EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN NOVEMBER, 1805. Days Bank 3perCt. 3perCent.j4perCt. 5perCt. 5perCt. Long | Short | India Stock. BkRed. Confols. Confol. Navy. 1797 Ann. India Exchq. Sout.S.) Old Ann. Stock. Bonds. Bills. Stock. Ann. New Om- Irish Imp. Eng. Lott. Ann.nium. 5perCt. 3perCt. Tickets. 29 1902 582 59 75 801 981 fhut 188 Par 1p1 a 24 583 41⁄2P fhut 30 191 58 59 743 894 981 165 Par 1p Par id 58 5a4 p fhut 161 188 Par 1p Par 1p, 4 p 861 fhut 58 59 Par 1p Par 1p 4 P fhut English Prizes. 2 perCt.difc. 2 perCt.difc. 2 perCt.difc. 2.perCt.difc. 58 598 74 893 98 16/ 2 Par 1p Par 1p, 4Jalp 86 fhut 2 perCt.difc. [Printed by NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Paffage, Fleet Street.] BRANSCOMB and Co. Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn, 37, Cornhill, and 38, Haymark 32 ,65 fair 40,74 rain AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending December 21, 1805. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat, Rye Barley Oats Beans S. d. s. d. s. Middlef. 70 035 10 31 3 39 MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats | Beans s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 630 1033 4/41 4 63 945 232 8 29 11 52 827 7.00 224 ojoo o Cardigan 78 5 Average of Scotland, per quarter. 7,30 417 2 Chetter Nottingh. 74 042 100 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Glouceft. 82 700 76 242 7,37 11 27 444 60 1/34 232 10/23 3137 of Dorfet AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Wheat Rye Barles Oats Beans Districts s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 623 944 10 026 946 4 7 25 1000 0 6 28 000 0 646 9 4 28 1058 4 Denbigh 92 9,00 050 3.25 754 3 000 038 020 0100 0 400 3 Merionet. 92 000 600 040 620 000 0/12 420 000 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For DECEMBER, LETTER XXV. ON PRISONS. "Pudore et liberalitate liberos 1 Mr. URBAN, W " 1805. "found very dirty, every ventilator"stopped with rags, and the case"Retinere, fatius effe, quàm metu' ments close thut; and hence TEREN. Adelph. Act I. Sc. i. very offenfive. The number of Sambrook Court, poor in the house 92; whom the December 26. "mafter of the workhouse farms at ERE every magif- 3s. 6d. a head per week, and trate to perufe the provides them with clothes out "of that fum, as he informed me; following letter on the Gaol and Houfe "but of this number 28 are boys * of Correction of Bury" and girls, who are employed in St. Edmund's, a mo- "fpinning; and only three out of del would be preferved worthy of "the whole could fpell words of imitation. It is here defcribed fo copioufly and fatisfactorily as to claim approbation, whilft it renders explanation fuperfluous, except, indeed, in the words of my friend, which I extract from his private letter, inclofing the fubfequent one above mentioned. "I fhall pafs over the leffer prifons in my prefent tour of vifitation, "and haften to describe the new gaol "of Bury St. Edmund's. I know it will give you great pleasure to "be informed that it does honour "to the county, and is fuperior to "moft in this kingdom; whether "I confider its conftruction to an"fwer the three great purpofes of "fecurity, health, and morals, or "the liberality of the magiftrates, "in providing every comfort which can attend imprisonment. In the appointment of a gaoler I con"fider the county particularly for"tunate in their choice of Mr. "Orridge; who to great abilities "unites firmnefs and humanity in the difcharge of his important "truft. Immediately on my arrival at this place, I paid a vifit to the workhoufe, the rooms of which I * It is better to keep children in awe by a fenfé of fhame, and a condefcenfion to their inclinations, than by fear, one fyllable: none of the others "knew a letter of the alphabet, though I was told that fome had "been in the house fourteen years! "There are fome very appro priate prayers printed for the ufe "of the house, but there is no proper perfon to read them, to catechife the children, to pay the "leaft religious attention, or to in culcate moral duties. It was a mat❝ter of no lefs grief than furprise to find in fo polite and accomplished a town as Bury, and where charis "ties abound, fo total a neglect of the poor in the workhouse. Yefterday was the annual election of fix guardians of the poor; and the gentleman who was appointed governor, Mr. Ingram, very po"litely accompanied me to the "workhouse. He was ftrongly 'impreffed with the neceffity of a "reform in it; and, from his active "the year, during which period a regular dietary was established, "and hung up; and that a guardian attended every day to infpect the "food, treatment, &c. Why this "excellent fyftem was discontinued, "I could no where learn, “I am, dear fix, yours, moft fin"cerely, JAMES NEILD." "Bury St. Edmund's, Aug. 30, 1805." So numerous have been the objections against the establishment and management of parith workbouses, as to render it unneceffary to enlarge in this place upon the impolicy of thefe inftitutions, more efpecially as a publication* very generally read has been enriched with a preface by the elegant and impreffive pen of Thomas Bernard, els, a principal promoter of the patriotic Society for bettering the Condition of the Poor, in which the immediate and progreffive evils refulting from fuch eftablithments are explained, and the means of obviating them pointed out. Until a more falutary police respecting the poor is introduced, inadequate as they are to the relief of the poor, or to the diminution of the rates for their maintenance, they will remain. and must be fupported. To leffen, however, the evils which they too frequently tend to nurture, the prevention of inmorality, are the primary means of realizing hope, and rewarding exertion. If little influence can be produced upon thofe advanced in age; and habituated to indolence, in whom the fpirit of independence is enfeebled, and energy to regain it extinguished, the children,, who foon would imbibe the fame habits, fhould become objects of immediate attention, and moral cultivation. The inftin&t of the animals, in the care and nurture of their young, affords an incitive example to the rational creation, to which indolence and vice are unfeelingly regardless, *Reports of the Society for bettering the Condition and encreafing the Comforts of the Poor. Nefcio quâ dulcedine læti, "Progeniem nidofque fovent †.” VIRG. Georg. iv. 55. For the deleterious air of a workhouse produces a debilitating power on the mind, like contagion on thofe of the body; and which, foured by a fenfe of neglect, and the preffure of want, apathy to relative affections are engendered, and habits of induftrious exertion extinguished. Hence it is that the parochial managers of the poor fhould be ready to act as the guardians of their children; and, by proper fu perintendence, initiate them into the exercife of morality and indaftry. Frederick the Great observes, that each man contains a wild "beaft within hinfelf; and few "have the ftrength to lead him in "chains ;" but as the ferocious animals are fubdued and domefticated by perfevering care, "Fingit equum tenerâ docilem cervice magifter Ire viam quâ monftret eques §." HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 63. to the hardeft ftone may be given the form of foftnefs ; and youth may furely be bent to any direction; and, as Religion is the genuine fpring that renders the plant it waters productive of good fruit, religious habits cannot be too early and fedulously inculcated ¶. "While yet foft-mouth'd, and breeds him to the courfe." CREECH. It was afked of Roubilliac, how he could produce from ftone fuch foft and fuch fublime expreffion; who modeftly replied, "It be all in de marble, I only "pick it out," This is happily illuftrated by my friend's account of the children educated in all the Sunday fchools at Bury, both as it refpects reading, writing, and reli gious inftruction, (Gent, Mag. O&t, 1895, p. 891.) |