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to about i5,oool. The regulations for the police, 

 and interior management of the prifon, are chiefly 

 taken from Sir George O. Paul's rules for Glou- 

 cefter gaol and bridewell, with fome alterations to 

 adapt them to this building ; and the two principles, 

 of induftry, and reflexion by the judicious applica- 

 tion of folitude, are happily combined. 



The work was begun in the year 1789, and was 

 finiflied in 1795; has been well executed by Mr. 

 John Fentiman, of Newington-Butts, Surry; and 

 is by many thought to be Mr. Blackburn's chef 

 d'ceuvre in this branch of architefture. ;^. 10,000 

 was borrowed at four per cent, towards this work, 

 and the reft of the expence, as well as the intereft 

 of the lOjOool. has been defrayed- and paid out of 

 the county ftock, and out of the produce of the 

 fale of the old gaol and old houfe of correction ; and 

 the average number of county rates, of about 500I. 

 each, raifed during the fix years this work was pro- 

 ceeding, has not exceeded the average number which 

 had been collected for two years previous to its com- 

 mencement, confequently the burthen cannot have 

 affefted, or even have been perceived by, any indi- 

 vidual. The gradual reduction of the debt of 

 lOjOool. is to commence immediately, and the whole 

 is to be liquidated within fourteen years from the 

 time of borrowing the feveral fums refpeftively, 

 agreeably to aft of parliament. 



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