F.E.
THE
CASE
OF
The CITY OF LONDON,
WITH RESPECT TO
The GOAL of NEWGATE

THE Goal of Newgate , which is the common Goal of the City of London , and the
County of Middlesex , and is Situate in the very Heart of this Metropolis, hath been
long complained of, on account of the Closeness and Incommodiousness of the
Building, and its total Unfitness for the Reception of the grat Number of Priso-
ners crowded into it, at th Opening of the several Sessions held at the Old Bailey .

Upon a Survey thereof, it appears, that the Goal cannot be rendered Healthy and Commo-
dious, without being taken down and rebuilt upon a more extended Plan, which will be
attended with an Expence, on a modereate Estimate, of 40,000 l.

The City of London have, for many Years past, maintained and supported the Goal, and
the ordinary Repairs of it, but the rebuilding it upon the Plan proposed, is too great a Work
for them to engage in singly. - They would gladly contribute their reasonable Proportion, and
have made their humble Application to Parliament, upon that Foundation.

And for this they have been traduced in a printed Paper, intituled, The Case of the County of
Middlesex , with Respect to the Goal of Newgate .

They appeal to the Public to judge between them and the County of Middlesex , whether
they have deserved to be so treated.

And to enable the Public to form a Judgment upon this Subject, they Subjoin the printed
Case with their Answer to it, in opposite Columns, Paragraph by Paragraph.

And be the Event of their Application to Parliament as it may, they trust they shall be
thought to have deserved the Thanks of the Public, for their Endeavours to remove a most
dangerous Nusance, from the Capital of the King's Dominions, and to promote a salutary
Measure, essential to the well governing of the City of London , and County of Middlesex .

The CASE of the County of Mid-
dlesex, with Respect to the Goal of
Newgate .

THE Goal of Newgate is, and for upwards of
600 Years hath been, a Common Prison, and
Place of Security, for Felons, and other Offen-
ders; and, so far as it tends to secure, and
bring to Punishment, those who by Acts of Rapine and
Violence, endanger the Persons and Properties of Mankind,
it seems to be of public Use and Benefit: Notwithstanding
which, the Citizens of London , and several Tradesmen,
inhabiting near the said Goal, have of late laboured to re-
present it as a most dangerous Nusance.

In

The ANSWER.

It is certainly true, that the Goal of Newgate , so far
as it tends to secure and bring to Punishment, those
who by Acts of Rapine and Violence, endanger the
Properties of Mankind, is of public Use and Benefit,
and the Citizens with that the County of Middlesex would
see it in that Light; and yet in Respect of the Closeness
and Incommondiousness of the Building, admitting neither
of a free Circulation of Air or Water; the Multi [..]
poor Wretches confined there, many of them brought
thither diseased, too often infecting, and always corrupt-
ing one another, from the unavoidabel Communication
with each other; the Numbers who die there every
Year of a malignant Distemper; the Possibility of that
Distemper once more reaching the Sessions-House, and
communicating itself to the Neighbourhood, and even be-
coming epidemical, not to mention that many Econo-
mical Dispositions necessary for the reasonable Accommo-
dation of the Prisoners are wanting, and cannot be sup-
plied; the Goal of Newgate , in its present State, is truly
represented to be a most dangerous Nusance.

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