Add MS 75899-75900

Althorp Papers. Vols. dxcix, dc. Correspondence relating to the day-to-day functions of the Criminal Department; 1806-1807. This originated in 1800, to deal with prosecutions, prisons, the police and related matters, including criminal lunatics, extradition matters, processing the prerogative of mercy, producing statistical information concerning criminals and the police and the publication of the Police Gazette and Hue and Cry. In 1802 an inspector was appointed to manage the hulks on the Thames at Plymouth and at Portsmouth among other places. These originally served as prisons for convicts awaiting transportation but came to be used for those serving their sentences in the royal dockyards or arsenals or in dredging work on the Thames. The present correspondence relates to all these matters, including material relating to the trial of a group of men at Warrington for homosexual practices.

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