those days, and was about the time occupied on the return to Colchester.
For if we allow a due time after twelve for dinner, settling accounts,
and going to the inn whence the "Stäts-Kutsche" started, and for
partaking of the meal there provided, we shall very easily get to seven
or eight in the evening; _sixteen_ hours after that time would be
"towards noon" in the following day.

A.D.M

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PRISON DISCIPLINE AND EXECUTION OF JUSTICE.


Sir,--I am glad that you devote some part of your columns to the good
work of bringing forward facts and anecdotes which, though not generally
known, your readers individually may have happened to notice, and which
illustrate the manners of our ancestors. I dare say few of your
correspondents have met with the _London Magazine_ for the year of 1741.
An imperfect copy fell into my hands when a lad; ever since which time I
have been in a state of great wonderment at the story contained in the
leaf which I enclose. I need hardly say that the _italics_ are mine; and
perhaps they are hardly necessary. Yours, &c., BETA.

"TUESDAY, 21 [June].

"A very extraordinary Affair happen'd at the County Gaol in
Hertford, where four Highwaymen, very stout lusty Fellows, viz.
Theophilus Dean, Charles Cox (alias Bacon-Face), James Smith, and