The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-21 00:00:00

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____ !softened's,* as lasicent.
Thus those who were ontriett were penished by being
compelled to have, as associates. women who were
even outcasts from the satiety of convicted &loos.
" Perhaps among these IT melded persotis, who
wrote forced to keep Marty with these tilln,Woomfe,
there might have been at girl circumstanced as ono
was in this part of the "prison lest year. Shas wee
crowded into a room with an essemblar,of idle
drunken prostitutes hid thieves ; with a Woman rem.
Otto, for, end I Wier* afterwards convicted if,
childearorder. This poor girl was an on winks 'nitre•
tient of a man who seduced her into as attempt to
otter a forged note. She pleaded gelity, aod her life
was istied; but she was sentenced to be transported.
From the kindness of Mr. Capper, who is eter ready
to relieve teal distress, and to lessen the severities of
ever Penal Laws, operating on indivMeal cases, she .
was placed in the Penitentiary at Milbank, where
she has so conducted herself as to merit the praise of
the managers of that eteellent institution. While
this young porton was in Newgete (and she was but
18), her modest appearance and manner attracted the
notice of all who visited the prison. Among othets.
an American Gentleman, who was told there that I'
had interested myself to preserve her from the Wirt
with which she was menaced, wrote to me to entreat
that I would not relat my endeavours to save bet
from thejfell upon Earth, as he called this prison.
" Think, the., I entreat you, what must bare
been the leelings of a modest girl in such a situation,
and then remember, that, while I write this, many
may be in a similar condition. A single breach of the
law, however trifling, may lend to detention in pri-
son ; though the person w confined may hare, wile
this exception, every moral feeling as pore as those el
the best of us. And these miserable beings (misers.
ble because they are prisoners, bet more to be pitied
because they are confined with all that Is bad, profli-
gate, and base) most be corrupted, almost past alt
redemption, by the want of that proper classification
which I am contending for. What then is wanted
here is room for their separation; and till this is ob-
tained, Mrs. Fry may do mach to relieve present
misery ; her charity may be like the benevolence of
her heart, boundless; she may remedy magisterial
neglect ; she may relieve in.litideal wretchedness ;
she may lessen all the evils attendant on this mode of
confinement; but the disease is past her cur.. It is,
however, in your hands, Common Council and Li.
very; you can furnish a remedy ; and that can alone
be Nand in the construction of a prison opine a plan
embrscing all those reformatory advantages, the
usefulness of which are now no longer malign of dims
pote."
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REG4LI4 OF SCO'PLAND.

It is stated that a Commission, ander the SiArt
Manual, has beees monody issued to his Grace the
Hake of Roccleoch and Queensberry, Lord Lieete.
$lllll of Mid-Lothian, with the principal Officers of
Stele for Scotland, the respective heads of the Courts
of Law and Legal Bodies, the Lord Provost of Edin.
burgh, and other Gentlemen recommended by official
situations of importance, directing them to proceed
to the Croarn.room, in the Castle of Edinburgh, and
to open the chest in which the Regalia of Scotland
are said to have been deposited, to make search for
the same, and to report ties issue of theitwoqeiries to
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. It is well
known that, by the Act of Union, it is specially pro.
vided, that the Crown, Sceptre, and Sword of State,
belonging to the Kingdom of Scotland. are appointed
to remain and be preserved in that Kingdom, and
that these Royal Symbols were carefully deposited in
a strong chest, in presence of the Officers of State
and other personages of high dignity, as well as the
Commissioners of the Earl Mareschal, who claimed.
by ancient custom, the custody thereof, and that ihs
chest was placed in a chamber in the Castle of Edits•
burgh, called the Crown-room, which was formally
and strongly secured. Nevertheless? a strong report
went abroad that, doting the troublesome times of
1715 or 1718, or, as some say, so late as 1743, the
Regalia of Scotland were transferred to London. and
it is certain that, at the Jewel-office in the Tower, a
Crown has been exhibited among the other treasures,
supposed and alleged to be that of Scotland. Others
have traced this report to the artifices of the Jeco.
bites, whose aversion at the Union is well known,
and who did all they could to excite throoghost
Scotland a feeling that the country had been degraded,
and her privileges destroyed, by that memorable
Treaty. The appointment of the above Commission
is in consequence of the doubts and reports circelated
on this subject.

PAISLEY, JAN. 10.
The nose of Liberty and Reform in Scotland has
lost a worthy though humble friend in Mr. Archi-
bald Hestia, who died at this place op the 13th inst.
He is mach and deservedly regretted by the nu-
merous circle of friends and acquaintances. He hats
been lone known as the steady friend of Perlis-
mentsry Reform, and be *as one of those Patriots
who, et an early period, advocated that measure.—
He had the honour to be chosen a member of the
British Convention which met at Edinburgh ; and as
a proof of the high respect in which he was held by
his fellow-citizens, he was called to preside at the
Public Meetings held upon the bth of October,lBl6,
and the 20th of January, 1817. for the purpose of
petitioning for a more niesi Representation of the
People in Parliament. '
Those' naturally of a mild end modest &post.
tiott, his eyes sparkled with lodignation when
.de.
tailing the wrongs indicted open his countrymen by
the Borough faction, end both in peMic end -lo pri-
rate circles he laboured inametutly In the clean of
Civil and Religions Liberty.
Though he lived lied died a sincere Christiani
bigotry or intolerance roused no part of Ms creed;
his religion, like his love of mankind, embraced the
w bole bunion race. His death, at a time like tie
present, when the esertioes of public spirited ci t rte.
tees are so necessary, is a great loss and cannot but
be deeply lamented by the friends of Reform.
He was a kind master, a feed and affectionate
besbend, and a most indrigeet parent—the milk of
.beree kindness Sowed from his hiart, and hie
cieseenance beamed with loteillgence, Widens, as&
inedwatere ; and it may be 'telly said of hies,
?tat eves hb !hitless Ifeent to 'hues side'