A LULA:Muse will pro-
bably sail early in the ensuing spring.

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Major,Getierel Si► Hunto ViviAn hos arrived
in Glasgow, to task's the coniamild of snot district.
Lord GRANTIIAK imd a meeting s few ceti of stt
the-officers of his corps, sit York, to consider of an
offer of tendering the services of he yeomanry
hussars.
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