I have a sort of fancy myself the fellows who are stopping the coaches are the same as those concerned in the burglaries.

I could not give you my reasons for saying so, except that on no occasion has a coach been stopped and a house broken into on the same night.

I fancy that at present we shan't hear much more of them.

They have created such alarm that the coaches carry with them two men armed with blunderbusses, in addition to the guards, and I should fancy that every householder sleeps with pistols within reach, and has got arms for his servants.

At many of the large houses I know a watchman has been engaged to sit in the hall all night, to ring the alarm bell and wake the inmates directly he hears any suspicious sounds.