metropolis and its suburbs is not equal to the correction of the numerous disgraceful abuses which infect its jurisdiction.
A tradesman of St Alban’s being asked why the King, after his fatigue on Saturday, quitted the town with so much precipitation, replied with some humour, “because his Majesty had no inclination to dine with Duke Humphrey.”
Saturday morning, several of the felons in the New Goal in the Borough made an attempt to escape, but were overheard by the Keeper, when two of the principals were properly secured in the strong room.
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TRUSLER’S CLERICAL and UNIVERSAL ALMANACK for the year 1788. Which