Select essays from the Batchelor; or, speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe, Esq / [By J. Jephson, J. Courtenay, etc].

Date:
1772
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Credit: Select essays from the Batchelor; or, speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe, Esq / [By J. Jephson, J. Courtenay, etc]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eT: s L__———te, Efq; did not fit in a nich the whole day after his return to the Houfe of Commons, from the Church of St. Michan’s. Patrick Dogherty, Farrier, of the parifh of St. An- drew’s, ‘who was born deaf and dumb, on entering the church, was obferved to clinch his fit feveral times, and te ftrike his hand againft his breaft. On touching the body of the Saint, he uttered very dif- finely and with great emphafis, the words Slavery —Impious Tyrants—Corruption—Flagitious Minifiry —Mercenary red Coat Ruffians. On which he was immediately nominated as a proper perfon to be candidate for the city, and it is imagined he will car- ry his eleCtion. J The Earls of B t and M a, went together direétly from the church-yard to the Houfe of Lords; where the former of thefe ncblemen, {poke plain Englifh, and the latter fpoke truth. H—sL y; Efq; was obferved to laugh feveral times after ‘he left the church, on reading the Epiftle to G. E. H, Efq; with notes by Alderman Faulkner, , The Right Hon. Recetas Malone, on his Te- turn from the Saist, cotild not'recolleét the name of a witnefs ina Chancery:caufe, in which he had been concerned in the year 1750. Sir J——s C —], after leaving the church, took down a fneech of the Prime Serjeant’s, in ‘which many of the words were préferved, and not above half the fubitance omitted. °