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Newgate

,—the English bastille. A large handsome stone building, elegantly fitted up for the reception of lords and pick-pockets, physicians and strumpets, honest citizens and foot-pads, Jacobites and Jacobines, who form the bulk of the nation, under the name of Dissenters and Anti-Ministerialists.

“Clausi in tenebris cum mærore & lucto, morte graviorum, vitam axigunt.”

“Yet think us not of soul so tame,

“Which no repeated wrongs inflame.”

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Newgate