Letters from a Moor at London to his friend at Tunis. Containing an account of his journey through England. With his observations on the laws, customs, religion, and manners of the English nation. Likewise remarks on the publick charities, with curious memoirs relating to the life of Mr. Sutton, founder of the Charter-House. A description of Bedlam. With serious reflections on self-murder. The whole interspersed with historical remarks and useful observations.

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1736
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Credit: Letters from a Moor at London to his friend at Tunis. Containing an account of his journey through England. With his observations on the laws, customs, religion, and manners of the English nation. Likewise remarks on the publick charities, with curious memoirs relating to the life of Mr. Sutton, founder of the Charter-House. A description of Bedlam. With serious reflections on self-murder. The whole interspersed with historical remarks and useful observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (13°) folving his parliaments, embarras’d the nation ima’ domeftic bloody <war, and himfelf at laft fell . afacrifices -His.unhappy fon, king James the fecond, contrary to the advice of his elder bro- ther Charles*the fecond, and the fatal confe- quence which attended his father, run into the mott deftrudtive {chemes which could poffibly be form’d ; priefts were his counfellors, Rome his darling, and bigottry deftroyed his reafon. His fubjeéts grew jealous, of their liberties; they plain- ly perceiving the conftitutiom in danger of being fubverted,. form’d. themfelves into bodies,. invi- ted the. prince of. Orange, who marry’d. king James’s daughter; he accepted the invitation; ran the-hazard.of the Seas, fav’d this. kingdom from. deftruction:; the father-in-law abdicates, the prince of Orange is made king, tyranny is de- ftroy’dand liberty reftor’d. ‘Thus the mair who: ~ governed fo great. a people lived to hear himfelf -branded with the character of a. run-a-way, and faw another in. pofleffion of a kingdom he might with honour have enjoyed. In this revolution of government no blood was {pilt, norany cruelties exercis’d ; the Prince of Orange however at his firft landing was fome- what terrified, the Englith gentlemen, not join- ing, him fo foon as he expected, and the unhappy fare of the duke of Monmouth being ftill frefh in his Memory, created. in him much. uneafinefs, NotrwitfHsranpDincG he was.invited here by the Voice of the Nation to proteét them in _their ancient rights and privileges, and muft have fell a facrifice.to.. King. James, hadthe Englith ' ' prov’d