The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-17 00:00:00

foriard. Mere was esteem, disposition to applaud
this _part of the Learn ad Sergeant's speech mani-
fested iu the gallery.) -
The Juno* said be should feel it his duty .to
commit any one who offended again in the coarse
of the trial.
• The Learned Sergeant restimed, and after sonsAvt-
ing with ability on the details of the east, *IAN
he said he should -prove satisfactorily to thins, ••
implored their utmost attention to it.
ilary Care was then called dmi examined by Mr.
Heattaa.—She deposed that about three years and a
half ago she was confined for having bad a bastard
child, in ilchester gaol, when a quarrel took place be-
tween her nod Mary Smith. In consequence they were
both had down and locked up. It was cold, sod there
was sleet and snow on the ground. She had an infant
four months old at her breast. It was on Thursday bee
mato come and two o'clock. There was no fire to the
cell until Saturday morning. The cell was very cold
and bad a stone &or. Her food was bread and Geld
water. She bad not water 'attach, and on* day she
was without wider. She was locked up all day and raw
no one to ask for water.. It was on a Friday. On- Be-
turday some.water was brought to her in a bucket, and.
which was left io the bucket which sbe was obliged vs
drink out of, until she came out. She was let out om
Saturday morning; for an hour, into the yard sad ahs
drank at the pump. She was not allowed to come out •
at all on Friday. She had a fire in another cell on Sa- • •
torday. She bad nothing at all to supply the Want
with, and on Friday evehing she had no milk to give it:
nor any water to drink herself. Os Saturday morning
she drank igreat dell, being very thirsty. She was
well when she first went to oo Thursday. She was
very cold when she was let out on Sunday morning, and
len Sunday night she was Cul: ill, and obliged to call
up Mr. Hobbs, for she w. s sick and ilNin Pier bowels.
Mr. Bridle himself locked her up on the Thursday. She
knew a mum named Trion:a. On Thursday morn-
ing she was locked up io a cell called the tied-bell; which
was neither light nor dark. She had before slept up in
the women's ward.
Cross examined by Mr. Wt I.LI A MS.—She was not mar-
ried and had had three children, and had two now. She
had a basin, and cup, and saucer; in the pantry of the
ward with the other women, She was locked op for
the first time at Aimee one o'clock, and was let out •-it
seven o'clock. She was let out to go from one cell t)
another. She did not take her basin with her, because
she did ono: know where she was going. She was never
asked on the first day whether she would have a fire,
nor did she say she would bed--d if she would. Site
never used such an expression daring her confinement
in the gaol. No one came to her on Friday, nor was
any additional rag sent to her. -She never did eWpf
on any former occasion, that she hail asked repeatedly
for water on Friday, and that she could not have any
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until Saturday. She never saw any o-ne to ask for water.
She asked particularly for fire on Saturday morning,
as she and her child were very cold, and begged Mr.
Treganza, to speak to Mr. Bridle. Traganza said Mi.
Bridle was engaged with company. Tragapsa brought
her a candle, upon her application, and she lighted a
in is the cell. This (Saturday) was the first time she
asked for a fire. She knew Mr.. Bridle. lie never tiled
her ill before.

But cannot you say more than that for him, Mary ?
No., I cannot.

Why. did not he subscribe to pay a fine to get you
out ?—lics, be gave the last shilling.
What were you then in confinement for?--She was
at that time in prison for taking a few turnips. She did
not make any complaint to the Magistrates when thy
called. She saw Fir. Hit nt last Thursday.
He is a very kind and good•natared man, is he not ?
I know nothing of him but by his talking,.
She knew Mrs. Shepherd. She did not remember hav-
ing said to Mrs. Shepherd, that she did not know what
Mr. Hunt wanted her for, as Mr. Bridle had behaved kindly.
to her when she was first imprisoned. She need to go with
gooseberries and what fruit she had to sell to Mr. linnt's
room. She was never examined by Mr. Hunt: He ha•!
tasked to her once or twice about it when she went
with her things. She hail eighteenpence a week fur lice
child, but she had no opportunity of laying it out. .
'(be next witness was Jane Hobbs, who state! that
for five years she wakmatron of Ilchester Gaol, and left
it in 1820. The dnty of the matron was to superintend
females. She recollects the last witness bs:ng in prisms
three or four years ago. She recollects her being 1 a :in
close confinement on a Wednesday or Tbarsil iy, into an
infant four or five months old. She was absent from the
female ward until the Sunday morning following. The
witness herself fetched her from a cell behind in the back
part of the prison. It was a small damp cell. On this
Sunday morning she complained of great cold, and wit-
ness requested the cook to give her some tea and gruel
Witness remembers her (Mary Care) being taken ill on
the Sunday night. An alarm was given and witness's
hu-band got up and gave her some medicine. Witness's
husband was the task-master of the gaol.
Cross-examined by Mr. ERSNINE.—She b-lieves her
husband sent to Mr. Bridle in consequence of the quar-
rel between the last witness aad the woman Smith. Each
prisoner has small articles of crockery-ware, and when
they are put in solitary confinement they carry them
with them. Witness cannot speak positively, but she
thinks Mary Cars carried with her i. pint basin. All
the cells for the refractory prisaners are alike damp.
Mr. Eils and Coles, the Clerk of the Peace, produced
the Occurrence Book of liehester Gaol. He turned to
an entry of the date of Thursday, the 19th November,
ISIS, in which it slated—" Put Elizabeth Smith and
Mary Cure in solitary confinement, for being disorderly
and fighting in their ward." On the 22d was the en-
try—" iteleased Elisabeth Smith and Mary Cure from
their solitary confinement, on promise of fittare good
behaviour."

Thomas Gardiner, a decent-looking young man, de.
posed that he was near twenty years of age. Three
years last March, be was committed to llchcster gaol.
(In the 27th of last December he was discharged. He
has worked as a blacksmith, and is now living with his
uncle and aunt at Bristol. In Novembrr. IS2D, a charge
was made against him for having picked one of the pri-
soner's pockets. He was not none any thing to then.
It was reported to the Governor on a Sunday, and he
was bad in before him. Witness told him he knew ac-
thing at all about it. Mr. Bridle stopped his wages fur
it on 'the Sunday. On the Monday he was taken very
ill, ar•d could not work, as be had a bad pain in his in-
side. He saw Mr. Bridlepass. but did not speak to him. At
I nig,ht he was taken worse. No one came to him. Ile saw
Mr. B. on the next day, when he asked him what was the
matter with.him ? Witness told hint he was very ill in his
inside. Mr. Bridle said be considered that the fryer was
quite strong upon Lim, and he would put him is a dark
bed•cell. wherehewasconfined for three days. Mr. Bridle
never came to him. At the end of three days Dr. Valen-
tine came to the cell. The stints% remained there nine
days longer, at the end of which Mr. Bridle easwe into
him. He asked the witness het, be was ? and be said be

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