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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    ; i' - i . ;■ , when I was almoft fatigued to death with feveral long examinations, relating to five different murders, all committed within the fpace of a week, by differ¬ ent gangs of ftreet robbers, I received a meffage from his Grace the Duke of Ne wcaftle, by Mr.Carrington, the King’s mefienger, to attend his Grace in Lin- coln’s-inn-fields, upon fome bufinefs of importance 5 with which I immediately complied 5 when his Grace fent a gentle¬ man to difcourfe with me on thebeft plan which could be invented for putting an immediate end to thofe murders and rob¬ beries which were every day committed in the ftreets: upon which, I promifed to tranfmit my opinion, in writing, to his Grace, who, as the gentleman informed me, intended to lay it before the privy council. Tho* this vifit cofi: me a fevere cold, I, notwithftanding, fet myfelf down to work, and in about four days fent the Duke as regular a plan as I could form, with all the reafons and arguments I could
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