changes of the world shall make us deviate-"LET EVERY ENGLISHMAN DO HIS DUTY TO HIS COUNTRY." With this determination, under the bleffing of Providence, we may laugh to 'fcorn the malice of our Enemies, we may profecute our Commerce, enlarge the fources of our Wealth, cultivate Learning and the Arts, and ftill farther promote and extend the Glory of our Country. The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE poffeffes this proud diftinction. It has been respected uniformly for its EQUANIMITY, neither too much elated by temporary fucceffes, and never depreffed to defpondency by the fevereft reverfes of our National hopes. In this we shall firmly and steadily perfevere. We shall eagerly look for brighter funs and fairer fkies to thofe Powers of Europe who have moft fuffered from the vifitations of Providence, and the calamities of War, in defence of their Liberties and Laws. We fhall vindicate our own independence, and attach ourselves ftill more clofely to the venerable fabrick of our Conftitution. We would willingly live and die, with and for it. Profeffions of our zeal in the cause of Literature muft needs be fuperfluous; we can make an honourable appeal to a long feries of Volumes, which are esteemed by our Countrymen, as containing fome of the earliest, and many of the beft productions of Genius in every branch of Learning. Whilft life and health ftill remain to us, they will continue to do fo; and, in the hope that we may yet be acceffary to much that is useful, inftructive, and ornamental, we bid our Readers and our Countrymen heartily Dec. 31, 1805. FAREWELL! AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending Jan. 19, 1805. Notting.2 251 45 320 Derby 85.000 47 029 47 126 34+ 3 York 76 457 939 120 045 11 Durham 80 1000 039 224 1100 545 48 coo 200 147 041 4 24 1100 044 924 10 $5 9/26 000 531 Cumberl. 78 643 11 34 426 400 Weftmo. 84 033 436 026 Lahcaft. 80 1000 046 530 8 Worteft. 81 1046 46 30 st Chester 81 1000 050 1134 8 54 Warwick 86 500 048 627 7 Flint 91 7 Wilts 89 400 047 8 28 1058 4 Denbigh 93 4 Berks 93 200 047 127 7 505 Anglefea oo Oxford 85 100 044 1126 645 10 Carnarv. 77 Bucks 88 00045 028 844 5 Merioneth96 Brecon 81 748 044 026 800 Cardigan 76 300 Montgo. 78 100 041 722 800 Pembroke 69 Radnor 79-2000 0145 545 300 Carmart. 88 Glamorg. 91. Glouceft. 83 200 Somerfet 84 1100 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Average of Scotland, per quarter. 040 020 000 38 811 oco 43 424 860 36 820 41 10 20 049 1026 91 400 049 624 15 Devon 96 600 042 828 Cornwall 84 900 041 124 Dorfet 95 8.00 049 432 658 56 047 41/32 335 Hants 98 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans d. s. d. Diftricts des dias d. s. d. s. d. Districts s. d. s. d. sods. I have a convenient feafon I will call for thee." Should the calm and perfuafive e expoftulations of that patriot and friend of the friendless, who fo in alleviate thangers his own life to of the prifoner, rouse attention, and excite energy in the Magiftrates and others not to protract the convenient feafon, the time employed in thefe letters will not be regretted by JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM. To Dr. LETTSOM. Lincoln, Aug. 12, 1802. YOU have fo ftrongly impreffed my mind, that pure air is one of the greatelt fources of health, and, in an impure fate, the most pernicions to every human being, that it has become the first object of my attention. It is much to be regretted (as will appear by the fubfequent account) that, where circum ftances have prevented many old gaols from being re-built, no regard has been paid to improve their ventilation; may, that prifoners are fuffered to ftop with rags or firaw the very fcanty admiffion of air which the nld fyftem of imprisonment allowed. Hence it is that their cells are more offenfive in winter than in fuminer; and that, on opening the doors of their different wards, the putrid fleam is almoft Tufficient to ftrike a perfon down. PETERBOROUGH Gaol, for the liberty called the Soke, which comains 39 towns, is the property of Lord Ex eter. It is now alfo the prifon of the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of the borough of St. Peter, otherwife Peterborough. The gaoler, William Millwood, is a fheriff's officer; his falary, 301; fees, 68. 8d.; the table neither figned nor dated. A fmall court, 21 yards by 7, with a pump and a neceflary it. Three dungeons, about four yards fquare each two of them are four feps below the ground; and the third two Reps, with ftone floors and no fire places, built under the arches of the old Minfter. One of thefe dungeons is called the gaol-room, and the window being flopped up, there is only each an iron-grating over the door. The boards on which prifoners fleep are raifed two feet above the floor, which would otherwife be very damp, allows ftraw, two blankets, and a rug, there being no fire-place. The Soke to each prifoner. As there is only one court, the two prifoners (a man and a woman) were together in it when I was there. Allowance to felons, 6d. a day. Surgeon, Mr. Beetham; makes a bill. Chaplain, the Rev. John Weddred (as vicar of St. John the Baptift), to thofe under fentence of death, the court having the power of life and death. Debtors have a fpacious good room up-fairs, and, if the keeper fur nilhes a bed, pay 2s. 4d. per week each. They have no allowance. No employment provided for any. The gaot very clean. Number of prifoners Aug. 9, 1802, two, viz. one man and one woman. My remarks on this gaol, as well as the wretched bridewell Lam about to defcribe, 1 fent to the Noble Marquis whole property it is; and to this I was encouraged by the philanthropic character he bears. * PETERBOROUGH Bridewell, for the Soke, as above, has on the groundfloor a room about 7 yards long and 7 feet wide, formerly a work-fhop, which opens into a narrow flip, or court (9 feet 4 inches wide), not fecure, and the prifoners (always locked up) have not the use of it. No necellary. No water acceffible to the prifoners. Neither the act for the prefervation of health, nor the claufes againft fpirituous liquors, hung up. The two fleepingrooms, 9 feet by 6, clofe and ill ventiFated. The Suke allows ftraw on plank bedfleads, two blankets, and each prifoner. No employment, the gaol being too dark to adinit of any. When a perfon is committed to hard labour, he beats hemp in a dirty room which leads to the prifon. No religions attention. If a furgeon is wanted, Mr. Beetham attends. The keeper, John White (a penfioner); falary, 81. and commitment fee, 3s. 6d. Allowance, 6d. a day. The whole prifon must be more unhealthy, and is not much cleaner, than a pig-fty; it did not appear rug, to Peterborough gaol has no regular chaplain, nor religious attentions; but, when a prifoner is under fentence of the Baptift an iron-grated aperture in the door, 13 death, the vicar of red to at inches by 7, for the admittion of light and air. The other two dungeons have (whoever he may be) |