of abode, with a short account of the chief crimes they have committed in many of which I have been their accomplice, and heard the rest from their own mouths.  I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we frequent, and of those who receive and buy our stolen goods.  I have solemnly charged this honest man, and have received his promise upon oath, that whenever he hears of any to be tried for robbing or housebreaking, he will look into his list, and he if finds the name there of the thief concerned, to send the whole paper to the Government.  Of this I here give my companions fair and public warning, and I hope they will take it.

In the paper above-mentioned, which I left with my friend, I have also set down the names of the several gentlemen whom we have robbed in Dublin streets for three years past.  I have told the circumstances of those robberies, and shown plainly that nothing but the want of common courage was the cause of their misfortunes.  I have therefore desired my friends that whenever any gentleman happens to be robbed in the streets, he will get the relation printed and published with the first letters of those gentlemen’s names, who by their want of bravery are likely to be the cause of all the mischief of that kind, which may happen for the future.  I cannot leave the world without a short description of that kind of life which I have led for some years past and is exactly the same with the rest of our wicked brethren.

Although we are generally so corrupted from our childhood as to have no sense of goodness, yet something heavy always hangs about us.  I know not what it is, that we are never easy until we are half drunk among our whores and companions, nor sleep sound, unless we drink longer than we can stand.  If we go abroad in the day, a wise man would easily find us to be rogues by our faces, we have such suspicious, fearful and constrained countenances, often turning back and sneaking through narrow lanes and alleys.  I have never failed of knowing a brother thief by his looks, though I never saw him before.  Every man amongst us keeps his particular whore, who is however common to us all when we have a mind to change.  When we have got a booty, if it be money, we divide it equally among our companions, and soon squander it on our vices in those houses that receive us, for the master and mistress and very tapster go snacks, and besides make us pay treble reckonings.  If our plunder be plate, watches, rings, snuff-boxes and the like, we have customers in all quarters of the town to take them off.  I have seen a tankard sold, worth fifteen pounds to a fellow in ——­ Street, for twenty shillings, and a gold watch for thirty.  I have set down his name, and that of several others in the paper already mentioned.  We have setters watching in corners, and by dead walls, to give us notice when a gentleman goes by, especially if he be anything in drink.  I believe