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<p n="1379">May 1798.</p>
<p n="1380">and having found by painful Experience that the Discipline<lb></lb>
as well as Security of the Prison is much interrupted and<lb></lb>
endangered by the Reception of State Prisoners whether<lb></lb>
under Conviction or by Commitment for Trial and<lb></lb>
having particularly found that Seamen of a Mutinous<lb></lb>
disposition possessed of Ingenuity heightened by Desperation<lb></lb>
require a Degree of Vigilance and Coercion incompatible<lb></lb>
with the System of this Prison Do therefore humbly<lb></lb>
intreat Your Grace to take into Consideration the<lb></lb>
difficulties under which they labour which are yet<lb></lb>
further increased by the Addition of so great a<lb></lb>
number of Prisoners of the above Description to<lb></lb>
those whom the House of Correction was originally<lb></lb>
intended to Receive and with which it is Crowded<lb></lb>
to a great Degree of Inconvenience they beg leave to<lb></lb>
state not only that an Escape of Seven of the most<lb></lb>
during Prisoners Convicted of Mutiny has already<lb></lb>
been effected by Artifices which no Ordinary Segacity<lb></lb>
could foresee or prevent but that a Discovery of a<lb></lb>
most dangerous Conspiracy and Design hath recently<lb></lb>
been made among the remaining Mutineers (one<lb></lb>
only excepted) to overpower and destroy the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ500">Governor</rs>
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and his assistants and to liberate themselves by<lb></lb>
force it their Contrivances to Escape should fail</p>
<p n="1381"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n1381-1">His Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ501">Justices of the peace</rs>
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beg leave<lb></lb>
further to state to Your Grace the Inconvenience arising<lb></lb>
from the Commitment of Prisoners for Trial to this<lb></lb>
Prison on Account of the necessary Intercourse with <lb></lb>
Persons appointed to Conduct their respective Trials<lb></lb>
which greatly disturbs the Tranquility of the Prison<lb></lb>
and opens the Door to Irregularities unknown in<lb></lb>
the Ordinary Management of it.</p>
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