THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 393.] 



MARCH 1, 1824. 



[2 of Vol. 57. 



NEWTON'S BIRTH-PLACE AT WOOLSTROPE. 



These premisesi ihe paternal residence of Newton, the house in which that great man 

 was born, and in which he was reared and educated by his widowed mother, stands in 

 a Buiall romantic valley, about a mile west of the North Road, and five miles south of 

 Grantham. At tiie school of this latter town he was educated, and used to walk daily 

 to if, like other country boys;, with his satchel at his back, or, after he was boarding in 

 the town, on Monday mornings. The stone-work of the house is still scratched with 

 several rude dials of his early formation, on some of which also remain his own clumsy 

 gnomons. His bed-room, too, is shown, as well as the corner separated by a partition 

 constructed by himself, to serve as a study. It is the right-hand window on the first 

 story ; and he was born in tiie room beneath, on the ground-floor. The apple-tiee, 

 whence he drew his hypothesis about gravitation, is still in existence and bearing, but 

 bent to the ground and broken, as represented in the right-hand corner ; and the pear- 

 tree under which he used to sit, and which the residents assert was the subject of 

 the above observation, is still standing and flourishing, both within fifty yards of the 

 door in the dwelling. 



To ihe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



[HAVE lately read, with some sur- 

 prise, the Rejjort of the Committee 

 on the Management of Prison Disci- 

 pline, relative to the TRUAD-MILL. The 

 Committee slate, that they were at 

 first favourable to the introduction of 

 this machine, as a useful instrument of 

 prison-discipline ; but they now can- 

 didly admit, th.it, without j!;reat cau- 

 tion, it may become a dreadful in^tru- 

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ment of oppression; and they agree 

 with the humane Yorkshire magistrate, 

 Mr. Staplcton, that jjrisonors before 

 their trial ought not to be subjected to 

 so severe a punisinnent. The Com- 

 mittee farther state, that certain regu- 

 lators have been invented to ascertain 

 tlie number and velocity of the rota- 

 tions made by the wheel, and the 

 <iegree of animal strength expended 

 upon it. From data furnished by 

 tiiesc regulators, they ealciilato the 

 O strength 



