His journey was approximately two months during June and July 1782 and began in London where he saw famous sights, attended the theater and watched sessions of the Parliament of Great Britain.
He then set out on foot for Richmond, stopping at Oxford, Derby, Leicester, Peak Cavern and Northampton, before returning to London.
In 1795 an English translation of the second edition was published as Travels, chiefly on Foot, through several parts of England in 1782, described in Letters to a Friend.
The Inclosure Acts had forced England's peasants to become employees of land-owners, and those who could not find employment became the "wandering poor" – thus anyone seen walking along the road was identified as a beggar or a thief.
For this reason, Moritz experienced considerable problems finding room and board, and was even run out of some villages, simply for arriving into town on foot.