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his punishment, he was, during some years, lost in the crowdof pilferers, ringdroppers and sharpers who infested the capital.At length, in the year 1700, he emerged from his obscurity, andexcited a momentary interest. The newspapers announced thatRobert Young, Clerk, once so famous, had been taken up forcoining, then that he had been found guilty, then that the deadwarrant had come down, and finally that the reverend gentle-man had been hanged at Tyburn, and had greatly edified a largeassembly of spectators by his penitence.*

* Postman, April 13. and 20. 1700; Postboy, April 18.; Flying Post fApril 20,