Newgate still overcrowded--Some statistics--Description of interior--The various "sides" and wards--Their dimensions and uses--Debtors in Middlesex, generally paltry debts and colossal costs--Various debtors' prisons in London described--The King's Bench--The Fleet--The Marshalsea--The Compters, Ludgate, Giltspur Street, and Borough--Debtors in Newgate--Fees extorted--Garnish--Scanty food--Little bedding--Squalor and wretchedness prevail throughout--Constant quarrels and fighting--Discipline maintained only by prisoner wardsmen--Their tyranny and extortion--A new debtors' prison indispensable--Building of Whitecross Street--The criminal side--Indiscriminate association of all classes--The middle yard greatly crowded with transports awaiting deportation, and with whom mere children were constantly mixed--Deterioration rapid--Mock courts for trials of new-comers who would not adopt the ways of the gaol--Case of a decent man completely ruined--Greater ease in the master felons' side--Fees--The best accommodation was in the state side, and open to all who could pay--High fees charged--Cobbett in state side, and the Marquis of Sligo--The press yard--Recklessness of the condemned--Cashman--The condemned cells--Summary of glaring defects in Newgate--Scanty diet--Irons--Visitors admitted in crowds, including low females--Crimes constantly being hatched in Newgate--The Corporation roused to reform Newgate--Appoint committee to examine other gaols--Its report, and many useful recommendations--Few are carried out.