Foolish footpad

On Tuesday night as Charles Whitworth, Esq; member for Bletchingley in Surry, was returning to his house at Greenwich, a footpad stopped his carriage at the end of Peckham-lane, and demanded his money; but instead of complying, Mr. Whitworth let down the glass of the carriage, and fired at him with a blunderbuss; after which the coachman drove on. The man was a few days afterwards found dead a few fields dillant, and proved to be an ostler on Blackheath.