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 But as we cannot poibly divine what Complexion our Reader may be of, and as it will be ome Time before he will hear any more of Jenny, we think proper to give him a very early Intimation, that Mr. Allworthy was, and will hereafter appear to be, abolutely innocent of any criminal Intention whatever. He had indeed committed no other than an Error in Politics, by tempering Jutic with Mercy, and by refuing to gratify the good-natured Dipoition of the Mob, with an Object for their Compaion to work on in the Peron of poor Jenny, whom, in order to pity, they deired to have een acrificed to Ruin and Infamy by a hameful Correction in Bridewel.

So far from complying with this their Inclination, by which all Hopes of Reformation would have been abolihed, and even the Gate hut againt her, if her own Inclinations hould ever hereafter lead her to chue the Road of Virtue, Mr. Allworthy rather choe to encourage the Girl to return thither by the only poible Means;