Jeremy Collier published the first volume of these Essays in 1697, after he was safe from the danger brought on himself by attending Sir John Friend and Sir William Perkins when they were executed for the assassination plot.

The expedition proper had cost seven or eight thousand dollars, and about two thousand more had been sunk in assassination fees and other "extras."

The people believe that they have been betrayed and sold; rumours of assassination pass from mouth to mouth.

The increased prevalence of outrage, arising more from a disorganised state of society than from politics or religion, and the assassination plan, must be met by an extensive police, directed by stipendiary magistrates; and the expense of this police, and the indemnity to sufferers must be paid by the barony in which the outrage takes place.

" The Thugs were broken up by Captain Sleeman, a brave and able British detective who succeeded in entering that assassination society and was initiated into its terrible mysteries.

"Nothing more in the assassination way, I hope?" "Oh no, nothing of that nature.