To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,_1 shall be particularly obliged by your insertion in your valuablejoumal of the followsin statements, in replr to some severe and unfounded strictures in a Sunday paper of the 18th ult., on the subject of the ladies who visit the prisons of the metropolis, and also on the Equitable Loan Bank. With respect to the circumstances related in the paper alluded to of a number of female prisoners being lately conveyed by a Chat?iam coach, and whose conduct was stated to be indecorous, and "full of penitetcee anid playfulnets," it is due to those ladies who hare shown Fo much zeal for the improve- ment of prisoners of their own sex, and who. without neglecting any domestic or other duty, have devoted to that ohject a portion of the time which many bestow on their own indulgence, that the public shoult] be informed that no such prisoners have been sent by any conveyance from any of the prisons visited by the ladies for several nsonths past; and then in hackney-coches to Deptford, and conducting themselves in the most orderl manner. Although en- tertaining a very difi'erent opinion fTon- the editor of the Sunday paper, of the merit. of the Equitable Loan Bank, I should not have made any observation on that subjecedid I not fel it due to the lady whose name was introduced, torequestthe favour of your inserting an unqualified contradiction of that part of the article which couples her name with that intirtution as, not only wsawhe.ldAy-so aliedlto ir. no way concerned in the origin or formatldi of it, but she wa.S ac- tually one hundre'd miles from London during the whole time, and ignorant of the existence of such a plan, undl after it was announced to the public. I believe few persons have a more correct sense than her.self of what is becoming her sex ard station, and perhaps it is not asking too much in soliciting from gentlemen and men of education tht exercise of that delicacy and forbearance towards fe- malesl which becomes theirs. I beg to apologize very sincerey for thus intruding on your notice what may be considered matterst of urivat fpAlin . r-,, in r- specttultJy &c. . I . JOSEPHf FRY. .. -J tlurtl H-court, oa or atn montn, iU4. Since writing the foregoing, I thoiight it deaimble to obtain an official confinnation cf my amertions relative to the female pTi- soners; a-nd in consequence T addresced a,note toj. H. Capper, Es., of the Secretary of State's-office, by wbom I was favoured with the following reply:- J P W" hitehall, May 4, 1824. " Dear Sir,-I can assure you, that there have not been any fe- rnales removed to f'hatham, or any ether port, being convicts. I am inclined, from the inquiries I nmade at Chathamu, to suppose that the females alluded to in the public prints, were a set of loose women going to that port to meet a ship about to be paid ef. I am, dear Sir, yours truly, "J. H. CAPPER." TO THE EIDITOR OF THE: TIMJES.