40 . Memo'rs of the late 
and placed under the fpecial care o. an ex- 
cellent tutor, hé applied himfelf with un- 
common ardonr, affiduity, and fuecefs, 
to all thofe itudies which were adapted 
t> qualify him for the rank and duties 
of a country gentleman. Not long atter 
he had completed his academicai purfuits, 
he was nominated to ke one of his Majet- 
ty’s Juftices of the Peace for the County 
Palatine of Lancafter. By reading, by 
obdtervation, by attendance on the Courts 
of Judicature ; and particularily by com- 
munication with a neighbouring magil- 
trate *,. diftinguifhed for his probity, 
found jedgment, and juridical fkill ; he 
acquired a very comprehenive knowledge 
f the laws of his country: and, becom- 
ing pre-eminent on the bench, he was in 
afew years appointed Perpetual Chair- 
man of the Quarter Seffions. This tta- 
tion, which was of peculiar importance 
in the populous trading diftri€t where he 
officiated, he filled with dignity and con- 
fummate ability. His attention to tlre 
caufés brought for trial was unremitting : 
his patience in hearing the longelt invef- 
tigations unwearied: his difcrimination 
ct evidence, impartial and acute; and 
his protection of the witnefles from petu- 
lance or infult, was fpirited and inflexible. 
The charges, which he delivered to the 
jurymen, were replete with legal wifdom 
and moral inftruétion; and he pronounced 
the fentence of the court, on the unhappy 
convicts, with the moft impreflive to- 
lemnity. Indeed, on every occafion, he 
delivered himfelf with fluency, grace, 
perfpicuity, and energy. 
His excellence as a Magiftrate, was 
not confined to the proceedings of the 
bench. He fuperintended with vigilance 
the general police, folicitous to diminifh 
evils.in their commencement, and to ob- 
viate punifhment by the prevention of 
crimes, He feduloufly watchful over 
the parochial workhonfes under his jurif- 
diction ; which he frequently vilited, that 
he might meke the iiri€tefl. {crutiny inte 
their domeftic regulations, their comforts,. 
falubrity, and the proper diitribution of 
Jabour, | ; 
The ere&tion of a commodicus and well- 
ventilated gaol and penitentiary heute, at 
Manchefter, was accomplifhed by him in 
1737, but not without much oppofition. 
Yet the meafure was afterwards to highly 
approved, even by. thofe juices who 
were at firft ftrenuous again it, that the 
premifes were fliled the New Bayley, in 
honour of the proje€tor, by the unani- 
* Dorning Rafbotham, Efq. 
_frays all the cofts of the building.” 
I. Bo Bayley, Efqe 
mous vote of the whole bench of magif- 
trates, Of this place of confinement the 
4 
Aug. ea 
philanthrophic Mr. Howard fpeaks in- 
the following terms: ‘* By the {pirited 
exertions of Mr. Bayley and other ma- 
giftrates, anew prijon is building, on a 
large ‘cale, from Mr. Blackburn’s plan, 
im which there will be fingle cells, and 
feparate apartments - for faulty appren- 
tices, &c. This prifon will refleét much 
credit on the good fenfegnd liberality of 
the hundred of Salford, which alone de- 
For 
the improvement in the Courts of Affize, 
and the County Gaol at Lancatter, the like 
praife isdue to Mr. Bayley. Such indeed 
was the general fenfe of his fkill, in the. 
conftruction of places of confinement, 
that he was confulted about moft of the 
prifons, which of late have been enlarged 
or ereSted in this kingdem. 
The ftate of the great body of the 
poor, in the town and neighbourhood of 
Manchefter, occupied much of the time 
and attention of Mr. Bayley. In the 
year 1796, he took a very aétive part in 
the eftabiifhment of a board of health, 
over which he continued to prefide, till 
the inftitution was deprived of his fer- 
vices. by death. The firft report of this 
eftablifhment, thus announces the defign 
of it to the public: “ To meliorate the 
condition ef the indigent; to prevent the 
generation of dileafts; to obviate the pro- 
pagation of them by contagion; and to 
mitigate thofe which exit, by providing 
comforts and accommodations tor the fick, 
are the profefled objeéts of this tnder- 
taking.”” That much good has been 
done by it, cannct be doubted ; and the 
farther plans for the extenfion of its bene- 
fits, which are now in contemplation, 
were ardently encouraged and fupported 
by Mr. Bayley. 
The cotton-mills, which have been fe 
multiplied in this country, as now to fur- 
nifh employment te feveral hundred thou- 
fand hands, very early arrefted the atten- 
tion of Mr. Bayley. In the year 1784, 
an alarming malignini fever was fuppofed 
to originate in a large fattory at Rad- 
icliffe, near Manchelter. The magiftrates, 
therefore, réquefted the phyficians of the. 
town to make inquiry into its caufes, and 
to fuggeft the proper means of preventing 
the fpreading of the contagion. The 
commifiion was immediately executed 5 
and the medical gentlemen thus concluded. 
their memorial, addrefied to his Majefty’s 
Juftices of the Peace: “ We earnefily 
recommend a longer recefs f:0m labour at. 
noon, and a more early difmifficn from it 
' ith 
