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ings the field-officers, and all the chief magistrates of 

 the town, I made them acquainted with my intention 

 to proceed that very morning to the execution of a 

 plan I had formed for taking up the beggars and 

 providing for the poor, and asked their immediate 

 assistance. 



To show the public that it was not my wish to carry 

 this measure into execution by military force alone 

 (which might have rendered the measure odious), but 

 that I was disposed to show all becoming deference to 

 the civil authority, I begged the magistrates to accom- 

 pany me and the field-officers of the garrison in the 

 execution of the first and most difficult part of the 

 undertaking, that of arresting the beggars. This they 

 most readily consented to ; and we immediately sallied 

 out into the street, myself accompanied by the chief 

 magistrate of the town, and each of the field-officers by 

 an inferior magistrate. 



We were hardly got into the street when we were 

 accosted by a beggar who asked us for alms. I went 

 up to him, and laying my hand gently upon his 

 shoulder told him that from thenceforwards begging 

 would not be permitted in Munich ; that if he really 

 stood in need of assistance (which would immediately 

 be inquired into) the necessary assistance should cer- 

 tainly be given him, but that begging was forbidden ; 

 and, if he was detected in it again, he would be severely 

 punished. I then delivered him over to an orderly 

 sergeant who was following me, with directions to con- 

 duct him to the town-hall, and deliver him into the 

 hands of those he should find there to receive him; 

 and then, turning to the officers and magistrates who 

 accompanied me, I begged they would take notice that 



