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on the 20th "incarcerated in the Common Jail" and the Debtors' prison is without the walls the Common Jail to
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As regards my refusal to comply with the application to transfer the prisoner to the Debtors' Jail, to which your Grace alludes, I beg leave to observe that even if I had considered the step advisable, which I did not, I had not legally the power to comply with such a request. The Governor has only power to grant unconditional pardon; he has no authority either to grant conditional pardon, or to change in any way the character of a sentence. Mr. Tarrant was sentenced by the court "to be
In the case of the "Daily Press" Editor who was sentenced some time back to six months' imprisonment for libel, but whose sentence did not, as in Mr. Tarrant's case, specially appoint any place of confinement, my Predecessor allowed the prisoner the indulgence of being transferred to the Debtors' prison. Upon his release, however, the Editor brought an action against Sir John Bowring for false imprisonment, which is still, I am told, pending before the Judicial Committee.