Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
A Letter to Sir Richard Ford and the Other Police Magistrates Upon the Prevalancy of Gaming, and the Infamous Practices of Common Informers
I HAVE taken the liberty to consume a few minutes of your valuable time, for the purpose of awakening your attention to an evil, that has lately encreased to an enormous magnitude; an evil rendered the more mischievous, inasmuch as it is sanctioned by Magisterial authority.