The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

TRIUSPHINt 08 THB CAKLHAES I.
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()Nob having been stated within these few days by
mural of the morning papers, respecting the cause of the
harsh treatment Mr. Catlike hes, lately experienced in for
chewer 111°1. we extract the fellowing detail from the Stem
. 'brit Xeres of yesterday.)
• souttorecent nembers of the Republican, contain ditails
of the Mean, heartless tyranny, exercised by the authorities
at. Dorchester OA towards this persecuted family, that
cannot fail to excite disgust for the perpetrators, and
symMtby with the sufferers, in refry decent and manly
mind. ,
.' 'lle two principal ethastane privations of which Mr. ear.
lire has to complein are—the almost invariable exclusion of
' fils friend* and relatives; had the restriction upon bls ex-
irri'se'ill the prison garden or eottrt-yards, except for an
hour a day, (at times, only en alternate days.) and in the
iompinty of n turnkey. The visiting magistrates affected 1
to deny the exelosion of friends; and on one occasion of a
formal complaint from the prisoner. declared that if such
esslosion had been made, the blame was with the gaoler.
Mr. Usable, however, was too active and too enquiring
to be put off by retch an evasion ; and he wrote a long
engem to the magisterial minute, in which he detailed a
multitede cf instances wherein relatives and friends had
some to see him, often from long datenres, and had bees
,ernaed.adn,ission, in many cases by the visiting Magiel
train themselves, one-after the other—in others by the
gaoler and turnkeys. auto frequently conveyed the rosiest
falsehoods to the prisoner on the subject? The might-
Mates made a reply, in which they took -co, notice of Mr.
Carliles details.
- Coder the irritation of Iris ill-treatment, and his rept:,
tuivenffiers with n agimrstes and Mks, Mr.Carble pub.
044 in his Iteptittlis an of Nov. 14, a letter addressed to'
William Morton Pitt, eel., magistrate and M. P. for the
emuty. respecting the gaol allowance, the resrielions upon
• himself, and generally all he could adds..: in proof of 0011
• misgovernment of the prison. In this letter, he declares,
that he considers the privations he endures as fast tending
to Astray his life, and adds,' I consider myself to be in the
• bands of a gang of assassins: and, as I told your gaoler to
higher, if I ass to be destroyed, I will nut go alone, if 1
can other., iae manage it. My I est, at least, 'hail be an ef.
fort solid the world of one villain, and such a villain as is
a tyrant, and whom the law cannot at present reach. I will
exhibit that in example which 1 hare often taught by p.n.
s..pt • Who wallet imagine, that this twit of heated Im-
patient*, this vague threat, from a man who bad already
sniffled four years' imprisonment, and a hundred agent-
- es-Sunssuflicient to exasperate the most patient temper ;
who.nonld imagine. we say, that this threat printed ire a
Tamphlet on the 14:h of November, would have heen •the
pretest, eleven days afterwards, fur invading the prisoner's
?cum with a parade of force, keeping him handcuffed for
three bun's, and tailing away all his clu.sostic utensils. for
fear he rho ibi convert them into murderous weapons ! Bet
the Beene is sea singular, and so exhibitive of the pranks of
• brief antliorty,' in a manner at once ludicrous and hate.;
.fol, that we mast give a more particular account of it.
.- On Tuesday the 25th instant, as 1 was making op a
parcel, the gaoler introdneed the high sheriff, Mr. Start,
Whom I received wills all the hopes Mr. Colson (a magia-1
wrate) had instilled into my mind. (i. e of better treatment.),
The high sheriff politely asked,' Dow do you do, kir. Cue.
lily, I hope you are in good health ?' My *neve. was,
• Not in goo' health, sir, but as well as my confineinenn
twill -allow• me to be.' He threw a chair, sat down ; BO
'gaoler himself sat down on the soft-bedstead; I sat glows-
, at the opposite end of the table. The sheriff tripe to am
•monstrate about what I had been saying as to my treate•
aunt. He g:e er warm us he proceeded, sipressed offense
at every observation I made, and soon Made use sensible by
'.his hauteur and balforentencea, that I bad misoaleulated
she nature of his visit. I was thoroughly cool and collected :
:he, premeediag gradually to hie object, drew a paper ,
, bee-pocket, in *high Was Contained extract flop my
' letterto Mr. Pitts and after asking me whether* ronsilered
'' •my life In danger front toe treatment I was receiving, as
there set forth, and whether I would act upon the threat
•- ' there made; as a consequence of that treatment,-1 replied'
' •in the affirmative ; that such was My resolution. 'rke she-
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'riff nodded to the gaoler, saving,' Call them fu.' I'he two
'turnkeys enteze.l. —Slits iff to' turnkeys : ' Secure Mr, Car-
'Me ; put handcuffs on him.' The turnkey, Thomas Bunn,
did, it, and 1 did not even remonstrate, beyond sayine,, • I
.elf.al not resist, u I see your ohjiet, and know yeti cannot
keep me long in irons—considering that the object was to
irritate and mire me unguardedly to some act of tviqlence.
I never 'nose.' from my chair, but sat quite unruffled. The
, order was given to sear. It the ram°. Saucepan -, even
mown id the put coffee-boiler, frying-pan, candle-snuffers,
hearth-brush, lin oven, (ovular. fire -irons, pen-knives,
' table-knives and forks, and duntlebells, razors, every timing.
• 'even the most frivolous, was taken away. •••• • • • •
••• The tea-kettle was overlooked, ur, I rather think, one of
the turnkeys petit in a corner for um. There was also a
coasultaton on the propriety of removing a set of shoe-
brushes ; but it was decided that they shoal be left ! Can-
dle'epuffers were seized, and I tent the sand after them.
' when the gaoler told ma to use my fingers *avian,: Fire
ieoes were taken away. In addition, the whole of my
Cie Mire weapons consisted of two table knives and forks,
too pen knives, two pair of small seissars. three case of
razors, a pair of dumb bells, and all the enemies were
unions to remove the iron rods; large nails were drawn,
aud the gaoler was going off with the last of his booty
. after 'searching my person, when I told him that it re-
. Raked a large mouth to chew a quarter.. loaf all at once,
and I wished to know how I was to divide it. ' Oh! says
hr, t ou.s is a gatemen loaf; well ! the man must bring a
knife and cut you off a piece when you want it. 1 tad
Lim I would rather break it.
- Aud then afterwards, the turnkeys used to bring him
lasers to share, and knives to tueuel ~is pen, and wait while
heperformed those operations, in order to take theist away.
The rielirui Qua in all this would be excessive, if it were nut
overpowered by the disgusting. What a pitiful thing
.to take adrantige. of irritated language ?scatting from
.a seen who had been immured four years to a lower), had
been calnminated?nd abused by all the retainers of church
and state, and vomited by all sorts of personal aggrava-
tions! .
Ti show that Mr. Castile's irritation was not without
ranee—that. he .could tacit Ae • a man, if he bail sot felt
indignant at the. treatment of.himself and his-family : to
skew too, that verYliliatue ought to have kept the justices
from every thing but the strictly unavoidably enforcement
oldie law,—we will guise' one instance of the candoct
which Miss L'arlile experienced whew she was placed
. within the wills that shot pp her brother.
• She was treated worse than any convicted felon in the
gaol, by being shut up at dusk in a cell, into which both
- wind and rain were constamtlypoitring upon her, while she
lay on her iron bed; and whilst the female prisoners in the
ward hail access to each other throughout the night, she
was ao closely bolted un the door side, that it was next to a
miracle she escaped suffocation at the ainut of the chimney
• taking fire; and which she did Escape to hear such bridal
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insolence from the gaoler, as to throw her into
me • • • Four months she was loekol up in the same
seem with myself and wife. where we had to attend to
' every call of nature in the presence of each other, if we
could so longer resist the torture oceas oned by not attend-
, lag. This single circumstance was really dreadful, and
Ced a torture which cannot be disc Vied; for she had
etucaccestotned to observe a delicacy that was wounded at
&thought at any deviation from it.
Wo.coald cite other passages describing cruelty in •
Tar spirit, almost as disgusting, towards Mrs. Car-
Val, daring her pregnancy;—but why should we say
, Ilipe.? Is.not this sufficient ? Do not the roused feelings
II grin min who tends it cry, ' field, enough!'

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