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