The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who Have Been Convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England Since the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century; with Occasional Anecdotes and Observations, Speeches, Confessions, and Last Exclamations of Sufferers, Volum 3J. Robins and Company, 1825 |
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Side 35
... body was burnt to ashes . The man was hanged , and his body sent to the surgeons of the infirmary at Leeds for dissection . These malefactors suffered March the 20th , 1776 , at York . THIS was a villain of the lowest and worst ...
... body was burnt to ashes . The man was hanged , and his body sent to the surgeons of the infirmary at Leeds for dissection . These malefactors suffered March the 20th , 1776 , at York . THIS was a villain of the lowest and worst ...
Side 44
... body , for several years , hung in chains on Blockhouse Point , on the opposite side of the harbour to the town . To these particulars we shall pre- sent his confession . On the morn- ing after his condemnation he in- formed the turnkey ...
... body , for several years , hung in chains on Blockhouse Point , on the opposite side of the harbour to the town . To these particulars we shall pre- sent his confession . On the morn- ing after his condemnation he in- formed the turnkey ...
Side 45
... body into one of the trunks in which the owner had brought over his merchandise , and , after plun- dering the apartments , locked the doors , and made his escape . On the next day he had the effrontery to return to the house , and to ...
... body into one of the trunks in which the owner had brought over his merchandise , and , after plun- dering the apartments , locked the doors , and made his escape . On the next day he had the effrontery to return to the house , and to ...
Side 46
... body was found , no suspicion would attach to him ? But , happily , as we have often shown , murder , under the most art- ful concealment , sooner or later , will bring down vengeance on the head of the perpetrator . THIS man was master ...
... body was found , no suspicion would attach to him ? But , happily , as we have often shown , murder , under the most art- ful concealment , sooner or later , will bring down vengeance on the head of the perpetrator . THIS man was master ...
Side 48
... body may have been wrapped , and to sell them , while the men , through the dark- ness of night , drag the naked bodies to be anatomized . Though it matters little where we return to our original dust , yet there is something offensive ...
... body may have been wrapped , and to sell them , while the men , through the dark- ness of night , drag the naked bodies to be anatomized . Though it matters little where we return to our original dust , yet there is something offensive ...
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Adair afterwards appeared asked attended attorney Bank Bank of England bill body Bow Street brought called Captain character charge circumstances clerk committed convicted counsel Court crime death deceased declared defence deposed door duchess evidence execution fire Fleet Prison forgery friends gave gentleman guilty guineas hand heard hundred pounds immediately indictment John John Fielding judge jury justice knew lady letter lived lodgings London Lord lordship ment Miss morning murder ness never Newgate night o'clock offence officers Old Bailey passed Perreau person pistol power of attorney prisoner prisoner's prosecution proved public house racter received returned robbed robbery sent sentence servant shillings Sir Thomas Frankland situation soner soon suffered swore taken tence Theodosius thousand pounds tion told took trial Tyburn Vaux verdict wife William William Adair witness woman wound young
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Side 326 - ... lamented the stern policy that dictated his execution. But there was one heart, whose anguish it would be impossible to describe. In happier days and fairer fortunes, he had won the affections of a beautiful and interesting girl, the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister. She loved him with the disinterested fervour of a woman's first and early love.
Side 327 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions ; and, as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Side 326 - If, then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what must have been the agony of her, whose whole soul was occupied by his image? Let those tell who have had the portals of the tomb suddenly closed between them and the being they most loved on earth — who have sat at its threshold, as one shut out in a cold and lonely world, from whence all that was most lovely and loving had departed.
Side 327 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of fargone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woebegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.
Side 327 - The story of one so true and tender could not but excite great interest in a country remarkable for enthusiasm. It completely won the heart of a brave officer, who paid his addresses to her, and thought that one so true to the dead could not but prove affectionate to the living.
Side 326 - The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction. She was led into society, and they tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her lover. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul — that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness — and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.
Side 326 - To render her widowed situation more desolate, she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attachment, and was an exile from the paternal roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities.
Side 326 - Every one must recollect the tragical story of young E , the Irish patriot ; it was too touching to be soon forgotten. During the troubles in Ireland he was tried, condemned, and executed, on a charge of treason. His fate made a deep impression on public sympathy. He was so young — so intelligent — so generous — so brave — so every thing that we are apt to like in a young man.
Side 327 - ... the memory of her former lover. He, however, persisted in his suit. He solicited not her tenderness, but her esteem. He was assisted by her conviction of his worth, and her sense of her own destitute and dependent situation, for she was existing on the kindness of friends. In a word, he at length succeeded in gaining her hand, though with the solemn assurance, that her heart was unalterably another's.
Side 328 - I find I have but a few hours to live, but if it was the last moment, and that the power of utterance was leaving me, I would thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generous expressions of affection and forgiveness to me. If there was any one in the world in whose breast my death might be supposed not to stifle every spark of resentment, it might be you ; I have deeply injured you ; I have injured the happiness of a sister that you love, and •who was formed to give happiness to every one...