the many Alterations Additions and Improvements that have from time to time been made by the
Citizens in and to the said Goal it is still ill Constructed Close in commodious unhealthy they
humbly hope that the County of Middx is not Answerable for any of the bad Consequences
of its Construction or Situaton in as much as the City and not the County have made it what it is

That it is evident by the above state of fasts that the Citizens have been possessed of
at least two Funds amounting together to near a Millian sterling out of which for ought that
has ever yet appeared to the publick they might have rebuilt their Goal of Newgate
without any aid of the County which already in taxed at near £1000 a year for the
Maintenance of its own Goals and other purposes by a County rate of which rate your
Petitioners as justices of the Peace Conceive themselves the Guardians.

That the Revenues of the City are immense the Offices in their disposal so long ago
as the year 1721 were estimated at £152000, and a very few years will put the Citizens in
the actual Possession and receipt of such Estates as must yield an Income much more than
adequate to the expences [..]

That as the Source of these Revenues are in general Royal grants many of them under
the express Condition of well Governing the City and are enjoyed by the Citizens in their
political and Corporate capacity the Revenues arising by Virtue of these Grants cannot
be considered as private emoluments in reason and justice they ought to be applied only for
public purposes and as your petitioners humbly Conceives the defraying the necessary expences
of Magistracy the erection and repair of Goals bridges and other publick Offices are some
of those beneficial purposes for which such Grants seem Originally to have been intended
and to which the Revenue thereby arising are with the greatest propriety applicable.

For all which several reasons above mentioned as also for divers others of sing a Car
wright and Importance which your Petitioners have to offer they do deny that the said
Goal ought to be Rebuilt at the Expence of the City of London and County of Middex
in any Proportion whatever-on the Contrary they say and doubt not by the