The Power of Conscience, exemplified in the genuine and extraordinary confession of Thomas Bedworth / delivered to one of the principal officers of Newgate, the night before his execution on September 18, 1815, for the murder of Elizabeth Beesmore in Drury lane. Relating his horrible sufferings until compelled to surrender to public justice by the constant supernatural visitations of the murdered woman, and the frequent appearance of her apparition. From the original paper now in the possession of the publisher. Including interesting particulars of Bedworth's former life, his behaviour before execution, and an original and full report of the Common Serjeant's address on passing sentence.

by Thomas Bedworth

THE NARRATIVE of THE MAGPIE; or the Maid of Palaiseau, being the History of THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE, founded upon the circumstance of an unfortunate Female having been unjustly sentenced to Death, on strong PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE. With a PREFACE, and curious ANECDOTES.

_*^*_* This most interesting Story, as it is dramatised, has been put into Narrative. On the performance of the Maid and the Magpie at the Theatres, it was represented amidst unanimous and repeated shouts of applause, and, “many incidents were seized on by the audience, who thought proper to apply them to the case of ELIZA FENNING.”—Anti-Gallican Monitor, September 3, 1815.