The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-24 00:00:00

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;0 +N AGRICULTURAL FRIEND,. SUFFERING UNDER

THE LOSS 6CCA5101:1.1) BY A COURSE OF UNSEAWN-

ABLE WEATHER IN HAY tiAlti'EST.

BY MR. PRATT.

Author of Gleanings," Sce. arc.

When fierce the Summer torrent roars,

Or, still more furious Sirius pours
A frood,of burring,
variegated Autumn brings
Dire mildew 6:1 his Withering -wings,
And sheds wide-w?iting blig. t;

The earth-born native of the clod,
Like that, unconscious of the C;4.;d

That works to good the whole,
Finds, when his hives are thus ri'ercast,
While drenching clouds the prospect blast,
No refuge but the bowl I

The pipe in mouth, the mug in hand.
Re chiles .the air, he spurns the land,
And like a Maniac flies • _
Enrag'd, he views his ruin'cl'fichls,
Till wrought to blasphemy he yields.
Or, curses God, and died*

But happy he, who, like my Friend,
Can Industry and Science blend,
With Piety combin'd ;
Tho' Horror strides the raving.storm, 4
No phiensy can his breast deform,
To Providence tesignid !
When Nature chiuds the sylvan scene,
The cultivated mind, serene,
Far other solace knows ;
He turns th' iltumin'd volume o'er,
And Nat Lire's wonders dares explore,
Where sacred Wisdom flows.

On Wisdom's wing he soar& on high,
With her own Newton seeks the sky,
Or treads where Plato trod;
And not unskill'il in learned lore,
1-1 e tries the microscopic pow'r,
And views 111 all a GOD. •

41 See Tob2---1t must be in the remembrance also of many
persons, that, a few months since, a tanner who was busied
in the fields, was overtaken' by a thunder-storm, at which he
was so' greatly exasperated, that he wickedly uttered seveul
blasp tit mous imprecations, arid was struck with instanta-
neous tlecitn.

The four tu4tiptly met. left for execution at the
late LtncO.n Assa-s, suffered the dreadful penalty
attached to th(ii crimes on Frid ty last. Atkinson
g3ve to Mr: Merryweather, the Governor of the
Gaft , bil,s to the autount .of, 351. to be sent to
lies,rs. Gee and Clarke,' of Boston, whose right he
declared it was, and he lame9ted that that;was all
t,eTre,litution he was able' to .make. At eleven
o'clock the four men were brought forth from the
prison into'the.Costle,yard, and placed in a cart.----
The- awful 'procession tl et .adv..nced to the usual
place of exeCutiiin, a little porth of Lincoln. Mar-
slial first ascepded tile scaffold; Saw,er next, Wakelin
wai third, arid Atkinson, last. They successively
addressed a few swords to the surrounding multitude,
Loping that their unhappy situation would serve as
a .‘A'aruink, WAelin said rather more; his words
Friends and neighbours, I hope this will
b- a warning 10-you all ; .Sabbath•breaking, bad
w .the. , ;nd idle company, have brought me to
this untimely end ; • but I have made nay peace with
the Almighty,. and shall soon get lid of this wicked
v. old." He ,poke kvitligteat firmness,. and seemed
fie, 'eta iv resigned. • 'The others wete• much more
ce Tessed by their miserable situation. •
Just before the moment of the scaffold falling,
Atkin-on turned to shake hands with \Vakelin, and
said a few words : to this exertion is attributed one
of the mast shocking circomstanc: s, which suceeed-
ect 'that u e ever heard '.of. Marshal, Sawer;
.and.
Wakelin seemed to-be dead in two minutes after
they NV/ere turned off; but, at that time, to the in-
conceivable . I;orror of all around, Aikingon cried
out, Oh" 1.-Oh God !, I cannot die, 1 cannot
die ! lift me up !" lonnediitely a soldier,of the 69th
leg-uncut went td him, lifted hint up 'a little, and
th_tit by hanvg at the body, .put tlie. poor wretch
out of his misery.
At eleven o'-clock on Wednesday. morning, the
unfortunate Aslina Beatuyrint, conviaed at the
York :Assiies of rape and murder, was led to he
fatal tre, more dead than'alive. Ft-ow the time he.
left; hi- cell to the final close of the.scene of horror,

he did not utter a single syllable that could be heard
by Ole s. eetators; but to the Clergyman, who, •in
taking leave of him, put the usual question, whether
be was guilty .of the crone for which he was about
•to suffer, he said he , was not guilty.! and 'has, as
we:le.itn, 'from. the time sentence of death was
pasSed, upont hi.n. to • the moment that terminated
his existence, d, dared, that her neither committed,
or- atterm.ted to c•ouunit,lhe rape or murder.
On Moinlay s.,'nnight,.Betty Amplett, convieled
at the Gloucester Assizes, on the-preceding Friday,
for the wilful tutirder of her bastard child, was ex-
eruted iii front of the. County Gaol, agreeably to
her sentence, and her body delivered for dissection.
'• She cbudated te..rslf with great penhence and de-
corum, acknowledging the enormity of her crime
. and the jusA)ess of her 'sentence. This truly un-
toituate young creature, who was not more than
2 I years old, was a native of the parish of Bieedon's•
Norton, Worcestershire. Being herself the illegiti-
mate offspring of parents by whom she was abae-
cloned in her infancy, she was dependent upon the,
bouhty of so are poor. relations; and, dialing the •
short .interval of- peace, in ,1802,, went to France
with ap uncle, a 'shoemaker, who intended tosevle
' there.. Upon the detention of the English in France,
they were seyit, with m:..ny others, to the -depot at
Verdun. Heie she was seduced, . and cohabited
.with an English prisoner,-by what'll she -had several
cbildrell;Whi) all ink'. Fotnale prsoners,being per-
milted to I•.,aVe"Fratice,•she returned to England in
luntl last„ and son! t an asylum withan aunt, who
resides neat • GldUcester ; but when her pregnancy-was
discos ered, she removed to I3reedon's Norton. The •
reception she met with there was such, that • she
lett the place soon after:her delivery, and became a
wanderingoptcast, without the means of subsistence
.for herself and her lielideSs infant ; and, underthese
circumstances, committed the awful crime for
wirich her life became forfeited to the laws of her
country... •

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