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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    inftead of curing the evil, had actually increafed it ; had multiplied the num¬ ber of robberies ; had propagated the word: and wickedeft of perjuries ; had laid fnares for youth and ignorance ; which, by the temptation of theie re¬ wards, had been fometimes drawn into guilt ; and fometimes, which cannot be thought on without the higheft hor¬ ror, had deftroved them without it. Thirdly, That my plan had not put the government to more than 300], ex¬ pence, and had produced none of the ili confequences above-mentioned ; but, laftly, Had adtually fupprefied the evil for a time, and had plainly pointed oiit the means of fuppreffing it for ever. This I would myfelf have undertaken, had my health permitted, at the an¬ nual expence of the above-mentioned fum. After having hood the terrible fix weeks which lucceeded laft Chriftmas, and put a lucky end, if they had known their own interefls, to fuch numbers of aged and infirm valetudinarians, who C 4 might