as he did not choose to look back on himself, or he would not be so very reserved. To which he would only reply, he knew best.'Tis reported of him, that he has been transported some 4 or 5 Years agon, and returned before the Expiration of the Term of 7 Years, and not without Foundation; yet he would not own any Fault he had committed before; and even this for which he suffered, he used all the Art and Chicanery he was Master of, to take off all Imputation upon Account of it.

But, who that reads his Tryal, to see the Evidence urged against him, will not think the Man to be well versed in these Things, that without any Assistance could reduce to Practice such a wicked Scheme as he must have laid, and commit such a Robbery so artfully, as not to be surprized in the Execution of it? He was plainly proved to be the Man, as the Nature of the Case would admit, unless he had been actually detected while he was taking the Plate out of the Room. A Day or two before Execution he seem'd to take a little more Concern than before he had been wont to do, and left the Stage of the World with some seeming Marks of Contrition.

7. John Gray< no role > , aged 37, born at Newcastle upon Tyne , was bred to the Sea from a Child, and served 7 Years Apprenticeship to a Collier . He afterwards continued in that Employ, till the late War brokeout, when he was minded to try his Fortune in that Way, and entered on board the Portmahon Man of War . She was then on the Bristol Station, cruizing upon the Enemy betwixt that Place and the Lizard for the Space of two Years. In which Ship they had the good Fortune to take a French Prize called the Golden Lion, very rich, and carried her into Bristol . Being turned over from that Ship to the Lenox , he went in her to Jamaica , where he was taken ill; and being put on Shore, he catched the Country Distemper, which brought him almost to Death's Door. The Ship sailing, left him there, and when he was a little recovered, he had his Choice given, whether he would be sent Home as a disabled Man, or take his own Way to get Home. He made his Choice to go on board a Merchant Ship for England, but was taken by the French and carried into Bayonne . He lost his Ticket for Wages due to him, during his continuing a Prisoner there, and was brought over Pennyless, and almost starved, in a Cartel Ship to Dartmouth . From thence he came to London , and went on board a Merchant Ship to Jamaica again, and at last came Home in the Milford . His proper Place of Abode, he says, was Bristol , where he married his Wife, and left her there when he went abroad. She hearing of his being in London , came up to him; and not finding him in such a Condition as perhaps she expected, occasioned some Difference, and Words arising between them, ended in the unhappy Murder of her: The Account of which you have in the Copy of his own Letter to a Friend, annexed.