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January 1799.
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Week, Wednesdays and Saurdays - as to the -
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Prisoners not having good provisions for the
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Money allowed by Government as the Paper states
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- Ballard a
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in the Prison procures
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that and can speak to it, I have frequently
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observed the things brought in, and they were
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always of the best quality - and as to their
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being obliged to eat their Dinners in the necessary
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as the Paper states, it is a Gross falsehood
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unless they Chuse it for some particular
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reason of their own - there is a covered shed
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in every Yard about 60. feet long, where they may
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cut, as well as in the Cells, just as they please
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In respect of what the Paper states, as a matter
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of Grievance, that on the fourth of August, the
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Prisoners were put together on the North West
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side of the Prison where the Sun never Shines
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the Prisoners never Complained of this that
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ever I heard of it is the most Comfortable
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situation in the Gaol, it is as it were without
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the body of the Prison and looks towards
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Hampstead
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Etc. - I never heard of Evans
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being ill, as the Paper states, since he has
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been in the Prison - on the 26th. day of November
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they were put into a large Room had a Table
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Chairs
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, Knives and Forks, and had a Fire Constantly
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kept for them all Day they wanted the Fire
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all Night too, which was refused, - Col. Despard
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had a Room to himself with a Fire, Chair and
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Table he desired not to be in the same Room
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