APPENDIX.

IT being apprehended, that the Publick would not have less Desire to be acquainted with the Causes, which drew on the Misfortunes of the Malefactors executed last Wednesday, than it has shewn on other such like Occasions; some Pains has been taken, in order to collect such Passages, as were thought most Remarkable, in relation to these three unhappy Men.

Joseph Cole< no role > , of whom the Reader has already had some Account, was a young Fellow unhappy in his Family, as well as in his Courses; for he had an Uncle, one Samuel Cole< no role > , who was hang'd in the Year 1731: That unhappy Man destroy'd himself by spending all his Time in ill Houses, and with ill Women, notwithstanding repeated Warnings given him by his Friends from Time to Time. This Nephew Joseph Cole< no role > , followed the same wretched Course; he had large Acquaintances among these miserable Creatures, and whatever End of the Town he was in, he knew where to find enough of them; to destroy his Time, his Health, and his Money.

He had addicted himself for a considerable Time to these mischievous Courses; for but in February last, he escaped Death by impeaching four of his Companions, and was in great Hopes of saving himself now by the same Method; but it being demanded of him, How many he could impeach? he said only One, who was concerned with him in breaking open the House of Mr. Chamberlain, the very Fact for which he died; but he said, if they had but let him alone for a Night longer, he and his Associates were to have broke open the House of a Silver-Smith, and then he could have given Evidence against three or four.

This is a melancholy Proof of the extream Depravity of human Nature, since it shews us, that Men are capable, first of leaguing themselves with others, to commit Facts the most abominable in their Nature; and secondly, have it in their Heads all the while to hang one another, while they are eating, drinking, and conversing together like Brothers.

Exorbitant Expences led this poor Fellow to think of supporting himself by Robbery, and from the Instant that he had entered on that infamous Sort of Life, he gave a Loose to yet more