acrifice, even of sacred things, to the inordinate
thirst of gain.

From Newgate (the prison to which he was committed; where, during his
continuance he lay chained in a dismal cell, deprived of the
cheerfulness of light, fed upon bread and water, and left without a bed
to rest on) the prisoner was removed to the bar of judgment, and
condemned to die by the laws of his country.

[Illustration: INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE 10.

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE ALDERMAN OF LONDON. THE IDLE ONE IMPEACHED
BEFORE HIM BY HIS ACCOMPLICE.]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE XI.

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE EXECUTED AT TYBURN.

"When fear cometh as desolation, and their destruction cometh as a
whirlwind; when distress cometh upon them, then shall they call upon
God, but he will not answer." Proverbs, chapter i. verse 7, 8.

Thus, after a life of sloth, wretchedness, and vice, does our delinquent
terminate his career. Behold him, on the dreadful morn of execution,
drawn in a cart (attended by the sheriff's officers on horseback, with
his coffin behind him) through the public streets to Tyburn, there to
receive the just reward of his crimes,--a shameful ignominious death.
The ghastly appearance of his face, and the horror painted on his
countenance, plainly show the dreadful situation of his mind; which we
must imagine to be agitated with shame, remorse, confusion, and terror.
The careless position of the Ordinary at the coach window is intended to
show how inattentive those appointed to that office are of their duty,
leaving it to others, which is excellently expressed by the itinerant
preacher in the cart, instructing from a book of Wesley's. Mr. Hogarth
has in this print, digressing from the history and moral of the piece,
taken an opportunity of giving us a humorous representation of an
execution, or a Tyburn Fair: such days being made holidays, produce
scenes of the greatest riot, disorder, and uproar; being generally
attended by hardened wretches, who go there, not so much to reflect upon
their own vices, as to commit those crimes which must in time inevitably
bring them to the same shameful end. In confirmation of this, see how
earnestly one boy watches the motions of the man selling his cakes,
while he is picking his pocket; and another waiting to receive the
booty! We have here interspersed before us a deal of low humour, but
such as is common on occasions like this. In one place we observe an old
bawd turnin