February 1799.

"On Tuesday the 5th. day of February 1799. I went from
"the Session House between 12. and 1. o'Clock to No. 50 Tewin
"Street for the purpose of buying the Account published
"by Joseph Burkes relative to his treatment while
"Confined in the House of Correction Cold bath fields
"the House which is on the left side leading from Aldersgate
"Street was very Old and Miserable in Appearance
"and seemed to be a Booksellers as there was several
"Books in the Shop and Windows all of them very
"Old and apparently of little or no value just before
"I got to the House I observed a person knock at the
"Door of the Shop which was opened by a Woman with a
"Child in her Arms and who seemed by her Dress and
"appearance to be in indigent Circumstances I walked
"up with all possible haste thinking it a favourable
"opportunity to get Admission and asked her if that
"was not the place where I could purchase an Account
"that I understood had been Published of the Prison
"in Cold bath fields she replied that she believed there
"was a Person who lived in the House that I might
"purchase it of but that she had nothing at all to do
"with it that many Persons had been there for the
"same purpose and that she was very sorry the
"People who sold it lived in the House as she had had
"a great deal of trouble in Consequence of the different
"Applications that had been made to her by Persons.
"who had called there to purchase it and the Notice
"that had been given that the Person lived there who
"had Published the Account and that she wished
"them out of the House, I asked her of the Person was
"within she said she did not know but believed not
"but that his Mother was who lived up Stairs and that
"she supposed I might have it of her; I asked her to let a
"little Girl who was in the Shop go up Stairs and make