The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" [pseud.] . urposehe called Mr. Cockayne, an attorney of London, who deposed that he hadbeen for a series of years the law-agent and intimate friend of Mr. Jackson,who a few years since went to France (as the witness understood) totransact some private business fo
The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" [pseud.] . urposehe called Mr. Cockayne, an attorney of London, who deposed that he hadbeen for a series of years the law-agent and intimate friend of Mr. Jackson,who a few years since went to France (as the witness understood) totransact some private business for IMr. Pitt, where he resided a consider-able time. Soon after his return, Mr. Cockayne said he called on Jackson,who told him in confidence that he had formed a design of going to Ire-land, to sound the people, for the purpose of procuring a supply ofprovisions, &c. from them for the French, and requested him (the witness)to accompany him. Having accepted the invitation, he immediatelywaited on Mr. Pitt, and discovered to him the whole of IMr. Jacksonsplans. The minister thanked him for tlie information, and hinted tliat,as the matter was to become a subject of legal investigation, it would benecessary for him to substantiate the allegations ; tlie witness in conse-quence accompanied Mr. Jackson to Ireland, for the purpose of making. .yy/A/r/ir/^/.^U-rn cy /c-l ^y^yc^^y^J/iii F. , L0N1»N, EDtNBDRGH A DOBLIiT. THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 347 liimself acquainted with his piocciclings. Shortly after their arrival inDublin, where they lived together, the prisoner expressed a wish to beintroduced to Mr. Hamilton Rowan, who was then confined in Newgate;and at length, through the interference of a friend, he obtained an inter-view, at which Mr. Cockayne was present. In the course of conversation,the prisoner delivered two papers to Mr. Rowan, for the purpose of con-vincing him that he was a person in whom he might confide. From thattime an intimacy took place between the
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