NEWS
from
NEWGATE
.
OR
The
Confession
of
those
that
were
Executed
.
THe
dying
close
of
an
ill
led
Life
,
is
well
worthy
the
most
serious
observations
for
then
commonly
the
powers
of
a
rational
Soul
;
that
have
all
along
been
suppressed
in
its
actings
by
the
impetuous
hurry
of
vitious
and
debauched
principles
,
that
have
filled
up
the
volume
of
their
Lives
,
with
nothing
but
repeated
Acts
of
lewdness
and
disorders
,
yet
then
when
the
harangue
of
their
Extravagances
have
brought
them
to
that
fatal
point
,
between
the
reflection
of
their
past
,
but
dear
bought
pleasures
,
and
the
prospect
of
that
near
and
dreadful
account
that
●…
hey
are
going
to
give
to
the
Judge
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
of
their
impieties
.
Then
I
say
the
Soul
resumes
its
power
of
rational
actings
;
and
then
the
refl●ctive
and
discursive
faculties
will
exert
their
powers
in
a
more
regular
way
of
apprehension
,
and
will
give
their
just
and
due
sentiments
of
their
profligate
actions
which
formerly
their
benummed
Consciences
took
but
little
sense
of
,
and
from
their
own
dear
experience
will
inform
the
world
,
how
v●in
and
fo●lish
their
courses
were
that
should
t●rminate
their
pleasurable
Lives
in
such
dreadful
and
lamentable
Periods
;
And
therefore
possible
it
is
that
the
deaths
of
such
men
,
when
awakened
to
a
Serious
sence
of
their
condition
,
may
recompence
something
for
the
Evil
of
their
Lives
,
whereby
they
seduced
so
many
into
wickedness
by
their
Example
,
thus
a
serious
animadversion
of
the
last
carriage
and
behaviour
of
such
dying
Malefactors
,
may
be
effectual
to
convert
men
from
those
destructive
ways
,
that
they
see
in
them
to
be
concluded
with
so
lamentable
a
Close
:
You
have
been
already
presented
with
the
Trial
and
Condemnation
of
one
and
twenty
Malefactors
,
who
this
last
Sessions
had
the
Sentence
of
Death
pass'd
upon
them
,
where
some
are
repriev'd
,
and
the
rest
are
Executed
this
Wednesday
the
17th
.
September
instant
.
It
is
that
priviledge
that
the
mercy
of
our
Christian
Laws
do
allow
to
persons
in
their
conditions
,
that
after
judgment
hath
passed
upon
their
bodies
,
some
care
should
be
taken
for
the
good
of
their
immortal
souls
;
nor
could
the
greatest
Charity
exert
it self
in
more
needful
offices
than
to
be
helpful
to
such
miserable
creatures
in
their
last
exigencies
under
those
pungent
remorses
and
confused
agonies
,
that
the
conscience
of
their
past
wickedness
,
and
the
sense
of
an
approaching
judgment
must
needs
leave
them
:
to
this
end
is
the
Ordinary
deputed
,
to
deal
with
them
in
their
last
conflict
with
the
King
of
Terrors
;
and
whose
wholsome
advice
is
to
be
to
them
as
Postrema
Tabula
post
Naufragium
,
the
last
help
of
their
shipwrack'd
lives
.
This
Gentleman
,
with
other
Ministers
that
came
in
officiously
to
give
their
assistance
in
this
last
work
,
were
frequently
with
the
Prisoners
during
the
space
between
their
Condemnation
and
Execution
;
and
,
as
most
sutable
to
their
present
condition
,
did
chiefly
labour
to
make
them
apprehensive
of
the
miserable
account
they
stood
in
towards
their
offended
Maker
,
whose
glorious
Name
they
had
dishonoured
,
and
whose
Laws
they
had
violated
by
their
nefandous
crimes
;
and
how
necessary
it
was
in
order
to
obtaining
peace
and
absolution
from
him
,
and
as
they
tendred
their
everlasting
welfare
,
that
they
should
now
unburden
their
Consciences
in
a
sincere
and
open
Confession
of
all
that
wickedness
that
they
had
been
guilty
of
,
and
give
glory
to
God
by
so
doing
;
that
besides
these
more
publick
crimes
for
which
they
then
stood
condemned
;
they
should
faithfully
discharge
their
Consciences
of
any
other
wickedness
or
crime
which
they
might
know
themselves
to
have
been
guilty
of
in
order
to
their
establishment
of
a
well-grounded
peace
and
comfort
to
themselves
.
They
seemed
all
generally
apprehensive
of
the
importancy
of
these
counsels
,
and
did
accordingly
manifest
the
expressions
of
true
penitent
souls
,
in
hearty
bewailing
of
their
grievous
offences
,
and
earnestly
desiring
the
Prayers
of
all
that
should
understand
their
condition
to
be
put
up
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
for
mercy
for
them
.
Particularly
John
Rendor
,
the
person
that
strangled
Mr.
Blucks
Servant
,
seemed
deeply
sensible
of
that
horrid
blood-guiltiness
that
lay
upon
him
,
in
taking
away
the
Life
of
that
poor
Woman
,
who
had
been
so
kind
and
hospitable
to
him
;
He
confest
that
the
killing
motive
to
that
horrid
Action
was
his
lucre
of
getting
the
goods
that
were
left
in
her
custody
;
And
therefore
warned
all
persons
,
by
his
Example
,
to
set
timely
bounds
to
their
ungovernable
desires
after
unlawful
gain
,
that
when
once
men
begin
to
covet
their
neighbours
proprieties
it
is
a
ready
inlet
to
all
manner
of
impiety
and
nothing
can
be
so
deere
to
any
one
,
not
Life
it selfe
,
but
their
greedy
dispositions
will
be
ready
to
Violate
.
He
confest
the
Justice
of
God
in
making
him
to
bewray
his
own
fact
,
and
that
after
he
had
perpetrated
the
Murther
,
he
was
compelled
,
by
the
pungent
Excitations
of
his
own
Conscience
,
to
go
back
to
the
place
where
he
did
the
Fact
.
and
where
he
was
taken
.
The
Women
that
Murthered
their
Children
did
in
like
manner
,
Caution
all
persons
to
beware
of
these
secret
ways
of
lust
,
which
to
palliate
and
hide
from
others
,
would
by
their
president
,
put
them
upon
these
unnatural
Actions
that
would
bring
them
to
a
more
open
shame
.
They
were
all
very
penitent
in
their
Confessions
,
and
we
may
in
Charity
hope
that
though
they
have
been
justly
condemned
in
this
world
to
the
destruction
of
their
bodyes
,
that
yet
they
may
through
Gods
mercy
be
absolved
in
the
other
for
the
Salvation
of
their
Souls
.
FINIS
.