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CAP. LVII. To amend an Act , made 
in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His 
late Majesty King George the Third , re¬ 
lating to Prisons in Ireland. 
I. Grand Jury of Three Grand Jurymen 
empowered to visit all Country Prisons, 
and examine how far the Regulations under 
50 Geo. 3. c. 103. &c. are complied with, and 
in case of any Misconduct report to Lord 
Lieutenant or the Grand Jury at the As¬ 
sizes, &c. 
II. Keepers, Inspectors and Officers of 
Prisons shall attend and answer all En¬ 
quiries of the Grand Jury. 
III. Poor Prisoners shall be supplied 
with Food and Necessaries at the Public 
Expeuce. 
IV. Money for providing such Food and 
Necessaries shall be raised by Present¬ 
ment. 
V. Inspector shall prepare Dieting Table 
of Provisions for poor Prisoners, to be ap¬ 
proved by Three Grand Jurymen or Justices 
of Peace ; and Provisions shall be distri¬ 
buted according to such Table, under Re¬ 
gulation of 50 Geo. 3. c. 103. 
VIII. Lord Lieutenant to appoint Two 
Inspectors General of Prisons. 
IX. Counties to be apportioned into Two 
Circuits, the Prisons of which shall be vi¬ 
sited yearly by an Inspector General.* 
X. Reports of Inspectors General to be 
laid before the Grand Juries at the Spring 
and Summer Assizes. 
XII. Inspectors General to make out 
Lists of Prisons, &c. within their Circuit. 
XIII. Returns to be made yearly of the 
Slate of the Prisons at the Office of the 
Chief Secretary, and laid before Parlia¬ 
ment. 
* How much such regulations are want¬ 
ed in Great Britain. 
XIV. Inspector General shall visit every 
Prison, &c. once in Two Years.* 
XV. Penalty on Inspector General for 
False Returns, 5001. and Loss of Office. 
XVIII. Book to be kept in each Prison, 
in which Member of Grand Jury and In¬ 
spector, &c. shall enter Observations. 
XX. Grand Jury may appoint Matrons, 
&c. for Gaols, to be paid by Presentment. 
XXL Grand Juries to appoint Houses of 
Correction in Prisons, and Keepers. 
XXIV. Poor Prisoners shall be kept to 
Work under Orders of Board of Superinten¬ 
dance, &c. 
XXV. Tools, &c. shall be provided by 
Presentment. 
XXVI. Poor Prisoner shall have One 
Third of his Earnings, and Two Thirds 
shall be applied to his Maintenance. 
XXIX. Grand Juries (except in Dublin) 
may appoint not less than Six nor more 
than Twelve Persons, One Third being 
Justices or Grand Jurymen, to be a Board 
of Superintendance of the Goals within the 
County. 
XXXIV. Notice to be put up in every 
Prison that Fees are abolished. 
This act, if benevolently executed, 
will be the means of extricating thou¬ 
sands from gross oppression, and we 
heartily congratulate the country oil 
the parliamentary feeling which passed 
it, and hope to see a similar arrange¬ 
ment adopted in England, where the 
goals are full of persons who would 
forthwith be enlarged if their cases were 
known, and reported by liberal-minded, 
inspectors. The laws are not only 
harsh, but they are indiscriminate, 
and those who exercise them are too 
much used to the employment, and by 
use their feelings become blunted. 
* Too seldom, it ought to be every 4 months. 
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 
With an Historical and Critical Froemium. 
* # * Authors or Publishers desirous oj seeing an early notice of their Works, are 
requested to transmit copies before the 18 th of the Month. 
N elegant and highly interesting vo¬ 
lume has appeared on the Kit Kat 
, Club. It contains engraved portraits from 
the pictures or their copies by Faber, with 
memoirs and anecdotes of the several par¬ 
ties. The engravings might have been 
better executed, but the literary part of 
the volume exhibits great taste and ex¬ 
tensive research. Indeed we have seldom 
met with a book which has gratified us by 
a greater variety of curious and amusing 
literary and historical anecdote. The edi¬ 
tor is severe on Tonson, and on booksellers 
generally, and dwells on the profits de¬ 
rived from authors of celebrity and esta¬ 
blished works; forgetting that every pub¬ 
lisher has five blanks for one prize, and 
that the latter must be made to balance the 
former, or the bookseller become insolvent. 
It is probable that Tonson gained ten times 
more by his government appointments than 
by Dryden, Addison and Pope, and that 
his profits from these were sunk by his un¬ 
avoidable speculations with less popular 
writers. At the same time it must be ad¬ 
mitted that publishers, from habit, acquire 
the same feelings towards their clients, 
which lawyers, surgeons, and butchers ac¬ 
quire 
