After all, To-morrow I shall suffer Death, as the least Part of Atonement for mine Offences, and I look for Salvation only, thro' the infinite Mercy of God, in Jesus Christ, my beloved Redeemer, to whom I return Thanks for granting me to die with my Senses entire; and in the Protestant Religion. Moreover, I am to return you Thanks on Account of the Light received through your Means, and the Reverend Mr. Majendie's, on Religion, when discoursing together in the Prison: Before you both came to me, I must own I was unsteady in my Notions about it, PARTLY thro' the Terrors that had been artfully suggested to me, by some Persons, whose Zeal is not according to Knowledge; and had not Providence sent you to me, I cannot say of what Persuasion I should have died; but now, by the Blessing of God upon your joint Labours, I am able to say, that I depart out of this World thoroughly penitent, and convinced of the Errors of the Church of Rome, and that the Protestant Religion is that of Christ and his blessed Apostles.

This, Sir, is an Acknowledgement I owe to Truth, and to your tender Concern for my Soul; and as such, I make it frankly, and without the least Reserve. Inclined as you are to do Good, you will doubtless give me Leave to recommend to you my unfortunate Wife, lately brought to Bed of a Son in Brownlow-Street Hospital, intreating you to afford them what Assistance they may stand in Need of hereafter, as they are poor and innocent of the Crime, I am shortly to suffer for; and particularly beseeching you, if possible, to get the Child to be admitted into the Foundling-Hospital, and educated in the Protestant Religion. May God Almighty return you a hundred-fold the Kindness you have shewn me, and the Service you shall do to those I leave behind me. My Hopes are, that we shall meet together in Heaven. In the Interim, do me the Favour to return my best Thanks to the Reverend Mr. Majendie, to Mr. Samuel Lloyd< no role > , and all my other Benefactors, humbly beseeching them to pray for me, as long as I shall remain here below. I am with a just Sense of the Oligations I owe you,

Dear Sir,

Giuseppe Ricciardelli< no role > This name instance is in set 3521. , alias Joseph Geraldine< no role > This name instance is in set 3521.

P. S. This Morning I had the Comfort to receive the Holy Sacrament in the Chapel of Newgate, by the Hands of the Ordinary, Mr. Taylor, and on Wednesday last I received it of the Reverend Mr. Majendie; whose Conversations, I gratefully acknowledge it, have contributed much to strengthen me in the true Faith, and prepare me for Eternity. I am likewise greatly obligated to Mr. Samuel Lloyd< no role > for the Spiritual as well as Temporal Assistance he hath been pleased to afford me in my unhappy Circumstances. And now, after declaring once more, as I solemnly do, that I die a true Protestant, and at Peace with all the World; There remains nothing more for me to add, but that I humbly commend my Soul to my dear Redeemer, looking upon him as my only Refuge, and hoping through him, to obtain Forgiveness for all my Offences. These are the real Sentiments of your dying Friend,

Giuseppe Ricciardelli< no role > This name instance is in set 3521. , alias Joseph Geraldine< no role > This name instance is in set 3521. .

From the Prison of Newgate , Mar. 23d, 1752 .

6. John Andrews< no role > , aged 50, says he is an Englishman , but did not choose to say where he was born, because he would not have his Friends and Relations know what an ignominious End he came to at the last. He says he was bred a Grasier , and dealt very considerably in Smithfield-Market for many Years. He gave no particular Reason why he left off this Way of Life: But he proceeds to give this Account of himself: That afterwards he went into the Service of the East-India Company , and got Money; which, added to what he had saved before, in his Dealings as a Grasier , enabled him, after he left the Seas , to set up for a Dealer in Seamen's Tickets, Wills and Powers, &c. a Practice he owned to be very prejudicial both to Individuals and the Publick, as it gives an Opportunity to the Designing to commit many a Fraud.