Half-past 1. Constable gone his rounds; 23 watchmen at one shilling per night for six months, and nine-pence the other six, with candles; no disorders.
St. Martin's.
Two o'clock. Constable, regulator, and beadle on duty; 43 watchmen at 14l. per ann. candles and great coats, every thing quiet, beats large.
Half-past 2. Constable, house-keeper, and beadle on duty; 22 watchmen at one shilling per night, down to eightpence halfpenny; no disturbance.
St. Clement's Danes.
Past 3. No constable on duty, found a watchman there at a great distance from his beat; from thence went to the night-cellar facing Arundel-street in the Strand, which is in the Dutchy, and there found four of St. Clement's watchmen drinking; St. Clement's watchmen 22 at one shilling each.
St. Mary-le-Strand.
No attendance, having only two constables which only attend every other night; 3 watchmen, Dutchy included, at one shilling each; a very disorderly cellar near the New-church for selling saloop, &c. to very loose and suspected persons."
The number of felons who had been imprisoned in Newgate during the year 1772, amounted to the amazing number of 1475; from 1747 to 1764, the number had never exceeded 1300; from the year 1763 to 1772, the greatest number of prisoners who died in Newgate within twelve months was 36, and the least 14.