398 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



guilty, for the benefit of the guilty, 

 and from which none but the guilty 

 ever derived any advantage. 



l6th. By neatness and cleanliness, 

 by diversity of employment, by va- 

 riety of contrivance, and, above all, 

 by that peculiarity of construction, 

 which, without any unpleasant or 

 hazardousvicinity, enables the whole 

 establishment to be inspected at a 

 view from a commodious and in- 

 sulated room in the centre, the pri- 

 sonersremainingunconsciousof their 

 being thus observed, it should be his 

 study to render it a spectacle such as 

 persons of all classes would in the 

 way of amusement, be curious to 

 partake of, and that not only on 

 Sundays, at the time of divine ser- 

 vice, but on the ordinary days, at 

 meal times, or times of work ; pro- 

 viding thereby a system of superin- 

 tendence, universally unchargeable, 

 and uninterrupted, the most effec- 

 tual and indestructable of all secu- 

 rities against abuse. 



The station of gaoler is not, in 

 common account, a very elevated 

 one ; the addition of contractor has 

 not much tendency to raise it. The 

 proposer little dreamt, when he first 

 launched into the subject, that he 

 was to become a suitor, and per- 

 haps in vain, for such an office : 

 but inventions unpractised might 

 be in want of the inventor; and a 

 situation thus clipped of emolu- 

 ments, while it was loaded with 

 obligations, might be in want of 

 candidates. Penetrated, therefore, 

 with the importance of the end, he 

 would not suffer himself to see any 

 thing unpleasant or discreditable 

 in the means. 



Account of the Improvements on 

 His Majesty's Farm, in the 

 Great Park, at Windsor, by Na- 



thaniel Kent, in a Letter to the 

 Secretary of the Society for the 

 Encouragement of Arts, Mariu- 

 factures, and Commerce. 



Sir, 



UPON mentioning to you, some 

 time since, that there had 

 been some practices in husbandry, 

 on his majesty's farms, under my 

 superintendance, in Windsor Great 

 Park, which I conceived were not 

 generally known ; and upon your 

 giving me reason to think tlie so- 

 ciety for the Encouragement of 

 Arts, &c. from its laudable de- 

 sire to communicate to the public 

 every thing that promises ad- 

 vantage to it, would not be un- 

 willing to allow me a few pages 

 in its next publication ; and being 

 indulged with his majesty's gra- 

 cious permission to state any mat- 

 ter that I may discretionally judge 

 proper to communicate ; I am in- 

 duced to lay before you a few par- 

 ticulars, which some gentlemen 

 and farmers, under similar cir- 

 cumstances, may perhaps think de- 

 serving notice. 



But before I enter upon any par- 

 ticular description of what I have 

 to offer, it will not, perhaps, be 

 uninteresting to the society to know 

 the grounds upon which his ma- 

 jesty's large system of agriculture 

 has been founded. 



In the year 1791 the Great Park, 

 at Windsor, about 4,000 acres, fell 

 into his majesty's possession. It 

 might truly be called a rough jewel. 

 The whole, as a natural object, 

 was grand and beautiful, of a forest 

 appearance ; but the parts were 

 crowded and indistinct. The soil 

 was various, some parts clay and 

 loam, and some sharp gravel or 

 poor sand; a great part of the for- 

 mer was covered with rushes and 



