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48 patrol [Highgate to Barnett] as far as Kentish-town, where he was taken.

N.B. Persons who travel with a good deal of property, if they mean to preserve it, should provide fire arms, at all events, taking care that they are in primest order for firing; for it will be an easy matter to foresee, that a flash in the pan would occasion your certain death. No time remains for priming when a desperate fellow holds a pistol at your head. You should also make up your mind to do execution, if put to the test: dalliance with edge tools in such cases would be fatal. To this mistaken notion Mr. Fryer sacrificed his life in White Conduit fields (1798): having thrown out his tuck, and failing to use it, the foot-pad shot him dead! This is a practical lesson for you, even though I did not know before hand what was likely to take place, in almost every possible extremity.



Such as and  or  Crimps (for sea or land service,) Impostors, and Swindlers,