4. Ditto, part graven, part mezzotinto.
The knife with which she committed the murder is lying by her.
5. Another copy of this portrait[1] (of which only the first was engraved by Hogarth), with the addition of a clergyman holding a ring in his hand, and a motto, "No recompence but Love."[2]
In The Grub-street Journal of Thursday, March 8, 1732, appeared the following epigram:
"To Malcolm Guthrie[3] cries, confess the murther;
The truth disclose, and trouble me no further.
Think on both worlds; the pain that thou must bear
In that, and what a load of scandal here.
Confess, confess, and you'll avoid it all:
Your body shan't be hack'd at Surgeons Hall:
No Grub-street hack shall dare to use your ghost ill,
Henly shall read upon your post a postile;
Hogarth your charms transmit to future times,
And Curll record your life in prose and rhimes.
"Sarah replies, these arguments might do
From Hogarth, Curll, and Henly, drawn by you,
Were I condemn'd at Padington to ride:
But now from Fleet-street Pedington's my guide."
The office of this Pedington[4] may be known from the following advertisement in The Weekly Miscellany, N° 37. August 25, 1733. "This day is published, Price Six-pence, (on occasion of the Re-commitment of the two Alexanders; with a very neat effigies of Sarah Malcolm and her Reverend Confessor, both taken from the Life) The Friendly Apparition: Being an account of the most surprising appearance of Sarah Malcolm's Ghost to a great assembly of her acquaintance at a noted Gin-shop; together with the remarkable speech she then made to the whole company."
[1] A copy of it in wood was inserted in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1733, p. 153.
[2] This print was designed as a frontispiece to the pamphlet advertised in The Weekly Miscellany. (See text, above.)
[3] The Ordinary of Newgate.
[4] Mr. Pedington died September 18, 1734. He is supposed to have made some amorous overtures to Sarah.