May 1798.

and having found by painful Experience that the Discipline
as well as Security of the Prison is much interrupted and
endangered by the Reception of State Prisoners whether
under Conviction or by Commitment for Trial and
having particularly found that Seamen of a Mutinous
disposition possessed of Ingenuity heightened by Desperation
require a Degree of Vigilance and Coercion incompatible
with the System of this Prison Do therefore humbly
intreat Your Grace to take into Consideration the
difficulties under which they labour which are yet
further increased by the Addition of so great a
number of Prisoners of the above Description to
those whom the House of Correction was originally
intended to Receive and with which it is Crowded
to a great Degree of Inconvenience they beg leave to
state not only that an Escape of Seven of the most
during Prisoners Convicted of Mutiny has already
been effected by Artifices which no Ordinary Segacity
could foresee or prevent but that a Discovery of a
most dangerous Conspiracy and Design hath recently
been made among the remaining Mutineers (one
only excepted) to overpower and destroy the Governor
and his assistants and to liberate themselves by
force it their Contrivances to Escape should fail

His Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the peace beg leave
further to state to Your Grace the Inconvenience arising
from the Commitment of Prisoners for Trial to this
Prison on Account of the necessary Intercourse with
Persons appointed to Conduct their respective Trials
which greatly disturbs the Tranquility of the Prison
and opens the Door to Irregularities unknown in
the Ordinary Management of it.