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This reprinted by D. A. Talboys, Oxford, 1841.
Our Streets will be strongly guarded, and so gloriously illuminated,that any part of London will be as safe and pleasant at Midnight as atNoonday; and Burglary totally impracticable:
Some Thoughts for suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads ofEngland, &c.
Offered for the Good of his Country, submitted to the Consideration ofthe Parliament, and dedicated to his sacred Majesty King George II.
Printed for W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill; and sold by J.Roberts, in Warwick-Lane. 1729.
[Price Six Pence.
Permit a loyal subject, in the sincerity of his heart, to press throughthe crowds of courtiers who surround your royal person, and lay hislittle mite, humbly offered for the public welfare, at your majesty'sfeet.
Happy is it for me, as well as the whole kingdom, we have a king of suchhumanity and affability; a king naturalized to us, a king who loves us,a king in whose person as well as mind, the whole hero appears: the kingof our hearts; the king of our wishes!
Those who are dissatisfied with such a monarch, deserve to be abandonedof God, and have the devil sent to reign over them. Yet such there are,(pity they should wear human forms, or breathe the free air of Britain!)who are so scandalously fickle, that if God himself was to reign, theywould[Pg iv] yearn after their darling monarch the prince of darkness.
These are they who fly in the face of majesty, who so abuse the libertyof the press, that from a benefit it becomes an evil, and demandsimmediate regulation.
Not against your majesty only, but against many of your loyal subjects,are arrows shot in the dark, by lurking villains who wound thereputations of the innocent in sport. Our public newspapers, which oughtto contain nothing but what is instructive and communicative, being nowbecome public nuisances, vehicles of personal, private slander, andscandalous pasquins.
Let the glory be yours, most gracious sovereign! to suppress thisgrowing evil; and if any hints from your most faithful subject can be ofthe least use, I live but to serve, to admire, and pray for yourmajesty.
Who am,
Most gracious Sovereign,
Your Majesty's
Most loyal, most dutiful, most obedient
subject and servant,
Andrew Moreton.