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<p n="155"> of which ye so much Complain, is no other than the ne-<lb></lb>
cessary Consequence of your uniting those two distinct Of-<lb></lb>
fices, and the several Jurifdictions attendant thereon, in<lb></lb>
the same Person; The Prison so London is Situate in, and<lb></lb>
is one of the Gates of the City; the Session of Goal De-<lb></lb>
livery for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo143">Middlesex</rs>
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are held in London, for the Conveni-<lb></lb>
ence of the City, that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo144">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners can therefore be<lb></lb>
tried no where but in London: The Court sends for such<lb></lb>
of them as are triable at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo145">Old Bailey</rs>
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(and they, as has<lb></lb>
been Shewn, are but a Small Proportion of the Whole Num-<lb></lb>
ber of County Prisoners) in order for Trial, and the<lb></lb>
Sheriff, for his own Security, keeps them in Newgate<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo146">City Prison</rs>
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, as a Place of the Greatest Strength and<lb></lb>
Safety. Is not all this the Act of the City; are not the<lb></lb>
County in this Respect absolutely Passive; or with what<lb></lb>
Face of Truth can it be ventilated abroad, that the<lb></lb>
County croud their Prisoners in an the City, or can any<lb></lb>
rational Conclusion be deduced from these Premisses to<lb></lb>
charge the County with the Expences attending the Prison<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo147">Newgate</rs>
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, in any Proportion whatever?</p>
<p n="156">And it seems at some Times, the Citizens themselves<lb></lb>
entertain the same Opinion of the Matter, Viz, that the<lb></lb>
County has nothing to do with Newgate; for they dispose<lb></lb>
of the Places of the keeper and Ordinary, and in two In-<lb></lb>
stances have they assumed the Right of nominating a Clerk<lb></lb>
of Arraigns, for the Trial of the County Prisoners; and<lb></lb>
not to mention that they have altered, enlarged, and im-<lb></lb>
proved the Goal, till at last, as they themselves say, it is<lb></lb>
become a most dangerous Nusance: They never thought it<lb></lb>
at all necessary to consult the County, as ti its Con-<lb></lb>
struction: some few Years ago they insured the Prison<lb></lb>
from Fire in their own Names.in the the Hand in Hand<lb></lb>
Fire Office; soon after a Fire happened therein; they<lb></lb>
applied to the Office received 500l and laid<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
they thought fit.</p>
<p n="157">In all that related to the Government of Management<lb></lb>
of the Prison, the Citizens have constantly exercised their<lb></lb>
own Judgment, without consulting the County; and<lb></lb>
whenever it has been necessary to apply to the Great<lb></lb>
Council of the Nation, in Matters relating to the Goal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo148">Newgate</rs>
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, they have done it alone, and without the Inter-<lb></lb>
vention or Concurrence of the County; and of this a very<lb></lb>
remarkable Instance shall now be given.</p>
<p n="158">Immediately after the dreadful Conflagation in 1666, in<lb></lb>
which the Greater Part of the City. was consumed, the<lb></lb>
Citizens thought it necessary to implore the Aid of Parlia-<lb></lb>
ment, to enable them to rebuild their public Edifices: At<lb></lb>
that Time it was never pretended that the County were<lb></lb>
Chargeable with any Part of the Expence of rebuilding<lb></lb>
Newgate, and the Parliament were so little disposed to<lb></lb>
think so, that by an Act of 19 CAR. III they granted<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
City a Duty arising from Coals brought into the Port or<lb></lb>
London, which is expresly appropriated, among other<lb></lb>
Things, to the rebuilding the City Goals. Enabled by<lb></lb>
this Grant, which by their own Account, produced<lb></lb>
736, 804l. the City rebuilt, among other public Edifices,<lb></lb>
the greater Part of the now Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo149">Newgate</rs>
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, and, to<lb></lb>
intimate how. little they thought the County had to do<lb></lb>
with it, they stamped it with the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo150">City Arms</rs>
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, and by In-<lb></lb>
scriptions on the East and West Fronts of the Gate, com-<lb></lb>
memorated the AEra of its Re-edification, and the Names<lb></lb>
of the Magistrates under whose Government it was begun<lb></lb>
and compleated, in Terms that import little lest than a<lb></lb>
sole and exclusive Property in it.</p>
<p n="159">Here</p>
<p n="160">obtained this Power is therefore nothing to the Purpose;<lb></lb>
not is this Burthen either a necessary or a Possible Conse-<lb></lb>
quence of uniting those distinct Offices, and the several<lb></lb>
Jurisdictions attendant thereon, in the same Person-the<lb></lb>
Custody of the Goal may be said to be attendant upon the<lb></lb>
Shrievalty-And in Old Time, the Sheriff did sometimes<lb></lb>
repair the Goal, but then he was allowed the Expence in<lb></lb>
his Account, before the Barons of the Exchequer.In more<lb></lb>
modern Times, all the Expences of Repairs, Etc. fell upon<lb></lb>
the County, and they are now defrayed out of the County<lb></lb>
Rates, but there never was a Time when the Expence<lb></lb>
fell upon the Shreivalty. If the Shrievalty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo151">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had remained upon the same Footing, as the Shrievalty of<lb></lb>
other Counties, not a Shillings of the Expence of the Goal<lb></lb>
would have fallen upon it; how them can this Burthen be<lb></lb>
a necessary Consequence of uniting that Office with the<lb></lb>
distinct Office of the Shrievalty of London? Or how can<lb></lb>
the mere Situation of the Goal (whether an Hundred Yards<lb></lb>
within or without <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo152">Holborn-Bars</rs>
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. for the Conveniency of<lb></lb>
the City or County, or both) vary the Question, upon<lb></lb>
whom the Burthen or the ordinary Expences of the Goal<lb></lb>
should fall? Much less can so trifling and unmeaning a<lb></lb>
Circumstance, influence the Question. Who shall Contri-<lb></lb>
bute to the extraordinary Expence of a great Plan of Im-<lb></lb>
provement of the Goal, for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo153">the common</rs>
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Benefit o the<lb></lb>
City and County, and perhaps the whole Kingdom, which<lb></lb>
it would be a Disgrace to Justice and Humanity to neglect<lb></lb>
any longer? the City agree with the County it think<lb></lb>
ing, that from such Premises, no rational Conclusion can<lb></lb>
be deduced.</p>
<p n="161">The Citizens claim to have the Government of the Goal<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo154">Newgate</rs>
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, and they support the ordinary Repairs of it,<lb></lb>
which may in some Measure account for their exercising<lb></lb>
their own Judgement without consulting the County, in<lb></lb>
Matters which relate to the Government of the Prison, or<lb></lb>
the Repair of it.-not that they can acquit themselves of<lb></lb>
all Imputation for not consulting the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ57">Justices of Peace</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
assembled at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo155">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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upon the Subject of their Peti-<lb></lb>
tion for a new Goal Consultation and Communications<lb></lb>
must certainly have prevented their Opposition, as no<lb></lb>
Reason can be assigned for their Opposition, but the omit-<lb></lb>
ting to pay them that Mart of Respect, which was cer-<lb></lb>
tainly a Fault.-After this public Acknowledgement the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
faw thier Opposition, and<lb></lb>
co-operate with them in a Work of great Utility to the<lb></lb>
County, of which they are Guardians.</p>
<p n="162">With Respect to the Appointment. of the Keeper and<lb></lb>
Ordinary, the Citizens do certainly dispose of those places,<lb></lb>
and poay large Salaries to those Officers- Of late Years,<lb></lb>
they have added to the Salary of the former of these, in<lb></lb>
Lieu of Fees which the Commissioners of Goal- Delivery,<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo156">Old Bailey</rs>
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have taken away, being of Opinion, that<lb></lb>
the exacting them made it too expensive for poor Men to<lb></lb>
be acquitted-With Regard to the Clerk of the Arraigns,<lb></lb>
for the Trial of County Prisoners, the County are in a<lb></lb>
Mistake-The City do not assume the Right of nomina-<lb></lb>
ting that Officer-In the two instances alluded to, the<lb></lb>
Commissioners of Goal- Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo157">Middlesex</rs>
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, sitting at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo158">Old Bailey</rs>
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, the Judges upon the Rota being present,<lb></lb>
and concurring, assumed (as it is called) the Right of no-<lb></lb>
minating their own Officer.-The Wit and Humour of the<lb></lb>
rest of the Paragraph, is too pointed to admit of an Answer.</p>
<p n="163">When the Effects of this dreadful Conflagration were<lb></lb>
under the Consideration of Parliament, they were very little<lb></lb>
disposed to enquire who ought to rebuild either Goals or<lb></lb>
Parish- Churches.They thought fit to provide a Fund for<lb></lb>
these, and many other Public works. Regardless in that<lb></lb>
Time of Distress who were by Law bound to repair.</p>
<p n="164">It is true, that this Grant produced 730<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
appears, that Part of the Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo159">Newgate</rs>
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was rebuilt out<lb></lb>
of this Fund, for in the Account of Payment, there is an<lb></lb>
Article of 10863l. 16s. for Newgate.</p>
<p n="165">As to what follows in this Paragraph, the County give<lb></lb>
the City Credit for more Meaning in their Hieroglyphicks,<lb></lb>
upon the Walls, than they pretend to.</p>
<p n="166">The</p>
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