...religious instruction to their inmates. system pursued with respect to convicts on board the Hulks. The great principles which your Committee have endeavoured...association of criminals in the prisons on shore, the profaneness, the vice, the demoralization that are its inevitable consequences, applies in its fullest...

...Hulks. The great principles which the Committee have endeavoured to establish, are the necessity of the separation of criminals, and of a severity of punishment...necessarily deficient, it is actually opposed to them.' — P. 12. • • * * * 1 The minutes of evidence furnish ample testimony that the Hulks are not dreaded,...

...disapprobation of the whole system pursued with respect to convicts on board the Hulks." * * • * * " The great principles which your Committee have endeavoured...association of criminals in the prisons on shore, the profaneness, the vice, the demoralization that are its inevitable consequences, applies in its fullest...

...inferior class, and with extremely imperfect ideas of discipline, prevailed on board these prison ships. The following extracts from the report of the Committee...association of criminals in the prisons on shore, the profaneness, the vice, the demoralisation, that are its inevitable consequences, applies in its fullest...

...inferior class, and with extremely imperfect ideas of discipline, prevailed on board these prison ships. The following extracts from the report of the Committee...association of criminals in the prisons on shore, the profaneness, the vice, the demoralisation, that are its inevitable consequences, applies in its fullest...