xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">

Transcribe Bentham: A Collaborative Initiative

From Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk

Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts

JB/116/635/001

Jump to: navigation, search
Completed

Click Here To Edit

47

II. Hulk Mortality_ Sinecure made to screen it.

I thought I had done troubling your Lordship about
the Hulks: but fates have ordered otherwise. Accident
has this moment put into my hand the interesting
publication of Mr Neild. Visit to the Hulks is
March last, by the author and Sir Hen Henry.
Mildmay: the official screens broke through & among
the results the following-

N°1. Portsmouth Harbour; Captivity Hulk, March 15th 1802*. *Neild's Account
of Society for discharging
small debts
pp. 307, 322
"Many with ruptures: none with trusses: Sore
"legs and a number unable to work in consequence..
"..Cause, according to the Surgeon- an impoverished
"habit & want of proper care: viz: during their confinement
in the Gaols: in those Gaols which had been
kept crowded by Lord Pelham contrary to the law, in pursuance
of the plan laid down by the Duke of Portland.
Mortality, however, as yet a trifle: "not one half" as
great in proportion as on board the Langston Hulks;
which see: in a twelvemonth not so much as an
eight part of the whole.

N°2. Langston Harbour; La Fortuneé, March 16th
1802. "Hospital ward...Persons in all stages of disease
and with all complaints...intermixed together.
Water penetrated into it through the floor of
"the quarter deck. Straw in the sacking almost reduced
to powder & full of vermin. Decks extremely low: much
cr crowded: no proper ventilation: many of the ports
nailed down and could not be opened. Divine
service...a small part only of the Convicts can
"have access to it...Captain never affends himself."
Deaths



Identifier: | JB/116/635/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

635

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d47 / d48

Penner

john herbert koe

Watermarks

1800

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7

ID Number

38168

Box Contents

UCL Home » Transcribe Bentham » Transcription Desk