After he had done the Robbery for which he suffered, he ran away, and in his Rage meeting with a Man having a Stick in his Hand, he would needs take it away from him, but the Person resisted and he could not: Then he would fight the Man whether he would or no. Some People coming towards them he ran away, and upon the Cry of stop Thief, he was pursued, and being taken, was carried to St. Sepulchre's Watch-house , and sent to the Compter for that Night, and being taken before an Alderman next Day, was committed to Newgate . He acknowledged, however, the Justice of his Sentence, and died in Charity with all Men, hoping Salvation, thro' the Merits of a Redeemer.

7. JEREMIAH SULLIVAN< no role > , aged 23, was born at Cork , in Ireland , of Parents that gave him no Education, but when he was about 10 Years of Age sent him to Sea, in the Merchants Service , from Cork , and he continued so about three Years; then, he says, he thought to get better Wages, by coming to London , and sailing from thence; accordingly he did so, and sailed with several Ships up the Mediterranean , and to the West-Indies . He had the Misfortune once to be cast away in the Streights , and after some Time got a Birth on board the George and William , then lying at Leghorn , and after about two Months, in her Voyage Home, he was pressed on board a 20 Gun Ship in the Downs: Arthur Murphy< no role > , in whose Name Sullivan forged the Letter of Attorney, was with him turned on board the Pembroke Man of War ; in which Ship they sailed together about 15 Months, and being Countrymen, had great Intimacy with one another, but they were then parted, by Sullivan's leaving the Ship before she was ordered to the East-Indies , where she was unfortunately lost: Better, perhaps, had it been for him, had he too made there a watery Grave, than to have split upon the Rock which it was his Misfortune to do at last.

The Method he took to impose upon the Prosecutrix shews him to be a very artful Fellow, and a Genius fruitful in Invention; and had not she been guarded against his Contrivance, by her Knowledge of the right Claimant, no Doubt he might have imposed on her, and gained his Point: And notwithstanding his Letters, owning the Fact, which he sent from the Poultry Compter , yet would he endeavour to evade, and prevaricate upon the Question put whether he was the Forger, and deserving the Fate he met with?

He still continued to say, he went by the Name of Arthur Murphy< no role > , on board the Pembroke , and would by no Means speak of the Matter as he ought to have done. Whether or no it was, that being a Roman Catholick , he thought himself under no Necessity to answer my Question ingeniously, or that his Mind was still so depraved, as to be persuaded he had done no Harm, I can't pretend to determine; but this I am sure of, the Answers he made me when I spoke to him, shewed not the least Appearance of Contrition or Sorrow, for any Thing that he had done. And tho' this seems to be the most flagrant, and most plainly proved of any Prosecution of this Sort, among the many that have been prosecuted within these few Years, as I told him, he did not so much as pretend to say, he had a Sense of having done any Thing amiss; and so I thought proper to leave him to his own Way of thinking.

8. EDWARD SMITH< no role > , aged 26, was born in the Parish of St. Anne's , Westminster , of Parents from whose Want of Care he received no Education, tho' they were able to have afforded it, as he said; his Father was Groom to a Person of Distinction, since dead, who employ'd his Son's early Days in dangling after himself, and assisting in his Business. Soon after his Father's Death, he was bound Apprentice to a Sadler , and when he had served out his Time, so near as within a Week's Time, he says, his Master having met with Misfortunes, became a