Less atrocious murders--Consequences of ungovernable passion--Mr. Plunkett--Mr. Bird--A sensitive Guardsman--The Reverend James Hackman, in passionate despair, murders Miss Reay--Governor Wall--His severe and unaccommodating temper--Trial of Sergeant Armstrong--punished by drum-head court-martial and flogged to death--Wall’s arrest and escape to the Continent--Persons of note charged with murder--Quin the actor kills Williams in self-defence--Charles Macklin kills Hallam, a fellow actor at Drury Lane--Joseph Baretti, author of the ‘Italian Dictionary,’ mobbed in the Haymarket, defends himself with a pocket-knife, and stabs one of his assailants--Chronic dangers and riots in the London streets--Trade terrorism--Turbulent serving-men--Footmen’s riot at Drury Lane--Footmen frequently turned highwaymen--Hawkins attempts an alibi--Other alibis--James Maclane, a notorious knight of the road, once a butler and respectable grocer, has a lodging in St. James’ Street--Stops Horace Walpole--His capture and fame in Newgate before execution--William Page, another footman, turned highway robber--His clever stratagems and disguises--A confederate betrays him--Arrested in London--Hanged at Maidstone--John Rann, alias Sixteen-String Jack--His extravagant costumes--Short career ends in the gallows--- Well-born but dissolute reprobates to the road--A Baronet and a Lieutenant convicted--William Parsons, a baronet’s son, related to a Duchess and a naval officer, becomes an ensign in the 34th--His extravagance--Sells out of the army--Turns swindler, and is transported to Virginia--Returns and takes to the road--Is caught and hanged--Paul Lewis, another highwayman, who had been a King’s officer--Captured by a police officer--William Norton, who sometimes took a thief, captures William Belchier--Jonathan Wild, the sham thief-taker and notorious criminal--His conviction and his career summarized--Once anxious to become a freeman of the city of London--Pirates and sea-robbers--Captain Kidd--English Peers accused of complicity--Kidd’s arrest, trial, and sentence--John Gow and his career in the ‘Revenge’--His death at Execution Dock--Captain Massey, an involuntary pirate, through whom others are captured, is himself hung. I pass now to murders of less atrocity, the result of temporary and more or less ungovernable passion, rather than of malice deliberate and aforethought. In this class must be included the case of Mr. Plunkett, a young gentleman of Irish extraction, who murdered a peruke-maker, who asked him an exorbitant price for a wig. Brown had made it to order for Mr. Plunkett, and wanted seven pounds for it. After haggling he reduced it to six. Plunkett offered four, and on this being refused, seized a razor lying handy and cut Brown’s throat.