[107] It was said that the dinners he gave were of the most sumptuous and recherché description. The story goes, that one of his most chosen friends, who attended him to the scaffold, entreated him, as on the brink of the grave, and unable to take anything out of the world with him, to reveal the secret of where some wonderful curaçoa was obtained, for which Fauntleroy’s cellar was famous.
[108] See ante, p. 102.
[109] The reader will have perceived from the Inspectors of Prisons first report that this hope was still unfulfilled in 1836, twelve years later.
[110] See chap. ii. p. 129.
[111] For abduction. See post, p. 302.
[112] At Liverpool, in 1842, there was a case of abduction, and the well-known case of Mr. Carden and Miss Arbuthnot in Ireland occurred as late as 1854.
[113] See vol. i. p. 178.
[114] But not quite. The Warwick Mail was stopped in 1827, and robbed of £20,000 in bank-notes.
[115] That sound and illustrious lawyer, Sir James Stephen, is of opinion that the receiver of stolen goods is one of the greatest of criminals; and in his recently-published history of the Criminal Law he seriously recommends capital punishment for those who have been repeatedly convicted of the offence.
[116] See ante, p. 317.