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PrOsON's

REPORT, •
s!it Ln L olipt.R relF THE nougg of rovicort.

frotitieued from out Paper of fiu!otilay

The Ant occupier of a . Morn is tailed the otrotsr,
the new comer is the chain t; but there is a perfect
eiovility of right between thetit ; no lodger can be
'Liken, neither con the room be lets telthottt Com-
mon cowient. The prisoners are aliened to thong!
their moms; on one becoming vacant, notice is
given through the house, and soy prisoner then
pow.essing a room as owner, is at liberty once to
make a claim ; and if there be inure claims than
OUP, the senior claimant takes the priority, Ins
chum remaining in the room which the owner so
shifted quits, and the se • chum in the prison is
imeoilited as owner. If there he a double chum-
mage, that it in rely, three persons in each room,
the senior double (limit succeeds as single chum to
the enema single cluntionage.
The rent of each sown is Is. 3d. per week, the
pii)ilient of which is demanded quarterly ; if it be
not puid, four or fire-weeks are generally given in
'the nature of an iedislgence ; and if the resit be
not then discharged, the occupiers are turned nit,
unit the room is cried through the prison, and is
coossislered as vacant: This ciocuonstitere is stated
seldom to occur. the mere threat generally en-
forcing the payment of the money due.
It is in the power of either the owner or the
lumina to' pay each other out, at the rate of 4s. per
week, which is settled by the Deputy Warden, by
whnee rides tto greater sou can be demanded then
Bs. Sol. for an entire room_ unfurnished per week,
and 15s. 3,1, for our furnished. Three rides are
*sometimes evaded ; but when the cirCumstance.is
known to the %%Taoism the room is taken away
from the !Immo so (offending. If a prisoner be
unable to pay his fees, he receives no diusu ticket,
hod intuit seek a lodging in the prison at his own
expense. If, however, lie heroines a lodger onalte
mister's side, lie is considered us lialile for the p'ey.
meld of these fees, before he can obtain his dis-
charge.
If lie lie pour, and chuses to go on the common
side, his fees only ;Minuet to 1.5.5. Cf. and he may
bee entitled, if lie swear he is not worth .5/. to
the charities and profit of the poor's,box.
The common side is divided into what are celled
four minus, each containieg seven or eight pri-
soners. The beds, when the prison is not very
erre% i!eil, which occurs but seldom, are plowed in
small recesses, divided from each other, leaving
sufficient space no the room for the- prisoners to
work or to sit room& the tire. These permits pay
ito rent. The cwnniui side prisoners, who are ad-
mitted to the begging-brix and charities, pay no
fees. • On the 'lsth of March there were 10 pri-
soners on the continue side, end nut of which num-
ber four were on the begging grate.
be addition to the 209 persons confined within
the walls of the Fleet, there wire on the 18th of
March 52 within the rulei; the average
_ number of
these last being between 60 and 70. The extent of
the rules is smell, being not above three quarters of
a niter in circumference. Any prisoner for debt is
admitted to them, upon giving security to the %Ver-
de,' against au escape, and paying a counnission of
5 per cent. upon the amount of his charge; and in
case the debt is large, a less sum is taken. The
11•arden is secured by a warrant of attorney, with a
defeweinee setting forth the purposes of the war-
rant, the stamp on which costs 20s. There is no
expense atteluliug the preparing the instrument, us
it is in it printed form, and is filled up by the War-
flell'S clerk; the whole expense to the party is the
20 shilling stamp, and the inquiry fee of half a
goineit to the clerk, and the 5 per cent. on the
deli., or less, te hied' the Warden may think tit
to ilesoomorl. The leverage mimed emolinneht de-
rived from the rules to the Deputy %Varden, is
98t:/. Gil.
There are also day-rules every day, during term,
that the Comb) sit, which are granted to the pri-
potters sun implication to the IVarden, mid oil giving
Inin sufficient security. The legal expenses are
needy the same as these shave-mentiorwil; but in
getter:ll only Isis, are taken above the cost of the
stamp, and the inquiring lie. The ordinary expense
to a primmer, it the debt lw under 501)/. is 2/. 7s. and
the greatest seldom enure than 5 guineas. These
rules are renewable every term. There is besides a fee
of 4s. nil. paid, which is divided es follows : %Verde.),
Is.; Clerk of Papers, Is. Secondaries of the
Court of Common Pleas, Is. Nd. ; making in all
4s. till. The profits to the Warden on the day
rides, amount on mill everoge of three years to
145/. la. 4il. The IVartlen however is accustomed,
when a person is in prison for a small sum, and is
person of respectability, to let him go out on a day-
rule, without any other expense than the fee of 4s. 6.1.
Public-houses and taverns are not, us in the
Kong's Bench, excluded from the rules. The
Belle Sausage e, and the London Coffee-
house, ere both within the rules of the Fleet :mod it
is in evidence that the solleitante of the prisoner* is
much welted by expensive bring in these
Your Committee suggest the propriety of the tits
serums, &c. being excluded from the rules, and that
whatrecw arrangement may be thought fit for the
King's Bench, may be extended to the Fleet.
By the Act of 5:3 (leo. 111.500/. is annually paid
by the different counties of Englund to the Fleet,
mid is distributed at the rate Of 3s. 6rl. per week to
each person who swears he is mot worth 10/.
There tire, he.sitlks, venous dainties, which an-
'loudly amount to 53/. 7s. 8,1. not including the re-
mitt Sion) the poor's box, whir•li is taken at 130/.
The IVerden however says that he has been told the
box has yielded as much as 300/. in one year.—
The proceeds of doe lox and the charities aredivid-
ed • sung those rho swear they cos t command
5/. The ordinary 'moniker of these persons is 7or
it ; on the 25th of March it amounted to 4. There
is here, as in the King's Bencht an obligation of
standing at the begging graie. imposed mi those
who claim to share in the profits of ilw box. No
orerniont is kept or the 11111 l et' 11,114 teemed. lint the
huhviduul who stslittts at the grate apirrolwieters to
his owe use the contrilostions lie (fist day receives..
Your Committee entertain the Bann- of • as
exprrrssrd in the former part of their Report ; and
they have been inciortneil•that bete, as elsewhere,
the +Auntie :Mending the exhibition deters Many,
though pressed by wont, fr complying with the
terms icy which relief is to be obtained. The pro-

5
10
20
50

ets t'htn uT these charities afe tit but 11 a fen
and tltsiee probably not the most deserving.
There are no allowances givrei to the prisoners
within the Fleet, neitlier coats, nor bedding. nor
blankets, eitceptiag only what may be fornitilied by
the occitsioull charity of individuals. The Deputy
Warden has informed your Committee, that beds
were formerly pnivided by the warden at a given
priee, lint that during the 26 years he has known
the prison, no such practice ha% existed ; nor, ins
deed, &ming the time of the Warden, Mr. Eite%
Ishii has, held that situation hbout 61 years.
Your Committee think some regulation upon
this subject to he most desirable, as affecting the
comfort of the prisoners and the cleanliness sif the
prison.

(To be continued.)

1V Ell 7 STAMP DUTIES,
tO TALE rfACN ON THE ISt DAY er•srtrEssejk. NEXT.

A DVERTISEMF.NTS now 39 will be -
.L.O 3 6
NEwsPAPERS now 3191. will l)4 0 0 4
FIRE INSURANCES now 49.091. per 1001.
will he
AGREEMENTS now 169. will he
Ditto now 11.109. will be -
With a piogresaive duty of
APPRF.NTICESIDP INDENTURES.

0 3 0
1 0 0
1 15 0
1 5 0

If the premium be un- 300/.8. wader 400/ 20 0 0
der 30/. - 10 0 4110 . 500 25 A 0
301. is under An 20 0 500 - 600 30 0 0
-110 - 100 30 0 MO . POO 40 0 0
ion - soo 6o • 1 Roo - tom 50 0 0
240 - 300 12 00 I 1000 or upwards 410 0 0
And where no premium, it the 'lndenture shall
' not contain re than 1480 words
And if inure than 1000 words

1 0 0
115 0

. .
11311,L3 OF EXCHANGE AND FROMISNORY NOTES.
[A distinction is made between Hills and Notes pdvalste on
demand, or at raw time ant excerflioq hro snottfks after
dote, or sirtif day: af#rr sight, and sorb as are drawn for
• a longer period than the above. In the first ease, the duty
Is .hewn in the first mitt= ; and iu the latter case, in
the *prowl.]
If 40s slid not exceeding 5/ ss. L. 1 0 0 1 8
Exceeding 5/. ss. . '2Ol. 01 6 02 0
20/. - 30 0 2 0 0 2 6
30 . 50 0 2 8 0 3 6
50 - 100 0 3 8 0 4 8
100 - 2416 0 4 8 0 5 0
206 - 300 0 5 0 0 6 0
3,3) - 500 0 6 0 0 8 6
5481 - 1000 08 6 012 6
1000 - 2000 012 il 015 0
2000 - 3000 015 0 1 5 0
3000 -, - 1 5 0 1 10 0

PROMISSORY (or Bankers) NOTES re-issudble.
Porany not exceeding It. Is. - - 00 5
Above: It. Is. not exceeding 2/. Qs. . .. 0 0 10
2/. 20. - 51. ss. - - 0 1 3
51.55. - 10 - - li 1 0
10 - 20 - - 0 2 0
20 . 30 . . 0 3 0
. 30 - 50 - - 0 5 0
50 - 100 - - 0 8 8

MORTGAGES, same ditties as Roods' with a progressive
duty of 1/. for every 1,080 words.
LEASES at yearly rents, without any sum paid as fine or
premium if the rent dues not amonot to 201.-11.
lf 20/. ik nada:1001. 1 10 0 If 000/.&under tioo/. 5 0 0
• 100 2002 0 0 800 1000600
200 400 3 0 0 1000 ur upwards 10 0 0
400 GOO 4 0 6
With a progressive duty

U. for every 1,080 words.

RECEIPTS, fair 1
If 2/. & under 51. 0 0 2

Lytnent of Money.
If 100/.Btunticr2oo/. 0 2 6

10 0 031 206 300 0 4 0
20 0 0 6 300 500 0 5 0
50 0 1 0 500 1000 0 7 6
100 0 1 6 100 or upwards 010 0
Ist full of all demand., lON.

PRORATES of WILLS, where the pmiwrly is under 2,0e01'
vnlue, Ye as at present ; but those above that value+
are iiieresowil.

I.I.II*ERS of ADMINISTRATION.
For effect+ in value above 201. and under 5101.-10 s.
501.ak.untivr1001. 1 0 0 Muter ler Wm 22 0 0
100 200 30 O I 000 1000 30 0 0
2110 300 0 0 lOW 1500 45 0. 0
300 450 11 001 1500 2000 60 0 0
450 000 15 0 0
Of 2,0001. and upwards, the Julies are inereaved in a still
greater degree than those on Probates.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

poarsmouTu, AL/G. 3.

Sailed the Buceptalos and Ceylon troop-ships,
with the 59d Regiment on hoard; and the IVortlatin-
berlond, 74 guns, Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, Cap-
tain Ross, for Plymouth, to take on board the per-
son of the renowned Bonaparte, for the purpose of
carrying him to St. Helena. Also sailed the Mar-
giono 01001, of war, with money for Quebec.
Arrived the Ettryulus, Hyacinth, nod Fotrey
frigates, from the coast of Pouter; Caroline, Mit-
chell, from Bahia ; and Welton& Racket, from
Havre.

PLYMOUTH-DOCK, AUG. 2.

Arrived the • Chatham, 74. Captain 1.11)v41 ; the
Nymphen, Capt. Smith ; Hyperion, Capt. enmity
cMptsin'l'nuskiu►ur; Adages, (.;:tptails
Lnusthanie ; Redpa le, Capt. Denman; 17y, Capt.
Baldwin; awl Leveret, Captain Chridtiun, front
cruised. .

Sailed the Liffey, Captain 1410ii.enric ; Briton,
Caw. Sir Thomas Swims ; ititd Challenger, Capt.
Forbes. •

• FALMOUTH, AVIA. 1.
Arrived the American ship) Catherine and Ed-
ward, f ClirlAton, in 37 dap,.
Sailed tl►e Conquest, for N'ales.

HARWICH, AUG. 3.
Arrived the Muria, thitmot, frmit

Sailed the Auckland !wicket, for 11:imihtio : end
the Emily, limes with pllssetigerw-for ['Whim!.

DF.M., AUG. 3.
Came flown from the River. Rod suited, the Abra-
ham Newhend. for Jammea.

Arrived the Forth, I tlw westward, tool sail-
ed for the River to be paid oft

HULL, NIIG. 1.

Arrived the following rhi from Gl...rill:mil, viz.
Brothert. 4 ti.th ; ilbsurhester, 1; and Airy
tend I..hzuhelli, 8. The Cato it. it. sight, vial. 13
fish. Tier fo.liery is very h.J this two-ois.

COAL MARI46T, AOO. 4
Mips It Market Slits.. Sofa Pare
It Newt-mak
1 butodertsail•

-.4.

COURSE OF EXCHA

Amsterdam .... 34. 411.2 U.
Ditto at sight .. 33 10
Amsterdam..." 10 10 C.f..
Ditto at right .. VI 10 •
Rotterdam ..... 10 11 2 1.1.
Antwerp. lO 10
Hmishimgh.. .. 34 2 21U.
Altman .......• • 32 3 Sip.
12 3
Paris! day's date 21 *0 '
Ditto 22 0 2 U.
llourdowsix .... 22
Frankfurt oa the
Main 231 ex.
Madrid 3sll.effretive
Cadiz ......... 39ieffeetive
&weeßata ..... 30
• •
St. Sellastinn
Cnortteitia
Gihr%Rae 36
Leghorn

The following. arrangements respectist.t; 110!'t
P A RTC lire hamled about, but whether they May be
rube.! ou we know not :
" He is to hare 1114%0 apreaat and his own rook ; he may
consult any plspiociati that happens to toncli .01 the island ;
all Ms letters are i.b be opened by the Governor; he is not
to be landosil till* hoes* is fully enlitirelf foie his rseeption ;-
he is to he permitted to exereosn'tiiinotelf in any field Iport
of which the island will admit, hot is constantly to be at-
wooled by an ~!Beer anal two orderly men, who arc to shout
him if he attiMpt* to make his escape, and is beyond. the
reach oof their hands. He is only to Wallowed such a Sblia
of money as he may want for contusion 044mions • and
finally, the French- Governowat U. be 'wlslolly at„,tise
ea-
poose of somportsag him." • .7 ..

tLOUCESTEft ASSIISS, AuG.

: CROWN SH)C.

Ittnnak iterritock, aged -PA, was inilieted for tee
wilful murder of Geo. Smith, acrd two year* and
five thy, on the Yd of Jutie
Mrs. Lord,. pauper, of Yuley. —I live in the
workhouse ; the-prisoner also lived there ; she Lid
lived there'diree weeks; she was vaned the Hitt*
*owes ;- the was exceedingly dellirtned iu hodyi
and. appeared net to uuderstaud what was going
forward. The deceased also lived there on the id
of June. went to a passage where there is a win-
dow—a is nine 'or ten yards from Betty Smith's
Mom. l went down stairs, and found the deceased
in the arms of -Mary Handcoek ; the chlid was M-
a dying state; its skull was fractured ; I threw iny
apron over it-, nod wrapped it up ; I found the
sinter sitting on the bed in Betty Smith% room ;
I asked the prisoner at the bar why she threw the
child out of snke' ; she said she did it, but the
child would not hurt ;- it lived.an hour aml a hall.;
the window is three feet two inches front die fluor
of the room.
Mary Ilandcoek, also a pauper in 'die work-
house. The window is three or four feet from Alm
floor ; I saw the child "'dive it came to the ground ;
it fell on stones; I heard its skull crush on the
stones; there did not seem any life in it for several
minutes ; I went to fetch the surgeon from Dots-
lee ; I afterwaids took broth to the prisoner, t
asked her how she came to do it ; she laid she did
it, and should not be hurt for it ; her inaii..er wags
110 t I,IIICOI 1111 l 9il ; due was not a person of good un-
derstanding, but inoffensive, she seemed to wave
no understanding at all, she was *lrmo usklan-

thole.
Mr. Cave, master of the workhouse.--Tbe Pri-
soner had been in the workhouse three weeks, upos
the death of her mother; she approved to be of
weak intellect, and I treated her as such, and wail
very careful of
.her ; I never suffered her to he out
of sight of some person, as I had heard she had
attempted her life ; I never heard of her disposition
to do violence to others ; she took but very triflooK
notice of the event, and was no more moved ,thais
stock. The window has bten examined by a ma-
son, and it being three or lour feet from the floor
on the inside, it is.inspoosible the child could have
climbed out; it is 20 feet to the ground outside.
Mr. Fry, surgeon, of Dursley.—l examined the
; it died by injury df thebrain. •
011 the part of the Prisoner three or four witnesses
proved that she was ineopkbie of distingiiishing
right from wrong, and had attempted to drdwii her-
self and cut her throat. . •

The Jury, therefore, found her Not Guilty, on
the ground of -insanity, lihe was, therefore, com-
mitted to custody for life under the statute. •
•

PRICk. ut SToCkS YE.SI ERDA
3 per Feat. Reiureil
_ .

6; .
3jper Cent; Consols 563 7 Biz
4' per Cent.
Navy b per Cent. - 841 9 4L,.. ~.
'twig Annuities l4}
• Imperial 3 per Cent s6i! .•
Oninints
India Bonds
Exchequer Bills
Consuls for Ace. 4.57 tti.
T. BISH, Stock-Bauker,
- .
4, Cornuill, and 9, Obaring-Croiss.-

v.
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Petrol
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DEATHS.
•
At the Hotel at Clifton, on her way to Cheltenham, after, 11
a few hours' friness occasioned by a spasmodic attack, mt
Wednesday mornino tan,. beloved and lamented by all who
had the happiness to kuow her worth and eseellente, Mrs. ;*
M'Nahun, the Lady of the Right Hon. John ltntahon. •

On the Ist instant, Witlia,. Sotheby, Esq: late Cleats•
nant,Colonel of the lot Guards.
On the 2d instant, in Great Cumberland-atreel, Marianne,
wife of Major-General Sharpe.
Ott Sunday last, the 30th lat. at Exmouth, in Devonshire-
(where he went for the recovery of lai% health), Thomas
Lerenthorp, Etq. of Brunswick•tquare, in the 39th year of
Ilia age.
. On Saturday, at Brighton, after a short illness, at the are
of 81, Edwani Coleman, Esq many years Serjrant at Arms
to the House of Commons. He has left a widow and tan
dau;thters.

HUAI WATER AT lAINDON BRIDGE THIS 1141 Y.
31orning 13 atter I. I Evemint 44 afkr 2. ,

Ts T. TAi'LOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, Usirlso.

, .
//FUR KIR,
1 FEEL it a duty incumbent upon me to inform
you of the very great and extraordinary cure I bare
rec.-deist frinskyour invaluable Medicine, LEAK E'S Patent f
PILGS:
About two years ago i was attacked with a Venereal dis-
order, which I treated rather slightly for some thus.; hut 1
the disease at length spreading all over my. boriV. I was wl•-
hod to apply to the most eminent of the Faculty, hut their
assiiitimee afforded only temporary relief. I went throigh
earlinis'eourses of salivation, and (non being rather of
corpulent habit, was reduced to a mere skeleton. The
Ales that spread all over my limbs rendered me a complete
object; so that my friends derpaireit of my recovery. When
brought to this situation, I considered death as inevitable,
but a relation of mine coraineuting limn the many MSC's in
which your Pills anteceded, 1 was induced to try a hog of
thrm,mbich I thought rather relieved me, mid by pet-sever.
iug for two or three months, mid following yourdireetivos, I'
experienced the most wourcoisntahle relaxation from pain,
the sores gradually subsiding. I :ua new, thank God, p. r-
Meth recovered, and walk out daily. I doubt not, but one
more box, which I think caution's to take, will establish my
health in it, original date. •
It fs with the most heartfelt gratitude that I subscribe
myself, Sir, your much obliged hatithle tteridint„
. .4' WILLIAM PIERSON.
Deauagate, Manchester, July 1,
F. S. For the public benefit I do not object to the above
being published. but leave you to act as your own Piece..
judgmeat shall dietate.
Prepared and Fold by.the sole Proprietors, Thomas Taylor
and Son, Members of the fiord Collage of Surgeons, Leo-
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a constant residence for more than thirty-six years, in
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Mr. Dishorungli`s, No. 7, Fish-street-bill; 11011 by one pet
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