Dr. Bond.
TO THIE EDITOR OF THE TIMIES. Sir,-You have published a letter frora the Rlev. Dr. Bond, which has in part for its object to show, that the Doctor intended to act towards his servant with lenity ra- thor than harshness. Tho Doctor appears to be under strong delusion. Perhaps, if the following questions were put to him, it might tend to lead him to an usefirl self-examination . |Did he ever hear of a humane man so unnecessarily con- signing a female domestic servant to the eage for a night ? There was no great probability of her escaping from him before the next morning; ana if she should, he knew her fhiends, and where to find her. Did he not know what sort of a place the cage is, and that it is the winter season ? Did it never occur to hinm, that to confine a female used to the comforts enjoyed by domestics in respectable families in such a place, at such a season,'and for the night, would almost to a certainty lay her on a sick bed, and very proba- bly occasion death? If he intended not to be ajudge in his own cause, but to hiave her case investigated at Marvlebone-street, why did lhe not direct thie oonstable to bring her to town for that purpose the next morning? And why, in place of doing that, or taking any other step to briig the case bcfore the magistrates, did he occupy himself in running about after the girl's father? After he had received information of the injury the girl had sustained, and was sustaining, from her improper con- finement, why did he not immediately send directions to the constable to haYe her properly attended to; and as soon as she was in a fit state to be removed, brought up for ex- amination, instead of illegally exacting from her father an undertaking for her appearance whenever the Doetor might be pleased to call for lier ? I think the Doctor will find, that, in the opinion of most people, the fair inference from his eondust is this-that he never intended to take the girl before his brother magis- trates at all, hut by imprisOninlg her a few davs anid nights hl the cjage, without troable or expense to hiniself; summa- rily, to inflict a heavier punishmerut in fact, than after con- viction vvould have been awarded to the offence with which she was charged. It is to be observed, that the gi's father was officially engaged at Hicks's Hall when the Doctor first called at his house-from a man so engaged, probably a ma- gistrate residing in Marylebone, might think he had no great reason to fear any troublesome notice of a little stretch of miuthnritur- Ynrmnt ho;r1-1 rn - INQUISITOR. I Dec. 1f. DR., BOND.