_To Mr. F――――._
_January 30 1756._
_Honoured Sir_,
GRATITUDE constrains me to send you a few lines of thanks for the
care and zeal you have expressed in suppressing the late disorders at
_Long-Acre_ chapel. A better acknowledgment will, I trust, await you
at his bar, by whom kings reign, and princes decree justice, and who
hath instituted magistracy to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise
to them that do well. I hear that some unhappy man hath incurred the
penalty inflicted by our salutary laws. As peace, not revenge, is the
thing aimed at, I should rejoice if this could be procured without
the delinquents suffering any further punishment. Perhaps what hath
been done already, may be sufficient to deter others from any further
illegal proceedings, and that will be satisfaction enough, honoured Sir,
to
Your much obliged humble servant,
_G. W._