The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

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Veen ind boys area of ell employment....
the'promisennes a pergolas of all desalts.
lions, ages, and cbevectomt Of crime, have deeply
impressed your Committee with the opinion, that no
one nu voter the wails of bletegato without gniag
out from thence more depraved sad torrepted Moo
wkeri 'first cominitted thereto. And theses the M..
&Orates of the city of London have shown a pra
worthy disposition to rearedy the gvievaates com.
plained of in former times, )0, from the over.
''CrOvrOd Mate of the priNIN sod the toefoved trues-
onnedittion for its numerous inhabitanth the nolo and
prominent evils cannot be vorroved; he still less
would it be possibht to melon, its Interior arrange-
ment as to fit it for those purposes of reformatory
punishment which, the good of society retracts.
DARTMOOR PRIPOk. •
oor Committee have received In eildeoce, that the
. forest of D4rtmoor contains shoot 130,000 acres of
one.fifth of which is enclosed ; and A 'bewilde.
*hie part i; the property of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, as Duke of Cornwall : That the
'prison thereon hai formerly contained from 8000 to
VOOO priSatters of war ; and it is stated that WOO
convicts may he well sectored there, with proper di.
'Worn for classification sod workrooms. It appears,
by proifrosiottel ovidence'laid before your Committee,
that tip sitaation Of the prison .on Dartmoor Is in-
disputably healthy; that provisions are cheap; that
fuel is tittle acquired fat the labour only • sad' that
the utmost *sperm's' for the proposed alteration of
the prison would not esceed WOOL It is *widest. to
year Ca swifts*, that the proposed conversion of
Dartmoor pesos into a prises for convkts, would
place it in a more perfect state tot a prises of war at
eat (stare yealod ; as year Committee have received
Jo *video's., that if it remiss ossoccapied it west
there in.
evltably fall ioto decay. Irool Communities, .
Ion: beg Woo redirect the atteatisie of his Ma,
• s.
ty'srosommeat to this salient ; for the prisoners
mlghtfmt_mredlly removed frog, Ate cot
vices
.of 111A4polks. theiousoption •••
Orinoif :IS dirpitilditot *Of another more
iniqviefie; and the yoithtel dellogseet, by OM.
, pilaster( labeer,,i tke- fist instance, would be
1, withdrawn from aside babiti(of idleness which sever
fail to tivieraw depsevity, aid to 'ford an opper•
' Unity for she imitetklit of bad 'sample.
tech regetatiems,:keppears to your Committee
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that the mesas off utast subsistence world be am,
wolfed by the *=above of the convicts themselves,
r. therein affording an iecitemeet to labour, and con.
• ssquently an orgies iodination for a return to
terms hshits. Dartmoor *Meads with granite of
L en excellent-guilty, well adapted for the perpeses
of building or paving; and as his Majesty's Go.
1 - !torment, are at this time parchasiog large quanti.
".• ties for various public works,
.your Committee con•
ceive that canticle Weald be capable of cutting gra.
. nit. to any (latent for each purposes, and that such
a process would cleanse the land, •and render it fit
4 • for cultivation. Turf also may be cot to any goon-
: lily, and a canal or iron railway might convey it to
• Plymouth. There are also great tails of water in
every part of the moor; and your Committee are of
opinion that cloth might be manufactured by the pri-
soners for their own clothing, as large quantities of
coarse wool can be obtained upon the spot. Ott this
subject your Committee beg to refer also to the Re.
port of the Transport Board. The House will oh.
strut, that in the judgment of several respectable
witnesses, great advantages may be derived from
the application of the labour of convicts at Dart.
tenor. Oa this your Committee refrain from et-
pressing any opinion ; but they think it proper to
direct the attention of the [louse to the evidence in
the Minotes on that subject.
May 8, 1818.

SOUTH 4MERIC4.

BULLETIN.
The di Woo of General Pass directed its march
en Villa del Pao, by order of his Eaunewsy the
General in Chief, in order to dislodge a large body
of the enemy, under the command of the Spanish
Brigadier-Generel Red. On the approach of our
troops, Real abandoned Pao, and withdrew towards
Values. General Pees's division thee marched
ipso sad took the town of St. Carlps, after defeat-
ing the enemy, who attempted to oppose him.
The enemy dlitifili•Od to march against the forms
of Gaunt Pars. For this purpose they gaited the
geniuses of different places, and also the Civic
Corps of CieOM& Withshis new army, comemeded
by Brkedier Worn, they presented themselves, on
the 1141 inst. io the plains of Cogede, where our
troops tepected them. It is is this action that the
Spaniards were @painted io the superiority of our
cavalry.
The enemy's isfeatty promoted itself in columns,
In the centre of ewe ether SOIONDOO of dusky, which
folioed the wings-. Oer army awaited them in battle
sway. General Aoseategei cesmanded the In-
fantry, [Jest...Colonel C. Menne lb, cavalry of the
right wing, and Colonel Vollmer, that of the left ;
Col. Rangel commended the nerve. Oar line
charged the enemy with the greatest intrepidity, and
notwithstanding their firmness their colleens of ca.
valry were broken, as well u greet part of their in-
fantry. One theesead of the enemy were killed,
besides their loss in arms, ammenitioo, eqeipages,
commissariat, and a greet number of prisoners.—
Among the killed were the Spanish Brig.-General
Correa, Chief of the General Stiff; Col. Gomel's
Villa, Commandant of the Regiment of Castilla; end
various other Officers of rank. It is also reported
• that General [Morro is killed, bet of this we have
go
no positive information. All the Chiefs of the Drs.
goons of the Union, of the Unsure, and of the
King's Lancers, have been killed.
Our loss was not Coilsidenkblt, bat sensibly fet,
as it prevents es from coatineing for the present eler
• march on Valencia.
The Sob-Chief of the General Staff,
FRANCISCO DP. P. SANTANDER.
Brad-goarters,St. Fecomodo, May 19, led.

Eatract of a letter dated New Guayana, 16th
Jest, 1618:—" The Sopretne Chief bas jest re-
ceived as official account that the division of 300
cavelryt teat by tho Spanish General. Mora
lsle to the
post of Gaayabal, to observe oar troops t Fir.
neat) de Apart, were all either killed or taken
primers, (Rapt tbe Comiseadast and foss oilier',