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1783. 4 Term. [Friday] Oct. 31.

this Apology, but immediately afterward some altercation arose between Captain Tod and Mr. Andrews whether Mr. Middlewood who is Mr. Andrews’s shopman, or Mr. Todd had made the greatest proficience in Literature.
On this dispute Mr. Todd seized Mr. Andrews who at that time was not recover’d from a dangerous fit of sickness, by the Throat with both Hands, and almost throttled
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