The Miseries of goals and the cruelty of goalers : being a narrative of several persons now under confinement.

Cold Bath Fields Prison , by some called the English Bastile! The speech of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. (on Tuesday, May 21, 1799,) in the House of Commons.

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The Miseries of goals and the cruelty of goalers : being a narrative of several persons now under confinement.

Cold Bath Fields Prison , by some called the English Bastile! The speech of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. (on Tuesday, May 21, 1799,) in the House of Commons.