------------------------------+----------------------------+-------- _Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._ ------------------------------+----------------------------+-------- Twenty-five Persons for |From Two to Six Months | illegal Insurances, &c. | Imprisonment each.--Before| some principals, and some | the Magistrates. | agents. | | 26 SAMUEL BEST, a Fortune-teller |Committed as a Vagrant. | and Impostor. | | _Cruelty to Animals._ ------------------------------+----------------------------+-------- | | _Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._ | | ------------------------------+----------------------------+-------- Two Drovers. | Imprisonment One Month | | each.--Before the | | Magistrates. | Several persons guilty of | Suppressed by the | 3 Bear and Badger baiting, | Magistrates. | in Black-boy-alley, | | Chick-lane, where the most | | shocking scenes of | | barbarity had been practised| | for twenty-two years, even | | on Sundays. | | _Total Convictions._ 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.