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he himfelf retires. The friends of debtors are per* 

 mitted to remain, if they pleafe, from ten o'clock in 

 the morning till four in the afternoon; the friends 

 of fines and felons are only allowed to remain a fliort 

 time with them, except in cafes of real bufinefs, 

 when the keeper indulges them at his difcretion. 

 After four o'clock no ftranger is to remain within 

 the walls. 



There are likewife feveral work-rooms, in each 

 divifion of the prifon ; fome for fmgle perfons to 

 work in, in folitude; others for two, three, or more 

 perfons ; for the purpofe of employing the prifoners 

 in fuch work as they may be capable ofj with ftore- 

 rooms, and every other convenience to render the 

 arrangement complete ; befides a confiderable edifice 

 for the purpofe of carrying on the manufa£lure of 

 hats, and which is fituate between the court of the 

 male fines, and that of the penitentiary prifoners of 

 the third clafs. This laft was built at the expence 

 of William Morton Pitt, efq; one of the mem- 

 bers for the county, as a fmall teftimony of his gra- 

 titude, for the confidence repofed in him, and for 

 the repeated favours conferred upon him, by his 

 confiituents. This manufa£lure has already been 

 tried for three or four years with great fuccefs ; the 

 prifoners, who work in folitude, are employed in the 

 firfl flages of it, and thofe parts of the work which 

 require the labour of feveral perfons working toge- 

 YOL. VIII. z ther. 



