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place and they turned out a large drawer, which
contained twenty-seven hundred guineas! ---- This
they packed up in two large baſkets, and actually
carried offǃ A robbery which, for quantity of ſpecie,
Which was perhaps never equalled. ----They told him before
they went off, that they ſhould leave a man
behind, who would murder him if he even ſtirred
for aſſistance ----On which he very cooly, and, indeed,
with ſome ſimplicity, took out his watch, which they
had not aſked him for, and ſaid, Gentlemen, I do not
want to take any advantage of you; therefore, upon
my honour, I will give you twenty minutes for your
eſcape: After that time, nothing ſhall prevent me
from ſeeing my ſervant. He was ſtrictly as good
as his word; when the time expired, he went and
untied the man: ----Tho' ſearch was made by the
Juſtice of the village, the robbers were not diſcovered. ----
And when they were apprehended, ſome
years afterwards for other offences, and were known
to be the men who had robbed Sir Harvey; he
would not appear againſt them :----No, no, ſaid he,
I have loſt my money; I will not loſe my time alſo.
So that however culpable he may be conſidered
on the ſcore of penury, he may certainly be acquitted
of the paſſion of revenge.
Of what temperance can effect , Sir Harvey was
an inſtance: At an early period of life, he was
given over for a conſumption; and he lived till
betwixt eighty and ninety years of age.
Among the few acquaintances he had (and they were few indeed) was an occasional club held
