The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-30 00:00:00

NEW PENITENTIARY, MILLRANK.

The quadrangle of the Penitentiary house on Millbank is
completed. 'flit Governor, with khe Task-masters and Mis-
tresses, &c. have taken possession of their apartments. The
rooms in which the convicts will reside, are as comfortable as

call be expected by individuals who have forfeited their claim
to remain at large; they are about It, feet by 6, lofty, with au
arch. Each cell is furnished with an iron bedstead, a matrass,
a coarse sheet, pair of blankets, bolster, and a rug ; also a table
with a drawer in it, and a chair. The windows are glazed
inside, and iron rails, or bars, outside. The whole of them are
warmed by means of dues placed in the passages, and rrort. r
measures are adopted to multe regular ventilation. Tile rooms
all look towards the centre of a circle (which is divided by
brick walls into court yards for exercise), where the principal
Task-master resides, and commands a complete view of all that
is doing. chapel is also erecting, which, when the whole is
corkpleted, will form the centre of the building. Women are
to act as turnkeys to the female prisoners, and all comumnice
Lion with the male convicts will be entirely prevented. Thurs
day morning, at three o'clock, 41) female couvicts under sen-
tence of transportation were brought in caravans, chained,
from Newgate to Markt; Tars Bridge, and there put MI board a
barge stationed for their receptim, and conveyed by water to
Mitlhank ; when they were conducted by a strong party of the
police into the yard allotted tior atm ;• aft. r. which each was
shcwn to her respective cell, which are all nutabered. They
are to he classed, and such as do not know how to read are to
be taught ; and are to go to chapel daily. Tay are to lie kep-
to work : one eighth of their earnings will be given to each
prisoner on being disehat ged, bet none during their imprison-
ment ; one third will he appropriated for their task-rnastern,.
as a remuneration fur their trouble, aud.the ruuriuder to ray
the flunkeys, &c.

Friday m wiling, the body of a stoat aridSe aged man era•
found drowned in Ce, Regent's Canal, close to the bridge on the
Hampstead read. lie wore a black coat and waistcoat, cord
br,,choi with 014 Tashi weed silver bugsiles on this knees,
coloured worsted stockings, new sbuce, a Belcher banillseccuia
runnd hie neck. nu bac, and his linen lUlll'ked L. M. Trier.e
were nu papers about kiintu lead to a tii(cov cry of who he wise.
The body was conveyed to the Mother Red Car, in Caaidi.o
Town.
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Thursday morning the body of a woman wag 4onnl drowned.
in the Belti4)11 Of tilt: Canal in the 6egentss Y.O k, near the J egg's
Harp home. When she was xiigeoveled, she otandlnl:
an upright po‘ition ill the water Val! dead. The body was
taken to the Jew'' 11,041.

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INQUEST.—On Thursday an Inquest was held at the Quhrgell
Heat!, Lower-street, Islip:Jon, on the body of A.. Brown. w boss
death Will occasioned by his elating his thro..t. Eliaat.etts
Watkias said, the deeel•ed was her father. tie had for
length Of time shewit symptoms of derangement. On the fatal
mornin; her little buy said his grandfather was groaning. SM
went to his room, and found him weltering in his blood, Verdict
—Lunacy.
St; unt:N DFATII.—A few days azo, a potter. of the note of
IVilson, while carryin' a load tom 1,4.1 th to Loinlimati.•insit
under it, and shot tly alter expired. On it was 1.0.104
that. for want of employinAii, the poor Luau bald been s(itlb
out food from the day before.
Dal* Sam is sti.l living, tboegb nut iikety to leafy,.

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I>tvrvc lILI.L.—The first trial of this ingenious machine,.
h is utiaehed to the Rt.wolute brie, under the direction lit
NIL Sedley, King's Harbour Master for the Sound and part of
Cato ater, took place in the latter harbour on Monday
last, in the presence of numerous spectators in boats.
Being lowered film the vessel with Fisher the diver,
it remained suspended wider water nearly halt an hour,
in order that be might ascertain the firmness of the ap-
pal:an.. Finding all cornet Ire made a signal of retail,
and then went to the bottom in twenty-seven feet water, ac-
companied by Mr. Pope, shipbuilder, of Turn chapel, and
two of Mr. Medley's boars crew, as volunteers. After explur-
ing the 'parlor regions for half an hour, thq mse and brought
up with them a very large iron ladle, which had apparently
lain in the water a considerable time. highly pleased wi,h their
adventure, and without hosing sustained the least inconveni-
ence. 'flue light front the boil's eye reflectors enabled them
to see clearly every thing jnst amend, And wheat they wished
either to shift their situation or rise, it was done by striking
the side of the hell one, two, three, or more times, with an iron
!tawnier, which was distinctly heard by the persons in attend-
ance on board the vessel. The next experiment will be iii the
hound.

BIRTH.
The Countess of Bristol, of a son.

MARltffl)

.A. M'Causland, Esq. of Cult lime (Londonderryl, to Joh*, ymtngest
eau. of 11. Forssmann, Esq. of 9t. Petershsirgh.—At St. Pcterslairgh,
W. Haggard, Esq. eldest son of W. H. Haggard. Esq. of Park-street,
Wisitnunotr, to b:lizabeth, eldest dau. of Aleybohm, Esq. of St.
Petersburgh, and relict of J. Meybohin, Esq.—C. Fielder, Fp+ of tit.
Crass, to Miss Darns, eldes• dau. of Mr. Barns, brewer, of Winchester.
:Manchester, J. Rushworth, Esq. of Elland, to Mary Ann, eldest
dan. of the late C. Evans, Esq. of the General Post (flhee.—Mr. A.
Macredie„ bookseller, of Edinburgh, to Harriet, dau. of the lar- Lieut.
et .. Skelly, of 71th foot. —C. Hurmester, Barrister, son of 11. ittmties-
ter, Esq. of IVoodfonl-hridge, to :Miss Garden, only dam of .1. Garden.
Eaq. of 111iitehall.place.--G. A. Woods, Eeq. of Isle of Man, to Anna
M*ria, eldest dau. of the Rev. W. Coney, of Cookham, Berks.—The
Ray. W. Gordon, jun. of Trin. Col. l'ambridge. A.M. to Louisa, only
dam of T. Jervis, Eti. King's Conosel.—Capt. H. T. H. Collier, R.N.
son of Adm. Sir G. (oilier, to Harriet, dau. of H. Nicholas, Esq. of
Ashton E epics. Wilts.—Dr. Haworth, of Red Lion-square, to Mrs.
Deacon. of Great Queen-street.—At Bermuda, Capt. Sir W. Haroaby,
to Aim. Wood, widow of the late J. Wood, Esq.—Justinian. eldest
soft of T. Alstan. Esq. of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire. to Marv, only
dau. of Lieut. Gen. Kerr.—'l'he Hon. and Rev. H. C. Curt, brother
of Earl Brownlow, to Anna Maria, eldest dau of the lion.
Needham. M.P. and niece of ViRC. Killmorey.—Capt. l'ipon, Aide-
de-canip to Major Gen. Widrington, to Mips I'ipun, of

DIED.
in India. f'apt. C. Blacker. of 17th Native Inf., second son of Dean
Blacken-1n Forth-street, Edinborgli, in his 65th year, G. Wilson,
Fut.—At Coates-house, near Edinburgh. the lion. Allan Nfaconochie,
of Nleadowbank, one of the Senators of the ('ol. of Justice, &c.—J.
Wilson, Esq. late Surgeon of the Ito yal African Corps.—At Donogh:
more Ireland, ag‘sl tO7. Pat. Fitz" .1:I. Ile retained all hi- mental
and corporeal faculties to the last. and was even certain of the moment
that his existence was to draw to a period. His wife attained the age of
oe.—ln his wel year, Mr. T. Henry, F.B.S. Pres. of the Literary and
Scriety of Manchester.—ln Upper Wimpole-street, the Hon.
Mrs. Clive, wife of It. Clive. Esq.—P. flanncnnan, Esq. Of Lloyd's
Coffee-house. second son of T. Bannerman. Esq. of Aberdeen.--Sud-
denly, the Bev. J. Joyee.—J. Flemyng, rsq. of Verulam-buildings,
gray's Inn.—At Woolwich, Harriet, wife of Co.. G. W. Dixon, of
the Royal Artillery.—Aged 63, Mr. Taylor, of Bishopsgate-strut,
apothecary.—Mrs. Chalmers, wife of A. Chalmers, Esq. of Throginor.
tonsetreet.—At Paris. M. de Lessert, a wealthy banker in that city.—
Maria, wife of 0. Bwrwell. Esq. of Weybridge.—At Nforden Hall,
Surrey, aged 76. Sir R. Ilstrnett...-In Gerrard-street, Soho, P. Brett.
Esq .—The Bight lion. Lady Diana Fleming, only dau. of the late
Lail of Suffolk, and widow of Slr M. is Fleming, Bart.—Lieut. John
Itfarmanima Donnellan, nephew to Adm. Nfacturmara, son of the late
J. Nixon Donnell:An. Esq. of Aherne Castle, formerly M.P. for
Tipperary.—After having ate a very hearty breakfast of a pound of
meat, and half-quarters loaf, H. Seetchsord, a workman in the employ
of Messrs. Plane and Co. brewers, of Makletane. Ile expired in the
act of cutting a piece of' bread.—At Weston, near Bath, Mr. W. Love-
grove, of the Theatre Royal Drury-lane. He had been lodging in the
village some months with the hopes of recovering from the effects of a
ruptured blood-vessel; and flattered himself that he was in a state of
grallunl convalescence; when a recurrence of the rupture caused his
Mui.ov immediate dissolution.