Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A\» ft. (Thief- Taker.) GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 105 Itotrotoitft A THIEF-TAKER AND CONVICT. THE customs and manners of the Scottish nationso widely differ with those of their southern neigh-bours, that it is scarcely possible to elicit any thingto give satisfactory intelligence with respect tomatters, which otherwise would become particularlyinteresting ! Among many others invo
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A\» ft. (Thief- Taker.) GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 105 Itotrotoitft A THIEF-TAKER AND CONVICT. THE customs and manners of the Scottish nationso widely differ with those of their southern neigh-bours, that it is scarcely possible to elicit any thingto give satisfactory intelligence with respect tomatters, which otherwise would become particularlyinteresting ! Among many others involved under these circum-stances stands very prominent the caseof LODOWICKCAMPBELL, a noted thief-taker, and subsequentlya convict.—Sir William Musgrave, a gentleman ofthe deepest research, could gather no farther par-ticulars of this man than that he was the reputedbastard-brother of Archibald Campbell, Duke ofArgyle and Greenwich, who died in 1761, and thatfor some atrocious offence he was convicted, and suf-fered death at Edinburgh. That his crime was notof an ordinary nature, may naturally be supposedfrom the uncommon manner his portrait represents VOL. III. P 10G MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE 11. him in confinement i
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