[8]. The London Magazine for February devoted five columns to an "Abstract of Mr Fielding's Enquiry"; and in the following month the Magazine again noticed the book, by printing a long anonymous letter in which Fielding is attacked as a 'trading author' and a 'trading justice,' and in which the writer shows his intellectual grasp by advocating in all seriousness a law prohibiting the sovereign from gambling! [Back]
[9]. See Journals of the House of Commons. Vol. xxii. p. 27, and the London Magazine. Vol. xx. p. 82. The Catalogue of Printed Papers. House of Commons, 1750-51, includes "A Bill for the more effectual preventing Robberies Burglaries and other Outrages within the City and Liberty of Westminster--" &c. [Back]
[10]. This hitherto unpublished letter is now in the British Museum. It is endorsed "Jan. 15, 1750(1)." [Back]
[11]. 24 George II. c. 40. June 1751. [Back]
[12]. Middlesex Records. Sessions Book. 1751. [Back]
[13]. General Advertiser. Sept. 9. 1751. [Back]
[14]. Middlesex Records. Sessions Book. October, 1751. [Back]
Footnotes for Chapter 14
[1]. Anecdotes. Mrs Piozzi. p. 221. [Back]
[2]. Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Introductory Anecdotes, p. cxxiii. [Back]