HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR T
UUT NO THE HOME DEPARTMENT, &c. &colti

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AN APPENDIX OF NOTES AND CASES.
OF NOTES AN

BY

ONE OF HIS CONSTITUENTS, AND A MAGISTRATE
OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

189829

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1900.

It is perfectly true, that the labour of the Tread-wheel,
unless it be regulated with great care, may, to use the
language of an able and experienced Governor of a
Prison (in a recent communication with the Committee)
become, in the hands of some, AN ENGINE OF TERRIBLE

OPPRESSION.

Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the
Improvement of Prison Discipline, p. 36.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Writer of the following pages disclaims all literary pretensions; and is sensible how inadequately his humble talents have enabled him to point out the various and complicated evils of this new and formidable engine of terror, the Tread-wheel. He is aware that by omitting some remarks, and modifying others, he might have less exposed himself to censure and opposition: but he took up his pen to record the honest sentiments of his heart, and the deliberate conviction of his mind. He loves his country, and the judicature of his country—that justice and impartiality with which its laws have been administered to every class of society; to the poor and friendless, equally with the rich and powerful: and he now