The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Sta,—The diminution of crime is a subject in which every
sect of Christians has an equal and a weighty interest :
whatever relates to it, therefore, addresses itself alike to all.
In punishing offences in this country, I most willingly ad-
mit that no pains are spared to produce a reformation in
the offender. This is, or ought be, the end of all punish-
ment; and, for this purpose It is, that PeniteMiaries have
been established, within which, the imprisonment to which
a culprit is doomed is made, as far as possible, to contribute
to his future amendment, by subduing within him those
evil inclinations which lead to crime and misery. In
many instances the humane endeavour is successful ; it
were unreasonable, however, to expect that it should be so
in all. But lam considering at present the cases of those
offenders on whom the penitentiary system produces the
desired effect. Ifea'l know well the power of evil habits—
we all know that such habits. when they have been long
continued in, constitute the natures of those who have been
thus addicted to them. It must therefore almost inevitably
happen, that whatever change of heart or of mind may
have been wrought in any individual during his confine-
ment, if, when lie is discharged, he is thrown upon the
wide world, friendleu,without bread, and without the means
of obtaining it by any honest employment, that he will be
forced back by necessity into his old haunts, and will re-
sort again to those practices, which, in his better moment,
be had resolved to abandon ; and to which, but for the
straits to which he is then reduced, he might never have
returned. That this, Sir, is the case with many, I know;
and I fear it is more or leas the case with all. iVould it
not then be the height, not only of benevolence. hut of
public usefulness, to devise some institution in which such
outcast penitents might be furnished with the means of
eMployment during that interval which must elapse before
they can provide it fur themselves? In this enlightened age.
it surely could not be impassible to establish some plsa
for effecting this desirable purpose. Ido not here advert
to veteran delinquents; nor, indeed, would this class be
likely to seek again the paths of industry : but I plead for
the many whom detection has arrested in the early progress
of guilt, and whose zonthfal mind has not yet lost its
Selibility to vistas. Mindy:es there are of this latter class,
who, if the aid of Cluittian philanthropy stept ill tweet]
them and their return is :;:flay pursuits, might lir.e all
their better immolations ewitinned. and thus make a prni-
tratiery subservient to ill tl:e p^rmenent and best interests
of the community.

THE- akffif4f•

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NAVA!. iND,ELZ.jRfiNCE.
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Polillootrro. Wednesday evening theSpartiate;
78, Rear-Admiral Graham Eden Hammitt, C.'. arrived from Rio
.11neiro, last front Lisbon, whence 'the soiled on the 19th alt. in
company with the Superb, 78. Sir Thomas Staines, Bart.. S.C.!),
whic:t ship arrived with her. The Superb was relieved in service
in the Tagus by the Albion, 74. Captain Ornmanney t she is to be
paid tiff at this port, anti re commissioned. The Spartime hires
turned. home, with the officers and erew of the Wellesley, from
being found unfit for actß.e service; site inside two fret water an
r hour during the 7b days preceding her arrival: two purer were
kept coostatitly going. fleet-Amu and twew are to be turned over
re the Alelville. 74, which ship will dee commits-lor er! for service.
She was towed into harbour this afternoon (the wind being foul) by
the Lightning atearn-vessel.
On iVetinesday the wind ;billed to the South-east, when the out-
ward-.consul merchant shirt detained at the Motherbaire and
Cower) roadsteads (shout sixty sail) proceeded on their respective
voyages. —Also sailed the Rainbow. 2)l, Hon. Capt. Roos, for the
East India station, taking out Major-General Bourke, Lieutenant.
Governor of the Cape of Good Mope, and family ; and the Dis-
pateli, 18, Capt. Parsons, for the illiat• of Africa, with two Corn-
misaloaeriterf Inquiry. and Lieut-,Colonel Douglas and Captain
Victer,pf the Royal kingtheers, so make an inspection into the
assts or the forts on that meat.
The Harlequin, 18. Captain James Scott. came In this morning.
Jrom Plymouth. Remota et Spithead--Superb, Harlequin, Pi-
ranga. In the harbour—Victory, .Warapite, Spartiate, Ganges,
I Roomer, ;Wage, Herald, 31satiff. Spasms/hawk. Calliope. Army,
31agniticent. Royal Oak.—'fbe Wazapite, N and
flarlvuto arc for the East Indite Ration ; the Herald and Mastiff,
for the Mediterranean; Magoiliceart, foe Jamaica; Royal Oak,
for Bermuda.
On Tuerday the Dutch frigate Pallas, Captain Von Ryk, arrived
front Norfolk, in the Ltni•ed States. after twenty-two days' passage,
having boded there his Serene Highness the Duke Bernard of Saxe
Weimar, who in making a tour in that country. Site sailed in the
evening for the Teml.
The ,Bresilian frigate Piranga, Captain Shepherd, is quite
resfy to proceed on her return to the Brazils. It is understood she
is to take some prevents to the Emperor of Brazil.
Tee Cato and Vibelia transports are ordered to embark the Id
battalion o( the 9.5 th Regiment for the Mediterranean. The Ze-
phyr is to take the depot of Ns litgt. teem the Isle of NVigh:
to Nor:h Shields. for duty in TyneaMtuth Cost 11• The Duchess
of Vork earbarksd, this morning, Almjnr-Gerteral Mainwaring. at
Cowes, for passage to Barhadoes. The Serrostris has called for
New South Wales, with 130 male convicts fiam the hulks at this
place..
Lieut. Incicdon is appointed to the Gangs, vice Baker ; Lieuts.
Squire and %V. Sheila, to the Ramilies; Mr. T. Thomas, Purser,
to the Harlequin.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. I.—Came in the Reynard, Calliope, and
Nightingale, item Channel services. Sailed the Harlequin, for
Spithead. Tuenty mechanics arc to proceed hence in the Royal
Oak, for Bermuda. The 31adras, Fayrer, from this port, arrived
at Madras, July 19.—A puldie subscription has been opened in
this town fur the sufferers at 31irantichi ; about 1001. have been
Riven. By a decision of the twelve Judges. the Essex, convict
ship, which writ proceeding to Milford, navigated by Mr. Raven,
Master, R.N. under the charge of Ills Dwarf cutter, Lieut. N.
Gould. is to share in the proceeds of the valuable Dutch smuggling
logger Two Sisters. which the Dwarf then captured. Remain—
Britannia, Genoa. Witylaor Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot, Pan-
dora, Nimrod, Victor, Nightingale, Camelion.
On Tharsday night the collier brigs Two Staten, Winskey, mas-
ter, and Arctic, Risk. mastir, coming in from Sunderlaad, with
cargoes, got on shore on tire bunk of the florae, and bilged : the
former is a total wreck. The crews were saved.—Hampshire Tek-
g,opt•

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, Faimar, DEC. 2.

Wind S. cloady.—.ll igh Water 44 m. p. 9.
The Joe, Orumley, from Liverpool, has arrived at Lisbon.
The Hannah, Say.tae, from Liverpool, has arrived at Roterdam.
The Perseverance, 51d,, fovAbeedovey ; Nancy. toe
and a email coaster (name unknuwn) all for Liverpool, were driven
on shore on Puffin Inland, and Penman Point. Crews saved.
A quantity of le flora have been picked up along the coast in the
neighbourhood at Palitely.
The Lucy Ann, Andrews, from Liverpool, for Nassau, New
Providence. was spoken Nov. 23, in Lat. 45. 30. Long. 9. 30.
The Jane, from Liverpool, fur Cape Briton, was spoken in Lst.
Long.4lL _ 59.
The Hibernia. for Baltimore. in put back with damage, having
run foul of ilia alk)etty's ship Bittern. _ _

SATURDAY, DEC. 3.