when she was visited by a clergyman, and several other people; yet was her behaviour devout, and apparently sincere. Being taken out of prison on the Monday morning, she got into a post-chaise with the keeper, and arriving at the Peacock in Kennington-lane about nine o'clock, there drank a glass of wine, and then, being put into a cart, was conveyed to the place of execution, where she behaved devoutly, and made the following address to the surrounding multitude:-" It is now too late to trifle either with God or man. I solemnly declare that I am innocent of the crime laid to my charge. I am very easy in my mind, as I suffer with as much pleasure as if I was going to sleep. I frecly forgive my prosecutors, and earnestly beg your prayers for my departing soul." She suffered on Kennington Common, April 2, 1759. Her body was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, and there dissected.

ELBY, WILLIAM, (MURDERER, &c.) was born in the year 1673, at Deptford in Kent, and served his time with a block-maker at Rotherhithe, during which he became acquainted with some women of ill-fame. After the term of his apprenticeship was expired, he kept company with young fellows of such bad character, that he found it necessary to enter on board a ship to prevent worse consequences. Having returned from sea, he enlisted as a soldier; but while in this situation he committed many small thefts, in order to support the women with whom he was connected. At length he deserted from the army, assumed a new name, and prevailed on some of his companions to engage in house-breaking. Detection soon terminated his career; and he was indicted for robbing the house Barry, Esq. of Fulham, and muidering

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his gardener. Elby, it seems, having determined on robbing the house, arrived at Fulham soon after midnight, and had wrenched open one of the win-dows, at which he was getting in, when the gardener awaking, came down to prevent the intended robbery. As the gardener had a light in his hand, Elby, terrified lest he should be known, seized a knife, and stabbed him to the heart, of which wound the poor man fell dead at his feet. This done, he broke open a chest of drawers, and stole about two hundred and fifty pounds, with which he immediately repaired to his associates in London. Though this man, naturally inclined to gaiety, dressed in a stile much above people of his profes. sion, yet being at this juncture in possession of a greater sum of money than usual, those who knew him suspected that it could not have been honestly obtained; and as every one was now talking of the horrid murder that had been committed at Fulham, the idea immediately occurred that it had been perpetrated by Elby, particularly as he began to abound in cash at this critical juncture. Elby now used to frequent a public-house in the Strand, where, being casually in company, the robbery and murder at Fulham became the subject of conversation. Hereupon Elby turned pale, and seeing one of the company go out of the room, he was so terrified, that he immediately ran out of the house without paying the reckoning. Soon after he was gone a person called for him; but as he was not there, he said he would go to his lodgings. The landlord, enraged that the reckoning had not been paid, de. manded where he lived, which being told, and remarked by the person who called, he was taken into custody the next day, and committed on suspicion of the robbery and murder. On his trial he steadily

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denied the perpetration of the crimes with which he was charged, and his conviction would have been very doubtful, had not a woman, with whom he cohabited, become an evidence, and swore that he came from Fulbam with the money the morning after the commission of the fact. Some other persons likewise deposed, that they saw him come out of Mr. Barry's house on the morning the murder was committed; but as they did not know what had happened, they had entertained no suspicion of him. The jury deeming this circumstance sufficient conviction, Elby received sentence of death, and having been executed at Fulham on the 13th of September, 1704, was hung in chains near the place where the crime was committed.

ELLIOTT, EDWARD. BLACKS, THE.

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EMMETT, ROBERT, (TRAITOR,) of a most respectable Irish family, who, with his brother, had been concerned in wickedly endeavoring to subvert the government of Ireland, and had expended a large sum in providing arms for his associates. His brother had, during our last war with France, been in custody for the like offence, but in conséquence of becoming an exile for life, government was pleased to forego severe measures. These gentlemen had an excellent education, and were both renowned for eloquence. The elder, who was the banished brother, was in London, at the Temple, about twenty-five years ago, and distinguished him. self at Coach-makers' Hall, then a respectable debating society. He found, however, a rival, in Maynard C. Walker, Esq. (now at the Irish bar) both here, and in a debating society in Dublin; in consequence of which Mr. Emmett, by

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