from the same benevolence and good-will to our fellow creatures, as I shall from the sincerity of my heart propose them.

It is infinitely easy to advise those who either want but little advice, or who have only deviated a little from the paths of honest industry, and have been previously instructed in the principles of religion and virtue; but it is extremely difficult, and a task only suited to the great and good, to attempt the drawing, as it were out of oblivion, poor unhappy wretches, born in vice, and involved in desperation and misery, who hardly know the name of virtue, and are absolute strangers to the most obvious rules of moral rectitude: but as I humbly hope the difficulty is not insurmountable; so I conclude it merits our utmost attention and regard.

If a man of a benevolent turn would but survey our back streets, and observe the manner of life, the poor creatures there are habituated to: If he did but reflect that the magnitude of this town, under proper regulations, would be the same as places of lesser space, and has this advantage over them by a flow of business, that no one need want employment who is rightly taught to love industry and sobriety, he would presently conceive that my meaning is neither so deep nor dark, as to want much explanation. The working up of circumstances into practicable schemes for the sanction of the legislature, will be the effect of much care and labor; but the necessity of something being done, for the peace and safety of the community, ought to render such labor of little estimation to virtuous minds.

As things are now circumstanced, it is extremely disagreeable to see a man executed for the murder of his servant, and that known to be effected gradually; when it is by our laws understood, that every servant has a proper redress when treated by his master with inhumanity; and if this is, as intimated, not the first fact, it is a high dishonour to our constitution, and therefore commands the attention of power; otherwise we are like wild beasts let out to prey on one another, and every man left to do what seems good in his own eyes.

It is likewise extremely disagreeable to find that the poor wretches, now executed, have not the least sense of religion or virtue, nor any kind of compunction or sorrow for the commission of crimes, which are the bane of society, and without being timely remedied are in such an increasing way, as may put a full stop to industry, and render our laudable endeavours to promote the good of society, uneasy, difficult, and impracticable.

The rich and great, we humbly conceive, ought first to consider this, and I dare say, whenever they are inclined to forward a general reformation, that they will find the body of the community heartily united with them.

The Ordinary of Newgate, his Account of the Malefactors who were executed at Tyburn on Friday the seventh Day of June, and in the eighteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign , being the Year of our Lord 1745.

BY virtue of a commission of Oyer, Terminer, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honorable Henry Marshall, Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Right Honorable the Lord Chief Justice Willes; the Honorable Mr. Baron Reynolds< no role > , Sir Simon Urlin< no role > , Knight, Recorder of the City of London; and others his Majesty's Justices for the said City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 24th , 25th , 26th and 27th of April 1745 , the following prisoners were tried and convicted, viz.