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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.
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BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, and oyer and terminer, for the city of London, and at the general sessions of gaol delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex at
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in the Old Baily
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, before the
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Right Honourable Sir Matthew Blakiston
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, the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the
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Honourable Sir Edward Clive
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, one of the
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Judges of his Majesty's court of Common Pleas
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Sir William Moreton
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, and others his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer for the said city and county; on
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Wednesday the 1st
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Friday the 3d of April
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, in the first year of the reign of his Majesty King George the third,
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Theodore Gardelle
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, was capitally convicted for the wilful murder of
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was indicted for the murder of
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, by throwing her on the ground and stabbing her with a penknife,
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The following narrative being a translation of Mr. Gardelle's manuscript, will give a more just idea of his life and character, together with the occasion and circumstances of the sad event now in view, than could have been formed without this open and full confession.
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" As there is nothing material in my first years I need not take notice of them. At the age of fourteen, my father thinking the art of painting not proper to my temper (as it is absolutely necessary for a painter to travel) and intending to put me in a business suitable to the desire he had I should remain in
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, bound me
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for the term of three years. But I was so impatient to learn the art of painting that I set out for
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in December 1739, without taking leave of any body. I was then sixteen years and a half old; and as both my parents and my master were satisfied with my conduct, they wrote to their friends at Paris, and recommended me to them that I should have any thing
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