The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-12-04 00:00:00, page 2

Containing an accurate account of all the mur
ders, rapes, robberies, forgeries and burglaries com
mitted by the renowned heroes of Newgate, arrang
ed in beautiful order; from the original minutes of
Pimp, Catfpaw, Esq. and now publilhed for the de
light, amusement and inftruftion of all good people.
Such a paper, Meffirs. Printers, will find buyers
in plenty—it will be a deferable paper— and ufeful
beyond any thing that types have yet exhibited. —
If any one should doubt your patriotism in the bu
siness, advertise that the nett proceeds of this pa-,
per (hall be appropriated to repair the losses incur
red by the villanies. Thus, for example, if a vil
lain has murdered a man, or ravished a woman, let
the rascal's life be published, and the hawkers and
pedlars of the state, employed to pick up a few
pence to give the woman who has loft her bufand
or ber reputation. Is not this reparation? Does
not every ' body know that a little money is an ex
cellent substitute for a bufand, a parent, or one's
own reputation ? Where is there a poor girl that
would not be ravished for a few (hillings ? Btfides,
what a wonderful conjolation must it be to a person
who has loft a friend, or his goods or reputation,
to read the life and adventures of the villain ! It is
like balm to the bleeding wound !
, Now, gentlemen, I think this an excellent
scheme. It is for the good of the public, and what
is more, the printer's pufe, especially if you have
the resolution to tell the world, the money arising
from the Tales is intended for a poor fuffiring girl—
and then to keep it,ourselves.
If at any time tte foregoing crimes should not
fill your paper ; colled the most remarkable occur
rences in the lives of other difingui/hed characters,
and add a weekly paragraph under the title of
•"ANECDOTES OF GREAT MEN."
Under this head, you may arrange a Catalogue of
Amours ; as these form a considerable figure in the
lives of many great men, and as all examples of
this kind,' when public and living, have a molt effi
cacious influence in purifying the morals of a peo
ple. Besides, it is very necessary the people should
be well acquainted with the abilities of the men
who are candidates for offices. It must be ascer
tained how many mistresses a man must keen, and
how many children he must maintain in eacnßoun
ty in tire ftate;trquart, him for public confidence.—
Under this article may lie placed the proceedings
of courts refpe&ing divorces, and the whole hiftory
of wife-kicking: It is wished some of your casuists
would afeertain the' difference of guilt incurred by
■ man's kicking his wife out of bed, and a man's
Beeping wi,h an, Woman, but bis wife.
To close your paper, and foffer nothing ufeful to
escape your notice, publish, for the benefit of young
phyficiany, exad accounts of the diffe&ion of any
culprit who, may be hanged for his evil deeds —
The world-may be benefited, not only by the lives,
debitvements an^ wife fayinge of a villain, but even
by his bowels after death ; fa that even when dead,
his inwards f,edk, Bui do not let young Pby/icians
be the only gainers b^a view of a rascal's insides.
What right have these upforts to monopolize the
advantages of feeing the heart of a scoundrel? I advise
that rverv man should be admitted, and that diffec
to like banging, should be offered to the public
rape, robbery, forgery, burglary, or ftmple theft, if
you think mere sealing is an atchievement worth
publilhing ;' (for I would not fill the hiftory wltha
narration of little trifling peccadillos ; these being as
uninteresting to the public as a sermon or grave
moral essay.) If there is a black rascal among the
heroes, any way distinguished for his vices, let his
atchierements grace the head of the lift. Erery
body knows that the way to check vice is to publish
it. When you are furnifhed with matter fufficient;
I would recommend a new title to the paper which
is to be the vehicle of this important intelligence
to the public. Entitle it,
AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR VICE,
From the Connecticut Courant.
if j ■■
Messieurs PRINTERS", ~
^KTEWS is scarce and news papers.fo barren as
hardly to deserve the name. I call at the
Printing-Office, every morning after the mails ar
rive, and search all the papers from Portsmouth to
Philadelphia, and find rarely a scrap of intelligence
worth reading. lam almost tired of thus picking
the bones that you Printers give us, and beg you
to look out for more solid food for the mind. Take
a friend's advice, and pursue a hint lately given at
New-Haven for replenishing your papers and fur
nifhing solid Lifting inftruaion for your readers.
My advice is this : Employ some idle perlon, a
young attorney, if you please, to visit all the pri
sons in the state : to write the hiftory of the live/
and adventures of the renowned heroes who are sen
tenced to Newgate or a gallows. Colled particu
lar accounts of all their crimes, whether murder,
OR
THE ART OF PREVENTING DEVILTRY.
AN effectual cure for a Cancer is still among
the desiderata of Phyfick—mercury, antimo
ny, and all other alteratives, have been long tried,
and often found to fail ; hemlock is a more power
¥l remedy, but though it has been fuccefsfully ad
ntiniftered in cutanew^diforders, though it has
refuted fchitroufes, and as it were, prepared the
body for any topical remedy—yet it has but rare
ly cured an ulcerated cancer —the topical remedy
which I now offer to the public, is simple, harm
less and easy to be procured, not only by the rich,
but by the poor. Take carrots frefh gathered
(daucus fatevus) reduce them to a coarse powder
with a bakers rasp, press out the juice, warm the
pulp in an earthen pipkin, apply it thick as a poul
tice, if there be holes or hollows of any kind, they
must be filled, so that the poultice may touch eve
ry part of the ulcers— the whole most be covered
with a napkin well dried and warm —the dressing
must be renewed twice every 24 hours —•taking a--
way the stale poultice ; and at the farce time,wafh
ing and cleaning the ulcers with some lint faftened
to the end of a probe, or some other instrument
dipped in a warm decoftion of hemlock —this ap
plication will take away the pain and loathfomo
finell, attendant in cancerous ulcers.
grith. Orifa few pence can be obtained for the
fight, let the price be the fame as for a fight of a
catriel ; a culprit's infdes being at least as vender,
ful l fight as a camel. Your advertisements for
this exhibition may be taken from modern prece
dent, as follows.
WONDERFUL ANATOMICL EXHIBITION.
Next Friday morning, will be differed in a gar
ret at the waterside, the body of the notorious vil
lain CUFFY MUNGO, who committed thirty rob
beries, fifteen burglaries, nine thefts and ONE RAPE,
for which he was finally hanged. It is expeded
that half a dozen devils will be found lodged un
der the left venticle of the heart, all armed wi'h
pointed pitch forks, wih which they used to ftimu- ts
late the culprit to all manner of crimes^ A noted
operator has been sent for /rimfar, who is to begin
the process at half past nine 6'clock. Doors to be
opened at nine. Tickets of admission exactly nine
pence.
,VivAt RespOblica.
Surely, Messieurs Printers, the world is full of
news ; great new> ; and I mod humbly request that
your cuftoraers may in future be the better for it.
common!) called BLIND DI^K.,
IT is something remarkable, that the parents of
this unfortunate person were transported during
his infancy, by which means he was put into St-
Luke's workhouse. His playing upon a fife at
that place ettraded the notice of one of the over
seers so far that he procured an able master to
teach him the violin —but not liking confinement,
tie soon eloped from his patron, and subsisted by
playing in Moorfields, and at public houses. His
firft advenfore as a marauder was as singular as
any Other trait of his character ;—-as he actually,
in concert with a lame man, robbed the workhouse
where he had been brought up, of several beds,
&c. that had been put out to air in thd yard. He
soon afterwards ran a race with another person that
had loft hit fight, named Job, which he won
by a con fiderable difMnce. A habit of betting
and gaming had so far initiated him into a course
of dissipation, and at length he could resist no op
portunity of pilfering to enable him to attend the
Ikettleg rounds, at which he wd< fitch an adept,
that he could tell, by found of the pins, how many
had fallen, &c. He once after fiddling with a
bunter's garland, decamped with the box. He
also kept company with a blind girl, till, by the
quickness of his ear, he difeovered a rival irf the
room hearing him breathe. He was afterwards a
cicefbeo to a lady of easy virtue near St. Catha
rine's till he was decoded in packing up the houf
hold furniture for aremoval. In February 1752,
he was deteded in cutting the velvet out of a loom
belonging to a wearer near Moorfields, for which
he was capitally corvided, but receiving his Ma
jesty's clemency on condition of being imprisoned
three years in Newgate. Near the expiration of
this period, in consequence of some wanton provo
cation, he (tabbed one of the prisoners in the belly,
for which he was imprisoned two years. It is also
singular, that he procured an affluent subsistence in
Newgate by taking pledges of wearing apparel,
&c. of which he was a competent judge by mere
feeling, and was frequently employed by the pri
soners in better circumstances, to play Macpher
fon's and other slash tunes, of which he was a tole
rable performer.
Extraordinary account of RICHARD CARROLL,
Some practical Obfervattons for the cure of Ulcerated
CANCERS, b. Dr. Cowan.
From a London Magazine.
ing, and a great deal of the world, a
marr will shine more than with agreat
understanding, and a little of the
world 1 and to acquire this custom,
there must be a certain mode of car
riage, without which he will never be
able to cultivate Acquaintance in thole
societies where best company of all
ranks meet.
Without a fortune, set a man's me
rit be ever so great, he will be depri
ved of the means of mixing with peo^
ple of fashion, And being acquainted
with their manners, or assuming their
style ; in a word, to judge of men of
a certain rank, their virtue,their vices,
their follies.„
lives in the fafhionable world. Thia
man is a debauchee,a flanderer,a cheat;
he is possessed of every vice on which
the law cannot lay hold toe does nor
commit murder on the high way; but
he diftils in every house the poison of
an envenomed tongue, he blasts every
one's reputation, he ridicules every
virtue, he scatters discord among bre
thren, married people and friends.
When driven bom one quarter he
goes to another, and carries the fame
Ipite with him.—His wickedness is
the result of reflection ; he makes it
his study. But he can only be punish
ed with contempt ; and comtempt in
a great city is like the infested air
they breathe ; —they accustom them,
selves to it.
THE world may be thus defined;
it is avast theatre, on which
mankind are actors ; chance compo
ses the piece, fortune Hiftributes the
parts, women distribute refrefhment
to the actors, and the unfortunate are
the feene-drawers &; candle-fnuffers.
The world polishes more than it
inftruas. To be a fpedator one must
not be in a bustle of the world, but
at a certain distance ; as to observe a
regiment march,one must be on a line
when they file off, & not in the ranks.
With a little share of understand-
Riches put a young man forward
in the World early ; by their means he
will be able to display his talents, to
excel in all manner of exercises, to
learn languages, to travel ; in fine, to
have the necessary leisure to devote
hirrtfelf to whatever art or feience he
pleases.,
But the men of the world exagge
rate their encomiums the ton diffufed
among them. They will confidently
fay, there is no trifte, penetration, or
wit, but in their circles. From those
career of every man who appears
among them.
The wretch who expires on a feat
fold, has not been guilty of so many
disorders in society as another who
exclusive pretentions, they imagine
themlelves entitled to guess at the
From the WORKS of the celebrated
MERCIER.
THE WORLD.
A FRAGMENT.