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CRIAIIIVAL AND PAUPkit LILVAI4GS.

MINUTES OF LVIDENCE
Examinatian of Sir O. O. Paul, ?iv,. Ware a Comm:tree of
the House ol Commun.+, on the 6d% of Met. h, I aO7.

Have ru made any obsetv:4ions o s thr state of
the gaols? Cons:m.oy, dating the last twenty-five
ears.
Have you observed many lunatics in confine-
ment ? Not until since the AA of the 40th of His
present Majesty, c. 94.
What has been the state of them ? To speak sp.-
c;fic sny of two confined in the gaol of the county of
Gloucester, the one Thomas Roberts, who was tried
and acquitted on account of lunacy, soon after pass-
ing that aft ; he i% AS tried for a highway robtsery,
and I have reas-i to believe he was acquitted on a
false pea ot lunacy, inasmuch as he has been cook
to the penitent'ary house I.z years, a nd condoled
himself as a man of sound mind. Also Janes Need,
tried for an assault at the summer assizes. 1803,
and remanded under the Rawer, of the same aft, to
be kept in custody till Hl4 ISlajrsty's pleasure shall
be further known ; and during that time he has been
msi,tained at the Osage of the county, to the relief
cf the parish in which he is settled ; this man is
really insane, and probably dangerous to be per-
Mined to go abroad.
How far do you conceive the best regulated gaols
to be proper places for the custody and cure ot in-
sane persons? I think gaols, however well regu-
lated, me highly ins; topsor for the custody, and in-
consistent with the cure of lunatics. It is improper
as a place of custody, because they must of neces-
sity either be kept in society with other persons dis-
posed to torment :hem and aggravate their misfor-
tunzs, or they must be shut up in total solitude, in
a situation completely inconsistent with any regard
to their cure. I conceive, also, that to canine a
madman together with ci iminals, would be danger-
ous to those with whom be was confined, and preg-
nant with disturbance ; as the present system of
constrating gaols is calculated for the conveyance
of sound. _

Have you known any inconvenience arise from
-the noise and disturbance cleated by the confine-
ment of lunatics within a gaol? I have an instance
at present in rise case oI a debtor, who his been
confined five years in the gaol of Gloucester. for a
d.bt so large as not to come under the intended
benefit of the insolvent aft, and wh

ybms is frequently heard in the streets
anJ of ecurse ditt.urbs, not only the
the prison, but sas., the inhalsitAno
Isonro,od to a cunside•able distance

rho in his paean- do equally welt if t'sey wore (-ray 8 ft. by7ft.The
is at Olouceret, width of the galleries at St. Luke's, in which the
le persons within Patients walk in wet wzather. is 15 ft. 6 in. whereas
is of the neigh- a width of 12 ft. would be sufficient.
se, sod has Cre-• (To ea agutttseee.)

Ihnll.

Estea.t /roes The Madras Comment Gazette. hmsuy
22, 1807.

The ship James Dresivemat. Captain Johnstrup

and brig Jyiia. Captain kfienhars. ha►e arri►ed at

Tranquebar frost the Isle of France, after a very es.
pedits.m, passage. By this conveyance the follow.
ins intelligence has been received:

Thv asiminvere frigate was in port; the Sessi!lastte,
and Patimeatese, with two privateers, remained at
Sea, hit the prizes they had made, to the number
thirteen, had evaded the vigilance of the British
;raisers, and had got into Port. T.ie Ja.les I)rerx-
mood was sold for 11.000 dollars.

Fhe coasting tradz of the French !shads ht.'
been seriowly interrupted by the Brit;sh Cru;s:rs,
and the distress of the inhabitants in the article of
rice proportion ttely great. but eery large supplies
of beef and A ,ur had h-ei !rte! by Am-rican
ships, siatytbree of which, outward bound, bad ar.
rived At the Mauritius within ,hirt7• days.
Tie markets of the Ida of France for Indian
goods want very unfavourable for all articles but ID.
dips, which was in considersbk demand.

BALTIC hIPBDITIO.Y.

• We have received several letters from Officers in
Admiral Gambier's fleet. The f.'s:lowing is dated
Copenhagen /toads. August 20, 1807 s--
" An opportunity offering to send letters to fog-
land, I cannot omit acquainting you how we are
going on_here, as I suppose you are all anxious to
bear the rerult of the Expe.'irion, which has for some
time past occasioned so many conjeaures s we ar-
rived here wit* our fl..et on the 14:h inst. and next
morning land ,e 1 the army, consis, ing of about 15,000
mien. about acs miles from (7. penhagen. without ',-
position. the Danish army baring retired into the
town. They are supposed to consist of 7or 800 u
regulars, and about 1e.,000 militia, but there are va-
eimasreporteon the sohjea, and in short on every other
circumstance conneaed with it. 1 believe, it livery
certain, that they are determined to resist us to the
utmost of their power, and as the town is said to be
strongly fortified, if they continue in the same Innd,
ft it probable our objea will be attended with some
diakulty,
and it will take a length of time to reduce
openhagen. From the sea, it has ail the appear-
enCe Of great strength, particularly the Crown Bat-
teries. which are situated upon small islands, about
theleefoorths of a mile from the town; and appear
to he eroded fee the purpose of defending the en-
trance of the h abase, where the men of war are
laid up, which are plainly to be seen from the ship,
with only their lower masts in. There are also se•
werel large hulks anchored a: different parts round
the town, and the whole shore seems, from the firing
we Irequendy me, covered will small batteries, fitted
up with very heavy artillery, as are likewise the hulks.
They have also a great number of gun-boat;,
which frequently come out and amuse us with
* little cannonading, but they have yet done us no
injury. The Getman Legion, from Rogen, landed
its Kioge Bay, and are at preseut with our army.
They are about 7000 strong.
" We arc busily employed in getting on shore
horses, artillery, and other stores, which I hope will
be all on shore in a very slur t time. The army
had advanced very near the town, and are prepar-
ing to besiege it ; there has been some skirmishing,
but with little Ins. on our side, and not very great
nn theirs. We observed a heavy firing early this
to :r I:hg on shore, and a report has jut leached
ti,ar the Danes made a sortie with 4000 men,
but were driven bask into the town with consider-
able Jon, and with hide on clues.
" The Crown Primes came from Holst:7n just be-
fore we landed, and took the King with Lim there.
The Princesses are also gone there. The head-
(planers of General BurrarJ are at present in one
of the King's palates, called Frcierick.berg, a'sout
three or tour lades from Copenhagen."
Aii•lther letter states, else Lrulk, mentioned in the
above officer', letter, to be the tirpiamier, l'ensare,
theisoisa Carolina, and Morin block chips, and the
Sr. Tnsur trigate. There are higa.:c in the ha:.
Lour of Copenhagen the Ife,er, Sthv,4t:ler, L,y,der
ream, iteromp, and three other bombs ; and :::•fteen
goo-vessels.

Oa
Tueiday morning arrived at Lei h, the "feeler,
Wilson, from St. Peter.hurgh. The Cytai.i r •;.efts,
that he left Ei:ineur on the morniug, et in.: t. hof
August, at eleven o'clock, wit% au out 13.; s,il of
1:11p4 (or London, Hull, Liverpool, and :-'ciniand.
ut,dar convoy of the eWillis a; parted tile night
after they sailed; thinks they have g in' ; otten-
irgh, :Ind it stay be sin; days !Mort they arrive.
The Danish D-vernment were presli:l7 ev-ry
able to carry arms in the Island•et Z •A!,111,i ; %.c:c
nmuntins cannon in all puts, and t'.ry wet e detro-
mined to defend Cher

Wendt aver a bridge and was drowned ; and it was
said that Gen. Benaigsen had gone to EttgLutd.
The Captain further states, that on tbo 20th oft.
.when off the Mae of Norway, he was spoken to by
a British line-of-battle ship, that boarded a schooner
belonging to Berwick, in company with the Aaiste;
and the Captain of the schooner informed C..prain
Wilson he had been told by the Officers of the man
of war, that they were to proceed into Christi4nsand
neat morning, to cut out a Danish 74 lying there.

mita., scerastara 5.
A letter from a N.m-commissioned Officer of the
7th or English Fusileers, which lately embarked at
this port, to his wife at this place, dated Aug. 21st,
sacs : " Afser having been three days at anchor be-
calmed, about eight or nine rules from Elsineur, we
got a breeze this cam cling, and passed the Castle be-
tween nine and ten o'cl ick. They never fired a shot
at us; we ran close under the Swedish land, about
halt a mile from shore. We are making the best of
our way to Copenhagen, from which we are dinant
ten or twelve miles, and have the grand fleet in view.
Fourteen thousand of our troops have landed on the
right of Copenhagen, and 14,000 on the left. The
fleet is lying abreast of Copenhagen, ready (or a
breeze to take them in. It is expthed they will blow
Copenhagen up, if the inhabitants do not surrender
to the British army and navy. Ten thousand French
troops have landed in Sweden, and the Swedes have ,
slain 3000, and taken 2000 prisoners."
The Ruing Star. Smith, arrived here this morn-
ing from Longiound, in Norway, which place he
left on the 19th ult. On the 17th, his vessel was
detained by the Officers of the Customs, but set at
liberty on the evening of the 18th. Capt. Smith
was advised by his merchant at Longsound not on
any account to put into a pert of Norway in his
passage.

A letter received here this morning from an
Officer of His Majesty's ship Franeki,e, dated on the
*Oth instant, off Nyberg. in the Island of Funen,
states, that the rear squadron of the fleet, under the
command of Commodore Keats, was then stationed
in the Great Belt, to prevent the Danes from send-
ing reinforcements to the Island of Zealand. The
soh abitants had fortified the coast. au d lined it with
troops; and would infer no communication with
the shore. Boats trots the British ships rowed guard
every night from nine "clock until the same hour in
the morning.

Twn or three Danish vessels have been stepped
at this port.

A letter received this Jay by a respectable mer-
cantile house in this town states, is that a quantity of
Delilah manufactured goods, recently landed at Ton-
ningen by a neutral vessel, had been seized there by
order of the Danish Government."
A sloop cutter arrived in Bridlington Bay on
Monday, to Water, having landed dispatches for Go-
vernment at Scarborough on the preceding day. The
master of this vessel had been employed in laying
down buoys in the inner road of Copenhagen, for
the guidance of our fleet in making an attack upon
that place. He states that our troops were landed
on the 16th ult. between Elsineur end Copenhagen ;
on the same day he sailed for England, and was
fired at by the castle of Elsineur in passing. In the
course of that evening and the next day, be beard a
very heavy firing in the direelion of Copenhagen, to
which place our fleet had all gone from Elsineur
roads. The Danish boats had taken and burned an
English transport. On her passage the sloop had
captured two Danish vessels, one from Bourdeaux
with wine, and the other from the West Indies."

THE .BRITISH PRESS.

LO N DON,
TUESDAY, Serramsait 8.

The wind has been for some days unfavourable
for arrivals from the Baltic, yet the town abounded
yesterday with reports of the receipt of private Let-
ters and Pa peas, with intelligence from that (ratter.
It was confidently stated, that Dutch Papers to the
2dth last had been received, containing an account
of the surrender of Copenhagen, with twenty-two
sail of the line, on the 24th s and it was added,
that letters were received from Gluckstadt, of so
late a date as Friday last, to the same eWe& G!uck-
stadt is a sea-port town in Holstein, and. from its
situation on the Elbe, about twenty-eight miles
northwest of Hamburgh, as likely a place as any
from which to receive the earliest intelligence open
this subject. Other private accounts were said to
state the surrender of Copenhagen on the 25th, and
others on the 26th. The letters from Hamburgh to
the 28th. howe►er, do not notice it. These accounts
were strongly canvassed in the city ; and the principal
circumstance which they communicated, was cre•
diced by some, and discredited' by others, with va-
-if confidence. Government give no
reports of the sui render of Copenhagen.
eived no intelligence upon the suhjeet
\Jeer se state of the wind. some J4lll

named to deters,' thems: ves to the lest. M ...cm es) some,. t.% four rious degrees of
weeks agn seas at S:. Peet •',urgh, s tL.At credit to thetepi
two days before he left tilt tlan, a Russi4n General, ('hey have receis
that I.aJ been bribed by an:. tp4rze, bad darn% 4s(l, from the a,
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