156 
humber of persons committed to his 
Majesty’s gaol of Newgate, in the year 
1821, and how they have been disposed 
of. 
Males Fem. Tofal. 
In custody, Jan. 1, 1821 239 112 351 
Committed to 31st Dec. 
under 20 years 655 anf 2124 
Above that age 1043 327 
2475 
Of whom there have been execu- 
cuted ‘ : : 33— 
Died 2 ; 5 5 
Removed to the Hulks, at Gos- 
port, preparatory to trans. 100 
0. 10 Portsmouth 121 
Do. to Sheerness 308 
Do. to Chatham " 25 
Do. to Woolwich 7 124 
Do. to the General Penitentiary 
at Milbank ‘ 53 
Do. to the Refuge for the Desti- 
tute 31 
Do. to Rethlem Hospital : 1 
Do. by Habeas Corpus for trial at 
the Assizes 4 : 12 
Do. to the House of Correction 
for the City of London, pursu- 
ant to their sentence 64 
Do. to do. for Middlesex 328 
Do. on board two Female Convict 
Ships bound to New South 
Wales : 9 100 
Do. to the House of Correction, 
having had their sentence of 
transportation mitigated, on 
condition of being imprisoned 
therein for certain periods 10 
Discharged, having had his Ma- 
jesty’s free pardon * 20 
Do. being acquitted at the Old 
Bailey Sessions 2 398 
Do. by proclamation, bills of in- 
dictment not having been found 226 
Do. not prosecuted 45 
Do. having undergone their sen- 
tence of imprisonment 42 
Do. being privately whipped 56 
Do. being fined 1s. : 87 
Do. upon bail and other causes 34 
—2223 
Remained in custody on Ist Jan. 
1822, 
Males 185 
Females . 67 252 
2475 
One in six of both Males and Females 
have been in the Gaol before, and more 
than #wo-thirds of the whole number could 
read, and three-fifths of them could write 
also. 
M. LAISNE has in the press a work 
on this question, “ Are the English 
Youth sent to France as Colonists or 
as Hostages ?’’ It will contain the ex- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
{March 1 
tent of the duties of a nationai gram- 
marian ; the English and French gram- 
matical education respectively com- 
pared; the education of English youth 
respecting the French language in Eng- 
land compared to what it is in France. 
The Journal des Debats gives the fol- 
lowing, as the version of the inscription 
on the Egyptian Obelisk lately brought 
from the Island of Philz to this eoun- 
try, by Mr. Banks. The translator, M. 
Letronne, says that it contains a_peti- 
tion from the priests of Isis, in the Is- 
land of Phil, to Plolomzeus Euergetus 
the Second : 
“To the King Ptolomzus ; to the Queen 
Cleopatra, his sister; to the Queen Cleo. 
patra, his wife; the gods of Euergetus, 
greeting: We, the Priests of Isis, who 
is adored in the Abatum and at Phil, the 
most mighty goddess. Considering that the 
Strategists, the Epistatists, the Thebar- 
chons, the Royal Registrars, the Com- 
manders of the trcops guarding the fron- 
tiers, and all others of the King’s Officers, 
who come to Phile,; in short, that the 
troops which accompany them, and the 
whole of their suite, compel us to furnish 
them with abundant supplies belonging to 
the Temple; the consequence of which is, 
that the Temple is impoverished, and we 
run the risk of not having means to defray 
the regular and fixed expences, caused by 
the ceremonies and libations, the object of 
which is the preservation of yourselves 
and your children. We supplicate you, 
most powerful gods, to authorize your 
kinsman and epistolographist Numenius, 
to write to Lorchus, also your kinsman, 
and the Strategist of the Thebaid, enjoin- 
ing him not to practise such vexations with 
regard to us, nor ‘to permit any persons 
whomsoeyer to do so; to grant us, more- 
over, letters testifying your decision on 
this subject, and granting us permission 
to erect a Siele, on which we will inscribe 
the beneficence you have displayed to us on 
this occasion, in order that this Stele may 
transmit to the remotest posterity the eter- 
nal memory of the favours you have grant- 
ed us. This being permitted us, we shall 
be, we and the Temple of Isis, in this, as 
in all other things, your grateful servants. 
May you be ever happy.” 
It has been ascertained that wood in- 
creases in the following proportion ; the 
first year as 1, the second as 4, the 
third as 9, the fourth as 15, the fifth as 
22, the sixth as 30, the seventh as 40, 
the eighth as 54, the ninth as 70, and 
the tenth as 92. From this it is con- 
cluded, that wood ought never to be 
cut, till it is in the tenth year ot its 
growth. 
Mr. BULLOCK has succeeded in bring- 
ing specimens of the rein deer to this 
~ country, 
