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London, England, 1827-03-03 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

GENERAL PENITENTIARY, MILLBANK.
Report of the Committee of the General Penitentiary at Millbank,
for the reception of Convicts ; made in pursuance of the 59th
Geo. 111. c. 136, sec. 16 ;---specifying the treatment and con-

dition of the prisoners.--Feb. 1827.
The number of prisoners confined in the Penitentiary at the
31st of December last, was 423 males, and 102 females. But
the number now within the walls is 452 males and 105 females.
The former are distributed through the four Pentagons belonging
to male prisoners, but the latter are alI contained in one of the two
Pentagons allotted for the reception of females, the other of those
Pentagons being yet unoccupied.
The fact of there being nothing injurious to the human con-
stitution, either in the site of the building, or in the discipline
or. mode of life to which the prisoners confined in it are sub-
jected, is further confirmed since the last Report of the Com-
mittee in March last, by the good health which has constantly
prevailed in the prison during that period. The number of
those who died in 1826 is 15 ; of whom eleven were males,
and four females ; but several of these died of disorders under
which they laboured when they came into the prison ; and
it stay be said- with truth, that the health of the prisoners,
taken as a body, is better now than when they came into the
Penitentiary.
The prison not having been re-opened for the reception of
prisoners till the 9th of August, 1824, no recommendations for
the Royal mercy having since taken place on the part of the Com-
mittee, with the exception of that of a prisoner who had assisted
in repelling an outrageous assault made by one of his fellow-
prisoners on one of the officers of the prison, and who received
his Majesty's pardon on that account, as soon as it could be
ascertained that employment would be provided for him by his
friends.
No other male prisoner has left the prison ; but one female
prisoner has been pardoned, owing to circumstances connected with
her original conviction. Her conduct had been uniformly good
while she remained in the prison.
The conduct and behaviour of the respective officers during the
period to which this report applies, has been satisfactory ; and
that of the prisoners in general orderly ; and the Committee have
great reason to be satisfied with their readiness to receive in-
struction, and with their improvement in religious knowledge, as
well as with the progress made by them in reading and writing ;
but there are among them some profligate and turbulent charac-
ters, for whose outrageous conduct the punishments in use under
the rules and regulations of the Penitentiary are by no means
sufficient.
The Committee have fount:, by experience, that confinement in
a dark cell, though in most cases a severe and efficacious punish-
ment, operates very differently on different persons. It appears
to lose much of its effect from repetition ; it cannot always be
carried far without the danger of injuring the health of the pri-
soner; and there are individuals, men as well as boys, on whom
it is found to produce little or no effect.
The Committee are convinced that the framers of the statutes
under which the Penitentiary is gow governed, acted erroneously
in omitting the power of inflicting corporal punishment, when
they re-enacted most of the other provisions of the 19th Geo. 111.,
the Act originally passed for the introduction of the Penitentiary
system : and they are satisfied, that the revival of this power (a
power which is possessed in every other criminal prison in this
country) would be highly advantageous to the management of this
. prison, provided such power were accompanied by regulations
adequate to control the exercise of it, and to guard against its being
abused.
General Penitentiary, Feb. 17. BEXLEY, Chairman.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1827.

At a late hour this afternoon, we received, by ex-
press, the Etoile, dated Thursday morning. It con-
tains no news from Spain or Portugal; but the
private letter received by the same opportunity states
that a telegraphic despatch had been received at
Paris from Madrid, announcing that Gen. LONGA has
been brought to trial, with several other Officers.
The French Funds left off on Wednesday, 5 per
Gents., at 101. 40. ; 3 per Cents. 69. 15. We sub..
jofi; the following extract :
cassyANTIN.opLF, JAN. 26.—The wrests continue since the
discovery 'f the last conspiracy, and the agitation of the public is
greater than ever. According to the last accounts from the Archipe-
lago, the Greeks Are following up their advantages, and the com-
munication with Ibrahim and the Seraskier is cut off. The Greeks
are impatiently waiting the arrival of Ribeaupierre, when the
conferences will be seriously resumed, in conjunction with Mr.
Stratford Canning. The Gazette of Augsburgh, states from
Trii‘ste, that since General Fabvier is in the citadel of Athens,
the Turks have continued to bombard the town. The Colonel
had asked for an immediate supply of provisions, as Colonel
Bourballi has determined to join him with 500 men, and 1,800
men under other Chiefs. -

LIES OF THE DAY. ..
(From the Constitutionnel.)
We learn that the General who commands the Army of Obser-
vation, has already received orders from the Minister Calomarde,
to enter Portugal, when an occasion offers, and to aid the Portu-
guese Royalists. A Proclamation against the English has been
distributed in the Army, and in all the towns, without the know-
ledge of the King.

The discld,
sure of further conspiracies against the
Portuguese Constitution, which we mentioned yester-
day to have been mule by the capture of the baggage
of the Count de MoNTi.ALEGRE, has given rise to
the most serious apprehension•
Two facts have been established, which must pro-

duce the most important consequences,
Ist. That FERDINAND and the Portuguee Prin-
cesses in Spain have directly interfered in the affaic".
of Portugal, and have not only fostered and encourag-
ed the rebels in their attack upon that country, but
have actually so far connected the rebellion with them-
selves, as to have given directions with respect to the
appointment of the Officers to command the rebel
corps ; and
2dly. That a majority of the House of Peers, a
large portion of the Deputies, almost all the mer-
, chants and capitalists in Lisbon, and every convent
but one, have been contributing to support the rebel
cause. To such an extent have the ramifications of
the conspiracy, even amongst the Senators, extended,
that in the Chamber of Deputies, the motion of Ge-
neral CI. ALTDINo, for the production of the Papers,
was got rid of, and the Secret Committee to which