Part 18

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 in_ 1745:

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, _alias_ Major 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.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TRAVELS TO BOKHARA, AND VOYAGE UP THE INDUS.

BY LIEUT. BURNES.

"Mr. Burnes is the first European of modern times who has navigated the Indus. Many years have passed since the English Library has been enriched with a book of travels, in value at all comparable with this. Mr. Burnes is evidently a man of strong and masculine talents, high spirit, and elegant taste, well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones."--_London Quarterly Review._

"Though comparisons may be and often are odious, we do not think we shall excite one resentful feeling, even among the travellers whose productions we have reviewed during a course approaching twenty years, when we say that so interesting a publication of that class as the present, has not fallen under our notice."--_London Literary Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE SKETCH-BOOK OF CHARACTER; OR, CURIOUS AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES AND ANECDOTES RESPECTING EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS:

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, Francoeur, the Lunatic, Reneé Corbeau, Madame Rovere, The Diary of Luc Antonio Viterbi, who starved himself to death, The Italian Sleep-walker, William Lithgow, the Traveller Richard 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, _alias_ Bob 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, _alias_ the 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 Strathmore Elizabeth Perkins, Margaret Lamburne, Ninon De L'Enclos, Madame Des Houlieres, Mrs. Levy, Louisa, Mrs. Lloyd, Lucretia, Madame de Maintenon, Catherine de Medicis, La Maupin.

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 the murder 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.

CREDULITY AND FANATICISM.

A Female Monster, (effects of ignorance and 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.

VOLUNTARY HUMAN SUFFERING.

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

INTERESTING OCCURRENCES.

The Miners of Bois-Monzil, Jaques du Moulin, (the uncertainty of 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.

In One Volume, 12mo.

MAGPIE CASTLE.

BY THEODORE HOOK. AND OTHER TALES.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND.

BY SAMUEL LOVER.

"Here is a genuine Irish story-book, of the most amusing character. Mr. Lover shows us how to tell a tale in the real Irish manner. We see the people; we hear them; they are dramatized as they exist in nature; and all their peculiarities are touched with a master's hand."--_Lit. Gaz._

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

THE PORT ADMIRAL.

By the Author of "CAVENDISH."

"A work full of interest and variety. The scenes are traced with a powerful hand."--_Sunday Times._

"These volumes will make a stir in what an old writer calls the 'wooden world.' They touch too severely upon blemishes in the discipline, manners, opinions, and principles of our maritime government, not to be eagerly examined and perhaps sharply discussed by naval men."--_Athenæum._

In One Volume, 8vo.

CAPTAIN ROSS'S LAST VOYAGE.

Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833. By Sir JOHN ROSS, C. B., K. S. A., &c. Including the Reports of Commander J. C. ROSS, and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. _With a large Map._

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THE KING'S OWN; A TALE OF THE SEA.

By the Author of "THE NAVAL OFFICER," "PETER SIMPLE" etc.

"An excellent novel."--_Edinburg Review._

"Captain Marryat may take his place at the head of the naval novelists of the day."--_United Service Journal._

"The adventures of the hero, through bold and stirring scenes, lose not a jot of their interest to the last, while the naval descriptions of sights and deeds on shipboard may be compared with any similar production of which we have any knowledge."--_Atlas._

"A very remarkable book, full of vigour, and characterized by incidents of perfect originality, both as to conception and treatment. Few persons will take up the book without going fairly through it to the catastrophe, which startles the reader by its unexpected nature."--_Literary Gazette._

"Replete with genius. The work will go far permanently to fix the name of Captain Marryat among the most popular and successful writers of fiction of the age."--_Felix Farley's Bristol Journal._

"A work, perhaps, not to be equalled in the whole round of romance, for the tremendous power of its descriptions, for the awfulness of its subjects, and for the brilliancy and variety of the colours with which they are painted."--_Spectator._

In One Volume, 12mo.

AN ACCOUNT OF COLONEL CROCKETT'S TOUR TO THE NORTH AND DOWN EAST,

In the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. His Object being to examine the grand manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and also, to find out the Condition of its Literature and Morals, the Extent of its Commerce, and the practical Operation of "_The Experiment_."

WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

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COLONEL CROCKETT'S LIFE OF VAN BUREN.

THE LIFE OF MARTIN VAN BUREN, Heir-apparent to the "Government," and the appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing every authentic Particular by which his extraordinary Character has been formed. With a concise History of the Events that have occasioned his unparalleled Elevation; together with a Review of his Policy as a Statesman. By DAVID CROCKETT.

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THE NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK.

BY CAPTAIN GLASCOCK.

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THE BLACK WATCH.

BY T. PICKEN. By the Author of the "DOMINIE'S LEGACY."

"One of the most powerful and pathetic fictions which have recently appeared."--_Times._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TALES OF A PHYSICIAN.

BY W. H. HARRISON.

Containing--THE VICTIM, THE CURATE, THE GOSSIP, THE FATE OF A GENIUS, DISAPPOINTMENTS, THE NEGLECTED WIFE, THE JEW, THE STRANGER GUEST, THE SMUGGLER, COUSIN TOMKINS THE TAILOR, THE LIFE OF AN AUTHOR, REMORSE, THE SEXTON'S DAUGHTER, THE OLD MAID, THE PREACHER, THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE, THE MORTGAGEE.

"We cannot withhold from these tales the praise which is due to elegant composition, when intended to promote the cause of morality and religion. In point of elegance, simplicity, and interest, few are so attractive."--_Record._

"Graceful in language, displaying cultivated taste."--_Literary Gazette._

"We welcome it with pleasure--they are told in a pleasant style, and with great feeling."--_Athenæum._

"Evidently the production of an experienced essayist: there is not only considerable power of invention manifested in them, but the diction is always pure, and at times lofty. We should say, he will occupy a very high station among the writers of the day."--_British Traveller._

"We cannot withhold from the author of the work before us the warm praise due to its pious design, and decidedly instructive character. The 'Tales of a Physician' are written with very considerable talent. The idea is a happy one."--_Eclectic Review._

"A vein of amiable and highly moral feeling runs through the whole volume."--_Monthly Review._

"The book is well written--an amusing addition to the works of the season."--_New Monthly Magazine._

"There is a high moral tone throughout."--_Spirit and Manners of the Age._

(_Nearly ready_.)

THE HIGHLAND SMUGGLERS.

BY J. B. FRAZER. Author of the "KUZZILBASH."

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LETTERS AND ESSAYS, IN PROSE AND VERSE.

BY RICHARD SHARP.

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THE PACHA OF MANY TALES. By the Author of "PETER SIMPLE," &c.

ADVENTURES OF JAPHET IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER. By the Author of "JACOB FAITHFUL," "KING'S OWN," &c.

(_In Press._)

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.

COMPLETE. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and we can safely say that no author of the present day, not even excepting our own Cooper, has surpassed him in his element."--_U. S. Gazette._

"The sketches are not only replete with entertainment, but useful, as affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and manners in the West Indies."--_Boston Traveller._

"We think none who have read this work will deny that the author is the best nautical writer who has yet appeared. He is not Smollett, he is not Cooper; but he is far superior to them both."--_Boston Transcript._

"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty and interest never surpassed by any writer."--_Baltimore Gazette._

"The author has been justly compared with Cooper, and many of his sketches are in fact equal to any from the pen of our celebrated countryman."--_Saturday Evening Post._

"A pleasant but a marvellously strange and wild amalgamation of water and earth is 'Tom Cringle;' full of quips and cranks, and toils and pranks. A fellow of fun and talent is he, with a prodigious taste for yarns, long and short, old and new; never, or but seldom, carrying more sail than ballast, and being a most delightful companion, both by land and sea. We were fascinated with the talents of Tom when we met him in our respected contemporary from the biting north. His Log was to us like a wild breeze of ocean, fresh and health-giving, with now and then a dash of the tearful, that summoned the sigh from our heart of hearts; but now that the yarns are collected and fairly launched, we hail them as a source of much gratification at this dull season. _Tom Cringle and a Christmas fire! may well join in the chorus of 'Begones dull care!_'--The 'Quenching of the Torch' as one of the most pathetic descriptions we over read. The 'Scenes at Jamaica' are full of vigour. As a whole, we have no hesitation in pronouncing 'The Log' the most entertaining book of the season. There has been a sort of Waverley mystery thrown over the authorship of these charming papers; and though many have guessed the author, yet we take unto ourselves the credit of much sagacity in imagining that we only have solved the enigma:--there are passages in 'Tom Cringle' that we believe no living author except Professor Wilson himself could write; _snatches of pure, exalted, and poetic feeling, so truly Wilsonian, that we penciled them as we read on, and said, There he is again, and again, and again; to the very last chapter_."--_New Monthly Magazine._

THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE. By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."

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THE MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN. By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."

"No stories of adventures are more exciting than those of seamen. The warrior of Tom Cringle's Log is the most popular writer of that class, and those sketches collected not long since into a volume by the same publishers, in this city, were universally read. A large edition was soon exhausted. The present is, we believe, an earlier production, and has many of the same merits."--_Baltimore Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE PORT ADMIRAL; A TALE OF THE SEA. By the Author of "CAVENDISH."

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

LIVES OF THE ENGLISH PIRATES, HIGHWAY-MEN, AND ROBBERS.

BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD.

"These are truly entertaining volumes, fraught with anecdote, and abounding in extraordinary adventures."--_Naval and Military Gazette._

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CAVENDISH; OR, THE PATRICIAN AT SEA.

_The following Notice is from the pen of Mr. Bulwer._

"The peculiar characteristics of Captain Marryatt are shared by some of his nautical brethren; and the author of 'Cavendish' has evinced much ability and very vigorous promise in the works that have issued from his pen."

"We should find it very difficult to be very angry with the 'Patrician,' even if he had fifty times his real number of faults, on account of the jovial, easy, reckless, off-hand style of character that seems to belong to him. Our sea portraits multiply so fast, and advance so rapidly in excellence, that we become fastidious, and insist upon a likeness where formerly we were contented with a caricature. 'Cavendish' partakes of both.... Into these thousand or rather ten thousand scrapes, we cannot follow him, but the reader may, much to his advantage. The Navarine narrative, in particular, will be read with an interest proportioned to the truth and spirit with which it is told."--_New Monthly Magazine._

New and cheap Edition, in Two Volumes, 12mo., of the

MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ, THE CELEBRATED AGENT OF THE FRENCH POLICE.

"But it is not our province or intention to enter into a discussion of the veracity of Vidocq's Memoirs: be they true or false; were they purely fiction from the first chapter to the last, they would, from fertility of invention, knowledge of human nature, and ease of style, rank only second to the novels of Le Sage. The first volume is perhaps more replete with interest, because the hero is the leading actor in every scene; but in the subsequent portions, when he gives the narrative of others, we cannot but admire the power and graphic talent of the author. Sergeant Bellerose is scarcely inferior to the Sergeant Kite of Farquhar and the episodes of Court and Raoul, and that of Adele d'Escara, are surpassed in description, depth of feeling, and pathos, by no work of romance with which we are acquainted."

_From the Boston Traveller._

"MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ.--He who reads this book, being previously unacquainted with the mystery of iniquity, will find himself introduced at once into a new world: but it is a world which must be known only to be avoided. Never before was such a mass of depravity opened to the mind of inquiry in a single volume. It was well said by Byron, "truth is strange, stranger than fiction." Whoever passes through the details of this singular exposition, supposing it to contain correct delineations of fact, will be satisfied of the justness of this remark.

"The details of the varied scenes through which he has passed in private and public life, surpass all the creations of fancy, and all the delineations of fact, from the wonderful relations of the Arabian Nights to the renowned exploits of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver; and from the extraordinary sufferings and escapes of the celebrated Baron Trenck to the still more marvellous exploits of the famous Mr. Thomas Thumb.

"It would seem, on following this singular writer through his adventures, as if all the crimes of which human nature is capable, all the horrors of which the universe has heard, all the astonishing incidents which history can dovelop or imagination portray, all the cold-blooded malice of the assassin, and all the varied machinations of the most ingenious and systematic practitioners in the school of vice, in all its varied departments, had been crowded into the life of a single individual, or come beneath his cognizance. The lover of mystery, who delights to "sup upon horrors," the admirer of romance, who is pleased with the heightened pictures of the most fanciful imagination, and the inquirer into the policy of crime and its prevention, may here have their utmost curiosity satiated.

"Vidocq, during the early portion of his life, was personally initiated into all the mysteries of crime, and becoming afterward a pardoned man, and an active and successful agent of the French police in the city of Paris, "girt with its silent crimes," as well as its tumultuous depravities, becomes a fit person to delineate its scenes of vice, depravity, and guilt. His work is a study for the novelist, the annalist, the philosopher, and the Christian. But it is a work which should be read with a guarded mind; with it disposition to profit by its lessons, and to avoid scenes which have little enjoyment, and which invariably end in misery."

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THE HAMILTONS. By the Author of "MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS."

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"Mrs. Gore is undeniably one of the wittiest writers of the present day. 'The Hamiltons' is a most lively, clever, and entertaining work."--_Lit. Gaz._

"The design of the book is new, and the execution excellent."--_Exam._

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TOUGH YARNS;

A SERIES OF NAVAL TALES AND SKETCHES, TO PLEASE ALL HANDS, FROM THE SWABS ON THE SHOULDER DOWN TO THE SWABS IN THE HEAD.

BY THE OLD SAILOR.

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"The Old Sailor paints sea scenes with vigour and gusto; now-and-then reminding us of 'Tom Cringle,' and with a strong sense of the comical that approaches Smollet."--_Spectator._

"Here we have the 'Old Sailor' once more, and in all his glory too! The public will join with us in hailing the reappearance of the 'old' boy. He stands at the head of the naval humorists of the nineteenth century. We have rarely seen an affair so richly humorous: it is one of the most amusing and best written volumes of naval fiction we have ever seen."--_Observer._

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THE COQUETTE. By the Author of "MISERRIMUS."

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THE MISERIES OF MARRIAGE; OR, THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR.

By the Author of "PIN MONEY," &c.