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In 1739 Whitefield wrote: 'God having given me great favour in the gaoler's eyes, I preached a sermon on the Penitent Thief, to the poor prisoners in Newgate. He began to read prayers and preach to them every day, till the Mayor and Sheriffs forbade Mr. Dagge to allow him to preach again. Tyerman's Whitefield, i. 179. Vol. ii. p. 163. Mrs. Piozzi has omitted the name, she best knows why.
'My client's claim, the attorney answered with a sorrowful look. 'Yes, my lord, I am. For an instant there was profound silence in the room; the astonishment was as deep as it was general. At last, 'are the papers which were submitted to Mr. Dagge are they forgeries then? the Earl asked. 'No, my lord; the papers are genuine, the attorney answered.
'I felt it necessary to communicate it to my client, and I am directed by her to convey it to your lordship and to all others concerned. And the lawyer bowed slightly to Sir George Soane. Lord Chatham raised his head, and for the first time since the attorney's entrance looked at him with a peevish attention. 'If we are to go into this, Dagge should be here, he said impatiently.
'If your lordship pleases, the doctor answered in a subdued tone. 'Sir George Soane is there? 'Yes. 'Sir George, the Earl said with an evident effort, 'I am sorry I cannot receive you better. 'My lord, as it is I am deeply indebted to your kindness. 'Dagge finds no flaw in their case, Lord Chatham continued apathetically. 'Her ladyship has read his report to me.
Joel Dagge on this occasion showed himself that most useful of personages, whose knowledge is of a kind suited to the immediate occasion: he not only knew perfectly well what was the matter with the horse, how far they were both from the nearest public-house and from Pennicote Rectory, and could certify to Rex that his shoulder was only a bit out of joint, but also offered experienced surgical aid.
Peter stretched out his hands in protest, then, feeling that this was unprofessional, he seized the pen. 'Will you please to honour me with the names of the executors, sir? he said. 'Dr. Addington, of Harley Street. 'Yes, sir. 'And Mr. Dagge, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, attorney-at-law.
Dagge, the keeper of the prison, with great humanity; was supported by him at his own table, without any certainty of a recompense; had a room to himself, to which he could at any time retire from all disturbance; was allowed to stand at the door of the prison, and sometimes taken out into the fields; so that he suffered fewer hardships in prison than he had been accustomed to undergo in the greatest part of his life.
In the first two editions will. Boswell, in the third edition, corrected most of his Scotticisms. If an inscription was once engraved "to the honest toll-gatherer," less honours ought not to be paid "to the tender gaoler." This keeper, Dagge by name, was one of Whitefield's disciples.
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