happen to the person carried in it, through the default of the
people that carry him, and to make him satisfaction for any abuse or
ill-language he may receive from them.

The high streets from one end of the town to the other are kept
clean by scavengers in the winter, and in summer the dust in some
wide streets is laid by water-carts: they are so wide and spacious,
that several lines of coaches and carts may pass by each other
without interruption. Foot-passengers in the high streets go about
their business with abundance of ease and pleasure; they walk upon a
fine smooth pavement; defended by posts from the coaches and wheel-
carriages; and though they are jostled sometimes in the throng, yet
as this seldom happens out of design, few are offended at it; the
variety of beautiful objects, animate and inanimate, he meets with
in the streets and shops, inspires the passenger with joy, and makes
him slight the trifling inconvenience of being crowded now and then.
The lights also in the shops till eight or nine in the evening,
especially in those of toymen and pastry-cooks, in the winter, make
the night appear even brighter and more agreeable than the day
itself.

From the lights I come very naturally to speak of the night-guards
or watch. Each watch consists of a constable and a certain number
of watchmen, who have a guard-room or watch-house in some certain
place, from whence watchmen are despatched every hour, to patrol in
the streets and places in each constable's district; to see if all
be safe from fire and thieves; and as they pass they give the hour
of the night, and with their staves strike at the door of every
house.