Corporation anxious to check gaol fever--- Appoints committee to report as to building a new prison--York Castle proposed for imitation--Plans obtained, and given to city architect, Mr. Dance--Nothing is done, and in 1757 neighbours petition Corporation that they are afraid of infection from Newgate--A new committee appointed, which furnishes designs, but Government will not give grant in aid, and project again falls through--Revived again and again to no effect--In 1762 Press-yard destroyed by fire--Two prisoners burnt to death--It is at last decided to rebuild--7 Geo. III. empowers Corporation to raise funds--Specification of expenditure--£50,000 total amount proposed--Found insufficient, and an additional £40,000 authorized--Lord Mayor Beckford lays first stone in 1770--The new gaol is gutted in the Lord George Gordon riots--Origin of these riots--Lord George presents, at head of procession, petition to House of Commons--Riotous demonstrations--Mob attracted to Newgate--The gaoler, Mr. Akerman, summoned to surrender, and release his prisoners--He refuses, and seeks help from Sheriff’s--Rioters storm Newgate--Sack Governor’s house--His furniture is burnt against the gates, which finally give way--Rioters, headed by Dennis the hangman, rush in and set inmates free--Extraordinary effects of the fire--Other gaols attacked and burnt--The military called out, and much blood shed before calm is restored--Many released prisoners return to Newgate of their own accord--Some try to rekindle the fire--Lord George arrested, lodged in the Tower, and tried for high treason, but acquitted--Six years later, he takes up the case of some Newgate prisoners in a pamphlet, called libellous, for which he is prosecuted--Arrested in Jewish garb in Birmingham--He undertakes his own defence--He protests against the criminal law, and declares himself the victim of persecution--Prosecuted for second libel against Queen of France and the French Ambassador--Lord George is found guilty on both counts--Sentenced to fines and imprisonment in Newgate--Dies in Newgate of gaol fever, 1793--Recovery of Newgate keys, stolen during riots--Cost of repairing gaol after the fire.