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CONTENTS.
CHAP. V.
Adventure of the silver snuff-box—Its consequences.—My
narrow escape from transportation, which I have since had reason to regret, page 333.
CHAP. VI.
Visit Mr. Bilger, an eminent jeweller—His politeness, and
the return I made for it—Perfidy of a pawnbroker—Obliged to decamp with precipitation, page 52.
CHAP. VII.
Take a house in St George's Fields—Stay at home for several weeks—At length venture out in quest money—My imprudent obstinacy in entering a house of ill repute, against the advice and entreaties of my wife—I am taken in custody and carried to the watch-house.— Distress of my wife on the occasion, page 71.
CHAP. VIII.
Discover that I have been betrayed—Examined at Bow-street, and committed for trial—Sent to Newgate—Prepare for my defence—My trial and conviction, page 83.
CHAP. IX.
Account of my companion and fellow-sufferer in the condemned cells—His unhappy fate—I receive sentence of death—Am reprieved, and soon afterwards sent on board the hulks—Some account of those receptacles of human misery, page 97.
CHAP. X.
I embark a second time for New South Wales—Indulgently treated by the Captain—My employment during the
