It is enough for me to say that some of its circumstances passed before my own eyes; for the remainder I know them to have happened, and there are some persons yet living, who will remember them but too well.
'In the Borough High Street, near St.George's Church, and on the same side of the way, stands, as most people know, the smallest of our debtors' prisons, the Marshalsea.

Although in later times it has been a very different place from the sink of filth and dirt it once was, even its improved condition holds out but little temptation to the extravagant, or consolation to the improvident.

The condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison.

[Better.

But this is past, in a better age, and the prison exists no longer.] 'It may be my fancy, or it may be that I cannot separate the place from the old recollections associated with it, but this part of London I cannot bear.