Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 18 of 399
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- aq = e i ee Bo Me THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT OF LONDON. _ ’ 4 CHAPTER L At that time King George IIT was in the thirty t fifth year of his reign; and his scape-grace son, FHE GATALOGUE OF CRIMES. Pr ce of Wales, was iy vervi | is that Our narrative opens in the month of January, 1795, | important climacteric which is generally denominated —a date belonging to one of the most eventful periods | “the prime of life’—his age being thirty-three. m the history of Great Britain, or indeed of Europe.} Pitt was then in power: the Reign of Terror had —— GOLAAL OD) N ar@n(o) COMM