578. Ret: ofpeé? of Domeftic Literature—T heology and Murals. 
_ made fome jult and ftriking «Remarks © health and comfort, of induftry.and good 
en the late Definitive Treaty of Peace,.. behaviour, than the Houfe of Correétiony . 
frened at Amiens.”’. If Mr. Belfham is. for the County of Middlefex, under the 
fevere in his cenfures, he is ardent and care and management of its prefent go- 
hearty in his: commendations; and, as vernor!! Far be it from us to refift any 
eulogy is more grateful to the ear than in- evidence in favour of a man, who has 
vettive, we were pleafed to fee that the few friends to {peak well of him ; ftill far- 
author’s object was to ‘*demonftrate that ther to break the reed already fo much 
the terms of the late treaty are juft, ho- bruifed; one queftion, however, occurs, 
rorable and equitable ; and that the mi- which it is impoffible to avoid. afking = 
mitters who concluded it, deferve the how does Mr. Aris’s acknowledged neg- 
praife and gratitude, and not thedifap- leét of the eftablifhed laws, refpeéting the 
probation and cenfure, of their fellow citi-- care, maintenance, inftruction, &c. of the 
zens.”” For this" purpofe Mr. Belfham  prifoners, accord with the unimpeachable 
takes an enlarged view of the ftate of integrity and excellence, which are here 
Europe when the preliminaries were ftated to compofehis character? | 
fiened, he confiders the treaty in its de-  * ¢* Confiderations on the late Elections 
tail, and difcuffes with great fairnefs its ‘for Weftminfter and Middlefex, together 
feveral articles; in conclufion, he replies with fome Faéts relatigg to the Houfe of 
to the principal objeétions which have Correéion, in Cold Bath Fields.”? The 
been urged againft it. © But if the pre- evil is traced to the fame fource, in this, 
fent adminiftration is applauded for the as in the former pamphlet, namely, the 
conciliatory difpofition which it evinced; appropriation of the prifon to ufes for 
the belligerent adminiftration which pre- which it was not defigned. The author 
ceded it, is attacked with no little acri- admits, that the arrangement, regulation 
mony and vigor. | and management of the houfe were defec- 
Several pamphlets have been written, tive, but pofitively denies that that fyf- 
on the important fubje& of the Cold tem of feverity, inhumanity, cruelty and 
Bath Fields Prifon: we fhall fimply torture, with which it has been ftigma- 
enumerate two or three of them, without tifed, is, or has been, praétifed in it: the 
reviving the difgraceful fubject they dif- opinion of the committee formed on the 
cufs, by any remarks. A Middlefex. examination of evidence, is here inferted 
Magiftrate has written a pamphlet which jin the cafeof Mary Rich ;, which opinion 
bears the following title: ‘* The True is, ‘that fhe was properly treated during 
State of the Houfe of Correétion, inCold her confinement, that every neceffary cane 
Bath Fields, in the County of Middlefex, and attention had been paid to her by the 
and alfo of the New Prifon, in the Parifh governor and the doftor, and that - fhe 
of Clerkenwell, fairly examined. To had lived better fince fle had been in the 
_which is fubjoined, a Sketch of the real prifon, than ins her ufual mode of living 
Chara&ter of Mr. Thomas Aris, Gover- with her father and mother.’ As thefe 
nor of the Houfe of Corregtion! ! The pamphlets are both anonymous, they do 
author, who flates himfelf to have been not carry that authority which perhaps 
a member of the former Committee for they otherwife might have done. 
the regulation of the Houfe of Correétion, THEOLOGY AND MORALS. 
admits that fome of the rules, recently in- | We have derived the greateft pleafure 
troduced, have been attended with bad from a perufal of Mr. MaLTBy’s * II- 
confequences ; the feeding the prifoners Juftrations of the Truths of the Chriftian 
without the walls, the admiffion of ftate Religion.” This gentleman, who has 
prifoners, mutineers, &c. are reprefented Jong fince eftablifhed an arduous celebrity 
as having produced the moft injurious con- as a claffic, has now fhown that his at- 
feguences ; he is of opinion, that had the tainments in facred literature rival _ his 
Houfe of Corre&tion been applied to no claflical acquirements. If within the laft 
purpofes but its own, that ‘ had the few years, an unexpected hoft of infidels 
laws refpecting the care, the maintenance, have pointed their lances, and levelled. 
the inftruétion, and the.employment of them at Chriftianity ; its defenders were 
the prifoners, been ftrily attended to, prepared for the attack, and have pre- 
jn this cafe—it is his firm belief, that {ented a fhield which was not eafily pierced. 
no place of confinement in thiskingdom, Neither does their vigilance now flum- 
(allowing for the far greater proportion ber, or their activity relax + if not en- 
in the number of the prifoners) wouldin gaged in aétual conteft, they laudably em~ 
thefe feven years have exhibited more in- ploy themfelves in weaving a mantle of in- 
ftances of reformationand amendment, of yulnevability, to be ufed on any future 
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