Note 309 — Chapter III

12 Hazard’s Pennsylvania Register, 117; 13 Hazard’s Pennsylvania Register, 4. When, in 1783, it was proposed in England to do away with the public procession to Tyburn, Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked, in his vigorous manner, to Sir William Scott: “Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don’t answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?” Boswell’s Life of Johnson, chapter 56.