The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-15 00:00:00

REPORT

ORDERED BY THE HOUSC OF COMMONS) OF THE COM-
MITTEE OF THE GENERAL PENITENTIARY AT MIL-
BANK FOR THE nu:ErrioN OF CONVICTS.

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Thc portion of the Penitentiary now finished, comprehends all
the intended Building, with the exception of the .ixth Pentagon,
(calculated for 150 male prisoners) which is in progress; and the
Committee hope that they shall be enabled to announce the
completion of the whole design in their Lest Report, it being
obvious that the Prison must be defective in point of security so
long as one side of it shall continue unclosed.
The number of prisoners now confined within the walls of the
Penitentiary is 351, viz 271 males in the tst and 2d Pentagons,
and 277 Females in the 3d and 4th.
'the fifth, intended for males, is not yet occupied, but the
Committee are now employed in making the necesrory arrange-
ment tot the reception of Prisoners in that part of the Prison.
There has been no instance of the ill treatment of any prisoner
by the Officers of the Establishment since toe last Report, and
the Committee have the satisfaction to see that the discipline of
the Prison is likely to be much improved, by pursuing the plan
lately introduced, of employing the prisoners of the first class
during a purr of the day in hard labour; the means of such
ployment are furnished in the first Pentagon, by a machine
fur raising water, which was placed there when the Pentagon
was fitted up for the reception of male prisoners, on the removal
of the females into Noe. 3 and 4.
In the fifth pentagon, a mill has been erected for grinding corn
for the use of the establishment, which will afford the same kind
of labour for the prisoners confined there ; a similar mill will be
placed in the sixth pentagon, and there will be another machine
for raising water in the second when the prison is completed, after
which all the prisoners of the first class will be employed during
a part of every day in hard labour, 'in the open air, without
going out of the portion of the prison to which they respectively
belong.
During the last year, instruction in reading has been given
under the direction of the Chaplain, to all the prisoners who
have required it, and many have been taught to write; IK3
prisoners, (81 inairi and 131 females) have been admitted to the
sacrainect, and 6 females were baptized, and 86 confirmed by
the Lord Bishop of London at Easter 1820.
Since the last Report, 45 prisoners have gone out of the Peni-
tentiary, viz. 21 males and 19 females, who had received his
Alajesty's mos gracious pardon, in consequence of the reeoni-
mendanon of theirs by the Committee to the Royal mercy, for
their good conduct in person, and 3 females discharged in die
regular temrination of the several terms tot which they were
confined; making the total number of the prisoners who have
left the Penitentiary since it was fast established 82, viz. 39
males and 43 females.
Of these, the Committee understand that a few have relapsed
into their evil course of life; but there arc more of whom a
satisfactory account has been received, and some are now actually
living with the masters, who formerly found it necessary to
prosecute them for their offences, but who have formed such
expectations of their future conduct, from their good behaviour
in the Penitentiary, as to have been willing to receive them back
again into their service, when the demands of public justice were
satisfied. . .

The Prison has been very healthy during the last year, and
there are no serious cases now in the Infirmary. Twelve deaths
occurred in the year 1810, (3 males and 7 females.
The prisoneis are fully employed ; the males chiefly as tailors,
shoemakers and weavers, and the females in needle-work and
some kinds of tailors' work. .

The Committee subjoin a statement of the Expences °tithe
Establislunent, as well as of the earnings of the prisoners, during
the year 1801.

SE.I.IIEA 'S

The first meeting of the society for the establishment
of a Seamett's Hospital, took place at the City of London
Tavern on Wednesday, the Lord Bishop of Chester in
the chair, supported by Lords Kenyon, Gambier, and
Calthorpe, and a number of gentlemen connected with
the King's and the mercantile naval service.
The Right 11,:v. Chairman opened the business of the
day by a panegyric upon tile losttuuion, and by calling
upon the Honorary heereiary to read a report recom-
mendatory of the object of the meeting.
The report stated, that the comittiitee for managing
the funds stit.scribed in the late witturs of the two past
years, for the relief of distressed and destitute seamen,
who were found in the streets of the metropolis, had as-
certained, that there were in the course of the year in
the Port of London from 700 to 800 sick and diseased
seamen, destitute of medical aid ; and it concluded by
newt-intending the establishment of a permanent Float-
ing Hospital tor their relief. It stated that government
had given the Grampus to two decker) for the purpose,
and enumerated the internal arrangements for the ac-
commodation of poor seamen, and that 3,0001 a year
would set the establishment well afloat.

The Bishop of CHESTER strongly urged the propriety
of adopting the resolui ions for the establishment of tha
institution, detailed iii the report.
Lords Kenyon and Calthorpe successively addressed
the meeting in behalf of the institution, and a large sub-
scription was entered into on the spot.
His Majesty, who promised to send a donation of 50
guineas, and 50 guineas annually, sent a cheque for lOU
guineas, and an order to have his name enkred as au
annual subscriber for 100 guineas also. pi ince Leopold
sent 501. the Trinity House 2001. the East India Com-
pany 1001 the Royal Exchange Assurance, the London
Assurance, and the Batik, 1001. each, and there was a
long list of noble names. The subscription list, not-
withstanding the shortness of the notice, amounted in
donations to upwards of 2,5001. and in subscriptions to
3001. annually.
The Meeting, after entering into several Resolutions,
adjourned.

Private letters have been received from the North
of Italy, one of which, dated Turin, the 4th inst ,
states, that the Prince of Carignano departed from
Novara on the 29th, in the same secret manner as
he abandoned the capital ; and it is added that he
burst into tears, and exclaimed, that he had been
betrayed. Of his subsequent adventures, it is re-
lated that he repaired to Modena; but the new
King refused to receive him, and that he had gone,
in consequence, to the Court of his father-in-law,
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Florence. The
Princess of Carignan° was expected to join him there.

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