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<p n="128"> ecured in that Prison is admitted, but that more than a<lb></lb>
few, Compared with those who are confined in the Prisons<lb></lb>
of the County, and tried at the Hicks-Hall Sessions, are<lb></lb>
sent thither by the Justices, is absolutely denied. And<lb></lb>
how fallacious that Method of Estimation must be, which<lb></lb>
represents the Prisoners sent to Newgate by the County,<lb></lb>
as Two to One of the London Prisoners will appear by<lb></lb>
the following State of Facts. The County have several<lb></lb>
Goals, for the Delivery whereof they hold, eight Times a<lb></lb>
Year, Sessions of their own; at those Sessions Petty Larce-<lb></lb>
nies and Misdemeanors of all Kinds are tried, but the moe<lb></lb>
atrocious Offences are tried at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo110">Old Bailey</rs>
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; sometimes<lb></lb>
indeed Offenders of this latter King are committed, in the<lb></lb>
first instance, to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo111">Newgate</rs>
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, where they remain till the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo112">Old<lb></lb>
Bailey</rs>
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Sessions begin, which likewise are held eight Times<lb></lb>
a Year; but these are not One in Fifty, and much oftner<lb></lb>
are they sent to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo113">New Prison</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo114">Bridewell</rs>
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, and the other<lb></lb>
Prisons of the County,and there they remain, till, in Pur-<lb></lb>
suance of an Order of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo115">Old Bailey</rs>
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Session, made in<lb></lb>
May, 1726, doubtless for the Ease of the Court, they are<lb></lb>
from Time to Time removed Six Days before the Session<lb></lb>
begins, to be ready for Trial; and, after Trial, very few<lb></lb>
remain for any Length of Time in Newgate; Hence it<lb></lb>
appears that the City have the Custody of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo116">Middlesex</rs>
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Pri<lb></lb>
soners, triable at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo117">Old Bailey</rs>
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, for Six Days before, and<lb></lb>
during every sessions, which very seldom hold a Week; Sup-<lb></lb>
pose them we estimate their Time of keeping County Prisoners<lb></lb>
at a Fortnight for each Sessions, it will follow that Four<lb></lb>
Months in the Year is the utmost Time for which, with<lb></lb>
Truth, the City may be said to have the Custody of Coun-<lb></lb>
ty Prisoners, unless sometimes, by Accident, a few may<lb></lb>
wait for Transportation, The Allegation of a Proportion<lb></lb>
of Two to One against the City, would lead a Stranger to<lb></lb>
the Belief that the County had no Goals of their own, and<lb></lb>
that, all the Year through, and without any Intermission,<lb></lb>
the Justices were sending in Prisoners to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo118">Newgate</rs>
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, in the<lb></lb>
Proportion above mentioned, and that the City keep then<lb></lb>
as long as they do their own Prisoners; The Facts above<lb></lb>
stated are the Truth of the Case, and that Fallacy of the<lb></lb>
City's Allegation is apparent.</p>
<p n="129">Here it may be observed, that that respectful Obedience<lb></lb>
which the County have always paid to the Order of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo119">Old Bailey</rs>
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Session, is what the Citizens Mean, when they<lb></lb>
complain that the County Prisoners are Crowded into their<lb></lb>
Goal.</p>
<p n="130">The <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo120">County of Middlesex</rs>
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have two Prisons, besides<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo121">Tothill-Fields Bridewell</rs>
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, which they built, and do main-<lb></lb>
tain; and in these, though, except about Sessions Time,<lb></lb>
they are generally full, no malignant Disease hath ever yet<lb></lb>
appeared, and had the same Care been taken to prevent<lb></lb>
the Accumulation of Filth in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo122">Newgate</rs>
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, as had been exer-<lb></lb>
cised in the County Prisons, that malignant Disease, of<lb></lb>
which the Citizens so loudly complain, had very likely<lb></lb>
never appeared among them.</p>
<p n="131">The great Stress which is said on the Circumstance of a<lb></lb>
malignant Disease, makes it necessary to revert to Fact<lb></lb>
that it is extremely fitting the Public should be acquainted<lb></lb>
with. On the 27th of April, 1750. a great Number of<lb></lb>
Persons, attending the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo123">Old Bailey</rs>
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Sessions, in a Crowed<lb></lb>
Court, and uncommonly warm Weather, were seized<lb></lb>
with a Fever, Communicated, as is generally supposed, by<lb></lb>
the infection of the Newgate Prisoners, of which Disease<lb></lb>
to the Number of about Forty Persons, among whom<lb></lb>
were two of the King's Judges, and the Mayor of London<lb></lb>
lost their Lives. The late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ55">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n131-1">Michael Foster</rs>
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, one of the<lb></lb>
Judges of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo124">Court of King's Bench</rs>
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, has thought fit to<lb></lb>
perpetuate this disastrous Event, in a Volume of Reports,<lb></lb>
published by himself; and enquiring into the Causes of it,<lb></lb>
Assigns for one, the Filthiness of the Goal, and the Avenues<lb></lb>
to it.}<lb></lb>
These</p>
<p n="132">The Residue of this Paragraph goes to the real Merits of <lb></lb>
the Question, between the City and the County of Mid-<lb></lb>
dlesex, and there the City will Gladly meet them,</p>
<p n="133">It is amitted, that County Prisoners are Secured in<lb></lb>
this Prison, but it is said, that there is a Fallacy in the<lb></lb>
City's Allegation, that the Proportion of the County<lb></lb>
Prisoners to London Prisoners, is as Two to One.-If the<lb></lb>
City should be mistaken in the Proportin, they will be<lb></lb>
glad to be set right. They desire nothing more them that<lb></lb>
the true Proportion may appear, but they are well assured,<lb></lb>
their Calcution is Just.</p>
<p n="134">The County say, they will make out the Fallacy of the<lb></lb>
City's Allegation, by a State of Facts. Without following<lb></lb>
the County into the Detail of their Facts, which is very<lb></lb>
carelefsly penned, and wherein there are very great Mis-<lb></lb>
takes, it will be a full Answer to their Argumentative<lb></lb>
Proof of a Fallacy, to say the City too have their Goal and<lb></lb>
their Sessions. That the London Prisoners are sent to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo125">Newgate</rs>
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, in the same Manner as the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo126">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners,<lb></lb>
viz. The Most atrocious Offenders are committed their in<lb></lb>
the first Instance, other are sent from the Compters six Days<lb></lb>
before the Session, under the same Order of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo127">Old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Sessions, made in the Year 1726, and the City keep them<lb></lb>
just as long as they do the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo128">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners, and no<lb></lb>
longer.</p>
<p n="135">If Fact,the Time for which the City have the<lb></lb>
Custody of the County Prisoners (which is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ56">very ingeni-</rs>
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<lb></lb>
ously but a little too necely Calculated, in the opposite<lb></lb>
Column, at four Months in the Year only) rather in-<lb></lb>
creases the Proportion against the City, and the County will<lb></lb>
Probably admit this, and not their State of Facts, to be<lb></lb>
the Truth of the Case, when it occurs to them that they<lb></lb>
had quite forgot that there are <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo129">Middlesex</rs>
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Debtors to be<lb></lb>
taken into the Account, of whom there have been in<lb></lb>
Custody in this Goal, in the Course of the last ten Years,<lb></lb>
a Thousand and Fifty-fix, and only Forty-fix from London:<lb></lb>
There remain in the City's Custody all the Year through,<lb></lb>
without any Intermission and therefore swell the Propor-<lb></lb>
tion, as has been observed, against the City,</p>
<p n="136">It is somewhat extraordinay, that the County should so<lb></lb>
entirely have forgot their Debtors, for whom there is no<lb></lb>
other Goal but Newgate, when they were collecting the<lb></lb>
whose Truth of a Case, in order to detect a Fallacy in the<lb></lb>
City's Allegation.</p>
<p n="137">Now they are put in Mind of them, it is to be hoped<lb></lb>
they will attend a Moment to their wretched Situation, in<lb></lb>
a Place little better than a Dungeon, on the North Side of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo130">Newgate</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="138">This Observation, which is repeated in another Part of<lb></lb>
the Case, is not warranted by the Work crowded, in the<lb></lb>
Sense in which that Word is used in the City's Petition, where<lb></lb>
it is applied to the whole Number of Prisoners of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo131">London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo132">Middlesex</rs>
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, taken together, and not to the County<lb></lb>
Prisoners only, and therefore will not admit of this Con-<lb></lb>
struction.</p>
<p n="139">The <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo133">City of London</rs>
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will not be provoked by the most<lb></lb>
ungenerous Treatment, to say any Thing harsh; but they<lb></lb>
must insist that the County claim a Merit in respect of the<lb></lb>
Management of their Prisons, which they are not intitled<lb></lb>
to. It is a Fact, that the same malignant Disease which<lb></lb>
the City so loudly complain of, hath frequently appeared<lb></lb>
in the prisons refer'd to, and hath frequently been com-<lb></lb>
municated from those Prisons to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo134">Newgate</rs>
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, and it deserves<lb></lb>
Consideration, whether it would not be prudent and a<lb></lb>
wife Measure among the Arrangements to be hereafter made<lb></lb>
in the Goals, to prevent that Communication altogether.</p>
<p n="140">For the rest.bet the Compiler of this Case indurge his<lb></lb>
Petulance at the Expence of the City, if he pleases.But<lb></lb>
it is barbarous to revive the Memory of that unhappy Ac-<lb></lb>
cident which happened at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo135">Old Bailey</rs>
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, to would many<lb></lb>
Families, whose Relations, Friends, and Connections were<lb></lb>
involved in that Calamity, only for the sake of an ill-natured<lb></lb>
Comment</p>
<p n="141">Through</p>
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