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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: …&c. which infest the streets of the citv; 1 applied to an Intelligence Office for a coachman’s birth, which 1 was so fortunate as to procure, at 15 shillings per week–xny employer (J. Hyslop, Esq ) although rigifl in his exactions, was punctual in his payments, and by my strict prudence and abstinence from the numerous diversions of the city, I was enabled in the six months which I served him, to lay up more cash than what I had earned the twelve months preceding. The next business in which 1 engaged was that of brick making, and which together with that of gardening. I pursued in the summer seasons almost exclusively for five years; In all which time I was not once suspected of being an American, yet, I must confess that my feelings were not, unfrequently most powerfully wrought upon, by hearing my countrymen dubbed with cowardice, and by those too who had been thrice flogged or frightened by them when attempting to ascend the heights of Bunker Hill! and to be obliged to brook these insults with impunity, as to have resented them would have caused me to have been suspected directly of being attached to the American cause, which might have been attended with seriaus consequences. I should now pass over the five years that I was employed as above mentioned, as chedquered by few incidents worth relating, was it not for one or two circumstances of some little importance that either attended me. or came within my own persona kmw!edt-e. The reader has undoubtedly heard that the city of London and its suburbs, is always ntotoer less infested with gangs of nefarious wretch-s, wjio come under the denomination of Robbers, Pickpockets, Shoplifters, Swindlers, Beggars, &c# ‘who are constantly prowling the streets in disguise, seeking opportunities to..
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