27 152/1/2 56313 55 72 8831 9+ 161 EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN MARCH, 1804. New Om- Irish Bank 3 perCt 3 per Ct. 14 perCts perCt5 perCt| Long Short | India | India Exchq. SouthS | Old Stock. Red. Confols. Confol Navy. 1797 Ann. Ann. Stock. Bonds. Bills. Stock. Ann. Ann. 168 par 1pt a 2p Imp. Eng.Lott. English nium.5 perCiperCt. Tickets. Prizes. 28 1534 56 55 723 884 163 949 32 169 par ip/ip Idi 29 154 55 55 72 88 948 161 31 1694 rd par 882 95 170 55 72 88 944 34 169 734 88 rd par rd IP 1d parid rp 1704d par par ip 168 par Ippar Ip 1701 par par ip 89 892 904 892 56 555 50 4 672676 572 567 891 Printed by NICHOLS and Son, Red-Lion-Paffage, Fleet-Street.] 172 par 1 614 I a 2d par Id 1 a 2d par id a 2did par a ad id par 1711 a 2018 par 1711 a 20 par id' 1 a 30 par Id 1691 a 3rd par 2 a 3rd par 62 2 a 3d par!. a 3did par J. BRANSCOMB, Stock-Broker, at the Lucky Lottery Office, No 11, Holbourn, par Id par 17 a 2 par did par 517 8 O 98 562 a 12 par 1d par rd 17 57 a 2 Id par id 5547 a 2 8 8 981 98 33 8 O 98/1/ 8 O 98 17 8 55 17 10 17 10 40 41 37 ,91 cloudy ,65 showery AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending April 21, 1804. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans 3. d. s. d. s. 622 Middlef. 51 00 023 0/00 50 Leicester 54 000 Notting. 55 8 MARITIME COUNTIES. Suffolk 49 1100 020 421 Effex 50 1029 s. d. s. 021 425 d 5. d. 630 I Kent 630 10 024 026 100 9 827 526 CO 025 425 024 38 039 433 023 3 400 Worcest. 46 Warwick 54 Wilts 52 50 4 Bucks 51 Brecon 49 7 32 Montgo. 49 400 25 1023 023 10 24 2 021 122 025 7:21 Radnor 45 5100 024 921 I II Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Average of Scotland, per quarter. Cornwall 54 100 028 020 400 Dorfet 54 400 024 8/23 938 Pants 51 1000 23 1024 10 35 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans!! Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans. Diftricts S d. s. d. s. d. s d. S. d. Districts S. ds. d. s. st. s. d. s. d. Merioneth 2 542 024 0128 017 000 020 800 613 9:00 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For APRIL, 1804. LETTER V. ON PRISONS. principles of industry inculcated in L Sambrook-court, MR. URBAN, April 19. ****ARGE communities, like individuals, often exhibit ftriking contradictions of character and conduct. The Scots, who have long been diftinguished for the general diffufion of learning, and, in many inttances, of high claffical refinement, as well as for their improvements in architecture, and the conveniencies and comforts in their houses, ftill maintain in their prifons the fame difgufting filth, the fame exclufion of air; the fame immoral admiffion of liquor, which HOWARD and NEILD have long and uniformly reprobated; and which the good fenfe of the people muft difapprove. In the fame city, the improvements and conveniences of a rational and humane police have been adopted; whilft degradation and depravity, in other inftances, have been tolerated, to the difgrace of the nation, to the promotion of vice, and to the fufferance of a fyftem, on the bare recital of which.,. humanity thudders, and every fentiment of manly feeling is agitated. My diftinguithed Correfpondent, while he points out evils, poffeffes a lenient difpofition, that leads him to hope that the road to improvement is only to be marked out, in order to be followed. He obferves, in a letter I have been recently favoured with, "In Scotland you very rarely meet with a beggar; a fenfe of fhame in those who are able to work feems to prevent it. This may refult from that excellent morality and thofe early youth, and where it is a dif grace to be without a Bible. Pity it is, that in fuch a country no ma-, giftrate looks in upon the prifoner; no clergyman attends them, or exercifes any endeavour to reclaim them. Every idea of reform seems to be abandoned, as foon as the miferable object is configned to a prifon, as if reformation were afterwards totally impracticable." The excellent police adapted in the Edinburgh Bridewell affords a proof of the good fenfe and huma nity of the inhabitants of that enlightened city, who must be con vinced that the allowance of the promifcuous affociation of the fexes, a public tap, under the patronage and for the fupport of the gaoler, muft encourage intoxication, and tend to extinguifh every moral feeling; while filth, vermin, and stench, extinguith every proper fentiment of perfonal cleanlinefs and decency, as exemplified in their Tolbooth The difreputable management of the prifons at Glasgow, and the depravity of the prifoners, imputable to the thameful police under which they are fupported and con ducted, is a difgrace to the inhabitants of that wealthy city. With Profetorfhips to inculcate Literature, they have neglected to teach the familiar feiences of decency, cleaninefs, and morality! When we hear the names of their diftinguished Profeffors--when we purfue the moral doctrines which they propound for the reformation and inftruction of mankind-when the pupil liftens to thofe philofophical lectures, which exhibit the im portance portance of vital air, and the infectious and dangerous tendency of peftiferous exhalation, arifing from human excretions, and contrafts the existence and magifterial eftablishment of the prifons, he must be convinced that theory and practice are in a continual courfe of repulfive refifiance. The Divine, if he cannot trace out, in a city abforbed by the deification of Mammon, examples of Virtue, may point out, in the police of the prifons in Glafgow, genuine and prolific fources of Vice. If he cannot fay with one to whom the epithet was contemptuously applied, of "the friend of publicans and finners," he night at leaft exemplify his Mafter's humane fentiment, "I was fick, and ye vifited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me." JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM. My Dear Sir, Newcastle, Sept. 1802. I believe my laft letter to you was principally about Durham gaol; fince which I have visited many: the detail would be too voluminous for a Letter, therefore fhall referve that for my next publication on Prifons; in the mean time, will give you a fhort account of those the most remarkable for filth and fevere treatment. I find myfelf relieved by fuch communication, as I know no one fo capable of making obferva. tions on the confequences, or fo likely to be attended to. You are well ac quainted with the infide of the prifon houfe. Newcastle has three prifons; the Borough prifon, the Seffions prifon, and the Bridewell. There is likewife, in the very centre of Newcafile, a prifun called Castle-garth. Morpeth, which is in this county, and about 16 miles diftant, has a gal delivery once a year. The affizes are held at Newcale, whither prifoners are conveyed for trial, and confined in a dungeon, formerly part of the old caftle, and called the Cafile-keep When I applied to the keeper (who lives at a diftant part of the town) for admiffion, a man attended me with a fhovel to clear away the filth and dirt. The dungeon is eleven feps below the * To be resumed in a fubfequent Letter. level of the fireet; it has neither light nor ventilation but what is received from a fmall iron-grated window which looks to the pavement. There are rings fixed in the wall, to which men felons are titioned off for the women; but thefe chained; and a small part of it is parare in a worse fituation than the men, being in total darkness, and without any means of ventilation whatever that I could difcover; the rain came pouring down the walls in every part, and there were feveral inches deep of water in it, fo that I could not meafure its dimen fions. In this horrid dungeon prifoners are confined seven or eight nights; and the man who attended me faid, he had known it two feet of water in depth, and hence the prifoners are obliged to fand night and day on the infide steps, The neceflity for this feems to have been forefeen, as there is a flight of eps infide of thedungeon as high as the iron-grated window on the level with the freet; fo, whether the prifoners could fit down, or must ftand upon the fteps, would depend on the number. After vifiting the gaols at Morpeth, I went to fee Alnwick Castle, where the Duke of Northumberland has preferved one of thofe prifons called the Cafflekeep the fervant who attended me faid there was formerly one in every tower. In order to defcribe it, I muft obferve, that the entrance is through a narrow paffage fixteen feet long to a room fixteen feet four inches by ten feet four inches. In the centre of this room I defcended by a ladder through an aperture (two feet four inches by one foot ten inches) into a dark dungeon about eight feet fix inches fquare and eleven feet high; it reminded me of thofe at Durham, as being the general mode of confinement in thofe barbarous ages when the fecurity of the prifoners was alone confidered. This letter must be confidered as a kind of Journal; for, as I am upon the borders of Scotland, I wish to fee a little into their prifons before I fend it off. Dunbar was the firft I vifited. The afcent is by a flight of fourteen' steps, leads to two large rooms about feven yards fquare, one of which is for felons, the other for debtors who are not burgefes; both were in the most filthy flate imaginable, and the debtors' room was occupied by the gaoles and his family. Up fairs is a large room for debtors who are burgelles. The dark room below, called Thieves hole, |