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I confess, however, the inability I found to weave a catastrophe, such as I desired, out of these ordinary incidents. What I have here said, therefore, must not be interpreted as applicable to the concluding sheets of my work.

Footnote 2: (return)

An incident exactly similar to this was witnessed by a friend of the author, a few years since, in a visit to the prison of Newgate.

Footnote 3: (return)

A story extremely similar to this is to be found in the Newgate Calendar, vol. i. p. 382.

Footnote 4: (return)

See Howard on Prisons.

Footnote 5: (return)

In the case of the peine forte et dure. See State Trials, Vol. I. anno 1615.

Footnote 6: (return)

This seems to be the parody of a celebrated saying of John King of France, who was taken prisoner by the Black Prince at the battle of Poitiers.

Footnote 7: (return)

Eugene Aram. See Annual Register for 1759.

Footnote 8: (return)

William Andrew Home. Ibid.





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