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Eighteenth Century Waifs
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General Advertiser, February 13, 1784.
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Gentleman’s Magazine, 1736, pp. 617-618.
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By Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester.
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A pickle herring was a Merry-Andrew or clown, and this means that the quack was too poor to afford either horse or attendant.
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A false witness – one who would swear to anything for a trifle.
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I have before me now twelve lives of him, and that is by no means an exhaustive list.
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‘Memoire pour le Comte de Cagliostro, accusé: contre Monsieur le Procureur-General, accusateur; en presence de Monsieur le Cardinal de Rohan, de la Comtesse de la Motte, et autres co-accusés.’ Paris, 1786, 4to.
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Of this work there was a French translation published in 1791 at Paris and Strasbourg, under the title of ‘Vie de Joseph Balsamo, connu sous le nom de Comte Cagliostro,’ &c. 2nd edition.
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Editor of the Morning Chronicle, 1772-89.
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Locusta, or, more correctly, Lucusta, was a celebrated poisoner. She was employed by Aggripina to poison the Emperor Claudius, and by Nero to kill Britannicus. For this she was most handsomely rewarded by Nero; but was executed for her crimes by Galba.
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i. e., to serve on the convict hulks there, to dredge the Thames. The treatment on board was based on good principles; those convicts who were well-behaved had remission of sentence, those who were recalcitrant had unmerciful punishment.
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