New Works
Lately Published, and Preparing for Publication, by E. L. Carey & A. Hart, Philad
“It is replete with amusement and oddity. Poor Jacob was born on the water. ‘It was,’ says he, ‘in a floating sort of a box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames, that I first smelt the mud.’”
—Baltimore Gazette.
“Equal in merit to Peter Simple, and perhaps even more entertaining, are the adventures of Jacob Faithful, another of the whimsical creations of Captain Marryatt’s prolific brain.”—Saturday Courier.
“It is full of character and incident, and will, we doubt not, be a universal favourite.”—Lit. Gaz.
“The quiet humour which pervades the work is irresistibly amusing, and the fund of anecdote and description which it contains, entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright burlesque, and the incident to extravagance, if not improbability; but, altogether, as a book of amusement, it is excellent.”
—Baltimore Gazette.
“Those who are the most competent to judge, say that Captain Marryatt is altogether superior to any other writer of naval sketches or descriptions, living or dead.”—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
“This is the best work that Captain Marryatt has produced.”—Atlas.
“‘Peter Simple’ is certainly the most amusing of Captain Marryatt’s amusing novels; a species of picture quite unique; a class by themselves, full of humour, truth, and graphic sketches.”—Literary Gazette.
“This is an admirable work, and worthy of the noble service it is written to illustrate.”—Spectator.
CELEBRATED TRIALS,
AND
CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.
In One large volume, 8vo., containing 600 closely printed pages.
CONTENTS.
John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.
Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for forgery, at the Old Bailey, October 30, 1824.
Anna Schonleben (Germany), for poisoning, 1808.
John Docke Rouvelett, for forgery, 1806.
John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, for the murder of John Cole Steele, on Hounslow-heath, February 22, 1807.
The unknown Murderer, or the Police at fault (Germany), 1817.
Thomas Simmons, for murder, Oct. 20, 1807.
Major Alexander Campbell, for the murder of Captain Alexander Boyd, at Armagh, in a duel, 1807.
James Stuart, for the murder of Sir Alexander Boswell, in a duel, 1822.
Martha Alden, for murder, 1807.
Francis S. Riembauer, for assassination, 1805.
Eliza Fenning, for an attempt to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and family, April 11, 1815.
William Jones, for murder.
Abraham Thornton, for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817.
Castaing, the physician, for murder, at Paris, November, 1817.
John Donellan, Esq., for the murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesly Boughton; before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, 1781.
Sir Walter Raleigh, for high-treason, in the reign of James I., A.D. 1602.
James O’Coigley, Arthur O’Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for high-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.
Miss Ann Broadric, for the murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.
William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, 1827.
William Codlin, for scuttling a ship, 1802.
Joseph Wall, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, at Goree, 1802.
Vice-admiral Byng, for neglect of duty; at a court-martial, held on board his majesty’s ship the St. George, in Portsmouth harbour, 1757.
Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for the murder of James Sinclair, 1727.
Admiral Keppel, for neglect of duty, July, 1778, at a court-martial.
Sir Hugh Palliser, Vice-admiral of the Blue, for neglect of duty, 1779.
Sarah Metyard and Sarah M. Metyard, for murder, 1768.
John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May, for the murder of Charles Ferriar, 1831.
Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for murder.
Sarah Malcolm, for the murder of Ann Price, 1733.
Joseph Baretti, for the murder of Evan Morgan, 1769.
Mungo Campbell, for murder, 1721.
Lucretia Chapman, for the murder of William Chapman, late of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1832.
Lino Amalto Espos y Mina, for the murder of William Chapman, at the same court, 1832.
John Hatfield, for forgery, 1803.
Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal of England, 1897.
Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.
William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.
Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas Hallam, May 1735.
Mary Young, alias Jenny Diver, for privately stealing, 1740.
George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.
John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of sessions, and member of his majesty’s privy council, 1689.
William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady Grosvenor, 1770.
Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.
Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.
Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland, 1813.
Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at Maidstone, 1813.
Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King’s Bench, 1810.
John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.
Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at Surry assizes, 1817.
Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason, at the Old Bailey, 1820.
Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.
Trial of the Rebels in 1745:
Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.—Charles Ratcliffe, Esq.—Townley and Dawson.—Fletcher and Syddall.—Dr. Cameron.
Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.
Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.
Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.—His execution.
Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.
Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.
The Salem Witches.
Sufferers for pretended Witchcraft in Scotland.
Alison Pearson.—Janet Grant and Janet Clark, 1828.—John Cunningham, 1590.—Agnes Sampson, 1591.—John Fien, 1591.—Euphan M’Calzene, 1591.—Patrick Lawrie, 1606.—Margaret Wallace, 1620.—Isobel Young, 1629.—Alexander Hamilton, 1630.—John Neil, 1630.—Janet Brown and others, 1640.
The Samuelston Witches—Isobel Elliot, and nine other women, 1678.
Impostor of Barragan, 1696.
Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.
James George Lisle, alias Major Semple, for stealing, 1795.
Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.
John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.
Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.
Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.
Circumstantial Evidence.
Jonathan Bradford.—James Crow.—John Jennings.—Thomas Harris.—William Shaw.
“Mr. Burnes is the first European of modern times who has navigated the Indus. Many years have passed since the English Library has been enriched with a book of travels, in value at all comparable with this. Mr. Burnes is evidently a man of strong and masculine talents, high spirit, and elegant taste, well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones.”
—London Quarterly Review.
“Though comparisons may be and often are odious, we do not think we shall excite one resentful feeling, even among the travellers whose productions we have reviewed during a course approaching twenty years, when we say that so interesting a publication of that class as the present, has not fallen under our notice.”—London Literary Gazette.
Exemplifying the Imperfections of circumstantial Evidence; illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism; and recording singular Instances of voluntary human Suffering and interesting Occurrences. (Nearly ready.)