MAJOR SEMPLELISI. £ 165, 



the peace in the neighbourhood, by whofe ad- 

 vice and affiftance I was taken into cuftodv at 

 Shrevvfbury, where they detained me till they 

 fent an exprefs to town. Sir Sanipfon Wright, 

 who was then alive, on receipt of the letter of 

 iht^Q isi'ife }nen, returned for anhver, that *' no 



'* SUCH CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED, and that 



" the beft thin^ they could do was to make the 

 ** matter up with mc." On account of the civi- 

 lities I had received from every refpedlable in- 

 habitant of Shrewfbury, I was induced to drop 

 all ideas of profecuting Clay and the Juftice, and 

 contented myfelf with making them pay all ex- 

 pences there and my horfes back to town. I 

 further told Clay he might burn my bill, for I 

 Ihould never pay it; nor did I hear of it from 

 that day, until he made as related his fooliDi 

 harangue in Bow-flrect. 



Nothing of courfe could be made of fuch fri- 

 volous complaints, and the linen-draper, vv'ho it 

 feems belongs to that moji creditable fociety\ infti- 

 tutcd for the profecution oi fwindlers^ (a term 

 unknown in the law of England,) had applied 

 to the attorney of that body, who, on thefeventh 

 or eighth time that I went up to the police 

 office, fent his clerk with a letter to the magi- 

 ftrate. This letter was read and ftated, that 

 after the maturefh deliberation, he could not 

 make any thing but a debt of the tranfadion, 



M 3 and 



