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If in this letter I may appear to have been either* 

 prolix, or frivolous, but fhould notwithftanding. 

 have been able to convey any ufeful hints to the 

 publick, I fliall be fatisfied in having facrificed the 

 reputation of ability at the Ihrine of duty, and 

 with pleafure fubfcribe myfelf, &c. 



THOMAS BEEVOR. 



[N. B. In another letter dated Feb. i8th. Sir Thomas 

 Beevor has added the following remarks; 



" In proof of the cleanlinefs and healthinefs of this 

 prifon, no perfon who entered it in health has hitherto 

 fallen fick in it. I have never had any complaint againft 

 any one for immorality or prophanenefs. The efFeft of 

 the folitarinefs, and mechanical regularity of the place, is 

 fuch, as to render them fo contrite and fubdued, that it not 

 only promifes fair for a lading reformation in thefe poor 

 unfortunate wretches, but, what is a ftill better and more 

 pleafing confideration, that it may prove a preventive of 

 crimes in others. For, from an examination of the com- 

 mitments to this houfe, before, and fmce the prefent re- 

 gulation took place, it appears, that one-third fewer have 

 been confined in it fmce the latter period ; and it is fome- 

 what remarkable, that, except in one inftance, no prifoner 

 has been a fecond time committed to it. "J 



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