Petty criminals in London went to compters. Sometimes called counters, compters were small prisons for minor transgressors including religious dissenters, drunks, prostitutes, debtors, vagrants, homosexuals Continue
The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1818) describes any manner of criminals and criminal activity a visitor to Town Continue
This ad appeared in the April 1815 issue of Ackermann’s Repository. I wasn’t able to find much more about this “valuable discovery” so if any Continue
The disappearance of a British Diplomat in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is perhaps not so mysterious to today’s reader. But imagine its November 1809, Continue
