Note 185 — No. 73. [Steele.
Reading edition
Cf. the story of Mr. Thomas Charlton in the "Memoirs of Gamesters," &c., p. 150. Tickell alludes to this letter in his verses to the Spectator, printed in No. 532:—
"From felon gamesters the raw squire is free, And Britain owes her rescued oaks to thee."