A letter on the nature and effects of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel ... / with an appendix of notes and cases. [By J.I. Brisco] by one of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey.

  • Briscoe, John Ivatt, 1791-1870.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter on the nature and effects of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel ... / with an appendix of notes and cases. [By J.I. Brisco] by one of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The Writer of the following pages dis¬ claims all literary pretensions ; and is sensible how inadequately his humble talents have enabled him to point out the various and complicated evils of this new and formidable engine of terror, the Tread-wheel. He is aware that by omitting some remarks, and modifying others, he might have less exposed himself to censure and opposition: but he took up his pen to record the honest senti¬ ments of his heart, and the deliberate con¬ viction of his mind. He loves his country, and the judicature of his country—that justice and impartiality with which its laws have been administered to every class of society; to the poor and friendless, equally with the rich and powerful: and he now