The attraction must be supposed to have been great; for the risks of the journey were not trifling.

The peace had, all over Europe, and nowhere more than in England, turned crowds of old soldiers into marauders.

[12] Several aristocratical equipages had been attacked even in Hyde Park.

Every newspaper contained stories of travellers stripped, bound and flung into ditches.

One day the Bristol mail was robbed; another day the Dover coach; then the Norwich waggon.