October 1795.

Middlesex To His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in their General Quarter Sessions assembled on the 29th. day of
October 1795.

The visiting Magistrates on the Principal Objects of their Enquiry as
contained in the Printed orders. Report:

First: That the Prison appears to be in a state of perfect Security against any
attempts of those within it to effect their escape.

Secondly. That it is recommended by the Surgeon to the consideration of the Court
that from this time to the April Session an Allowance to the Convicted Prisoners
of a leek broth for Breakfast might materially conduce to their health - and
that the cleanliness and health of the Prisoners in general might be assisted by the
occasional use of a Warm Bath which was also mentioned in the Report made
in the last September Session.

The Male Convicts have requested that their Petition now presented
might be humbly offered to the Court.

Perhaps it would not be thought too great an indulgence to allow a
second Blanket to the Beds from this time to the April Sessions.

ThirdlyThe surgeon and Apothecary appears to pay every due attention to the
Sick, respecting whom Minutes are regularly entered in a Book for that purpose
at present there is not one Sick Person in either Ward.

Fourthly - The Attendance of the Prisoners on divine Service is duly enforced and
great Decency observable in their behaviour whilst in the Chapel.

FifthlyWith respect to the Question "If the sentence on convicted Prisoners be
properly carried into execution?" The visiting Magistrates beg leave to observe
that the 15th. Clause of the Rules and Orders strictly enjoins the Governor to
regulate the confinement of Convicted Prisoners according to the sentence of the
Court and the 25th. Clause strongly implies that no Prisoner in execution shall be
lodged in a better manner than the rest of this Class. yet that William
Newbald sentenced in the last September Session to Six Months confinement is
allowed the indulgence of a seperate Room, and is exempted from wearing the
Prison dress: - They therefore submit to the consideration of the Court how far
so lenient a Custody complies with their sentence and whether it may not be
expedient to add to the Rules & Orders already printed one more positive to the
Governor than any which appears on that head in the present Book: or at least that
such an interpitation of the two Clauses abovementioned may be signified from the