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Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
fion ; ' and ,- 'altiiough he abated not the frequency , he redoubled tiie secrecy , and refined upon the subtlety of his thefts . Of the latter , quality , an instance may be adduced , for which we shall in vain seek a parallel in the annals of readiness and . ingenuity . ¦ As he was one- day prowling for his prey in the ways of the metropolis , his eye encountered a distant multitude , to which , as to the field of victoryhe triumphantly advanced . Urging his
, passage through the press , he'diml y discovered in the centre a gentleman who had dropped in sudden death . He sprung forwards with agonised impatience , gazed with affected horror on the pallid visage of the apoplectic victim , and ' Great God ! my Uncle ! my Uncle ! ' was the bursting exclamation which drew on him the wonder and compassion of the surrounding throng . ' In the name of mercy'
con-, tinued the hypocrite of Kildare , ' in the name of mercy , procure me a hackney or other conveyance , that 1 may bear away and honour with the last gloomy offices of unperLhing affection the remains of the brother of my father . ' His urgent entreaties were humanely Complied with , and the dead and the living entered at once into the chariotwhile to the charioteer the latter of the two with faultering
, accents notified the place of his melancholy destination , ¦ We have already seen that to the collector of Ireland a voyage or a journey was not , as to others , an interval of relaxation ; the precious moments were now devoted to the lucrative labour of stripping from the carcase of his silent Uncle his now needless appurtenances ;
and the handkerchief of the defunct was made the . receiver of the -personal property of the abrupt expirer . Scarce completed was the spoliation , ere the chariot and the charioteer arrived at the gates of a chirurgeon , to which he had clandestinely directed the son of Jehu . A purloiner of the ordinary rate of ability would have remained exultingly content with having thus far succeeded in his mighty machinations . But not in these imperfect depredations do I recognise the
Son of Waldron . It was reserved for the pickpocket of Ireland , after having feigned the ties of affinity with an unknown carcase , and forced from it an illegal inheritance , to round this master-stroke of shicane , by consigning the body , for a stipulated purchase , to the hlade of the anatomist . But the most brilliant successes of the felon onllead to a
cony fidence that terminates in discovery ; and the plain of Enfield was destined perhaps to be the last scene of his violations of propeity Jjpon English ground . A palpable detection of his hand in invading the fob of an English Commoner , occasioned primarily his seizure , and finally his conviction . As his spirit never sunk with his circumstanceshe incurred not the sentence of transportation without vigoraus
, efforts for its prevention ; and as eloquence was not less eminently his talent than manual dexterity , he neglected not , when summoned to his defence , to appeal to the passions of the jury and his auditors . Eloquence , the substitute of honesty , decks itself in its robes , of purity only to consummate its impositions ; and Barrington . imagined , by . his rhetorical efforts , to hoodwink with a new bandage , the eve of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
fion ; ' and ,- 'altiiough he abated not the frequency , he redoubled tiie secrecy , and refined upon the subtlety of his thefts . Of the latter , quality , an instance may be adduced , for which we shall in vain seek a parallel in the annals of readiness and . ingenuity . ¦ As he was one- day prowling for his prey in the ways of the metropolis , his eye encountered a distant multitude , to which , as to the field of victoryhe triumphantly advanced . Urging his
, passage through the press , he'diml y discovered in the centre a gentleman who had dropped in sudden death . He sprung forwards with agonised impatience , gazed with affected horror on the pallid visage of the apoplectic victim , and ' Great God ! my Uncle ! my Uncle ! ' was the bursting exclamation which drew on him the wonder and compassion of the surrounding throng . ' In the name of mercy'
con-, tinued the hypocrite of Kildare , ' in the name of mercy , procure me a hackney or other conveyance , that 1 may bear away and honour with the last gloomy offices of unperLhing affection the remains of the brother of my father . ' His urgent entreaties were humanely Complied with , and the dead and the living entered at once into the chariotwhile to the charioteer the latter of the two with faultering
, accents notified the place of his melancholy destination , ¦ We have already seen that to the collector of Ireland a voyage or a journey was not , as to others , an interval of relaxation ; the precious moments were now devoted to the lucrative labour of stripping from the carcase of his silent Uncle his now needless appurtenances ;
and the handkerchief of the defunct was made the . receiver of the -personal property of the abrupt expirer . Scarce completed was the spoliation , ere the chariot and the charioteer arrived at the gates of a chirurgeon , to which he had clandestinely directed the son of Jehu . A purloiner of the ordinary rate of ability would have remained exultingly content with having thus far succeeded in his mighty machinations . But not in these imperfect depredations do I recognise the
Son of Waldron . It was reserved for the pickpocket of Ireland , after having feigned the ties of affinity with an unknown carcase , and forced from it an illegal inheritance , to round this master-stroke of shicane , by consigning the body , for a stipulated purchase , to the hlade of the anatomist . But the most brilliant successes of the felon onllead to a
cony fidence that terminates in discovery ; and the plain of Enfield was destined perhaps to be the last scene of his violations of propeity Jjpon English ground . A palpable detection of his hand in invading the fob of an English Commoner , occasioned primarily his seizure , and finally his conviction . As his spirit never sunk with his circumstanceshe incurred not the sentence of transportation without vigoraus
, efforts for its prevention ; and as eloquence was not less eminently his talent than manual dexterity , he neglected not , when summoned to his defence , to appeal to the passions of the jury and his auditors . Eloquence , the substitute of honesty , decks itself in its robes , of purity only to consummate its impositions ; and Barrington . imagined , by . his rhetorical efforts , to hoodwink with a new bandage , the eve of