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Title: Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

Author: Daniel Defoe

Release Date: May 17, 2010 [EBook #32404]

Language: English

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SECOND

THOUGHTS ARE BEST:

OR A

FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

Of a Late

SCHEME

TO PREVENT

_STREET ROBBERIES_:

BY WHICH

Our Streets will be strongly guarded, and so gloriously illuminated,
that any part of London will be as safe and pleasant at Midnight as at
Noonday; and Burglary totally impracticable:

With

_Some Thoughts for suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads of
England, &c._

Humbly

Offered for the Good of his Country, submitted to the Consideration of
the Parliament, and dedicated to his sacred Majesty King GEORGE II.

By ANDREW MORETON, Esq.

_LONDON._

Printed for W. MEADOWS, at the _Angel_ in _Cornhill_; and sold by J.
ROBERTS, in _Warwick-Lane_. 1729. [_Price Six Pence._

TO THE

KING'S

Most Excellent

MAJESTY,

SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

Permit a loyal subject, in the sincerity of his heart, to press through
the crowds of courtiers who surround your royal person, and lay his
little mite, humbly offered for the public welfare, at your majesty's
feet.

Happy is it for me, as well as the whole kingdom, we have a king of such
humanity and affability; a king naturalized to us, a king who loves us,
a king in whose person as well as mind, the whole hero appears: the king
of our hearts; the king of our wishes!

Those who are dissatisf