The National Register.
London, England, 1819-02-01 00:00:00

CONVICT SHIPS.

Mr. RIENNIT stated, that he held Gt Iris hand a petition from
Dr. O'Halloran, complaining of cruelty in tb. treatment which
he bad experienced during his imprisonment, both bcfere and
after his trial, and mere pat tictilar of his mitering. on board
the transport in which be hail been plaited in order to be con
'eyed to New Smith %Vales. According to the regresentations.
•f this petition, lie had been removed from prison and pat on
beard the Baring transport in a fit of severe sickness. He was
taken into a small cabin, where he was left without nourish.
meat •r assistance of any kind fur 19 hours, when a small
supply of food was brought to him. He was afteswards thrown
with 19 others, into a sot t of hole or dungeon, which Ile (Mr.
Bennet) had hiasself measured, and which was exactly twelve
feet square. ( hoer, .'ar.) The cribs were six feet and a half
in leagth, and iu each of these were six human battle stowed,
for the purpose of taking their rest. The consequence was,
that the most disgosting scenes took place, and anabominable
and shameful vice was of two frequent occurrence. He would
detain them with only one were! more. The ship Sally, which
sailed last year with 200 convicts, lost 40 of them before she
arr.ved at the place of destination. He d:d not make these
statemests for the pleasure of finding fault ; but where the
penalties of law was ief:icted, it a as desirable that the andel er
should experience every ulleviation of his aaniery which
inanity could dictate.

Mr. BRAGor BATFiURIT said for linme&ty. as the hon. gen-
tleman had anticipated ; but he would remind the house ut the
&ration, duties the which that person 114.1 to pct tuna. lie must
be allowed to dente the correctness of the boo. gentlemen's
information on this subject. Indeed the erv.iter pail of his
complaints .eismati to be against transpire tattoo. (Ns, tro,fions
Boma lit order to obtain :wren( information on ale
subject the noble lord had soot down to 11 person ssho was in-'
trusted with the siiperilitcmlence of the hulks, and who de-
served the High character %hick he possessed. The peisou
had reported him it was impmsible the situation tepresented
by Di. Halloran could ever have occurred.. The object of
I.r. Halloratt and the bum geht, .scemed to be, to prevent
that mail from undergoing the sentence of the law.
A NIEVReh whose 'tante we could not learn, said that lie
could himself hear wit•ess to the uncomfoi table manner in
which siiips, employed to transport tollaiels weir lilted up.
'Flue 1101I,e would consider tins vettel tbegligenve as more un-
pardonable. when thee were lammed that the ttansput ring of
ra 'tcmiviet COsif 13!;I.

TUESDAN ,
NOTICES.
The CPA N,ELLOR of the EXCFIR:44I:I!It rose to rive notice,
that the tout.9ll relative to the Windfor estahli.hinent and
care of l;:.e lime pe&seu woulil he a44noiltiki Italie, Muse

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on harsday &mistrial, and Ulal air the ll"4lll,lll.leiatsgent
finance committee on Friday se'imight.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
The CHANCELLOR of the Exceecit:aet meowed that thk
Horse de resolve itself into 4 COllllllltiee of supply.
The lions, having gime into a committee of supply, Mli
Bregden was called to the (hair itiiii• die minion of the Chant
cellor el the Exchequer, the supply was wilted amuse, am(
the Home resumed. The report was ordered to be take*
ntu cunsideration on Therstlay.
DR. HALLORAN AND CONVICT SHIPS.
Sir T. B. M aerie felt anxious to comeeract the impremiolllt
made by an Hen. Gentleman last night. if there was awl
Maine imputable, it might not to be attached to the noblie
teed at tire head of the Hoare Department: it ought to Igir •
raiuferred to the hued ever whet,' he had the houoar tier
preside. On the 91it isfthis month he bad made a calculatioli•
upon the propurnau el deaths in convict ships, and lie forma
it in he 64 in 44409—that is, I in about 117. The Hon. Gen-
tleman had stated that they had been crowded so horribly
that it was sitliriaing to see them. He had said, that sit of
them had been crowded into the space of six fret. This he
utterly deuied. They bad as great a space showed them as
a British soldier; as 'real as lit had hod 'oil bad a Men of •
mar, and hits sons hail now. Kure allot ,shiers were allowed
more than tS 'litchis. The Dim. Gent,rit:ag theu read the
returns of 9 ships, showing the iniinher tit* convicts which
earls monied, and the number that died. The Bernie, thli
very ship 1101 W in question, hail furineily carried to Botany
Bay 30.1 convicts, of whom only one died ; site had then the
officer as master, stud the snow 6111/VOll as now. There
uever was an instance of greater liminess and humanity thaw
the stucco,, had strewn to all ler his care. lie believed
these existed uot an abler or a more skilful surgeots. He
hail been recommended by Sir Keats, principally fie
Ins skill 41111111111141/ii) (114114,, manse.) .v.. was Dr, Reid.i
Mr. Bata UT said, that as to the number of persons, he had
visited two ship., iii one Were 303 convicts, hi another 4471
iii the Basing he loused td, he might say 21 persons ; for Mr.*
Leeson, who had spent a cunsiiierahle fortune, was crowded
for his passage, into the saute room. He went thence below
and sat upon • box. He was much shocked with the scene
Each crib was six feet by five and a half. He tut, Shies
Myles in one of them, and asked hew many lay there, he was
told that six did. He called the tither three, and they innate.
diately presented themselves. It might lie that the orders
from the Admiralty were thst only four should lie in a crib
He might have asked the master to accompany him. • But 114,
repo:Board to the muter, with horror, the state of the con:
'lets. His reply was. " For God's sake, Sir, distil go away
with the impression that the cutivicte alone are crowded.
Look into my cabin, look into the soldiere apartment, we are
all espial!) crowded... So far was he from denying it, that he
0111) aggravated the represeutiog made In him. The Hone
Gentleman had compared the sitnatioo of coavicts with that
of soldiers. If soldiers weie cruelly treated, that was ce .
justification for cruel imminent t• convicts : but of Its
soldiers ene-third were on deck derails the night. This he
know from his own repellence. But all the convicts wets
shut up during the night. Bat he plisalimal hirmiellthat any
one of the Gentleatan opposite wealdee•Mielled if he went
down I. see these coavicts. The Mee* Men. Gentleman had
said, that he had ascertained that Dr. O'Halloran had not
been ill. Not been illl He bore on big cumatimance the
proofs of his Miles, too strong to be 'mistaken. He had sever
seen man so changed, Such testimony was more likely so bit
true than the testiasoay relied on by ibeilitigbi Hen. Gentle:
own. It should be recollected tun, that the harry, whirls
carried 200 convicts, of wlfoin 30 died, had marital this very.
season ; and that rise reason stated by the board for this mom
tality was, the season of the year. He cared nut whether
seamen or soldiers had us small /1 space assigned to them
These disused to a sea life mast find such confinement bur.
ruble beyond all conceptioa. The smell, too, which he had
not mentioned, was surely a terrible aggravation. Ile could
then re • , that it was a great act of Cruelty to confire
men in such a situation fur a number of hems, at night, and
ander the lion. Eves in the abhorred slave.iradr each slave
had one foot and • half. Eonsidesing these facts, he was •
mot surprised to find, by the trials he had seer reported in the
newspapers, that those wretches, goaded by every kind of
suffering, chose rather to perish is battle than not to attempt
to effect their escape. In brining those cruel inflictions
under itee attention of the House, God knew that he had se
other object but to rescue hie fellow-creatures fruin sintering
an unecessary and cruel aggravation of their punishment. i• God knew that he had never piopiised any ott.sr übjeet forl
his exertion, than t• diminish the sum of human misery.
The CH.III.4CELLOR Cir 'the I.gCHEQLea inCilied the adjourn.;
anent of the House.—Adjourned.
WEDNEDSAY.
A variety of estimates for the public service of the year
were laid on the table.
Mr. CALVERT presented a petition from Ltie Charles
Townsend, cosuplaining of an undue return Ihoreufk
f Tagawerth. It was mitered to he taken in t i.Lsideraties
a 'ruttish's the 9th if Mareh.—Adjourned.
THURSDAY.
Mr. W. Wilmw brought up the report of tfse comruittee et
privileges., appointed -yesterday, to irquire into the nature of
Mr. Burton's applicetion so be discharged from custody, as a
Member of that House. The Ilua. Member obsee ved, that
the committee had found that Mr. Burton had been duly elect.
ed a Member, that lie was now a peimeer fur ileht upon
muse yroye:s, and upon the iv li•de matter reGreed to Sheol
were or opiniou, that lie was Clllllll,l to privilege of par-
liament. He did gut think it eere.sat yto make any further
oh lions 00 the present case, and yliormil thereluie 'nova
first, that Rubu.a Christie Burton was entitled to the privilege
of parliament ; maid seer:natty, that he hr discharged l otn the
custody of the VI al drig Mille Fleet pe
;flies' resolutions weir put, and col lied stensinecontradictils.
1:01:6ERIES,
Sir .JAMES Macitcrosit said, lie took this opportunity of
making a few irinarior VII a document which had been ie.
cently laid before the Hunts, and was intimately c u itetcel
with the cruise! of his motion. This doe 1111 l eel was the objea
ut his :notion. This document was the tepert ut the could
raissionees appointed to inqinie into !lie means el lesseitingt •
the facility with whitli Rants-cotes weir at pi ereht imitated
Tit, result denionstiated the there was hale us nu pi orpeClE
utioilriteliiig the Clones and 'nisei lies arising ti UM 111 C plestat
stem, *stein try the iciiewal •f cash !my miletilr. 'IMO err.
lirK Al mint la.'refuse •piwrir 10 be Mauna a loonies ut Hem.
lily to muse who 1:011101:1t 1111 the lives 14.01C11 41111111 C ahly
of the peujile us the lti;;licit objecte of poiiiii•et I you it. if
lie minim-good the tillbalalleC VI the Cepuil, it rititutoiltql to
abort ken projects fur improving the constrnenen
of Haul-notts had been submitted to the Directora of the

ss..•s. • 't" cauwissawwwers. die totter Wein of opinion
tkat all those submitted to the Bank had West properly tea
jetted. Of those laid under the inspection of t►te commis-
&loiters themselves, nine only were worthy of serious con-
sideration, although twelve deserved the praise of lug...laity.
set, if he rightly understood the language of the report, of
these nine, only ono presented any hope of socc►ss upon for_
ther experiment. After this he hoped the House would not
agree to protract the resumption of cash payments, unless
those ministers 'she had formerly deceived Iheconntry would
allow a full, impartial, and public iovestigatien of the reasons
which might render such a guessers expedient.

COURTCNAT said, it was supposed that one of the plans
laiJ Intere the eonintiseioners might be improved by econebi-
elation. That experiment was new in progress, and had been
made in 'ether paper. If the improved form mild be com-
bined with the improved paper, the plan world succeed. The
experiment of this combination was now peeking, and he had
ruses to believe that the resell would be known in the course
est a month.

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