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the keeper of the Town Hall Gaol, described in paragraphs 5 and 7 of your despatch No. 166, accelerated the death of the unfortunate man Hurdle, and the case of the prisoner Callender, in the Glendairy Prison, as related in paragraph 12 of the same despatch, discloses a similar excess of authority on the part of the keeper of that prison. This prisoner, who was punished fourteen times during the year (and three times illegally) was afterwards reported to be insane.
7. Another convict in Glendairy Prison, who had been under medical. treatment during June, July, August, and September, was reported for disorderly conduct and dis- obedience, and for saying to a superintendent, "You are paid to talk." For this offerice he received, on the 27th of September, by order of Mr. Fitzherbert Allegne, a Visiting Justice, a flogging of twenty-four lashes, and was in hospital from the wounds on his back until the 19th of October.
I shall be glad to know what course you propose to pursue with reference to the keepers of these prisons, and also as regards the Visiting Justices, who, by their neglect and indifference in the discharge of their duties, and in the case of Mr. Fitzherbert Allegne, by a want of moderation in the exercise of the functions reposed in him, appear to me to have incurred very grave responsibility.
8. It has been very painful to me to be compelled to expressed such strong dis- approbation of the administration of the prisons in Barbados, but the facts which have been brought under my notice have left me no alternative.
9. I continue to place much confidence, not only in your care and energy, but in the disposition of those connected with public affairs, to support you in effecting all necessary and proper reforms.
I have, &c. (Signed) CARNARVON.
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