"a little fat man with a flaxen wig, Kersey-mere breeches, a blue straight-cut coat, and a broad-brimmed white hat. To the most daring courage he added great dexterity and cunning; and was said, in propria persona, to have taken more thieves than all the other Bow Street officers put together."

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[Footnote 8:]

"Epistolam, quam attulerat Phileros tabellarius." (Cic.,

Fam

.,9, 15).

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