The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-21 00:00:00

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LEDITERRANEAN FLEET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sirt,—The following is a list of " his Majesty's
Fleet stationed out in the Mediterraou
neanif it
should prove worthy of
insertion in your valuable
Paper, you will oblige
A

;ON ST ANT READER.
Ships. Guns
Pelican .................. 18
Pelocus .................. 18
Pldlornel .................. 10
Raleigh .................. 18
Ratt1e5nake.........".... 8
Revenge .................. '76
Rifleman .................. 18
Samarang .... .......... 23
Spartiate .................. '76
Wasp ..................... 18
Weazel ................... 10
Wellesley ................. 74,
Windsor Castle ......... 76
Wolf ..................... 13

Guns

Ships.
Asia ..................... 84
.................. 461
Cameleon ............ 10
Cordelia .................. 10
Dartmouth ............... 42
Erebus bomb ............
............... 18
Favourite
Fecret ................... 10
Gloucester .............. . 741
Infernal b0mb...........:
Isis ...................... 50
Madagascar ............... 46
Meteor bomb ............
Musquito ............. 10
.. 80
Ocean ...................

Total carrying 966

;or, Sept. 16, 1829.
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HITECROSS-STREET PRISON

The Court of Requests' warrants are daily crowd-
ng this prison with unfortunate individuals. Some
days ago a poor woman, named Elizabeth Caisley,
was arrested for the sum of Is, 3id., awl locked up.
The costs amounted to five times the amount of the
debt, and the prisoner was actually,
when she en•
tered the prison, without the means of buying a
morsel of bread. The sentence is twenty days' im-
prisonment, and while she remains in prison the city
incurs an expellee for her maintainance of 7ii. per
week. On the same day were locked up two la-
bouring men, who were taken awy fromsu thei wThe
ork,
and whose places are permanenatly ppliedr .
debt of the one is 14s. 7d., and that of the other is
Ss. 2d. The costs upon the three arrests amount to
11. 2s. 6d., and they arc preparing to join their fa-
milies, who have been since their confinement living
upon parochial bounty. Even the common turnkeys
about the prison are shocked ate the inhuman man-
ner in which Court of Requests' creditors, especially
the tallymen, exercise the dreadfulpower with which
the law arms them. There are now between 90
and 100 of those poor insolvents in the prison.
In
the last twelve months, 1,500 had to pay paltry
but it
sums by imprisonment for certain periods ;
happens that the Corporation of London has not
only to feed but to nurse numbers of the poor
debtors, and frequently the expense incurred in me-
dicines far exceeds the amount of the debts for
which the patients are imprisoned. Aldermi an
Wood and Mr. Hume are, we are informed, obtan-
ing information through the country relative
at the
to the
processes issued from those Cowls ; and,
commencement of the Session, a measure is to be
rliament, for doing away with arrest
submitted to Pa
'ar small debts under any circumstances.
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PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—A breach ot
the r7th commandment has just taken place at Faringdon,
and occasioned no little sensation amongst us,--the gallant
gay Lothario took advantage of the temporary absence
commy o 1
his fair rib, who was on a visit to her relations,
to
this heinous sin.—Berks Chronicle.

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