up my side to the shoulder. I cannot get rest at night, when in my bed." On the 3rd of January, he stated:— "Eighteen months ago I was a sailor, and I fell off the maintop. THOMAS WILKINSON.-Age 21.-Sentence, six months; at the Wheel. "I have worked ten weeks. I was very well in health on coming into prison. Now, I have great pains in myst knees, in my groin, and across my loins. I feel the labour a great deal more lately. I get little sleep at night, my legs pain me so much." On the 3rd of January, he said the same. " PROSPER MILLER.-Age 22.-Sentence, six months; at the Wheel. well on "I have worked three months. I was very coming to prison. I do not wish to be better than I was. Now, I suffer great pain across my hams, loins, and, the small of my back. I have great shortness of breath. A stitch takes me in the side, about the middle of the time I am on the Wheel." On the 3rd of January, he had been taken off the Wheel; and his own words were, "I was not able to stand upon the Mill." JOHN TRUMAN.-Age 51.-Sentence, six months; at the Wheel. σε I have worked five weeks. I was not well on coming into prison. I had an impediment in my urethra, but it is infinitely worse since I have worked at the Mill! I cannot contain my water; at night it comes away from me every hour, giving me great pain." On the 3rd of January he had been released from the Wheel. MICHAEL DUFFY.-Age 21.-Sentence, three months. On the 20th of November he was working at the Wheel; but I found him lying on the floor. "I have worked one month. And I was very well in health on coming in, but the punishment here is greater than I can bear. I have been injured by a kick, and my private parts are so swelled that I cannot work! I am as ill as I can be. I am worked to that degree, I am not able to stand the Mill. I shall hardly go out alive." This examination confirmed by him on the 3rd of January. JOHN M'CORNACK.-Age 27.-Sentence, six months ; at the Wheel. "I have worked six weeks. I never have had a day's sickness before, for seven years; but now every night I cannot sleep for pains in my limbs. My feet are so swelled at night, that I can hardly get my stockings off. I have pain from my thighs entirely down. I feel my head very light. I think I am on the Mill all night, as well as the day-time." On the 3rd of January he corroborated this statement. I These two Cases are subjoined, though they were not re-examined the prisoners having been discharged from the prison previous to my last visit. I insert only that part of either, which relates to the accidents arising from the precarious nature of this complicated Machinery. GEORGE LAWSON.-Age 24.-Sentence, twelve months. "I was tossed off the Wheel, and my left shoulder has been severely injured by my falling on the stones, through the trap door-a distance of between nine and ten feet! I also severely hurt the small of my back, which I feel to this day." WILLIAM JACKSON.-Age 54.-Sentence, four months. "The edge of the Wheel caught my leg, and cut the flesh, from its giving a jirk as I was getting down. My foot was very much hurt also. It gives me great pain, is very sore, and is swelled as you see." CASES IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT GUILDFORD, be Taken on the 9th and 25th of November, and on the 24th and 25th of December, 1823. SAMUEL TOWERS.-Age 35.-Sentence, three months. On the 24th of November, Samuel Towers stated:"I have worked three weeks on the Wheel. I feel my strength going very fast. I am very much ruptured, and was born so." On the 25th of December I found that the surgeon had since examined him; and though, as I understood, he admitted the fact of rupture, yet conceived that he might still work on the Wheel. He stated to me," I. am sometimes swelled in size equal to my two fists." EDMUND CAROLL.-Age 35.-Sentence, twelve months. On the 25th of November, Edmund Caroll stated:"I fell off the Wheel on the 25th of September last, in consequence of the hand-rail giving way, and I have suffered a great deal from a contusion of the foot." On the 25th of December, he added :— 66 My foot is still very weak and much swelled, but I have gained in health and strength otherwise since I have been off the Wheel." He was not well when brought into custody, and was not put to work till the 18th of January; he remained on the Wheel about six months, till the 11th of July, and was then removed into the Infirmary from a liver complaint. On the 25th of August he returned to the Wheel, on which he continued to work till the 25th of September, when the above accident occurred. EDWARD BROUGHTON.-Age 20.-Sentence, twenty-four months. On the 25th of November, Edward Broughton stated:"I have worked about fifteen months on the Wheel. I was quite well on coming in. I am now drawn almost double, so that I can hardly move. I have a great pain and weight on my stomach, and pain in my loins and legs. If I sit down I can hardly get up again. My arm, you see, is not larger than a child's arm." The veins of his legs were becoming varicose. On the 25th of December I found him in the Infirmary, his body dreadfully swelled, and with a degree of hardness I could not have imagined. I both saw and felt his stomach. He complained also of a great pain in his side, for which he had been cupped. He added on the 1st of February:-" I have been taken off the Wheel since the 28th of November till the 13th of January, now I work only half. I am better." THOMAS WILLY.-Age 17.-Sentence, eighteen months. On the 25th of November, Thomas Willy stated:"I have worked nine months on the Wheel. I was |