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I have no doubt that the engines will soon extinguish this fire; if they should not, a sufficient guard will come, and you shall all be taken out and lodged in the Compters . I assure you, upon my word and honour, that I have not a farthing insured. I have left my house, that I might take care of you.
I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself shall become one Mint, when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors, when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished, when highway-robbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment, when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown, capital punishments discontinued, Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the ground, Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed, the Fleet, the King's Bench, and the Marshalsea remembered only by name!
He has been cried like Found Goods in Belford Market: advertised like a strayed donkey in the H shire Courant; put for safe keeping into compters, cages, roundhouses, and bridewells: passed, by different constables, through half the parishes in the county; and so frequently and minutely described in handbills and the Hue and Cry, that by the time he was twelve years old, his stature, features, and complexion were as well known to the rural police as those of some great state criminal.
This was one of the sheriff's compters the other was in the Poultry and served for debtors as well as criminals. It stood about half-way up Wood Street, on the east side. There were two conduits in Cheapside; the Great, which stood in the middle of the street, near its junction with the Poultry, and the Little, which was at the other end, facing Foster Lane and Old Change.
When he reached General Armstrong, he asked him, whether America could not live, without foreign commerce as well as France? and then added, without waiting for his answer, "There is one nation in the world which must be taught by experience, that her Merchants are not necessary to the existence of all other nations, and that she cannot hold us all in commercial slavery: England is only sensible in her compters."
All that is squalid and miserable might now be summed up in the word Poet. That word denoted a creature dressed like a scarecrow, familiar with compters and spunging-houses, and perfectly qualified to decide on the comparative merits of the Common Side in the King's Bench prison and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet. Even the poorest pitied him; and they well might pity him.
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