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On The Prisons Of The Metropolis.
and pay ino-no inconsiderable sum to be able to oppress his victim . Look at the number of our felons , at the classes of our mad , at the houses of our poor , at the hospitals for our unfortunate , and think of a colony founded by our crimes . —Remember that your Hotel-dieu suffices for all Paris , but here every disease fills its peculiar hosp ital— crime has its appropriated prison . —
every Shall we strike the account ? Rather let , us draw a veil over those scenes wliich make humanity shudder , and let us remember that the luxury , the pomp , and magnificence of both these our overgrown cities , present no title to an honest exultation , since they represent-their correspondent pre-eminence in vice , wretchedand misfortune and are but as the paint and patches of a
ness ; harlot , which conceal not only her deformity but her sores . " I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant , A STROLLERS
Further Particulars In Addition To Our Account Of The Earl Of Moira.
FURTHER PARTICULARS IN ADDITION TO OUR ACCOUNT OF THE EARL OF MOIRA .
^ Continued from Page 234 . our last . J ON the breaking out of the American troubles , Lord Ravvdou went with his regiment , the 6 3 d , to Boston . They arrived there just before the affair of Bunker ' s Hill ; their light infantry and grenadiers were in that action , which occasioning a vacancy in the liht infantrythe was iven to his Lordship . Such
g , company g ^ an appointment always does honour to an officer , but particularly so in time of ware . In 177 6 his Lordship moved with the army t <» Halifax , and from thence to New York , and was at the battle of Brooklyn . The 6 3 d did not accompany Sir Wm . Howe in his •southern expedition in 1777 , but remained with Sir Plenry Clinton on York IslandHis Lordship was very favourable distinguished
. by Sir Henry Clinton , and appointed one of his Aid de Camps . He acted in this capacity when forts Montgomery and Clinton on the North River , were stormed in October 1777 . The 6 3 d was one of the regiments under General Vaughan , that stormed Fort Clinton . In 177 8 , on the resignation of Sir Wm . Howe and when General Clinton succeeded to the command in Chiefhis
, Lordship was appointed Adjutant General to the army in America , in the room of Colonel Paterson , then made Brigadier General . This post is always conferred on officers ofthe first talents . His Lordship at the same time was made Lieut . Colonel in rank . The same year his Lordship was permitted to raise a new corps to be Bamed the Volunteers of Ireland , It was soon completed , His
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On The Prisons Of The Metropolis.
and pay ino-no inconsiderable sum to be able to oppress his victim . Look at the number of our felons , at the classes of our mad , at the houses of our poor , at the hospitals for our unfortunate , and think of a colony founded by our crimes . —Remember that your Hotel-dieu suffices for all Paris , but here every disease fills its peculiar hosp ital— crime has its appropriated prison . —
every Shall we strike the account ? Rather let , us draw a veil over those scenes wliich make humanity shudder , and let us remember that the luxury , the pomp , and magnificence of both these our overgrown cities , present no title to an honest exultation , since they represent-their correspondent pre-eminence in vice , wretchedand misfortune and are but as the paint and patches of a
ness ; harlot , which conceal not only her deformity but her sores . " I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant , A STROLLERS
Further Particulars In Addition To Our Account Of The Earl Of Moira.
FURTHER PARTICULARS IN ADDITION TO OUR ACCOUNT OF THE EARL OF MOIRA .
^ Continued from Page 234 . our last . J ON the breaking out of the American troubles , Lord Ravvdou went with his regiment , the 6 3 d , to Boston . They arrived there just before the affair of Bunker ' s Hill ; their light infantry and grenadiers were in that action , which occasioning a vacancy in the liht infantrythe was iven to his Lordship . Such
g , company g ^ an appointment always does honour to an officer , but particularly so in time of ware . In 177 6 his Lordship moved with the army t <» Halifax , and from thence to New York , and was at the battle of Brooklyn . The 6 3 d did not accompany Sir Wm . Howe in his •southern expedition in 1777 , but remained with Sir Plenry Clinton on York IslandHis Lordship was very favourable distinguished
. by Sir Henry Clinton , and appointed one of his Aid de Camps . He acted in this capacity when forts Montgomery and Clinton on the North River , were stormed in October 1777 . The 6 3 d was one of the regiments under General Vaughan , that stormed Fort Clinton . In 177 8 , on the resignation of Sir Wm . Howe and when General Clinton succeeded to the command in Chiefhis
, Lordship was appointed Adjutant General to the army in America , in the room of Colonel Paterson , then made Brigadier General . This post is always conferred on officers ofthe first talents . His Lordship at the same time was made Lieut . Colonel in rank . The same year his Lordship was permitted to raise a new corps to be Bamed the Volunteers of Ireland , It was soon completed , His