The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-23 00:00:00

The two following. Letters were then
I. A Letter fiat%) Gibbon;„
Mayor of Bristol, to GCOTge P.ow, Esq.
Zia beemaler, 1800.
2. A Letterfrom Messrs. Batchelor an, 0_
draws, to 'William Gibbons, Esq. dated ill istui,
-40th December, r Soo.
'he Commissioners theti asked l'Ar. itehelor,
how many Prisoners lie saw naked, and if they,
were for the most part so ?
He answered, that he believed ',About five or
silt were naked ; not quite nal:ed, but nearly so ;
they might be covered with a rag. 01,c poor

saw.
With respct to the -Bread
,(some-pf which, of
different lakings,. was produced).:
The Commissioners asked Mr. Batchelor,from
vsilienee he coned...A the pungent, taste in the
Pread'to arise? His reply. wasi'he then supposed '
the. Bre:4M* pade froin some very bad Flour,'
Which waS'sOld.soMe tirde since at the Head Of
the. Quay, Bristol, and about which some -riots
took pittee.
.Ja*es r jun: the biker errip!ora Mr.
Noble, was 'sivOrn- and deposed, that he did, ac.
cording to the 'best of his power and knowledge,
supply the Prison with good wholesome Bread,
according. r the terms -of the Contrad ; and that
When he could procure Wheat he ,-,got it, and if
not, Flour;
,that he never bought any of the
Flour which-teas sold. at ,the Head of the Quay.
On the Bread then before the Meeting being
protloccd to him, and-his inspeaing the same, he,.
deposed, that the same 'was; a fair, sample of the
general supply .of the. Prison, and not Bread made,
far. any particular view or motive.
The same Bread was then shewn to, and CU- .
mined by three Prisoners '•
from Stapleton, who;
declared their decided{ opinion, that such Bread
was a fair average sample of their general supply-1-
they never saw any Bread„aithe Prison which
could be termed inCimous, or to eat.
/5.11. This Bread was, examined -by many
of the,,GentleMeu present, and declared good
and wholesome.
Upon.the, subject of the -Meat, Mr, Batchelor
observed, that he:thought himself justified in be.
lie ving generally bad, because the: :Beef was
returned ay, such the day after he visited the,Pri-
son.; and that Mr. Tyson, a butcher, had in-
spdled ir, an&protiOunced it barely whOlesome;
that a piece weighing seven,perunds and ahalf was
toured, when divested of the hone, to weigh only
four pounds ; and that he also ,conceived hithself,
justified in calling what he saw Carrion.
The' Commissioners then, asked Lieutenant
Ormsby, the Agent at Stapleton Prison), whether
the Prisoners who:Were appointed to inspel' the
Meat had Objeaed to any on the 16th inst. I
Lieutenant Ormsby: saids, they had nude no
objeaion, on that day, -but that on the day before
some meat had: been returned as unfit- .to the
'butcher. Lieutenant. , Ormsby, also said, that,
whenever the Prisoners saw .cause to find. fault _
with the Provisions, they 'almost invatiably.ob.
'jaded,
foltoNoble, Esq... Alderman of the City, was
then, interrogated try ,the Commissioners as to his
concern in supplying,the Prison with Provisions -;
,rO)6 said, :Mat
He had no concern, dirally or indirdlly, 'in
the profits of the Contract ; that MS advantage is
a per centage on the stuns expended ; and that
he has from the. Contractor, Mr. (=-mart of Lon,
'don, unlimited Orders to'procure good Provisions ;
that the Contrador has, in two instances; Where
complaints were Made to hittv,, been very much
hurt ;" and' that, as Mr.''Qrant has not limited
Mr. Noble expcnce, if any fault attaches, 'it
must be. to himself, and not to Mr. Grant. Mr.
Noble ,gives 375. 4d. per citit',.for Beef, but-he.
.has-made no standing Contra-8. -with the'-Dutcher;
and Baker, for either Beef or Bread,,beeausevhe
thought,: tirA,: by -avoiding standing Contrads,
he should also avoid tomplaints ;. that:he hay; 1-
g(flated 'the- prices ,wide the-.!Baker accordinz to
the weekly price returned- to the- Magistratel.-,--

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