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the prifon doctor, ftating her to be fo ill 
that fhe could not be brought into court 
to give evidence. 
We examined the cells, which are about 
fix feet wide, and eight or nine feet long—= 
awindow with wooden fhutters, about feven 
feet above the floor, and another window 
over thedoor. The floors are ftone, and 
the walls are brick, unplaftered, which in 
the winter feafon muft be very injurious to 
health, as there is no method of commu- 
nicating fire to dry or air the cells, and we 
fear fuch places are inftrumental in afflict- 
ing thofe who have the misfortune to in- 
habit them with dileafes that can only ter- 
minate in a lingering death. Acrofs thofe 
cells, under the window, are three planks 
raifed, to anfwer the purpofe of a bedftead, 
on which a ftraw mattrefs is placed, with 
a fmall thin bianket and coarfe horfe rug 5 
many of thofe mattrefles were fo chated 
down and worn out, that no perfon could 
take proper ref on them for want of frefh 
' ftraw. The prifoners are not permitted 
to have any thing in their cells to fiton. 
Their allowance is faid to bea pound of 
bread per day, and four days in the week 
they have about fix ounces of meat, with 
fome broth. But we apprehend, by the com- 
plaints of the prifoners, they are very fhort 
of that allowance. And we underftand that 
the prifoners are not permitted to weigh 
their meat, nor is any perfon permitted to 
fee that the prifoners have their proper ai- 
Jowance—that is entirely left to the mercy 
and umanity of the goaler.”” 
Sir F. Burdett Jones, after reading thefe 
ftatements, moved that they be laid upon 
the table, 
In afew days after Sr F. B. Jones’s 
motion was negatived through informa- 
lity, and Mr. Sheridan propoied to bring 
the bufinefs forward in another fhape. 
This he did, and, with the confent of Mr. 
Pitt, it was at length carried that an ad- 
drefs fhould be prefented to the king, for 
his Majefty to direct an enquiry, &c. Thus 
the refpofibility is thrown upon the execu- 
tive government, and it is to be believed 
that this dsfgrace upon the nation will be 
New Patents Lately envolleds 
fAuguft 7, 
done away; namely, thata new and humané 
chairman of the committee, and governor 
of the prifon will be appointed, and that 
the friends of all the imprifoned will be 
permitted to vifit them, and converfe with 
them under fome reftriétions not inconfilt- 
ent with the practice of humanity. A /ecret 
prifon is obnoxious to the feelings of Eng- 
lifhmen ! 
Sir Charles Hamilton’s fquadron cap- 
tured, on the 4th of April, the ifle of 
Goree, on the weftern coalt of Africa. 
Captain Inman, of his Majelty’s thip 
Andromeda, with a fquadron of other 
fhips of war, and fire-fhips, under his 
command, took, on the 7th of July; 
in Dunkirk roads, a large frigate belonging 
to the enemy, with the facrifice of four 
fire-fhips, and a great number of men. 
Finding that the military force on Belle- 
ifle was vaftly fuperior in numbers to 
what our fquadron contained, the enters 
prize againft that place has been poftponed 
for the prefent, and the troops intended 
for that fervice have been fent into the 
Mediverranean, where there is at prefent 
a Britifh land force affembled of not lefs 
than 30,000 men. . 
At Midfummer-day, a2 common-hall was 
held at Guild-hall, for the eleétion of theriffs, 
and other city officers, when Aldermen Per- 
ring, Cadell, Leighton, and Albion Cox, 
efq. being propofed to the livery, the two 
latter were returned, having a great fuperio- 
rity on the fhew of hands. A poll was, how- 
ever, demanded for Meffrs. Perring and Ca- 
dell. Richard Clark, Efq. citizen and joiner, 
was re-eleéted to the office of chamberlain, 
as were Mefirs. Speck and Galabin, bridge- 
mafters. The ale.corners, &c, are alfo the 
fame as laft year. On the 26th of June, the 
poll for theriffs clofed in favour of Aldermen 
Perring and Cadell, the other candidates hav- 
ing given up the conteft. ? 
The foundation ftone of the new docks has 
been laid, in great pomp, by the Prime Mi- 
nifler, in the courfe of the monthe We 
hope, if he continue much longer in Office, 
that he will prove himfelf worthy of the 
flattering epithets which the committee have 
chofen to beftow upon him orn the occafion. 


NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
ee 
MR. CROOK for MAKING SOAP, 
BLEACHING, &c. 
PATENT has been granted to Mr. 
Joun Crook of Edinburgh, che- 
mift, for a method of making foap, and 
bleaching, by means of the volatile, mine- 
ral, and vegetable alkali, either by joining 
them with each other, or ufing the vola- 
tile alkali by itfelf; and for killing ver- 
min, and preferving feeds by thofe alka- 
lies from birds and vermin. 
This f{pecification contains feveral dif 
tinct objects unconnected with each other; 
the moft important appears to be that of 
fubftituting the volatile for the fixed alka- 
lies, in making of a foap that is futh- 
ciente 
