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We have just had time to glance at a work entitled Remarkcs upon Prison Discipline, b5-c. ~c, in a Letter ad- dressed to the Lord-Lieutenant and Magistrates of the county of F.ssec. With a view to attract the public atten- tion to this pamphlet, it may be cnough to state that the author is Mr. WVESTvRX, Member for Essex, who stantds very nearly foremost amrong the intelligetnt, independent, active, and useful Country Gentlemen of England. Mr. WE5TERN'S object in this address is,by improving the dis- cipline of prisons, to make punishment eifeectual to its le- gitimate end-the reformation of those who have alrea(ly incurre(l it, and the restraint and preservation of those who have not. His reflections are (Irawn from an exten- sive tour through many parts of the kingdlom, and are sup- ported by reasonings which well (leserve the notice of Par- liament and of the Magistracy. So far as we can judge on a hasty inspection, this appears to be one of the most suc- cessful appeals whichl ho Pver proceeded from the pen of tIli: pat, jutic a,:d enlightened( gentloman.