slater’s pan, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

slater’s pan n.

[proper name Slater, the deputy provost-marshal in Grose’s era; given the heat of the West Indies, prisoners were presumably ‘cooked’ in the ‘pan’]

the prison at Kingston, Jamaica.

1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.