MEMOIRS
OF
JAMES HARDY VAUX.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. CLOWES, NORTHUMBERLAND-COURT, STRAND;
AND SOLD BY
ALL RESPECTABLE BOOKSELLERS.
1819.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
I arrive in London—A sudden alarm—Visit my mother and sisters-Set out for Sshire—Interview with my grandfather—Return to town—A lucky hit on the road—Obtain a situation in the Crown-Office, page 1.
CHAP. II.
Quit the Crown-Office, and engage as reader in a printing-office—Determine to live a strictly honest life—Meet with an old acquaintance who laughs me out of my resolution—Give up all thoughts of servitude, and become a professed thief, page 20.
CHAP. III.
Various modes of obtaining money—My regular course of life, when disengaged from my vicious companions—Meet with an amiable girl, like myself the child of misfortune—We cohabit together—Our mutual happiness, page 269.
CHAP. IV.
Adventures in the course of my profligate career—Motives
which induce me to marry my companion—Her exemplary behaviour—A family misfortune, page 277.
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 voyage—Arrive at Port Jackson, after an absence of four years—My reception from Governor Macquarrie—Assigned by lot to a settler—His brutal treatment of me—I find means to quit his service, and return to Sydney, page 113.
CHAP. XI.
Appointed an overseer—Determine to reform my life, and
become a new man—All my good intentions rendered unavailing by an unforeseen and unavoidable misfortune—I become a victim to prejudice, and the depravity of a youth in years, but a veteran in iniquity—I am banished to the coal-river, page 122.
CHAP. XII.
Return to head-quarters, after an exile of two years—Renew
my vows of rectitude, to which I strictly adhere—Proposal made me to obtain my liberty—I make the attempt—Its failure, and the consequent punishment inflicted on me—Conclusion, page 137.