The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1816-07-31

expense o. The different prosecutions .ast
year amounted TO 100000. or 5o,oooi. Be-
sides this, there were many provinces in
England IN the gaols were no more than
schools Of vicc and deprivation. In Newgaie
the Cold Bath 6eids, Tothill-Gelds, and other
prisons of this metropolis, there was 90 clas.
sifca,ion whichever Of offence I; the eye of the
public was removed, and innocen, and guilty,
young and old, novice aud hardened offead-
crs, were all throne together 50 that when
they were discharged or acquitted, they were
turned out on society with lost character at
at least, If not with vicious requirements.
Within this few days he had himself visited
Newgate, and never was there scene SO
distressing. Boys of II and Is were found
,here herding with the most hardned and a.
bandonod characters. The hulks, were In
the same manner, another great school of de-
prav,ty, and means of dissemination vice
and misery. No less than 700 persons were
discharged from them last year, and let loose
on society, without employment, and, frsught
with the instructions of crime. To these
must be added the convicts returned from
Botany Bay. Mr.. Colquhoun stated that he
never knew an instance 10 which person
returned from Botany Bay that did not per-
rion. He (Mr. Bennett) was not surprised
a, all this, when he considered the regula.
tions of our police, the severity and conse-
Qucn, uncertainty OF our law, the expence
of prosecution, and the state Of our gaol., in
which the new conner could only spend his
hours in listening to and hearing applauded
the anecdotes of successful crimes. With
this machinery, and with the addition of the
Rs,- all.
for the creation of vice, no other result
could be expcc,od than that which We found
80 distressing 10 looking at tho papers be.
fore the house, he saw that there were con-
victed Gf we heard righO IN 1907, 1870 iu-
dividuals; in 1903 1910; in 1909, l243;
1910, 1907 in 1911, 1915 in 1912, l475;
in 1918, l426 During the last year were
cou,uaitled TO Cold Bath, fields 1900; 10 Tot
hill feds 500 to Newgate $50 ; and of those
eighty we're only from eight to fifteen years
rf age. There were in Ne~gate last Satar-
dsv IS uuder sentance Of transportation, and
,wetye under seutance OF death one boy
ahere Of - years old, stated that he had been
frequently ia custody; that he went down
av;,b | 2 others, 10 Portsdown fair, for the pur-
Dose Of dopreds,isg--'a distsnce OF 10 miles
This child vas now nuder sentance OF death
bu, he, (Mr. Beunet.) trusted 'nat some
means might bo foued of restoring him to
society, iii, were possible to effect his re-
form. He was aware that IT wcasa NOT DC
possible for that House all at once 10 hnG
remedy for these enormous evils, but he was
cure that much might bc done by following
up the measures recommended by a former
committee, oy examining whether the police
were we'll admin stored or no [; by ascertain
ing whether a general board might not be
established, and communications Kept up
win ,he local police. so that some cheek
rnighrbe gwen to this system of Juvenile de-
pravity. Az present there were no less than
5000 cbildren upon the town, living by dep
reda,,on and mendici,y. He should, there
fore, move tha, committee be appointed TO
enquire INTO the state Of the police Of the
metropolis.
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