Discipline Of Newgate.
The Times, 1824-07-09T00:00:00

In consequence of havirig seen a statenment in some of the daily papers, to which the names of the aeeea1 shopmen who were convicted of having sold blasphemouls books in Carlile's shop, in Fleet-street, were subscribed, thle (ity Gaol Committee thtkught proper to meet at Newgae, and inquire into the matter' of curmpla2nt. which the (ity M-gistrates were extremely wilhing to remedy, if remuedy was necessary. - On Friday the Lord Mayor, Al dermen MVrod, Joshus Jonatban Smith, and Thompson, g1 of whom are h1Unbeirs of the Gaol Com- mittee, met at Newgate, and proceedede with tbes -nqi_ry, by an ex- amination of sever. prisoners; and they asacertrindtheat therewvas very little grouad indeed for complaiin and th;t t;e rgtulatiol;s of the prison, to far from being pushed to The exttsme4 ~f whrich unfor- tunate persons in otlher prisons have tea tn to comnplain, are acted upon in a manner wb2di at once pro!es the htnenit-o the Governor, and. the confidence whichltht City. MlUgi,rates repose in hiint. Carlile's mnen complained of the quility.eF tte food wtith which they were supplied, and declared tlrat it w. s more like dogas_nat than the food which shoald be dealt ott to hlfimari be.ngs. They also complained thatt the room in which they wete cor.ined-ris one of too, small dimnensions for the number of persiuis tiho wart lacked up in it, and that their dormiitory was desdtuteot i M-coinfort, inasmuc 'As they lay in rugs on the floor, &c. W ith respect w the meat, the Committee ascerlaine' from an ex- amination of it, as wel as from an "&ec innaniotnAf tbo!,e who were in the habi; of eating it, that it was the corlion part of tite ver;r best beer, and hLd never before been coampnt.ed of by any pereon ; that the prisonerN, with the exception of ethase whom Carlile wvaS instrutmnelital in dooming to a long realirence iin prison, approved of their treatmient in) that respect, and of cousse that no afteration rssa necessary in the article of' diet. P The cemplaint of want of room was next entered upoII, and it was determined, that although the apartinent in which tte complainauits were confirred was not crowded to inconvenience, (indeed the regit- lations of the prison in that respect were rather relaxed than strictly adliered to), they should be allowed the use of another room, with whicli, if they had-upon their entrance into the prison expressed a de- sire to go to, they alight have been accommodated. In regard to the complaint of inconvenient lying, it was deter- mined, that although it might be regarded as a violation of the dis- cipline, horse betsteads should be allowed to the complainants. Tre contract for thesupplyofmeat for Newgate extends to White- cross-s reet and Giltapur-atreet ptisons. Thomas Thurtell was oneof those who were examined upon the OCCasion. It was impossible to hear the evidence given ron this subect, ard to see the city magistracy entering not only voluntarily butt anxiously ino the subjlectof complaint, without comparing the discdpline of the lir.at priso7nin the kingdom with that which has been pursued in a neighbouring county, an,d which has been regarded wit elrnost universal indfienerion. DISCIPLINE OF NEJVGA TL.