Lotteries and Little Goes.
| Offenders. | Punishments. | No. |
|---|---|---|
| Twenty-five Persons for illegal Insurances, &c. some principals, and some agents. | From Two to Six Months Imprisonment each.—Before the Magistrates. | 26 |
| Samuel Best, a Fortune-teller and Impostor. | Committed as a Vagrant. |
Cruelty to Animals.
| Offenders. | Punishments. | No. |
|---|---|---|
| Two Drovers. | Imprisonment One Month each.—Before the Magistrates. | 3 |
| Several persons guilty of Bear and Badger baiting, in Black-boy-alley, Chick-lane, where the most shocking scenes of barbarity had been practised for twenty-two years, even on Sundays. | Suppressed by the Magistrates. |
| Profanation of the Sabbath | 440 |
| Vending Obscene Books and Prints | 7 |
| Riotous and Disorderly Houses, &c. | 11 |
| Lotteries and Little Goes | 26 |
| Cruelty to Animals | 3 |
| —— | |
| 487 | |
Mr. Carlton, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, and Clerk to the Justices for Westminster, stated to a Committee of the House of Commons in 1782, that E-O tables were very numerous; that one house in the parish of St. Anne, Soho, contained five, and that there were more than 300 in the above parish and St. James's; those were used every day of the week, and servants enticed to them by cards of direction thrown down the areas.
I have hitherto noticed those general circumstances of depravity, which ever have and ever will prevail in a greater or less degree in every Metropolis; and shall conclude the black list with mentioning the monster, who terrified the females of London in 1790, by cutting at their clothes with a sharp instrument, and frequently injuring their persons. Renwick Williams was at length apprehended, tried, and convicted, for
cutting the garments and person of Miss Anne Porter; and the horrid acts were never repeated.
Quacks—1700.