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London, England, 1814-09-23 00:00:00

ORDINANCES OF THE KING.

The idea of separating sexes and ages in prisons,
and of proportioning the rigour of detention and the
severity of treatment to the nature of offences, is un-
doubtedly most happy. and humanity cannot fail to
applaud it : but the project of reforming criminals.
of correcting their evil thoughts, of mending their
vicious habits, and of impressing them with the desire
of a better morality and conduct; this project, we
say, is intLitely better : it can only arise in a very
experienced mind, and a generous and tender heart ;
and those who have studied the first experiments—
who have followed the details—and who have con-
ceived
the poss:bility 'and the design of repeating
them, and of naturali.ing them ill other climates,
assuieily possess the same qualities, and are entitled
to the :Me praises. The English, and particularly
the Americans, have made, in this respect, attempts
worthy of admiration, and which are one of the imp-
piest effects of the perfection of the social art. The
work of M. the Duke de Liancourt (now Duke de
1. Rochefoucault) describes the methods which have
been employed in the linked States to restore to
morality the hardened offenders who generally oc-
cupy prisons, and to introduce icsensibly into their
souls the seeds of honesty and virtue. That generous
patriot, who devoted himself in his travels to the
study of wise institutions and useful practices, with
a view to enrich his country with them, alter having
communicated to France the experiments arid pro-
ceedings of Jenner in vaccination, oiler having curt
tributed to excite an enthusiasm for this discovery,
which he has more than any other i erson contributed
to spread, has also had the idea Os trying in France
the power of habit and regulation over the passions
of men, and of discovering to what extent treatments
wisely combined can soften the most refractory and
violent dispositions ; he was welt 4.sured of being
seconded in such an undertaking by the wise and he-
nevoient Minister, who combiues in his great depart-
ment the establishments hog% of charity and of pri-

sons, and was equally sure of -sreing project so
useiul to mankigd sanctioned and protected by a
wise and humane Monarch, who condescends to
regard even the lowest classes, and to whom nothing
that affects humanity is a stranger.
The first attempts shall be made on a class of in,
dividnals who may be considered as most susceptible
of the impressions of a well-digested nietliod, the
organization whereof entourages the hope of a more
speedy success.

- The following Ordinance will better exhibit Li
what spirit these attempts should be Directed. and
tLe advantages which have induced the permission
of them ; , '
" Loon, by the Grace of Gorr, King of France and
Navarre, &c.

di Wishing to establish in our prisms A regulation,
which, proper to correct the vicious habits of crimi-
nals condemned to irons by the sentence of tribunals,
prepares them by order, labour. and moral and reli-
gious instructions, to return peaceful and useful
citizens to society, when they recover their liberty;
and wishing to insure the success of chat general
establishment which we intend, by a trial which
leaves in future no uncertainty as to the details of
the administration of those houses, we have decreed
as follows ;
ART. L All prisoners emidanned for crimes, and under 20
years of age, shall be taken, without seltctioo, from sh: prisom
of the capital, or those in the neigbbouring dep trtnit.nrA, shall
be collected into one prison, which our Minlsttr ut the Lialcr
shall appoint.

U. The Meow General of this prison of experiment 'ball be
named by us; he shall be charged with the suprrimentlance and
general direction of the police, Lthour, instrii.;tion, shit aiming.
station of the prison. He shall present to the nominal ton of our
Minister of interior an• Assistant, and six Inspectors, charged
with him, and under his direction, with the supetictendui:e and
administration of tide prison.

IL. These different °Aces, whose duties humanity and libe-
rality of assatimieut alone can induce the acceptance of, 0141 be
gratuitous.

IV, The Director General shall name the Keeper of the Pri•
son. and the wham Keepers charged wa:, the custody of the
prisoners: he may discharge them at pleasure.
V. He than sign* to the approbation of our Moaner of the
Interior the rules and regulations of :he prison. Independently
of the scow Tbich shall be mulcted :o ar every month iF the

Ate of the rime. wider she &pinta of a w likkor of Mehl,
taker, a Commission, osloronsi et a Cosam!ter of Mato ay
two Masten of Reties/al sad loather, esdilmad of cheer
Members of our Coon of Sadie. AO Ark, each twice a peer.
this prism in el Its details, and shall inform us of the result of
their observations, which they shall put In writing on the red our
of the prison. The Dirostor Gametal and laspectors shall be ape
r prised of the Visits of the Commissioner., In order to give them
every particular and general information they can desire.
VII. The Director Orenl shall tarnish at the end of each
year, to our Minister of the Interior. a moral and detailed ae.
count of the state of the prison. aid an account of the neap:.
and expenses. This account, verified and approved by our Mei-
ster of the Interior, chat be laid before us and made public,
VIII. We reserve to our,elves, with the advice of our Cl:v.-
4,414 w, to pardon, before tke excitation of the time ordartd by
the sentence, those prisoners whose relish:kr of behaviour fuse
inspire a beard of their amendment. and who ma be restut«
society without inconvenience to it, and to Its advantage.

IX. M. the Dul.-e de la Roclefoacattle. Pecs of France, y.
pointed Director-General of the Prioon af Eaperisneat.
X. M. the Biros de Leasert, oae of the AdiatiaLEtatort.
General of our good city et Pans. Is appa;ated Aasistaat to the
Director-General.

Xl. On *croon of the present ord:aaace. tltat of the tads at
August lair, relative to the establishment o a house of dean•
don tot young persona tandem/Led in the deportation of dm
it annulled.

XII. Our Minister of the Weds( is charged Id* the ems.
don of this ordinance.

Given at .it ealiCla 01 the ThaiVenial+ abe pet 11114, Nle
etit at See:mbar. (bigae4 L 0414.

CON VENTIOII.

ACT stye rata orwattneaster AND INIMATS• 111 Irlle CITY
tip ‘ANTiAOO Lei Calais, OX THa 5111 MAT, 1814.
Sets r Don Francisco Antonio de la Laura, Su.
prone Director of the State, convoked in his Hall of
Dispatch, the distinguished B,dy of the Senate, and
read iii their presence the Documents of Treaties
made in consequence of the agreement of the 19th of
last month, by the General tit the National Army.
Brigadier DJO Gavin° Galan, and the General in
Chiet of the Army of Chili, Brigadier Doe Borearet
O'Higgins, and Quarter-Master Brigadier Don Juan
Meekene, Plenipotentiaries appointed for this purpose
in the said agreement.. and the purport of these Do-
cuments is as follows g
CONVENTION 0011CLODID ItTWtta Tat atatatLO or Tat
AtialtS. to tiTLeD Ann Tat GOTattattlfT
Of Califs
I. Chill cffers to send Deputies, eaercising the impresaiptible
rights which b. long to her as an integral part of the Spanish Mo.
tarchy, for sauctitehnd 1.! the Cortes the Constitudeo which that
Body has formed, ate: • hat the sail C ages shad have heird her
Representatives, and peonies to obey what shall then be detw
mined osi,aCkaowirdgillds is she Las acknowledged for her Ma.
much Don Ferdinand VII. and the authority of thedtevrucy by
wh•ch the Junta of Chili is a; proved, in the meantime maintain.
ing the interior Government with all it. power and faculties, and
free commerce with the Allied and Neutral Nations, and espe.
cially with Great Britain, to whom Spina is indebted, neat to the
favour of Gyp, and her own valour and constancy, for her poll-
tic.l existence.
2. The hostilities between both Armies shall immediately
cease; and the evaciatiou ut Tales 544: take place within shirty
hours alter the approval of the Ouveuiment of Santiago to this
treaty shall be communicated, t:tat of the whole of ties Pro.
since of Conception, that is to.aay, hy the troo sof Lima, Val-
divia and Claim:, willain the period of a month, after the teats.
of the said approbation, discharging the auxiliaries who had ar•
rived near Chili, and Chiloc remaining subject as bele= to the
Vice-Royalty of Lima; in like manner shall be thseharral al
the soldiers of the Province of Conception and Its depecideacies,
if required,+
S. A recipromil exchange of all the prisoners made on elitist
side,
side, wiihout any except:on, thall immediately take plate; at
imams by Individuals of the provinces of Use kingdom occupied
by the armies in cunsequetice of the present war being entirely
forgotten, uo person of either party, at any falai; time, being
permitted :o make a merit V:erec.f. The religious sulfdrueot of
this article is renprocaly recommended.
4. I.lw mercantile relations with all other parts of the Spsn4
monarchy *hall continue with eke same liberty and good undrt
stooding as before the war.
5. Chili win render to Spain all the awuatanes in her power,
consistent faith the deterioration occasioned by tile war is het
territory.
6. Those veteran Or:kers of the corpse/ infantry andel:mist
of Conception, who may wish to continue their service in the
gauntry, shall enjoy the same rank and pay as they posseasil be.
furs hostilities, and those who do not wish to serve bust beaten
subject to the destiny which the eirkensy may assign to them.
7. The city of La Conceptico, and the poet sif Taisalmano
shall retain aY the pieces of artillery which' they possessed before
the commencement of hostilities ; and as it a insposslblo that
Brigadier Don Gairiao Gains* can dullest vp. the whole if the
arms of both places, there berestoredMe subs of eAS
for their service and safogoard.
1. Prom themoisten that this treaty shall be the army
of Chili shall be obliged to preserve its present ' .
and
strictly avoid approximating nearer to Talu • and if baron the
ratification by the Government of Chili altallialtepiatie, any cirs
conastance may occur to prejudice the said ratilcaiists, the army
she t be at liberty to encamp in any district at an equal or greater
distauce from said city : it taloa well understood that .n case of
an nitespi.i.teil n6'11811%1414 at hoailities, it can only be with the
ewaous mute and agreenteut of b ath armies; the uatiossi array
Call commit no aggressions witataut resume; Übe position which
it hoar at this dice.
9. The property of aU the inhabitants witch they possessed
previous to the 18th 01 Febreary, 18 tO, shall be rostored ; all alie-
nations which have not been preceded by a particular cataract
concluded with Le owners, being declared nu.l and void.
10. The Goveroment of Chili will issue as soon as possible
30,000 pieta from the pubic treasury, as part of a paymmt due
to the Province of Couception for the eapenses caused by the
army at present commanded by General Iltigadier Don Gavito
Gainza, who shall examine the :Sills presented by the heersdeocy.
11. For the fulfilisept and observance sai what is, 11l good
faith, stipulated in the foregoing articles, Chili shall g.ve, as hos-
tage.:, three persons of dietinguished sank OP C.aracier, as ore of
whom is accepted, as the most respectable, sad as bawled len-
taneously offered himself for the honour of his country, itri:adier
Den Bernardo sinless the Government oi Ch...t elect
him Deputy to the Cortes ; in which case a person ut
and respectability in the country shad be substituted Ils ..is pits.
12. For the realising of the complete evacuation of Cie tali-
t,,ry of Chili, where the treaty is ratified, two Calcine's shad be
,oven as hostages on the part of the National Army, as well as.
tor the evacuation of Talcs, which ought to take place immedt-
ztely, shall be given by the army oi %AIM two others of equal
rank, allowing ail the remainder of the month our the arrival re
the hostages spoken of in the preceding ar.icle at the hea.l.par.
tees of the National Army, or of a certificate of glair enb!):".r•b.
don tot Lima.
id. As soon as obis treaty is signed, orders must ~e expe•l'A
front the Generats of both armies, tor suspending the
any amps wiech may be proceeding Irons other parts ao jo
them, and starch can isioy be permitted to colter, rn avoid ore'
;warty, at the neatest districts or towns at wined such orders
may reach them, and to wait there 'lot they receive harder or.
Sere for their direction, bttt to. auxiliaries of the national ape;
moat on tie account pass toe Maui', or este( Tato, our sate
the army of Chili pas, elms neer of
14. If it Mutat* happen (tionagli such is not expeereic rho fith
treaty snould not meet with aNeutsatlen, Me General ei the aril
ut Chill must wait fur the sertibegtisbis of the Melee there:O.
which must be elninfunielled to as uguer.; of the .Niatioi..l
Army, and be rade Lin within a /virtu' of as War of A