The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If it fhould be doubted, whether we can bring th’s cafe within the letter of any captita! law now fubfifting ? I am afihamed to own it cannot; for furely no crime better defervesffiuch puni(la¬ ment ; but the remedy may, never the- lefs, be immediate, and if a law was made the beginning of next feffions, to take place immediately, by which the ftarving thoufands of poor was declared to be felony, without benefit of clergy, the fifhmongers would be hanged be¬ fore the end of the feffions, A second method of filling the mouths of the poor, if not with loaves, at leaft with fifties, is to defire the ma- giftrates to carry into execution one, at leaft, out of near a hundred adts of par¬ liament, for preferving the fmall fry of the river of Thames, by which means as few fifh would fatisfy thoufands, as may now be devoured by a fmall num¬ ber of individuals. But while a fiflier- man can break through the ftrongeft K 6 meffies