The Life of David Hoggart
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Excerpt from The Life of David Hoggart: The Murderer, Alias M´c Colgan, Alias Daniel O´brian; Related by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death, This Unhappy Youth Was Executed at Edinburgh, on the 18th of July, 1821, for the Murder of Morrin, One of the Turnkeys of Dunfries Gaol In this memoir, the youth alone of the miserable criminal calls forth our pity, and we are not insensibly led, by delusive reasonings and dazzling fancies, to lose our detestation of guilt in admiration of the perpetrator, in doubt as to his motives, and in sorrow for apparently inadvertent circumstances controlling his destiny. Here the lovely nymphs are made women of the town, and the flowing goblets of intoxicating wine and nectar, common drink, gin or beer; the dearest associate in depredation is but a pot, and the high-spirited corsair but a pirate robber, whose daring carries him through his brief voyage, and finally surrenders him to the hangman. David Hoggart´s original relation is full of what is called slang terms; the writer of this edition purposely omits them out of, he trusts, obvious and praiseworthy motives - respect to the purity of the rising generation, to which such guilty knowledge must convey harm, and mar the good intent that led to the publishing of his crimes. He was born near Edinburgh, in November, 1800, of parents situated in middle life; but a large family, and expenses incident to such an increase, rather reduced them; yet they were still comfortable in their circumstances, and much respected. Out of pity to them, and in compliance with the wishes of the deceased culprit, we abstain from saying more concerning them than that Hoggart was the real name. In all his scrapes, David was very tenacious not to involve his family in his guilt, and denied his name and residence as often as he could. The strong interest he had in this respect, appears in a verse, among others he made a short time before his execution. Of the levity a number of lines contained, he testified afterwards a strong contrition, and attributes them to a spirit of outward bravado, while he was inwardly suffering all the torments of a guilty conscience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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