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work at a fixed price, for making each pair of shoesand hoots, according to the size and quality—in thismanner of employing those 145 men, they now earn twelve hundred dollars per month, and it is now cer-tain, that the labour performed by the prisoners willbe more than sufficient to support and clothe them,pay for bringing them from the counties, and otherincidental expenses. I have hitherto acted as agent, but the system beingnow completed, equal to my most sanguine expecta-tion, I intend this summer to resign that situation. I am, with regard and esteem,Very respectfully,Thy assured friend, THOMAS EDDY.To P. COLQUHOUN, London Eastbourne, in Sussex, 28th August, 1802. SIR, Your very acceptable letter of the 6th June, accom-panied by your valuable and interesting publication,giving an account of the State Penitentiary House inthe city of New York, was recently left, at my housein Westminster, by Mr. Wilkes, and has since beentransmitted to me to the country, to which I haveretired for a short time, with a view to a littlerelaxation from the labours attached to an arduouspublic duty. My temporary retirement has furnished me withan early opportunity of perusing with attention, andalso with much interest, your very excellent state-ment of important and useful facts, and I consider myself under infinite obligations to you, not only forthe knowledge of these facts, but for the acquaint-ance of the worthy and respectable author, who hasdevoted so much time, and made so many sacrifices,to promote the cause of humanity, and the good ofhis fellow creatures. It is a peculiar gratification to me, to have thus