Last night the warrant was brought to Newgate for executing tomorrow Joseph Sullivan, alias Silver, for inlisting men... for the Pretender.
--Dublin newspaper
Executions of Irishmen for recruiting on behalf of the Stuart Pretender James ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), recognized this year as King of Great Britain and Ireland by Louis XIV, are a principal fare of the Irish press in the early decades of the eighteenth century. In this case Sullivan, a native of Munster and a member of the 1st Regiment of Footguards, London, has been convicted of treason by a hostile English jury and is accordingly "hang'd, drawn, and quarter'd," his head "fix'd to a pole, on Temple Bar."
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