It must not be understood that this arrangement was known to the whole crowd, but that it was the work of a few leaders; who, mingling with the men as they came upon the ground, and calling to them to fall into this or that parry, effected it as rapidly as if it had been determined on by a council of the whole number, and every man had known his place.
It was perfectly notorious to the assemblage that the largest body, which comprehended about two-thirds of the whole, was designed for the attack on Newgate.

It comprehended all the rioters who had been conspicuous in any of their former proceedings; all those whom they recommended as daring hands and fit for the work; all those whose companions had been taken in the riots; and a great number of people who were relatives or friends of felons in the jail.

This last class included, not only the most desperate and utterly abandoned villains in London, but some who were comparatively innocent.

There was more than one woman there, disguised in man's attire, and bent upon the rescue of a child or brother.

There were the two sons of a man who lay under sentence of death, and who was to be executed along with three others, on the next day but one.