Every inquiry in the progress of this Work proves a radical defect somewhere.
While the public tribunals are filled with Judges, the purity of whose conduct adds lustre to their own and the national character, why should not every subordinate part of the Criminal Jurisprudence of the Country be so organized, as to co-operate, in the greatest possible degree, with the efforts of those higher orders of the Magistracy in accomplishing the purposes of substantial justice?
Nothing could tend more to promote this object, than the appointment already proposed of a Public Prosecutor for the Crown.
An institution of this kind would terrify the hordes of miscreants now at open war with the peaceable and useful part of the Community, in a greater degree than any one measure that could possibly be adopted.
It would be the means of destroying those hopes and chances which encourage criminal people to persevere in their depredations upon the Public.
A Summary View of the Prisoners committed, tried, punished, disposed of, and discharged in the Metropolis, in One Year, ending in October, 1795.
Number of prisoners, punished and disposed of.
| Names of Prisons. | Died | Capitally convicted | Sentenced to Transportation | Imprisoned in Newgate | Imprisoned in Bridewell Hospital | Imprisoned in the House of Correction of Middlesex | Imprisoned in Tothil-Fields Bridewell | Imprisoned in Surry Gaols | Sent to the Philanthropic and Marine Societies | Sent to serve his Majesty in the Navy and Army | Passed to Parishes | Sent to Hospitals | Total | |
| London | Newgate | 7 | 51 | 153 | 85 | 54 | 20 | 39 | 409 | |||||
| Poultry Compter | 334 | 10 | 44 | 72 | 460 | |||||||||
| Giltspur Compter | 249 | 75 | 125 | 44 | 493 | |||||||||
| Bridewell Hospital | 4 | 835 | 44 | 883 | ||||||||||
| Middlesex | New Prison Clerkenwell | 5 | 3 | 58 | 66 | |||||||||
| House of Correction, in Cold Bath Fields | 4 | 128 | 132 | |||||||||||
| Tothil Fields Bridewell | 2 | 7 | 37 | 122 | 26 | 194 | ||||||||
| Surry | New Gaol, Southwark | 10 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 38 | ||||||||
| 22 | 61 | 174 | 85 | 583 | 54 | 37 | 36 | 10 | 216 | 1282 | 115 | 2675 | ||
| 16 executed | 106 transported |