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_Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._
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Twenty-five Persons for |From Two to Six Months |
illegal Insurances, &c. | Imprisonment each.--Before|
some principals, and some | the Magistrates. |
agents. | | 26
SAMUEL BEST, a Fortune-teller |Committed as a Vagrant. |
and Impostor. | |
_Cruelty to Animals._
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| |
_Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._
| |
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Two Drovers. | Imprisonment One Month |
| each.--Before the |
| Magistrates. |
Several persons guilty of | Suppressed by the | 3
Bear and Badger baiting, | Magistrates. |
in Black-boy-alley, | |
Chick-lane, where the most | |
shocking scenes of | |
barbarity had been practised| |
for twenty-two years, even | |
on Sundays. | |
_Total Convictions._
Profanation of the Sabbath 440
Vending Obscene Books and Prints 7
Riotous and Disorderly Houses, &c. 11
Lotteries and Little Goes 26
Cruelty to Animals 3
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Mr. Carlton, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, and Clerk to the Justices for
Westminster, stated to a Committee of the House of Commons in 1782,
that E-O tables were very numerous; that one house in the parish of St.
Anne, Soho, contained five, and that there were more than 300 in the
above parish and St. James's; those were used every day of the week,
and servants enticed to them by cards of direction thrown down the
areas.
I have hitherto noticed those general circumstances of depravity,
which ever have and ever will prevail in a greater or less degree in
every Metropolis; and shall conclude the black list with mentioning
the _monster_, who terrified the females of London in 1790, by cutting
at their clothes with a sharp instrument, and frequently injuring
their persons. Renwick Williams was at length apprehended, tried, and
convicted, for cutting the garments and person of Miss Anne Porter;
and the horrid acts were never repeated.