The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-14 00:00:00

spur-street Ccmpter atfcl tenlga*te prison. aid were
attended by Mr. John Teaeue the Keeper, and we
observrd that Giltspor-street Compter was every
way calculated for the purposes for which it was
ceigically ere%i, and, that' the prisoners confined
there are much better accomteodeted than in'any
other krison within the City, and the only thing
compiainrd of was the amount of fees paid .by •the
debtors, riprn which inquiry we find is regulated by
the Judges and the Malaise retes at the Sessions; and
no alieratinn has been made in the for some nine
past ; but we-, your Sub-Committee, have ;to state,
That inconsequence of the Act of Parliament which
passed so long ago as the year one thousand eight
hundred and four, for removing the debtors From the
• Poultry Compter, .on account of its, then decayed
daugetons condition, to the Giltspur-street Coneer-,
that prison is occasionally se crowded that great
• danger is to be apprehended to, the health of the
istne, particularly in hot weather, notwithstanding
the numerous convenienciea which it possesses;
and Mr. Luke Hodgson, the Surgeon, having made
a report in writing to us relative to the Comoks,
we have caused the same 16 be 'hereunto :Annexed
• foe the information ce this worshipful Committee,
And with respect tO the Lie/gate prison, we, your
Sub-Committee, have to observe, That the space is
much too 'confined for the number of prisoners
usually there, and if the Corporation should not ,
think fit to ere& a new prison, fur the exclusive
confinement of debtors, we are of Opinion, that . ;
• convenience: way be partially remedied by the re-
moval ot part of the wall winch separates this prison
from that eart of the Gilispur-street Cotnpter where
- some of , the cells are.placed, and which have not
been used for a long time past.
Thst we, 'your Sub-Committee, on viewing the
Poulite Compter, Were attended by .Mr. Edward
Kirby, the Keeper, and we found the sell Compter
in a most deplorable and !Wimps condition, and by
- no means a fit place for the confiucwent of prisoners
of any, description. The several persons committed
to take their trial are here confined till the Gant de-
livery at ti e time of each Sessions; and the er
stated, that •at the last Septeemer Sessions, ti ere
were fifty felons confined' there. The-whole of the ,
night charges of the, City are brought to teis Comp-
Some private Letters from Holland mention a dr-
ter, as well as all vagrants, .(Giltspur-street Compter cumstanee which, it true, would Leto,/ a new ;fight
being at this time appropriated for the confinement upon the late change in the Government ot Hul-
ot the whole of the creators belonging to the two land.
They state/that the abdicatien of King Leots
Compote) aid heever may, be the cause of their
eonfirierteen they cannot
,
was entirely an act of his own,- without arty c rec rt
pa separated from the
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felonteunthe-e being one yamd only to the Av hole pre- with his brother, and that fie had effected his escape
son, in which inenp womeneaud children of all de-
scripT •
to ontungen, with the intention, it- was supposed,
oons euntietd ihert4; are compelled• to be to-
gether ; the roares • appropriated to. the vagrants, isf going to America. This account is certainly ,
up-
and persons to be. passed to their diffee nt parishes, od the face of it,
.very improbable ; but we live in
are not glazed, the windom s. being open with
times in which it is not always wise to withheld our
iron bars only, nor have they
.any thing to protect
. belief from a statement necause it has the appearance
then) from I !t:' It,eather, or in casts of sickness for
their comfort, but tenet the humanity of the Keeper of improbability. /Vier knowing that barns Beet-
_
pro% idee for them; and it frequently cremes, NAPARTE has for some years borne the title,
teal irly after an expedition has sailed, that a uutn- •
and exercised the functions of King of liol-
bet.of stk.:teas wee, and. children are there placed
tilLi hey can be proner4y removed, and some of thew /tit/if, we ought not to reject a narrative merely
in. a very ill state of heap h troth fatigue or otherwise; on the ground of improbability. There is bow-
and it has happened that s'eneof them, have been •
ever one circumstance which induces us not to
so far advanced in pregnancy, as; to, be confined. and
delivered el that Compter. No divine service has been 12e-lieee the accounts in these. letters.' The move-
perfermed in diet Coieeter for the last five years, reema of the Fretich troops seem to have been di-
end the chapel is now converted into a • sleepieg
rected • with a view to the alt ,apron which has
place for felon..felon..lrons are put:op ad prisonyrs cum- .
taken place in the Government of Holland, "lad
mated for trial, aed are never taken offtill sent
Nvweate unless ditectrel by. the Surgeon; there is : those movements coal not have taken place with-
er ,
no regular table of tees at the Coupler, and they ' •
out orders from France. The silence of the Dutch
are regulated by custom
_only.; that the Keeper be-
-3,lei,tiy
remits'the fees, and no person is detained papers upon the subject 'is no evidence ()tie wey.or
. .• • for the non-payment et them. Under all the cir- • the other, tor -if Louts hid aCluaily ran away,.• the
cumstances we are decidedly of opinion that the pre- Journaliststc would not have ventured to men-
bent P, Ore' Compter is not et all calculated for the '
ved direaions from
confinement of prisoners, nor from its present ruio» lion it, until they had-Vecei
ous state can the same be rendered tit for that pur- .Paris.
pese. Aed we ale. further of opinion, that from the
the vicinity ot this Louts, who certainly is the best of the family,
present state of the buildings in
Compter, and its celifint d situation from being en- has been for • some time the object of BUONAPARTE'S
Only surrounded by pi !vete resieeneesethat the pre- tyranny, and we haie ne doubt .but that he would
seta site is a very improper and insecure situation consider himself as roost fortunate if ,be could - etled
fur a prison, and teat the same ought to be erected
k from • his brother, and
in a mute open and uncoatiented space as we foetid his cape from his kingdom,
less than three notoriously bad charaders had. from his wife.
lately tffeded their' escape from this prison. •
We have made some further extraas from the
That we, your Sub-Committeeeupon a review of Dutch papers which arrived yesterday; the account
all the circumstances are deeply impressed u ith the is given of theentrance of the French troops,
absolute.necesSity that exists of a new prison being which
•
provided in lieu of the present Poultry Compter; end ,seems to leive been drawn up with a studious design'
alter the mast mature consideration are unanimously of insulting the unfortunate people of Holland,
of opinion that the said prison should be ereded on I ,
a much larger space than the present Compter oca
copies, and in a situation more unconnected with
buildings, and that the same should be solely appro.
ria tr, d to the confinement of debtors under proper
elations, allottingedifferent spaces in the same for
'fferent descriptions of debtors ; for the county
,who ate now confined in Newgate ; for the
btors who are confined iu Giltspur-street
r; and for those debtors who are usually
in Ludgate ; by which -means Ntwgate
curved from a large portion of prisoners,
rendered fully adequate to the purposes
with some internal alteration only, and
any further enlargement ; and the Keeper
babiy be then enabled to make that separa-
the prisoners confided to his care which
and _humanity so loudly calls for ; Giltspur-
e Compter, with the addition of the present Lud-
erie prison, and by removing the Sheriffs' Officers to
the new •pri,on, will be thereby rendered • fully ade-
-spate f/r all the purposes of the confinement of per-
sons (committed to take their trial). previous to the
goal delivery at each sessions of Oyer and Terminer,
for pi refiners committed to the Quarter Sessions, and
for night charges and vagrarits, with very. little in-
tarnal alteration and expellee. And we are of opi-
nion, that in the Compter where prisoner's are con-
fined only previously to taking their trial or com-
mitted some for offences at the'Quarter Sessions, the
settle regulations -with resped to irons might he
adopted 'as above recommended for persons commit-
ted to Newgate.

(To be Continued.l

MALLS.
Anittrso—r C. ttenburgh, z Dublin, t Waterford.
.4.)u,:--t (totter/burgh; t Dublin; 2 Waterflra.

A Gotteiiburgb Mail arrived this morning, and we
'were mach disappointed to find it so barten of in,.
telligenCe. The ttmeral of the Crown Prince, which

PRICE OF STOCKS

was interrupted by the riot on the 21st. had not taken
place on the 26th, in consequence Of an order from
the King for postponing it till further directions
The following are the contents of the Mail •
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 26.—The interment of his
Royal Highness the.late Crown Prince, which was
to have taken place this morning, has been postponed
till further, notice by his Majesty's most gracious
command.

THIS DAY AT TWitLVIL O'CLOCK.
Consols pi 21 Umaiurn . •

STOCKLIOnt, JUNE 27. —On the (2 Ist of this
mouth, all the officers of our City Militia u c t
in
,procession to the Exchange, where they received our
new Governor, Major General SKJOLDEBRAND., who
addressed them in an appropriate speech on the late
disturbances which broke OA in this capital, and
assured them of his Majesty's firm determination to
preserve peace and—tranquility by every means in
his power. Our wouhy Burgomaster; Mr. OLDEN-

BURG, assured the. Governor, in ans 4er io is
speech, of the, unalterable attachment of the City
Militia to his Maj,!sty's person, and their implicit
confidence in the wisdom of his Government; and
the solemn scene closed with ►ong cooihmed shouts
and acclamations of " Long Live the Ling."

The report which was circulated respeaing the
unfortunate GUSTAVUS having effetted his escape,
and taken refuge on board Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ'S
fleet, is, we have very little doubt, unfounded.
the last• dispatches from Sir J.imts are dated the
26thult. tkey are silent upon the subjeal.

This morning ,47;terican Papers to the 13th June
arrived, from which we have made the following
extraas :
" BOSTON, JUNE 12. Accounts to the 12th
May have been received from Laguira, in the late
Spanish colony of Caraccas. At that time the Re- -
volutionary Government was quietly proceeding in
the new organization of the State. The " lildepen-
denis'-' appeared solicitous of the friendly counte-
nance and a flee intercourse with the United States;
and had sent two agents to Washington, who sailed
on, the 1 Ith May for Baltimore. The duties on In-
ports had been lowered to 16t- per cent. and Exports
to 12-2, beside a reduetion of the customary valua-
tion.

" Yesterday a large number of respetable young.
Gentlemen gave a splendid entertainment to his Ex-
cellency the British Ambassador, at the Exchange
Coffee-house. Many distinguithed guests were pre-
sent beside Mr. JACKSON.—HENRY SAIiJENT, Esq.
presided.

" Toast of the Minister—Commerce without Restric-
tions—Liberty without Licentibusnet4--Patriotiz;m without
Fear,