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I muft not omit to inform you, that in this foli- 

 tary confinement, and thus employed, it has not 

 yet been found neceflary to punifh any of the pri- 

 foners with irons; and that, fince the new eredlion 

 and regulation of this piifon, the magiftrates in 

 the vicinity, as well as the keeper of it, have ob- 

 ferved, that in no one equal period of time have 

 there been fo few commitments to it. 



This preventive juftice, fo preferable to punitive 

 juftice, mod fully evinces the propriety and huma- 

 nity of the undertaking, and muft naturally ex- 

 cite a hope, that fimilar plans will be adopted in 

 every county. This indeed I am ftrongly induced 

 to believe will foon be the cafe, as I have already 

 received letters from different gentlemen in 

 Glocefterftiire, Oxfordfliire, Wilts, Hertford fiiire, 

 Hampfhire, Yorkfliire, Lancafhire, Suffolk, Wales, 

 and Scodand, rcquefting the plan, rules, orders, 

 table of diet, and returns; informing me, that in 

 their rcfpeclive counties they had determined upon 

 building, and putting their houfcs of corre(5lion 

 under fimilar regulations. 



The gentlemen of the city of Norwich have alfo 

 fent a deputation of their magiftrates to view the 

 prifon; upon whofe report, they mean inftantly to 

 enter upon a reformation of their own prifons. 



If 



