as now living on the premises belonging to my father, under
little real control, and intrusted with a considerable sum of money, which
I had to collect for my father, from persons who owed it to him. My habits
soon led me to spend a considerable part of this money, giving receipts
for different sums, yet leaving my father to suppose I had not received
them.

In November I went on a pleasure excursion to Magdeburg, where I spent
six days in much sin; and though my absence from home had been found out
by my father, before I returned from thence; yet I took all the money I
could obtain, and went to Brunswick, after I had, through a number of
lies, obtained permission from my tutor. The reason of my going to
Brunswick was, the attachment I had formed eighteen months previously to
the young female residing there. I spent a week at Brunswick, in an
expensive hotel. At the end of the week my money was expended. This, as
well as the want of a passport, prevented my staying any longer in the
hotel; but as I still wished to remain at Brunswick, I went to my uncle,
the husband of my father's sister, and made some excuse for not having
gone to him in the first instance. My uncle, seeing I suppose my unsteady
life, intimated after a week, that he did not wish me to remain with him
any longer.

I then went, without money, to another hotel, in a village near
Brunswick, where I spent another week in an expensive way of living. At
last, the owner of the hotel suspecting that I had no money, asked for
payment, and I was obliged to leave my best clothes as a security, and
could scarcely thus escape from being arrested. I then walked about six
miles, to Wolfenbuttel, went to an inn, and began again to live as if I
had plenty of money. Here I stayed two days, looking out for an
opportunity to run away; for I had now nothing remaining to leave as a
pledge. But the window of my room was too high to allow of my escaping, by
getting down at night. On the second or third morning I went quietly out
of the yard, and then ran off; but being suspected and observed, and
therefore seen to go off, I was immediately called after, and so had to
return.

I now confessed my case, but found no mercy. I was arrested, and taken
between two soldiers to a police officer. Being suspected by him to be a
vagabond or thief, I was examined for about three hours, and then sent to
gaol. I now found myself at the age of sixteen, an inmate of the same
dwelling with t