MISCELLANIES AND POEMS. BY HENRY FIELDING, ESQ. EDITED, WITH PREFACE, BY JAMES P. BROWNE, M.D. LONDON: BICKERS AND SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE. LITTLE, BROWN AND CO., BOSTON, U.S. M.DCCC.LXXII. 270.2.125.* CONTENTS. PAGES A clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, who hath sworn that she was Robbed and almost Starved to Death by a Gang of Gipsies and other Villains in January last, for which one Mary Squires now lies under Sentence of Death A true State of the Case of Boscavern Penlez, who suffered on account of the late Riot in the Strand, in which the Law regarding these Offences, and the Statute of George I., commonly called the Riot Act, are fully |