CELEBRATED TRIALS,
AND
Remarkable Cases
OF
CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE.
FROM
THE EARLIEST RECORDS
TO
THE YEAR 1825.
"The Annals of Criminal Jurisprudence exhibit human nature in a variety of positions, at once the most striking, interesting, and affecting. They present tragedies of real life, often heightened in their effect by the grossness of the injustice, and the malignity of the prejudices which accompanied them. At the same time real culprits, as original characters, stand forward on the canvas of humanity as prominent objects for our special study. I have often wondered that the English language contains no book like the Causes Celebres of the French, particularly as the openness of our proceedings renders the records more certain and accessible, while our public history and domestic conflicts have afforded so many splendid examples of the unfortunate and the guilty. Such a collection, drawn from our own national sources, and varied by references to cases of the continental nations, would exhibit man as he is in action and in principle, and not as he is usually drawn by poets and speculative philosophers."Burke.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR KNIGHT AND LACEY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1825.
Price £3 12s. in Boards.
