mast feel that his state is the most abject submission. But
to trace him through all the scenes of misery ; his privations
producing: debility and disease ; see htm stretched on a bed
of languishing; and notwithstanding the greatest attention
to his wants, his confinement produces diseases,- that baffle
the skill of the physicians/ and terminate in death. Let it
be remembered, the reports of the deaths in the city of all
above the age of eighteen, are as 1 to 900 ; in the prison, as
1 to 250. And when understood, that many of those par-
doned are, by long confinement, emaciated and broke down
by disease, and expire in a short time after their liberation^
it may justly be stated,, that the severities of the prison
occasion the death of two per month, which, if publicly ex-
ecuted, a general sympathy ami disgust would pervade all
classes of society. It therefore follows, to increase the se-
verity of punishment, you will swell the list of its victims.
