E-text prepared by Steven Gibbs, Richard J. Shiffer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this e-book. The British Library shows second edition published 1729 and reprinted by D. A. Talboys, Oxford, 1841. AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS: OR, THE WAY TO MAKE LONDON THE MOST FLOURISHING CITY IN THE UNIVERSE. FIRST, By establishing an University where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. By an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By forming an Academy of Sciences at Christ's Hospital. IV. By suppressing pretended Madhouses, where many of the Fair Sex are unjustly confined, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c., and many Widows are locked up for the sake of their Jointure. V. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets, suppressing Gaming Tables, and Sunday Debauches. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful, by preventing the immoderate use of Geneva: with a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestible Rules for Amendment. CONCLUDING WITH An effectual Method to prevent _Street Robberies_. AND A Letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the Orphans' Tax. By ANDREW MORETON, Esq. THE SECOND EDITION. _LONDON_: Printed for J. ROBERTS, in _Warwick Lane_, and sold by E. NUTT, at the _Royal Exchange_; A. DODD, without _Temple Bar_; N. BLANDFORD, at _Charing Cross_; and J. STAGG, in _Westminster-Hall_. [_Price One Shilling._] AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS: OR, THE WAY TO MAKE LONDON THE MOST FLOURISHING CITY IN THE UNIVERSE. A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be alarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay to projecting heads. It is the business of a writer, who means well, to go directly forward, without regard to criticism, but to offer his thoughts as they occur; and if in twenty schemes he hits but on one to the purpose, he ought to be excused failing in the nineteen for the twentieth sake. It is a kind of good action to mean well, and the intention ought to palliate the failure; but the English, of all people in the world, show least mercy to schemists, for they treat them in the vilest manner; whereas other nations give them fair play for their lives, which is the reason why we are esteemed so bad at invention.