THE NEWGATE CALENDAR; COMPRISING INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF OUTRAGES ON The Laws of England SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, WITH OCCASIONAL ANECDOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, SPEECHES, CONFESSIONS, AND LAST EXCLAMATIONS OF SUFFERERS. J. ROBINS AND CO. IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1828. ASTOIN NEW-YORK JAMES SWEENY, RICHARD PEARCE, EDMUND BUCKLEY: PATRICK FLEMING, MAURICE BRENWICK, AND JOHN SULLIVAN, CONVICTED OF MURDER. THESE unhappy men were natives of Ireland, and belonged to that numerous class who resort to England in search of employment; but whose conduct is too often a disgrace to their own country, and a demoralizing example for this. The murder, for which these malefactors justly forfeited their lives, originated in that vulgar antipathy which the lower orders of one nation feel for their brethren of another; VOL. IV. forgetful that all men should be brothers in distress. On their trial, which took place at Chelmsford, on the 16th of Au gust, 1810, it appeared in evidence that John Bolding, for whose mur der they were arraigned, kept the Eagle and Child public house, at Forest Gate, in the parish of West Ham, and that on Sunday evening the 20th of May preceding, a dispute took place in the kitchen, between 98 |