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A Tour Through London,
A TOUR THROUGH LONDON ,
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN
IN DECEMBER I 784 . BY W . BUTTON , OF BIRMINGHAM , r . s . A . sco . CONTINUED FROM P . 179 .
GUILD-HALL . " T SHOULD be lost , " says the stranger , " in that vast metropoi- lis . " There is nothing more unlikely . A man among men can scarcely be out of his way . His eye is continually caught with something new . He is ever seeking , and ever finds . If he hungers and thirsts after curiosities , here he may be filled . the left the lot
Entering Guild-Hall , on , they were busy drawing - tery , and the crowd very attentive . The characteristic of the nation a ls gambling . I was sorry to see it encouraged by Government . Nothing so much deranges the fortunes and the morals of a people . However , this is , perhaps , the only species , where fraud is not practised . As I am not fond of hazard of any kind , nor had any interest events than the iants
in the wheels , I was no more solicitous about g before me . ¦ Entering another court , I heard part of the famous trial between ¦ Commodore Johnstone and ' Captain Sutton . On which side right lay , is uncertain ; perhaps on neither , or rather , on the lawyers ' . The juryhoweverseemed conscious- of their own weightancl
deter-, , , mined to'decide as seemed right in their own eyes . A practice worthy of imitation . I then entered a third court , where Lord Loughborough presided . While the counsel were battling each other with keen weapons , his Lordship was attentively perusing a newspaper . I could not refrain from smiling , when I considered he was teaching the world to disthe le
regard his dark brethren of the long robe , by setting examp himself . Being master of the subject in dispute , and fixed in his judgment , perhaps he mig ht view the combatants in the lig ht of two animals often beheld in the street , which growl , pull each other down , and seemingly bite , yet meet and part friends . It iscurious to a strangerwho is unbiassed by customand often
, , , views things as they are , to contemplate the various ways of fighting , by which people become distinguished with particular dresses . Some of these dresses appear of the ludicrous kind . There are fighting professions , besides that of a soldier , and implements of war , besides the sword . The counsel at Guildhall seemed to
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Tour Through London,
A TOUR THROUGH LONDON ,
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN
IN DECEMBER I 784 . BY W . BUTTON , OF BIRMINGHAM , r . s . A . sco . CONTINUED FROM P . 179 .
GUILD-HALL . " T SHOULD be lost , " says the stranger , " in that vast metropoi- lis . " There is nothing more unlikely . A man among men can scarcely be out of his way . His eye is continually caught with something new . He is ever seeking , and ever finds . If he hungers and thirsts after curiosities , here he may be filled . the left the lot
Entering Guild-Hall , on , they were busy drawing - tery , and the crowd very attentive . The characteristic of the nation a ls gambling . I was sorry to see it encouraged by Government . Nothing so much deranges the fortunes and the morals of a people . However , this is , perhaps , the only species , where fraud is not practised . As I am not fond of hazard of any kind , nor had any interest events than the iants
in the wheels , I was no more solicitous about g before me . ¦ Entering another court , I heard part of the famous trial between ¦ Commodore Johnstone and ' Captain Sutton . On which side right lay , is uncertain ; perhaps on neither , or rather , on the lawyers ' . The juryhoweverseemed conscious- of their own weightancl
deter-, , , mined to'decide as seemed right in their own eyes . A practice worthy of imitation . I then entered a third court , where Lord Loughborough presided . While the counsel were battling each other with keen weapons , his Lordship was attentively perusing a newspaper . I could not refrain from smiling , when I considered he was teaching the world to disthe le
regard his dark brethren of the long robe , by setting examp himself . Being master of the subject in dispute , and fixed in his judgment , perhaps he mig ht view the combatants in the lig ht of two animals often beheld in the street , which growl , pull each other down , and seemingly bite , yet meet and part friends . It iscurious to a strangerwho is unbiassed by customand often
, , , views things as they are , to contemplate the various ways of fighting , by which people become distinguished with particular dresses . Some of these dresses appear of the ludicrous kind . There are fighting professions , besides that of a soldier , and implements of war , besides the sword . The counsel at Guildhall seemed to