with in the midst of vice and misery unspeakable under sentence of death in the condemned cell with the ordinary for their pot companion a common punishment of women convicted of what say you of the times when london streets were absolutely a tale of the good old times dangerous and the passenger ran the risk of being and robbed even in the day time when not only and heath but the public road with robbers and a was as frequently as a hen when indeed the road was esteemed the legitimate resource of a gentleman in difficulties and a was commonly called captain if not respected accordingly when cock fighting bear and bull were popular nay fashionable amusements when the bulk of the landed gentry could barely read and write and divided their time between fox hunting and when a was a hero and it was an honor to have killed your man when a gentleman could hardly open his mouth without uttering a profane or filthy oath when the country was continually in peril of civil war through a disputed succession and two followed by more actually took place this era of and personal and political fishing wliat say you of it mr do you regard tliis wig and period as the good old times respected there was queen anne s golden reign sir suggested mr a golden reign i exclaimed the statue a reign of and court at home and war abroad the time of s and s and s the reign of of and mrs a golden i imagine you must go back yet for your good old times mr well answered the i suppose i must sir after what you say take william the third s rule pursued the statue war war again nothing but war i don t think you particularly call these the good old times then what will you say to those of james the second were they the good old times when judge sat on the bench when s rebellion was followed by the bloody a tale of the good old times when the king tried to set above the law and lost liis crown in consequence does your worship fancy that these were the good old times mr admitted that he could not very well imagine that they were were charles the second s the good old times demanded the statue with a court full of riot and � a palace much less decent than any modem � whilst scotch were having their legs crushed in the boots under the and personal of his the duke of york the time of gates and and their sham plots with the drawings and on evidence that followed them when and were murdered the time of the great plague and fire of the public money wasted by and while sailors lay starving in the streets for want of their just gay the dutch about the same time fishing burning our in tlie my friend i think you will hardly call the scandalous of the merry monarch the good old times i feel the difficulty which you suggest sir owned mr now that a man of your loyalty pursued the statue should identify the good old times with s is of course out of the question decidedly sir i exclaimed mr he shall not have a statue though you enjoy that honor bowing and yet said the statue with all its this era was perhaps no worse than any we have discussed yet never mind it was tf dreary cant ridden one and if you don t think those england s days neither do i there s the previous reign then during the first part of it there was the king to assert arbitrary power during the latter the parliament were fighting against him in the open field what op the good old times became of hm i need not say at what stage of king charles the first s career did the good old times exist mr i need barely mention the star chamber and poor and i merely allude to the fate of and of on consideration should you fix the good old times anywhere i am afraid not indeed sir mr responded tapping his forehead what is your opinion of james the first s reign are you of the good old times of the plot or when sir walter was or when hundreds of poor miserable old women were burnt alive for and the royal on the throne wrote as wise a book in defence of the superstition through which they suffered mr confessed himself obliged to give up the times of james the first now then continued the statue we to elizabeth there i ve got you i interrupted mr ma i beg your pardon sir lie added with a sense of the freedom he had taken but everybody talks of the tunes of good queen you know i ha laughed the statue not at all like or don or a s but really with unaffected everybody sometimes says very foolish things suppose everybody s lot had been cast under elizabeth how would everybody have being subject to the of the commission with its power of imprisonment rack and torture how would everybody have liked to see his catholic and fellow subjects and imprisoned for their opinions and charitable ladies too for giving them shelter in the sweet compassion of their hearts what would everybody have thought of the murder of mary queen of would everybody would anybody would wish to have lived in these days whose are ears stocks thumb a tale of the good old times axe block and s daughter will you take your stand upon this stage of history for the good old times mr i should rather prefer firmer and safer ground to be sure upon the whole answered the of antiquity well now said the statue tis getting late and as i am to 