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PAUL CLIFFORD.
re-sell at about four hundred per cent., such comforts as the prisoners especially coveted.[1]
"A proof," said Augustus drily to Paul, "that, by prudence and exertion, even in those places where a man cannot turn himself, he may manage to turn a penny!"
- ↑ A very common practice at the Bridewells. The Governor at the Cold-Bath-Fields, seemingly a very intelligent and active man, every way fitted for a most arduous undertaking, informed us, in the only conversation we have had the honour to hold with him, that he thought he had nearly, or quite, destroyed in his jurisdiction this illegal method of commerce, gloriously profitable to the Turnkey; and therefore, doubtless, (on that excellent principle of the English Constitution, that the more the governors make, the better for the governed,) highly salutary to the public.
