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t!: Til *itjp, 5^ in, you must 



go with me before the Mayor. ' When 

 brought before him, die ^\ ! 



the sun into cuttoilv. and the t^^^u^i 

 things to be K the newspapers. 



Tlie newspaper caiitc into the room when 

 I was present ; and the old g i:i 



took it up to read, and there saw iiis 

 aeonces advertised. He sent his sc:< 

 vant to the place : they were immc* 

 diately brought I y ilie poiice. Mr. 

 Boadley called the scnraota imo the roon\ 

 to prove thcni to be hi« ; wrote a note to 

 the mayor, afu! inadc the |>oliccmaii a prc- 

 ncnt for his trouble ; and so the thief got 

 off for that act of theft. If l.r ^;(): off 

 for all the oibcrs in the same manner, he 

 would escape the proper punishment to 

 which criminals of that sort are liable in 

 England. After the people w< .1 



took the )t^' rtv to expostulate with Mr. 

 Boadley, and ask him whether he did not 

 think tliat sort of lenity improper in a 

 genilcma: . Ashe had held (hiiUcri |ub-* 



