In that year appeared the six volumes of the _Celebrated Trials_, of which we have something to say in our next chapter.

Borrow found Phillips most exacting, always suggesting the names of new criminals, and leaving it to the much sweated author to find the books from which to extract the necessary material: In the compilation of my Lives and Trials I was exposed to incredible mortification, and ceaseless trouble, from this same rage for interference....

This was not all; when about a moiety of the first volume had been printed, he materially altered the plan of the work; it was no longer to be a collection of mere Newgate lives and trials, but of lives and trials of criminals in general, foreign as well as domestic....

'Where is Brandt and Struensee ?' cried the publisher.

'I am sure I don't know,' I replied; whereupon the publisher falls to squealing like one of Joey's rats.