The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-25 00:00:00

rave it as his opinion that the Fleet was the largest
brothel in the metropolis. • .
It is superflons to add, that the chapel is thinly
attended, and complaints are frequently heard of
tikorde.-ly conduct on the part of the congregation.
The whnle system of rules and regulne would
require, in the opinion of the Committee, revisal
and improvement. They recommend that a Com-
mission should issue from the Crown to devise new
regulations, and conclude by saying, that they con-
si4er the manner in which Mr. Nixon conducts the
attain or the prison as most praiseworthy ; that it is
the system mote thaw the manner of administering
it, of which they complain ; and that while they con-
sider the Deputy Warden as a ialuable public ser-
cant, they trust means will be found to direct his zeal
• end attention to the management of a prison esta-
blished en a better plan, and more calculated to in-
crones the comforts and ootteettiences, and to preserve
uncontaminsted and undestroyed, the morals and ha-
bits of those whom the laws of the country place un-
der his controul.

• • The Malibulsea is the prison of the Court of the
Marshalsea and of the King's Palace Courts of
Westminster. By the authority of two patents of
Charles I. and 11. the jarisdiction 'of this Court es-
• tends over the Palace of Westminster' and twelve
miles round, excluding the Members of the King's
Househ.,lcl. There is no limitation as to the amount
of the debt to be sited for therein : it is also a prison
for Admiralty prbonersittider sentence by Courts-
. Martial.

'Sir James Bland Borges is"Marshel of' hii. Ma-
jesfy's Household, and Marshal of the Marshalsea of
lb. Household : as such he appoints the officers of the
prison; he is also ntie of the Judges of the Court : he
enjos a as Marshal a salary of 5001. a-year, and a fee
of .otl. upon the discharge of every prisoner, amount-
ing to 201. more.
Mr. W. Jenkins is D.puty-Marshal, Under. Mae.
;Lai, Red Keeper of the Marshalsea prison. His
income arising from a einary of 3001. from fees of
/01., front 701. fees-as Clerk of the l'epers, from
two guineas a-week as rent of the tap,sed
astir& fir a chandler's shop, amounts to between
4.114.6001. annually. There are two turnkeys and
.two watchmen, fetid by salaries and fees. The Stir.
. . geon, ;WA'. Phillips, receives a find Wiry of 501.
a-year; paid by Government, and some small fees
which may amount to 91. wire, wit of which he most
furnish the medicines. that may be necessary. The
Chaplain, Mr. Trollope, has a salary of 501., besides
I 0 or Igl. rec., nut of w Web he pay s 201. to the Clergy-
, man who officiates.
. The prison is divided into two buildings—the first
for debtors and Admiralty -prisoners ; the second fur
.prisoners who are sentenced 4o solitary confinement.
They have separate yards, and no commouication with
• each other. The debtors' side of :the prison is again
.divided into master's and common:. there are seven
:Toomi in the !atter.
The average number of debtors is 60. On .the sth
of April, 1814, there were on the mister's side, 51,
'en the' common side, IU, making in all 61. No rent
is here paid for rooms; hut chattimage exists as in the
King's Beech end Fleet. • • 1
On the Admiralty aide of the prison there are ten
; the number of poisoners varies font. * to-10;
they have been kunwto.to amount to lg. The Means
'or living for the poor are the same as in the other
.sprisons. There is an infirmary in the prison, but it Is
Seldom used as such:
The conduct of the debtors within the Marshalsea
is stated as orderly and regular. There is no sepia.'
ration of the male end female prisoners. The wives
• and children of the prisoners are permitted to re.
side.in the prison, the number of
.which amnunted
to 56 on the sth of April, 24 'women and 32 chit-
-1 Inn. All strangers are. admitted indiscriminately
between eight to the morning, and ten at night.
• • The Deputy Marshal, resides in the pri.mt, and
inepects'it regularly once a week or fortnight:—
It is tolelerably clean. A scavenger is appointed and
paid by the prisoners with a salary of four shillings
per +seek.
• The rules end regulations exhibited by thit Deplity
Menthol the Commiited con.iiiadad 'as good and
reasunable,• and they were Uri 'to teelleei they
are Ulamthly and systematically acted upon,
but they felt it to be etiteir' d to' . con-
demn a code of laws toady by'tlte otters 'them-
, selves. By this.code, each male•pris er; upon en.
• tering the prison, is cantle upon for Bs. and every
• 'female for ss. 6J. On the payment of this sum,
each prisoner has the privilege of coming into the
common room, of having boiling water from the fire,
of cooking his 'dinner, for there it tett public kitchen,
• and of reading 'the newsprpers. In the opinion of
the Committee, every prisoner' should, he provided
with all the nematodes of life • any additional in.
dulgences he should be prettified to procure, but on ,
ticvaccoent should he be allowed to compel ethers to
contribute to what they have neither the power nor
the inelittation to do. To the women this tee is pet-1
culiarly grievous, and the Committee recommend the'
society who levy it, calling themselves the society of
Collejaus, should be put under some regulation.—
The . • funds of this College are managed by it Cont
maw of nine 'pioneers, and their weekly ea-
penditere 11. 13s. 4d. The Committee strongly
testify their disapprobation at allowing the Office of
Chaplain in be a sinecure. They likewise give their
deckled disapprithation of the' practice of confining
the Admiralty prisoners with debtors. The former
are generally Midshipmen and warrant officers, mostly
young men. The entire absence of ail controut, the
riot in which alloy live, and the licentious examples
which are before them, cannot kill° send them back
to their profession and to thd world worse members of
s•ociely than wheu they first entered the Walls of 'the
poison. •‘.

[To be continued.)

IMBETIi CIIII4CM—Thifi ancient edifice' being
Pin% under a thorough repair, the inhabitants of this
palish are deprived of bearing Divine Service till
sows time in the following year, in consequence of
Wen, it. is said, the Archbishop of CANCIRDUIT
haw contented- to open to his Minis parishioners the
(flkavel belonging to Ms Grace's.• Palace. The ex.
•Ptnte estimated for ogreiries tbir noble.
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