Overview In 1829, Sir John Beckett (1775-1847) was Judge Advocate General and Member of Parliament for Haslemere in Surrey, England. In this letter, he wrote to John Henry Capper of Lowther [Castle] in Penrith, Cumbria, who was a Home Office official from 1815 to 1847, who was at the time Superintendent of Prisons and the Hulk Establishment. Beckett wrote to Capper at the instigation of [Michael Thomas?] Sadler (1780-1835), a Member of Parliament for Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. Sadler had...