İN AN

UPROAR;

COMPRISING

ANECDOTES

OF

SIR TIMOTHY FLIGHT, Mr. ABRAHAMS, SOLOMONS,

ALIAS MODISH AND FAMILY, &c. &c. &c.

A NOVEL
founded on facts,

By H. M. MORIARTY.

Truths like these
* Will none offend, whom 'tis a praise to please."

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION.

London:

PRINTBD FOR, AND SOLD BY THE AUTHOR, 29, VILLIE'S

STREET, STRAND; AND BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.
W. GLINDON, PRINTER, RUPERT-STREET, HAT KARKET:

1811.

BRIGHTON

IN AN

UPROAR.

CHAP. I.

Here as with doubtful pensive steps I range, Trace former scenes, and wonder at the change, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

GOLDSMITH.

It was a gloomy, cold evening, in the month of January, when a lady descended from a diligence at the Lion d'Argent, in Calais. As few persons who travel by such a conveyance venture to take up