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Thrice happy ye, through toil and dangers past,Who rest upon that peaceful shore,Where all your fagging is no more,And gain the long-expected port at last.Yours are the sweets, the ravishing delights,To doze and snore upon your noontide beds;No chapel-bell your peaceful sleep affrights,No problems trouble now your empty heads.Yet, if the heavenly muse is not mistaken,And poets say the muse can rightly guess,I fear, full many of you must confessThat you have barelysaved your bacon.Amidst th’ appalling problematic war,Where dire equations frown’d in dread array,Ye never strove to find the arduous way,To where proud Granta’s honours shine afar.Within that dreadful mansion have ye stood,Whenmoderatorsglared with looks uncivil,How often have ye d—d their souls, their blood,And wished allmathematicsat the devil!But ah! what terrors on that fatal dayYour souls appall’d, when, to your stupid gaze,Appear’d thebiquadratic’sdarken’d maze,And problems ranged in horrible array!Hard was the task, I ween, the labour great,To the wish’d port to find your uncouth way—How did ye toil, and fag, and fume, and fret,And—what the bashful muse would blush to say.But now your painful terrors all are o’er—Cloth’d in the glories of a full-sleev’d gown,Ye strut majestically up and down,And now ye fag, and now ye fear no more.

But although many men of this class are not gifted with that species of perception suited to mathematical studies, however desirable it may be that the mind should be subject to thatbest of all correctives, the abstruse sciences, they are often possessed of what may be justly denominated “great talents.” A remarkable instance of this fact was manifested in the person of a late fellow of Trinity (now no longer so—“for conscience-sake,”) who wrote a tragedy whilst still a boy of sixteen or seventeen, that was produced at Covent Garden with success, obtained the only vacantCraven scholarshipin his freshman’s year(always considered a high test of classical ability,) and carried off other classical university prizes. Yet he, when he came to be examined for his degree, though he sat and wrote outwhole books of Homerfrom memory, he was unable to go through the first problem of Euclid: for when told that hemustdo somethingin mathematics, he wrote down, after a fashion, theA’s andB’s, but without describing the figure, a necessary accompaniment. Of the omission he was reminded by the examiner—“Oh!the picture, you mean,” was his reply, and, drawing a triangle of a trueisoscelescut, instead of anequilateralone, he added thereto,a la heraldique, by way of supporters, twoovalsof equal height, which completed his only mathematical effort. His learning and talents, however, procured him his degree and a fellowship. To others, mathematics are an inexhaustible source of delight, and such a mind it was that pennedThe Address to Mathematics, in “The Cambridge Tart,” beginning—

“With thee, divine Mathesis, let me live!Effuse source of evidence and truth!”

Porsongave a singular proof of his “fondness for Algebra,” says theSexagenarian, by composing an equation in Greek, the original being comprised in one line. When resident in college, he would frequently amuse himself by sending to his friends scraps of Greek of a like character, for solution. The purport of one was, “Find the value ofnothing.” The next time he met his friend, he addressed him with, “Well, have you succeeded in finding thevalue of nothing?” “Yes,” replied his friend. “What is it?” “Sixpence I gave the gyp for bringing your note,” was the rejoinder.

The late Professor Vince meeting a fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, the next morning after a high wind had blown down several of the fine old trees in the walks, some of three centuries’ standing, he was addressed with, “a terrible storm last night, Mr. Professor.” “Yes,” he replied, “it was

“Mathematical wind!” exclaimed the other, “how so,Doctor?” “Why you see it hasextracted a great many roots!” A Johnian one day eatingapple-pieby the side of a Johnian fellow, an inveterate punster, he facetiously observed,

Another fellow walking down the hall, after dinner, and slipping some distance onsmooth flags, looked over his shoulder and observed to one following him—”An inclined plane.”

Another Cantab, when a student of Bene’t, now rector of H——, Suffolk, sung his song of “divine Mathesis:”—

Let mathematicians and geometriciansTalk of circles’ and triangles’ charms,The figure I prize is a girl with bright eyes,And the circle that’s formed by her arms.

This class of Cambridge honours, for which none can become candidates but those who have attained mathematical distinction, was instituted by a Grace of the Senate, in 1822. As its title implies, it is divided into three classes. The first examination took place in 1824, when the Cantabs were saved the labour ofgestation, by the last man in the third class being namedWedgewood, which was transposed by some wag towooden wedge—and by thatsoubriquet, equivalent to thewooden spoon, all men so circumstanced are now designated in the colloquial phraseology of the University. It is but justice to Mr. W. to add, however, that he also attained the high mathematical distinction of eighth wrangler of his year. By the same decree of the Senate

Was established at Cambridge (answering to the Oxford “Little-go,”) by which all students are required to undergo an examination in Classics and Divinity, in the Lent term of the second year of their residence. The successfulcandidates are divided into two classes only: but there is always a select few who areallowedto pass, after an extra trial of skill: these are lumped at the end, and have been designated “Elegant Extracts.” Some wag furnished Jackson’s Oxford Journal with this

No cat hastwotails.A cat hasonetailmorethan no cat.Ergo—A cat has three tails.

The following song (in the true spirit of a non-reading man) is from the pen of a learned seceding Cantab, the late Dr. John Disney, who, after graduating at Peter-House, Cambridge, LL.B., and for some time officiating as a minister of the Established Church, resigned a living “for conscience sake,” and closed his career as Minister of the Unitarian Chapel, in Essex-street, Strand:—

Come, my good College lads! and attend to my lays,I’ll show you the folly of poring o’er books;For all you get by it is mere empty praise,Or a poor meagre fellowship, and sour looks.

Chorus.

Then lay by your books, lads, and never repine;And cram not your attics,With dry mathematics,But moisten your clay with a bumper of wine.

The first of mechanics was old Archimedes,Who play’d with Rome’s ships as we’d play cup and ball,To play the same game I can’t see where the need is,Or why we should fag mathematics at all.Then lay by your books, lads, &c.Great Newton found out the binomial law,To raise X -|- Y to the power of B;Found the distance of planets that he never saw,And we most probably never shall see.Then lay by your books, lads, &c.Let Whiston and Ditton star-gazing enjoy,And taste all the sweets mathematics can give;Let us for our time find a better employ,And knowing life’s sweets, let us learn how to live.Then lay by your books, lads, &c.These menex absurdo, conclusions may draw,Perpetual motion they never could find;Not one of the set, lads, can balance a straw,And longitude seeking is hunting the wind.Then lay by your books, lads, &c.If we study at all, let us study the meansTo make ourselves friends, and to keep them when made;Learn to value the blessings kind heaven ordains,To make others happy, let that be our trade.

Finale.

Let each day be better than each day before,Without pain or sorrow,To-day or to-morrow,May we live, my good lads, to see many days more.

Two Cantabs, brothers, named Whiter, one the learned author ofEtymologicum Magnum, the other an amiable divine; both were remarkable, the one for being six, the other about five feet in height. The taller was eccentric and often absent in his habits, the other a wag. Both were invited to the same party, and the taller being first ready, slipped on the coat of the shorter, and wended his way into a crowded room of fashionables, to whom his eccentricities being familiar, they were not much surprised at seeing him encased in a coat, the tail of which scarcely reached his hips, whilst the sleeves ran short of his elbows; in fact, it was a perfectstrait jacket, and he had not been long seated before he began to complain to every body that he was suffering from a dreadful fit ofrheumatism. One or two suggested thetightnessof his coat as the cause of his pain; but he remained rheumatic in spite of them, till his brother’s approach threw the whole party into a fit of convulsive laughter, as he came sailing into the room, his coat-tails sweeping the room,en traine, and his arms performing the like service on either side, as he exclaimed, to his astonished brother, “Why, Bob, you have got my coat on!” Bob then discovered that his friends’ hints bordered on the truth, and the two exchangedgarments forthwith, to the amusement of all present.

The Doctor was once staying with the late great and good Mr. Roscoe, when many of the most distinguished Whigs were his guests also, out of compliment to whom the Doctor forbore to indulge in his customary after-dinner pipe. At length, when wine and words had circulated briskly, and twilight began to set in, he insisted upon mounting to his own room to have a whiffsolus. Having groped his way up stairs, somewhat exhausted with the effort, he threw himself into what he took to be an arm-chair. Suddenly the ears of the party were assailed with awful moans and groans, as of some one in tribulation. Mr. Roscoe hastened to learn the cause, and no sooner reached the stairs’ foot, than he heard the Doctor calling lustily for his man John, adding, in more supplicatory accents, “Will nobody help a Christian man in distress! Will nobody help a Christian man in distress!” Mr. Roscoe mounted to the rescue, but could not forbear a hearty laugh, as he beheld Dr. P. locked in the close embrace of a large old-fashioned grate, which he had mistaken for an arm-chair, and from which he was in vain struggling to relieve himself.

When Robert the Devil was first produced at Paris, and the opera going folk were on thequi vivefor the promised appearance of the Prince of Darkness, a certain Cantab, the facial line of whose countenance bordered on thedemoniacal, went to see him make his bow to a Parisian audience, and happened to enter the samelogefrom whence a Parisian belle was anxiously watching theentréeof Monsieur Le Robert. Attracted by the creaking of thelogedoor, on suddenly turning her head in its direction, she caught a glimpse of our Cambridge friend, and wasso forcibly struck with the expression of his countenance, that she went into hysterics, exclaiming, “Mon Dieu! Le Diable!”

The famous editor of Demosthenes, John Taylor, D. D. being accused of saying Bishop Warburton was no scholar, denied it, but owned he always thought so. Upon this Warburton called him “The Learned Dunce.” When Parr, in the British Critic for 1795, called Porson “a giant in literature,” and “a prodigy in intellect,” the Professor took it in dudgeon, and said, “What right has any one to tell the height of a man he cannot measure?” A Dutch commentator having called Bentley “Egregius” and “Ὁ πάνυ,” “What right, (said the Doctor) has that fellow to quote me; “does he think that I will set my pearls in his dunghill?” Baxter, in the second edition of his Horace, said the great Bentley seemed to him “rather to have buried Horace under a heap of rubbish than to have illustrated him.” And

Who, to please his religious wife, composed a Greek ode to prove King Solomon wrote Homer’s Iliad, that he was

“Ὅνος πρὸς λύραν—Asinus ad Lyram:”

Joshua replied, that they who said this of him had not understanding enough to be poets, or wanted the Ὁ νοῦς πρὸς λύραν.

I have before spoken of these two Cambridge knights and rival physicians, but there yet remains to be told of them, that on their meeting each other, perchance, in the street or the senate house, the latter addressing his rival in an ironical speech of condolence, to the effect, “I regretto hear you are ill, Sir Busick.” “Sir,I sick!” (Sir Isaac) retorted the wit, “I never was better in my life!” Many of my readers have no doubt seen the anecdote of Voltaire’s building a church, and causing to be engraved on the front thereof, the vain record,

“Voltaire erexit hoc Templum Deo.”

A similar spirit seized a Mr.Coleof Cambridge, who left money either to erect the church or the steeple of St. Clement’s, in Bridge-street, of that town, on condition that his name was placed on the front of it. The condition was complied with to the letter, thus, by the tasteful judgment of some Cambridge wag:—

An admirably turned pun, which, I may add, for the benefit of my English readers, signifies,Worship God. I have already noticed themathematical“Pons Asinorum” of our mother of Cambridge. One of her waggish sons has likewise contrived, for their amusement, aclassical Pons Asinorum, known as

I knew a Trinity man of absent habits, who actually, after residing two years in college, having occasion to call upon an old school fellow, a scholar of Bene’t (id est, Corpus Christi College,) before it wasrebuilt, was so little acquainted with the localities of the university, that he was obliged to inquire his way, though not two hundred yards from Trinity. Such a man could scarcely be expected to know, what most Cantabs do, that Qui Church, which is situated about four miles from Cambridge, “rears its head” in rural simplicity in the midst of theopen fields, seemingly without the “bills of mortality;” for not so much as a cottage keeps it in countenance. This gave occasion for a Cambridge wag to invent the following puzzle:—

“TemplumQuistat in agris,”

Which has caused many a freshman a sleepless night, who, ignorant of thestatusQui, has racked his brains to translate the above,minusaQuodproQui.

Edmund Gurnay, B.D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1601, was a sly humourist. The Master had a great desire to get the garden to himself, and, either by threats or persuasion, get all the rest of the fellows to resign their keys; but upon his application to Gurnay, he absolutely refused to part with his right. “I have got the other fellows’ keys, quoth the master. “Then pray, master, keep them, and you and I will shut them all out.” “Sir, I expect to be obliged; am I not your master?” “Yes, sir (said Gurnay;) and am I not your fellow?” At another time he was complained of to the bishop, for refusing to wear the surplice, and was cited to appear before him, and told, that he expected he should always wear it; whereupon, he came home, and rode a journey with it on. This reminds one of

Then Mr. afterwards Lord Lyttleton, to whom the epithet of “Reprobus,” they say, might have been applied with more justice than it was to the famous Saxon Bishop, St. Wulstan, by the monks of his day. Humour was his lordship’s natural element, and whilst resident at Christ Church, Oxford, he dressed himself in a bright scarlet hunting coat, top-boots and spurs, buckskin breeches, &c., and putting his gown over all, presented himself to the head of his college, who was a strict disciplinarian. “Good God! Mr. Lyttleton,” exclaimed the Dean, “this is not a dress fit to be seen in a college.” “I beg your pardon,” said the wag, “I thought myself in perfect costume! Will you be pleased to tell me how I should dress, Mr. Dean?” The dean was at this time Vice-Chancellor, and happened to be in his robes of office. “You should dress like me, Sir,” said the Doctor, referring to his black coat, tights, knee-buckles, and silk stockings. Mr. Lyttleton thanked him and left, but to the Doctor’s astonishment, he the next day presented himself at the Deanery, drest in Vice-Chancellor’s robes, &c., an exact fac-simile of the dean himself, and when rebuked coolly observed, that he had followed the dean’s directions to the letter.

That having a party to supper with him, and being anxious to play the Dean some harmless trick, as his delight was to annoy him, he seized a potato off the dish, stuck it on a fork, and bolted off with it to the deanery, followed by some of his boon companions. This was at one, two, or three in the morning, when all the rest of the college, and of course the Dean, were locked in the embrace of Somnus. Mr. Lyttleton, however, resolving to have his joke, began thundering away at the Dean’s knocker, till roused at last, he put his head out at the window, and in a rage demanded the wants of the applicant. “Do you think, Mr. Dean,” said Mr. L., holding up to his view theforkedpotato with the coolest effrontery imaginable; “Do you think, Mr. Dean, that this is a potato fit to put upon a gentleman’s table?” Dr. Westphalinge, Canon of Christ Church, afterwards Bishop of Hereford, and one of the Commissioners sent to Oxford to abolishPopish practices, by Elizabeth, says Bishop Godwyn,

“That during a familiar acquaintance with him for many years, he never once saw him laugh,”—“Nunquam in risum viderim solutum.” As an antidote to such eternal gravity, I can scarcely do better than append the following Aristophanic morsel, attributed to Porson, and cry “Hold, enough!” Chorus of Printers’ Imps—“Enough!”

Βλάγκητοι, κύλτοι, δύο βόλστερες, ἤδὲ πιλωβῆρΚαὶ ἕν ματρέσσον, καὶ λεῦκον καλικο κίρτον,Καὶ μιὰ καρπεττὴ, κὰι χέστον μαογανο͂ιονἝις κουντερπαννος, κὰι γρατὸν καστο σιδηρονἬδε δύω βοῦροι, δύο τάβλοι, κὰι δύο διττώ.Τουελλοι δῶσεν, δῶσεν ϕαῦκόι τέ, νιφοὶ τεΣάυσπαν κὰι στεῦπαν, σπίττον καὶ σμῶκον ἴακονΓριδίρον, φεῖρπαν, τόγγοι, φενδήρ τὲ, ποκήρ τε,Κοππὴρ καὶ βοίληρ καὶ κιλλὴρ ἢδε συελτοβ.Καὶ ἕν βασκητὸν κατα βακχοῦς, καὶ δυό ποττυξ,Καὶ ἕν δριππίνπαν, κύλερες δυό, καὶ σαλαμάνδηρΚαὶ δὺο π**ποττοι, σπιττίνπαν, πεῖπ τε το βακχώ.

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CELEBRATED TRIALS,ANDCASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.In One large volume, 8vo., containing 600 closely printed pages.CONTENTS.

John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for forgery, at the Old Bailey, October 30, 1824.Anna Schonleben (Germany), for poisoning, 1808.John Docke Rouvelett, for forgery, 1806.John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, for the murder of John Cole Steele, on Hounslow-heath, February 22, 1807.The unknown Murderer, or the Police at fault (Germany), 1817.Thomas Simmons, for murder, Oct. 20, 1807.Major Alexander Campbell, for the murder of Captain Alexander Boyd, at Armagh, in a duel, 1807.James Stuart, for the murder of Sir Alexander Boswell, in a duel, 1822.Martha Alden, for murder, 1807.Francis S. Riembauer, for assassination, 1805.Eliza Fenning, for an attempt to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and family, April 11, 1815.William Jones, for murder.Abraham Thornton, for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817.Castaing, the physician, for murder, at Paris, November, 1817.John Donellan, Esq., for the murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesly Boughton; before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, 1781.Sir Walter Raleigh, for high-treason, in the reign of James I., A.D. 1602.James O’Coigley, Arthur O’Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for high-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.Miss Ann Broadric, for the murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, 1827.William Codlin, for scuttling a ship, 1802.Joseph Wall, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, at Goree, 1802.Vice-admiral Byng, for neglect of duty; at a court-martial, held on board his majesty’s ship the St. George, in Portsmouth harbour, 1757.Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for the murder of James Sinclair, 1727.Admiral Keppel, for neglect of duty, July, 1778, at a court-martial.Sir Hugh Palliser, Vice-admiral of the Blue, for neglect of duty, 1779.Sarah Metyard and Sarah M. Metyard, for murder, 1768.John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May, for the murder of Charles Ferriar, 1831.Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for murder.Sarah Malcolm, for the murder of Ann Price, 1733.Joseph Baretti, for the murder of Evan Morgan, 1769.Mungo Campbell, for murder, 1721.Lucretia Chapman, for the murder of William Chapman, late of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1832.Lino Amalto Espos y Mina, for the murder of William Chapman, at the same court, 1832.John Hatfield, for forgery, 1803.Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal of England, 1897.Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas Hallam, May 1735.Mary Young,aliasJenny Diver, for privately stealing, 1740.George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of sessions, and member of his majesty’s privy council, 1689.William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady Grosvenor, 1770.Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland, 1813.Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at Maidstone, 1813.Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King’s Bench, 1810.John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at Surry assizes, 1817.Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason, at the Old Bailey, 1820.Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.

John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.

Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for forgery, at the Old Bailey, October 30, 1824.

Anna Schonleben (Germany), for poisoning, 1808.

John Docke Rouvelett, for forgery, 1806.

John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, for the murder of John Cole Steele, on Hounslow-heath, February 22, 1807.

The unknown Murderer, or the Police at fault (Germany), 1817.

Thomas Simmons, for murder, Oct. 20, 1807.

Major Alexander Campbell, for the murder of Captain Alexander Boyd, at Armagh, in a duel, 1807.

James Stuart, for the murder of Sir Alexander Boswell, in a duel, 1822.

Martha Alden, for murder, 1807.

Francis S. Riembauer, for assassination, 1805.

Eliza Fenning, for an attempt to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and family, April 11, 1815.

William Jones, for murder.

Abraham Thornton, for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817.

Castaing, the physician, for murder, at Paris, November, 1817.

John Donellan, Esq., for the murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesly Boughton; before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, 1781.

Sir Walter Raleigh, for high-treason, in the reign of James I., A.D. 1602.

James O’Coigley, Arthur O’Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for high-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.

Miss Ann Broadric, for the murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.

William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, 1827.

William Codlin, for scuttling a ship, 1802.

Joseph Wall, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, at Goree, 1802.

Vice-admiral Byng, for neglect of duty; at a court-martial, held on board his majesty’s ship the St. George, in Portsmouth harbour, 1757.

Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for the murder of James Sinclair, 1727.

Admiral Keppel, for neglect of duty, July, 1778, at a court-martial.

Sir Hugh Palliser, Vice-admiral of the Blue, for neglect of duty, 1779.

Sarah Metyard and Sarah M. Metyard, for murder, 1768.

John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May, for the murder of Charles Ferriar, 1831.

Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for murder.

Sarah Malcolm, for the murder of Ann Price, 1733.

Joseph Baretti, for the murder of Evan Morgan, 1769.

Mungo Campbell, for murder, 1721.

Lucretia Chapman, for the murder of William Chapman, late of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1832.

Lino Amalto Espos y Mina, for the murder of William Chapman, at the same court, 1832.

John Hatfield, for forgery, 1803.

Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal of England, 1897.

Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.

William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.

Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas Hallam, May 1735.

Mary Young,aliasJenny Diver, for privately stealing, 1740.

George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.

John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of sessions, and member of his majesty’s privy council, 1689.

William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady Grosvenor, 1770.

Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.

Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.

Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland, 1813.

Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at Maidstone, 1813.

Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King’s Bench, 1810.

John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.

Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at Surry assizes, 1817.

Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason, at the Old Bailey, 1820.

Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.

Trial of the Rebels in1745:

Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.—Charles Ratcliffe, Esq.—Townley and Dawson.—Fletcher and Syddall.—Dr. Cameron.Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.—His execution.Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.The Salem Witches.

Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.—Charles Ratcliffe, Esq.—Townley and Dawson.—Fletcher and Syddall.—Dr. Cameron.

Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.

Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.

Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.—His execution.

Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.

Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.

The Salem Witches.

Sufferers for pretended Witchcraft in Scotland.

Alison Pearson.—Janet Grant and Janet Clark, 1828.—John Cunningham, 1590.—Agnes Sampson, 1591.—John Fien, 1591.—Euphan M’Calzene, 1591.—Patrick Lawrie, 1606.—Margaret Wallace, 1620.—Isobel Young, 1629.—Alexander Hamilton, 1630.—John Neil, 1630.—Janet Brown and others, 1640.The Samuelston Witches—Isobel Elliot, and nine other women, 1678.Impostor of Barragan, 1696.Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.James George Lisle,aliasMajor Semple, for stealing, 1795.Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.

The Samuelston Witches—Isobel Elliot, and nine other women, 1678.

Impostor of Barragan, 1696.

Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.

James George Lisle,aliasMajor Semple, for stealing, 1795.

Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.

John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.

Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.

Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.

Circumstantial Evidence.

Jonathan Bradford.—James Crow.—John Jennings.—Thomas Harris.—William Shaw.

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Exemplifying the Imperfections of circumstantial Evidence; illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism; and recording singular Instances of voluntary human Suffering and interesting Occurrences. (Nearly ready.)

CONTENTS.

EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS.Arnaud du Tilh,The Demetriuses of Russia,Madam Tiquet,Francœur, the Lunatic,Reneé Corbeau,Madame Rovere,The Diary of Luc Antonio Viterbi,who starved himself to death,The Italian Sleep-walker,William Lithgow, the TravellerRichard Peeke,James Crichton,Mother Damnable,Valentine Greatraks,James Naylor,Henry Jenkins,John Kelsey,Lodowick Muggleton,Mrs. Aphra Behn,Aspasia,Madame du Barré,Phebe Brown,The Mysterious Stranger,George Bruce,Mull’d Sack, a notorious Robber,Sir Jervas Yelvis,Archibald Armstrong, the Jester,The Two Brothers,Anne George Bellamy,Susanna Maria Cibber,Joseph Clark,Titus Oates,aliasBob Ferguson,Thomas Venner,Colly Molly Puff,Eugene Aram,Matthew Hopkins, the Witch-finder,Jeffery Hudson,Blasil de Manfre,Henry Welby,Catharine, Countess Dowager of Schwartzburgh,Richard Savage,Lewis de Boissi,Reverend Father Arthur O’Leary,John Oliver,John Overs,John Bigg,Mrs. Corbett,Charlotte Maria Anne Victoire Cordey,Daniel Dancer, Esq.Rev. George Harvest,S. Bisset, the animal Teacher,Roger Crab,Rigep Dandulo,Augustine Barbara Vanbeck,The Chevalier D’Eon,Widow of Ephesus,Mary Frith,Anne Day,Countess of Desmond,Colonel Thomas Blood,Jane Lane,Mary Carleton,Jack Adams,Samuel Boyce,Peter the Wild Boy,Charles Price,aliasthe Social Monster,George Alexander Stevens,Peter Isaac Thelluson,George Villiers,Hon. Mrs. Godfrey,Lady Godiva,John Philip Barretier,Oliver Cromwell’s Porter,Robert Hill, the Learned Tailor of Buckingham,Hendia,Charlotte Hutton,Mrs. Day,The Abbe Sieyes,Countess of StrathmoreElizabeth Perkins,Margaret Lamburne,Ninon De L’Enclos,Madame Des Houlieres,Mrs. Levy,Louisa,Mrs. Lloyd,Lucretia,Madame de Maintenon,Catherine de Medicis,La Maupin.

EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.John Calas,Elizabeth Canning,Le Brun,Richard Coleman,Jonathan Bradford,James Crow,John Orme,John Jennings,Girl at Liege,Thomas Harris,John Miles,A man tried and convicted for themurder of his own father,William Shaw,Sirven,Monsieur D’Anglade and his family,Joan Perry and her two sons,La Pivardiere,Duke Dorgan, a story of Irish Life,William Richardson.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

CREDULITY AND FANATICISM.A Female Monster, (effects of ignoranceand superstition,)Yetser, the Fanatic,The Holy Relics,Jerome Savonarola,Sabbatei-Sevi,Anthony,Simon Morin,Robert Francis Damiens,Assassination of the King of Portugal,Francois Michel,St. Pol de Leon,Mr. Stukeley, (eccentric Self-delusion),Peter Rombert, the Fanatic of Carolina.

CREDULITY AND FANATICISM.

VOLUNTARY HUMAN SUFFERING.Simeon Stylites,Panporee,Indian Widows,Funeral Rites,Conscientious Murder,Conscientious Hindoo,Female Infanticide,Processions of Penitents in Spain andPortugal,Penance by Proxy,The Indian Penance of Five Fires,Matthew Loval.

VOLUNTARY HUMAN SUFFERING.

INTERESTING OCCURRENCES.The Miners of Bois-Monzil,Jaques du Moulin, (the uncertaintyof human testimony,)Remarkable discovery of a Murder,Charles the Twelfth,Whimsical Marriage,Algerine Conspiracy,Extraordinary Adventure,Otway’s Orphan,Prison Escapes,Charbonniers,Porral and others,Grivet,Reign of Terror,Remarkable Trial for Murder,Singular Adventure,Heidegger,Jemmy Taylor.

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