[3] Middlesex Records. _MSS. Sessions Books_. 1750. [4] From the hitherto unpublished autograph, now at Woburn Abbey. [5] This hitherto unpublished letter is now in the British Museum. It is addressed to "--Perkins, Esq. at his Chambers No. 7, in Lincolns Inn Square," and is sealed with Fielding's seal, a facsimile of which appears on the cover of the present volume. [6] _Fielding_. Austin Dobson. p. 156. [7] _The General Advertiser_. March 7, 1751. [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! [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preventing Robberies Burglaries and other Outrages within the City and Liberty of Westminster--" &c. [10] This hitherto unpublished letter is now in the British Museum. It is endorsed "Jan. 15, 1750(1)." [11] 24 George II. c. 40. June 1751. [12] Middlesex Records. _Sessions Book_. 1751. [13] _General Advertiser_. Sept. 9. 1751. [14] Middlesex Records. _Sessions Book_. October, 1751. CHAPTER XIV AMELIA "of all my Offspring she is my favourite Child." The _Covent Garden Journal_. No. 8. On the 2nd of December 1751 the _General Advertiser_ announces that _On Wednesday the 18th of this Month will be published_ IN FOUR VOLUMES DUODECIMO AMELIA By HENRY FIELDING, Esq; _Beati ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet Copula_. HOR.