X|Tothil- | | | | | | | | | | |Fields | | | | | | | | | | |Bridewell | 253|274| 6| 1| | 27| |154| | 715 | | | | | | | | | | | +-- | | | | | | | | | | +-- | | | | | | | | | | S| | | | | | | | | | | U| | | | | | | | | | | R|New Goal, | | | | | | | | | | R|Southwark | 130| 74| 35| 2| | 28| | | | 269 Y| | | | | | | | | | | +-- | | | | | | | | | | | +----+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+-------------- | |1674|893|418|24|56|697|149|422|129|4462 | +----+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+-------------- N.B. Although the Author has been at infinite pains to render this Summary as exact as possible, yet from the different modes adopted in keeping the accounts of Prisons, he is not thoroughly satisfied in his own mind that the View he has here given is accurate, to a point.--He is, however, convinced that it will be found sufficiently so for the purpose. [To face page 430.] It would not only remove that aversion which Prosecutors manifest on many occasions, to come forward, for the purpose of promoting the ends of public justice; but it would prevent, in a great measure, the possibility of compounding felonies, or of suborning witnesses.[125] [Footnote 125: Notwithstanding the severity of the Law, the composition of felonies and misdemeanors is carried to a much greater height than it is almost possible to believe; and various artifices are resorted to, to elude the penalties.--An instance occurred in August 1792; where a Jew was ordered to take his trial for a rape, committed on a married woman.--The offence appeared, on examination, to be extremely aggravated.--The Grand Jury however did not find a bill; which was thought a very singular circumstance, as the proof had been so clear before the Magistrate. The reasons were afterwards sufficiently explained; which show, what corrupt practices, artifices, and frauds will be used to defeat the ends of justice:--In consequence of a previous undertaking between the Jew and the husband of the woman who had been so grossly abused, a sum of £.20 was left in the hands of a publican, which the prosecutor was to receive if the bill was not found. In this confidence the woman gave a different evidence from that which she had given before the Magistrate. The Jew, however, cheated both the husband and the wife; for he no sooner discovered that he was safe, than he demanded the money of the publican and laughed at the prosecutor.]