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REPLY1850

RIOTS OF LONDON

By O. SMITH.

In Malcolm's *Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the eighteenth Century*, 4to. 1808, there is a "Summary of the Trial of Donald Maclane, on Tuesday last, at Guildford Assizes, for the murder of William Allen Jun. on the 10th of May last in St. George's Fields." Upon the trial mention was made of the paper stuck up against the walls of the King's Bench Prison, from which it appears that it contained the following: "Let * * * Judges, Ministers combine, And here great Wilkes and Liberty confine. Yet in each English heart secure their fame is In spite of crowded levies at St. J—…

Topics: Riots, Murder Trial, Historical Customs

Locations: London, Guildford Assizes, St. George's Fields, King's Bench Prison