June 10. Paid to Henry Conscience, Juryman, for his extraordinary trouble in acquitting Sir Preston Rebel of his indictment 53 15 0 “ Allow’d to Patrick Mac Rogue, for prevailing with his comrade to desert 4 6 6 “ Given as Smart Money to Humfrey Staunch, cobler, lately whipt for speaking his mind of the government 3 4 6 June 10. Paid to Abel Perkin, newswriter, for several seasonable paragraphs 5 0 0 Aug. 1. Paid to John Shoplift and Thomas Highway for endeavouring to put out the enemy’s bonfire 2 3 0 Aug. 2. Paid the Surgeon for sear cloth for their bruises 1 1 6 [Sidenote: _ADVANTAGES OF CLAMOUR._] The above really includes much of what was then going on in the London of that Jacobite time. According as the dates marked Hanoverian or Stuart anniversaries, so was the outlay for material of a hostile or pleasant nature, rue or roses, oaken-boughs or putting out of Whig bonfires, punch for Jacobite prisoners in Newgate, and money for aid to various sorts of traitors. In a later passage, _Sir John Woodville_ (a Jacobite) objects, however, to the employment of dissolute and abandoned fellows for whom the pillory and gallows seem to groan. To which objection, _Dr. Wolf_ answers with this remarkable introduction of party politics, on the stage: ‘’Tis true, indeed, and I have often wish’d ’t were possible to do without them; but in a multitude all men won’t be Saints, and then again, they are really useful; nay, and in many things that sober men will not stoop to.… They serve, poor men, to bark at the Government in the open streets, and keep up the wholesome spirit of Clamour in the common people;――and, Sir, you cannot conceive the wonderful use of Clamour; ’tis so teasing to a Ministry; it makes them wince and fret, and grow uneasy in their posts.… Ah! many a comfortable point has been gain’d by Clamour; ’tis in the nature of mankind to yield more to that than to Reason. E’en Socrates himself could not resist it, for, wise as he was, yet you see his wife Xantippe carried all her points by Clamour. Come, come, Clamour is a useful monster, and we must feed the hungry mouths of it, it being of the last importance to us that hope to change the Government, to let it have no quiet.’ [Sidenote: _POLITICAL ALLUSIONS._]