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 1841 . hich he was about to suffer,declared, in an imaginary dialogue with the Almighty, that on his arrivalat the gates of heaven, he should be unable to account for his standingthere, and that the Almighty would give him admission; protesting, how-ever, that he ought not to have been sent there so soon. He appearedsensible of his situation, and requested that the proceedings on the scaffbldmight occupy a
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 1841 . hich he was about to suffer,declared, in an imaginary dialogue with the Almighty, that on his arrivalat the gates of heaven, he should be unable to account for his standingthere, and that the Almighty would give him admission; protesting, how-ever, that he ought not to have been sent there so soon. He appearedsensible of his situation, and requested that the proceedings on the scaffbldmight occupy as little time as possible. He was turned off at the usualhour, and his remains were given to the directors of St. Georges Hospitalfor dissection. The wretched man occupied the greater part of Saturday and Sunday,previous to his death, in drawing up statements of the manner in whichhe was by mistake drawn into the situation in which he stood, whichamounted simply to a repetition of the story he had related to his appears to have been very illiterate, his letters being both ill-spt4tand ill-written, and he expressed none of those fears usually exhibited bypersons in his situation. J. Jii^ .^^ Oy!^^n-i^y,^:f^jy/<^y?ta, ayLy^^^^^^ aycy ^^<r€^Z/2-7z/ T ?I2. THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 21 J Long, the constable, appears to have been a man of excellent character,having for a consklerable time occupied a situation as watchman beforehe entered the poHce. He left a wife and several children, for whom aliberal public subscription was afterwards raised. AGRICULTURAL RIOTS. The agricultural riots which occurred at the close of the year 1830will long be remembered in the southern districts of England, to whichthey were confined. The revolutionary disturbances which, during theyear, had marked the progress of events on the Continent, were not with-out their effect upon the agricultural, as well as the manufacturing popu-lation of Great Britain ; and interested demagogues were e
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