Some Distinguished Victims of the ScaffoldBleackley, Horace
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Bleackley, Horace
Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Trials -- Great Britain
2. _The Life of Mary Robinson_, the celebrated Beauty of Buttermere,
Embellished with an elegant coloured Print. London. Printed by John
Rhynd, 21 Ray Street, Cold Bath Fields. Sold by Crosby and Company,
Paternoster Row. Price 1/. 1803. Brit. Mus.
3. _The Life of John Hatfield_, Printed and Published by Scott and
Benson. Keswick. James Ivison, Market Place 1846. Brit. Mus.
II. CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
1. _The Times_, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1802; Jan., Aug., Sept. 1803.
2. _The Morning Post_, do. do.
3. _The St James’s Chronicle_, do. do.
4. _The Morning Herald_, do. do.
5. _The Morning Chronicle_, do. do.
6. _The True Briton_, do. do.
7. _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, do. do.
8. _The Carlisle Journal_, do. do.
9. _The Leeds Mercury_, do. do.
10. _The Gentleman’s Magazine_, part ii. 1792, pp. 1114-16;
part i. 1800, p. 18-24; part ii. 1802, pp. 1013, 1062, 1063,
1157; part ii. 1803, pp. 779, 876, 983.
11. _The European Magazine_, part ii. 1792, p. 436; part ii.
1802, pp. 316, 477; part ii. 1803, pp. 157, 242.
_Coleridge and the “Morning Post.”_
Three accounts from the pen of Coleridge, which appeared in
the _Morning Post_ of October 11, October 22, and November 5
respectively, under the titles “Romantic Marriage” and “The
Fraudulent Marriage,” find a place in Coleridge’s “Essays
on His Own Times,” edited by his daughter. The late Mr H.
D. Traill, in his monograph in the “English Men of Letters”
series, has pointed out (note, p. 80) that “it is impossible
to believe that this collection, forming as it does but two
small volumes, and a portion of a third, is anything like
complete.” It is not an unwarrantable assumption that two
subsequent articles in the _Morning Post_, which appeared on
November 20 and December 31, were written from Greta Hall, and
that Coleridge therefore was responsible for the sobriquet “The
Keswick Impostor.”
Sir Alexander Hope, brother of the third Earl Hopetoun, whom
Hadfield impersonated, was not (as stated in the _Dic. Nat.
Biog._) the second but the _eighth_ son of the second earl
(_vide Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1837, part ii. p. 423).
NOTES.
NOTE I.--_A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes in Westmorland_, Lancashire
and Cumberland.
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