The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-14 00:00:00

PACKER'S DYER'S GUIDE.

This day was published, Second Edition, corrected and
materially improved,
rfflHE DYER'S GUIDE ; being a Com-
pendium of the Art of Dyeing Linen, Cotton, Silk,
Wool, Muslin, Dresses, Furniture, &c. ; with the Method
of scouring Wool, Bleaching Cotton, &c. ; and Directions
for un-gumming Silk, and of whitening and sulphuring
Silk and Wool; and also an introductory Epitome of the
leading Facts in Chemistry, as connected with the Art of
Dyeing.

By THOMAS PACKER, Dyer and Chemist.
" There is no art which depends so much on Chemistry
as Dyeing."—Garnett.

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DEATH OF A REBEL.

The worthy Colonel having finished his last
cup of tea, and given orders that the materials of
a glass of punch should be prepared for his re-
turn, went down to examine the desperate rebel.
! " Bring out that croppy rascal," thundered forth
the Colonel ; bound, bleeding, and faint,
O'Brien was brought before him. "So you
have made a good night's work of it, my boy I"
The prisoner remained silent. " What have you
to say for yourself ?" Still there was no answer.
" Oh, you're sulky, are you ? Serjeant, put a
pole across the two windows of the next lane,
and prepare a rope for this hero." At this
moment, the prisoner collecting all his strength,
addressed his judge in a calm steady voice; one
of the soldiers, who was present, afterwards de-
clared that in the moment of mortal agony, his
accents were as firm, and his look as- proud, as
if he stood there to issue commands, and not to
receive sentence. " That this would probably
be my end, I have long been aware : 1 am not
now about to stoop to ask for mercy ; the best
of my ancestors have been ruthlessly slain by the
Saxon ; their death may well be mine ; they
died in vain attempts to free their native land
from the foe and the stranger ; so do I ; one
comfort still remains, though I could not break
the chains of my native country, I shall not
witness the rivetting of her fetters. I have three
requests to make ; first, that I may be allowed
to write a farewell to my family ; secondly, that
a minister of religion may be permitted to attend
me ; and thirdly ; that a soldier's death may be
allowed me." The Colonel listened to him with
undisguised amazement ; the calmness and stea-
diness of the prisoner had put him into a rage,
and with brutal harshness he refused his peti-
tion, and reiterated his orders that the fatal ap-
paratus of death should be instantly erected. A
young officer that was present at the scene, an
Englishman by birth, interfered as far as to
procure for the prisoner the means of writing a
few lines, and the privilege of solitude while the
rude gallows was being erected. The grey dawn
of morning was just beginning to appear, when
it was intimated to the prisoner that the prepa-
ratiOns were completed. Those who have spent
a sleepless night know well the exhausted and
haggard appearance they present when the dull
light of the early morn breaks upon their vigils.
As the prisoner went slowly through the guard-
room, the pallid faces of those who kept the
watch, and the manifest unwillingness with
which they stood to their arms, seemed to him
to speak of sympathy and pity. It was but a
seeming ; civil war destroys every generous sen-
timent ; these men had seen the insurgents
plunge their pikes into the bodies of the
wounded in the previous engagement; they had
heard of the cruelties practised by the rebels, and
they were steeled against compassion when these
rebels were in their power. O'Brien had not far
to go ; the fatal tree was close to the guard-house
door. Bound and manacled, he made one des-
perate effort, and rushed through the files of the
surprised guard ; but their surprise lasted only a
moment ; he had not run five yards when a
friendly bullet gave him, as he desired, a sol-
dier's death. His lifeless corpse has suspended
from the gallows, but the gallant spirit had
escaped from the insult."—London University
Magazine.

( ;PRECISION IN GUNNERY.—AII the star-
board main shrouds of the Almirante were cut off is a
line, as smoothly as if it had been done with an axe. I
found out afterwards, that the black cook had stowed
away about two fathoms of chain, promising that the first
" negro catcher" we had a "palaver" with should hare it
as a present from an African. He faithfully put his pro-
mise into execution, for he contrived to get it into the long
gun, in the course of the loading; and I have no doubt
but this accounts for the rigging being cut in the remark-
abliaecwhaj it was.—Account of the Action between the
B Joke and the Abnirante slaver.