The Rumbo or Whit Newgate. The Spinning Ken Bridewell. The Dancers Stairs. The Mount London Bridge. The Glaze The Window. A Ken House. A Bridle-Call A Highwayman. A Cruiser Beggar. The Cull gigs The man looks. Pops Pistols. A Glim Candle. Darbies Fetters. To be Topped or Scragged Hanged. Feeders A Bit or Truff. A Peter Purse. A Jacob Ladder. A Rum Fam Ring. A Tumbler Cart. A Rattler Coach. Ridge Gold. Wedge Silver. The Tatler is up The moon shines. A Twang A Bully. The highwayman struck at big game, and persons of the highest “quality”—to adopt the phrase of the day—did not consider it in any way derogatory to display the keenest interest in him. The darling of the lower orders needed only a dashing exploit or two to his credit, and a hair’s-breadth escape from the armed men sent to track him down, to make him equally the darling of the drawing-room. Fine ladies went to see him in chains at Newgate, often to condole with him, and give him money. Horace Walpole grows quite enthusiastic over MᶜLean, a former grocer of Welbeck Street, who took to the road, and in the course of his depredations relieved Walpole of his watch and sword. The circumstances of the robbery are told in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ of 1749: “The Hon. Horatio Walpole, brother to the Earl of Orford, who was robbed by two men on the 7th (of Nov.) in Hyde Park, when a pistol going off shot through the coach, and scorched his face, received a letter from the robbers, intimating their concern for the accident, and their apprehension of the consequences at that time; and that, if he would send, to a place named, a person would be there to deliver his watch, sword, and coachman’s watch, if he would, on his honour, send 40 guineas in less than an hour to the same place, with threats of destruction if he did not. But he did not comply, though he afterwards offered 20, the sum they fell to in a second letter.” Horace Walpole writes in 1750 to Horace Mann: