1762. George lord Anson, the circumnavigator of the world, died, at
Moor-park, near Rickmansworth, Herts; he was born at Shuckborough, in
Staffordshire, in 1700.
_Abduction._
This offence was by no means uncommon in England some years ago. In the
_London Chronicle_ for 1762, there is an extract from a letter, dated
“Sunday, Highgate, June 6,” from whence it appears, that on that
morning, between twelve and one, a postchaise, in which was a lady, was
driven through that place very furiously by two postillions, and
attended by three persons who had the appearance of gentlemen, from
which she cried out, “Murder! save me! Oh, save me!” Her voice subsided
from weakness into faint efforts of the same cries of distress; but as
there was at that time no possibility of relief, they hastily drove
towards Finchley Common. “From another quarter,” says the _London
Chronicle_, “we have undoubted intelligence of the same carriage being
seen, and the same outcries heard, as it passed through Islington, with
the additional circumstance of the two postillions being in their
shirts. Is this outrage to be suffered in England?”
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