Continued, Thursday, 31st. Jany. 1799 .

Reported
Select Committee

greater degree of real reform and of profitable labour wod.
be obtained; and lastly, if Boys and Girls could be taught
some easy and useful employment in a shorter period, more
young Persons might be endower with the means of an honest
livelihood than can be upon the present mode of an
Apprenticeship for Seven Years.

No appearnce
benefit upon of
epresent system

ye. great defect
no distive him in
food or treatment
bety eieled indust
rious. the proflijate
dwell disored

Prisns. no share
Jearnings

refer to Dorchester
Oxford & glourester
Houses of Correctn . of
whene diet is
in purportion to
earnings & behaviour
Print. whene
share of Carning
afforded

Your Committee observed with great concern that there
is no appearance and very little prospect of any reformer
amendment being effected upon the Present system in any
of the Persons in Bridewell, and that some of them, of the
Women at least, are likely to continue for some time an
expence to the establishment. Stappears that one great
defect of the present system is, that in Bridewell there is
no distinction, either in food or in treatment, between the
Edle and the industrious and between the profligate and
the well disposed; but that those who are capable and
would be willin to work, receive the same dict, the same
unpositable task, and the same uniform measurer with
those who persevere in the disgraceful resolution of living,
as the drones of Society on the labour of others. It appears
also that the Prisoners receive no Share, whatever of their
carnings, either given at the time as a present gratification,
and inducement to exertion, or husbanded for them till they
quit the House and then applied as the means of placing
them in a way of livelihood. Your Commitee however.is
aware that the present produce of their labour is not of an
amount to allow them any benefit out of it, at the same time
it cannot help referring to the regulations of the Houses of
Correction at Dorchester, Oxford, and Gloucester, and to those
of some other well regulated establishments of that Kind,
where the gradations of diet are in proportion to the
carnings and good behaviour of the Prisoner; and where
a large and liberal Share, of his earnings is reserved for him
to set him off on guitting the House in an advantageous course