November 1796.

manner there is Room for only six Persons between Gates
which is reserved for Evidences It appears that Lodging Rooms
for Prisoners able and willing to pay for them would be of
Advantage to the Prison and to the County at the same
time as it would bring in a considerable sum towards
defraying the Expences of the Prison - The discrimination
of Prisoners is a matter which the Committee had much
at Heart and for this purpose Mr.. Rogers was Ordered
to Survey the Ground adjoining to the New Prison with
a View to the additional Rooms before mentioned and to
make a farther separation of Prisoners by additional
Court Yards which the Committee hope may be put in a
state of Security at a small Expence to the unspeakable
advantage of Young Offenders now classed with old and
during Felons - The Committee beg leave to recommand
to the Court the Expediency of the Magistrates committing
Boys and Offenders of lender Age rather to the House of
Correction than to the New Prison as an Act of Prudence
and Charity that the Novis'd in Iniquity may not return to
an accomplished Villain in Theory and ready on the first
Occasion to carry the Principles of his new Instructors
into Effect

The Court having done me the Honour to listen
to a Proposition for adopting the method of dressing Food at
the Foundling Hospital in the New House of Correction the
Committee Resolved that Instructions should be given to
the Iron Monger and Bricklayer employed by Mr. Barnard
at the Foundling Hospital who has fully stated the
prodigious saving in the Articles of Coals, by the Adoption
of Count Rumfords Plan and at the next Meeting of the
Committee on Saturday the 19th. an Estimate of the Expence
of altering the Kitchen so as to accommodate it to the
practice of the Foundling Hospital was produced amounting
to the Sum of £53..8..0. which Expence may be defrayed by