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4 • •i 1 Pt .-ess, at 'Hopsfort, on , _ night of _.e4lill •
eeee,nghasnllillfr [termed 7.4, *., •;St slats. - . ... .I, • ,
mere!, t I -t. tie trial excited coosidetalSfe'lnt
Yager. or the Hon. Artillery Company . ee tiff . I
been:a:Mandl f•frts Riflemen - - 'fe I I end the CoM't will crowded at an eaifyllffit*PKit Mon--
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Duke tit Cuintier:and's warp Shooters - ui i day. Every body seemed adeloitsitte4llleitr-the rfer-
The latter Ili:lids is.not to 'reconsidered as thireideti4 1 reties, ee...etremeactione in-which, on one fide, tit)! 101
althe Duke of Cumberletid's Seer!) )haulers mAde nbri !Lite guilt exhibited may he but foe frequently egpiiilled,
of a rest twill-the le.dy,contrary, to the signed agreel i the coinage; and inteepidief, and coolness displayed
meet which stipulated that each man should stande .1 on sheeoteser has been tireet, exceeded ; and seldom,
an erect is isti net, and tire fairly from the thoultier-e-th !,indeed, has it been matched in the history of human
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decision is to be referred to some persons comneten ! resoluttpn.
to judge butte en the patties. At thee concitision o -81 r John Purcell was t.hg first witness called, He
the thing the per:Li returned to Stet/third, where did •said, that tin the night elf . the llth or Minch last,'
Duke' of Cu/ev:1110"s Sheree Shooters spent the der
.about one o'clock-at night, and after he lied retired
with 'co,:viviaPty at the Crown Inn. , • -a to bed, he heard some noise outside the window*.ef his
The N ti‘'Gentleine:. and 'the
,Yagersproceetleden
_Pin:lmre lie slept ore ttie ground floor, in a room
'the-George, where a sumptiums entertaiument was in . imini:ijiately adjoining the parlour. Then was a
reltsiteess-n I-them A buck had been very handsomely I done from one room into the other; but this hiving
i.refarnted for the occesion by Sir WrieLasertne WHIT S• beea. I;mnsi 'inconvenient, and there being nnOther
'ILK. .;Sooti niter dinner Captain 13essiee, of the paesag' e from the bed-chamber more accommodating,
Yagers, rose and after a very neat speech, presented a et was nailed up, and some of the furniture of the par-
.- betels Ire Over Medel to the
.leTotis 'Riflemen, con- : lour placed against it. Shealy after Sir John he ird
lieying the tellowing well.merited compliment on • the noise in the front of his house, the windows of the
• their ectithict : . I parlour wore dashed in, and the noise occasiimed by
•,: Pres_iled on the r 6. h day of August, 1811, be the rate" 1 the 4ett of the robbers in leaping from the' win lon s
•t IIIC-Illintniraliie Art fiery Company, to the Igiatinghanist.ire ;
down upon the pal-lour,
etieeniee, a. 4 Ai sell 0: respect tor the encnoragetnent, whiet by .
' th,ir Lir pt,:h L e ottattun, they have gtren to tie u.::iul practicen''t IL" than 1-1 in number, appeared to denote a ging -Of
er, as it struck him. He ine- •
;wit it:emeeetiet- ! mediately got out of bed, and the first determination
ten t..e other ~tie, the Arm. of the Honourable Artillery Come he took being to netke resistance, it was with no small
parrye-eaeue, Arma Pic.% Fulcra. .
• 4 mortification that he reflected np:ln the unarmed con-
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• ; dhion in which be was pieced, been:; deetioite of a
, Wit‘-r .111NsTen R Euarret.—Yesterda y afternoon, the 0 .
- I single weapon of the ordinary sort.' in this state he
.W. r.4,..naTas.o. Sunseeiptionlh-iees were rowed for by i spent little time in deliberation, as it almost immedize
• ' stx,yrthee edit exceeding 19 years of age, beiteg • wa.
... atehy occur real to him, that heving supped' in the bed-,
• ateren _ is apprentices.' 'flies, peiLiecii-11, prize was
a i chambet on that night, a knife had been left behind
coat., arid, most elegant badge, treating tionoraryin- •
oy accidene, and he instantly proceeded to grope in
sceiptiems, &c. 'l%;e otf)t. oriee.es consisted or coats
the dark' for this weapon, which happily he found, be-
e:mid hats; With press ens of ouney.to the two last losing die
the door, leading om the parlour into the bed-
. cantlitl...Ll, ehiel; wLM'cletermined in futir, heats, the
thareibet, had been broken. While he stood in calm
three firSt winecrs only stertinifOr the coat anfl badge.
The distance was frOtp Westminster Midge to 's boat
eetored eLa ff nite:th. cu retum On the Westinirisere •,a e
which
shore, and die boat first through the bridgeto decide :hut teinlute expectation that the progress of the rOle-
berfeeould soon lead eeem to hi, bed-chamber, he
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•t • herd the furniture had been placed aphist
the nailettup door expeditiously displaced, and int.
the • beet. I> t. hair past twit; o'clork die boys started • •
a mediately afterwards this door ws burst open. The
foe the first heat, es hieh wits wore by T. Nlesteemen. •
. moon shone with great brightness ied when this door
They carne .., in the ioiloWing cred orders
was thrown open, the light streaming in through three
le Manerman, itlitii',.. l';Lhiott pink.
'I. Myers, dark blue. T. H„,,,„11, „,, 1, to large windows in the parloiir, afforded Sir John a
W. Waren, light hfne. C. Bannister, were. vie* that .might have made an intrepid spirit not a
.-eThe second heat was contended between Elliott,' little apprehensive. His bed-room was d trkened to
Easteister, and Myers. The latter gained it in fine st fie, excess, in coniequence of the shutters of the windows,
prising his oponetits by several yards, when moan- as well as the curtains being ciosed ; and thus, while
Iv on the' Westminster side to the bridge. Bannister he-stood enveloped in darkness, he saw, standing be-
and. leiliou decided the third, which was won with fore him, by the brightness of the moon.lieht, a body'
. entiipateeive ease by Bannister. blaster men, 14) ers, fof men, all armed, and of those who efere in the van
and ellannilter, then stetted for the coat and badge,; of. the gang he observed that a few were blackened.
which as won by- lelesterinan. l• Armed only with this case-knife, and aided only by
CorirtigiL AribCrfox.—Extraet of a letter' from a ditintleis heart, he took his station by the side of
lelellere, elated March 1, 1811 t .. the door ; and in a moment-after, one of the villains
" At Nyerilet my seivain inforin id Me' that a seo- entered froth the parlour into the dark•rooM. Instant-
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man was preparing to loirn here& witliter huthand's ly upon advancing, Sir John plunged the knife at
corpse. I went into the crowd, and leboured hard to him, the point of which entered under the right arm,
dissuade her from such a proceeding:. I fiend her a aild in a line with the cripple, and so home was the
victim decorated with flowers, and her Oreafrients I blow sent, that the knife passed into the robber's body.]
really for immolation ; she seemed about 50 years of Inmel Sir John's hand stopped its farther progrei,s.— 1
age, hid a wild bet tesolute expression of ceunte.i! Upon receiving this thrust, the villain reeled back'
trance, and replied to all my entreaties to divert her i into the parlour, crying out blasphemously that he
from so rash a purpose with an impressive and deci. I was killed ; and shortly after another advanced, who
sive tone of veice, much above its natural pitch. On i was received in a similar manner, and who ;deo stag-i
eequiring whether she had any children, it was found leered back into the parlour, crying tint that he was
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tliatsliehadseveral; one of whorn,a boy about 14 years is •)und2d. A voice from the outside gave orders Jo'
if' age, was close by her. I endeavoured to awaken fire into the del k-room, upon which a man stepped
the maternal affections, conceiving theM to be the ferward with a short gun in his hand, which had the
stiongest of those which rise in the human mind,. but butt broken off at the small, and which had a piece
it:perste ion had, extingniseed even them. "There is of card tied round the handl and stuck near the swell.
an hesitation in me (taid the mother) on the score of As this fellow stood in the act to fire, sir John had
my 10mile—some-of them are old enoegh to take the amazing coolness to look at his intended murder•
Care of the rest -wliti require anomie!) ; I cannot lis. er, and without betreying any audible metion what.
ten ireike- thing you may. nrge, having already qpir.„ ever that might point to the exact spat which he was
ted mee -Weise with the avowed intention of berning standing in, calmly calculated his own safety from
myself i'T 'ire considered as devoted, and no one will die shot which wat.preparing for him. He saw that
in future admit to his blase a wretch who could the contents of the piece ware likely, to paint close•
shrink bone hei• ditty in th%e hour of trial. —" Can to his breast without menacing him wide at least any,
you le.a.e this tine boy E"—es Oh! yes; him and every serious wound, and in this et ate of firm 3114 manly
rosy." I then desired the hoy to aid mein attempt= expectation, lie stood without :leering until the piece
leg to Teceirrcile his mother to life ; and how was I was fired, aid its contents harmlessly lodged in the ,
shocked when the little devilleughtd, and said het v-all. It was headed .with 'a brace of bullets and
wished her fo seerificeherielli hi short, tioiind that ? three slugs„ As soon as 'the robber fired, Sir John
It was i!!ecome the, point of linfon? with the family-e 1 made a pass at him with the knife, and wounded him
awl that contempt and disgrace-se:rob/ he theconseel in the arm, 'which he repeated again in a -Moment, ,
qUelust, - should thetrielative•heiitate to perform her with similar effect; and as time otlit rs had done, the
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vows. I walked to the river side to exaaittnc the state villain( •upon being wounded, retired, exclaiming,
of the preparations: the bole was dpg, and the wood: that he was wounded. The robbers immediately i
ready. On asking who had ordered such preparations,' ruslielf forward from the ;valour into the dark-room,l
the workmen stopped, but hesiutted to tell ;at length and then it was that Sir. John's mind recognised the I
I oreeaded on ere, who mentioned four or five.nantes, deepest sense of • danger—net to be oppressed by it, l,
relations of the widnw. I lectured her again;. and i however, but to serntoont it. Be thought that all 1
threatened the punishmeet in the Cb:npany's regulate' *ataxic* of preserving his own life was over, and he
lions thr murder ; %his struck them, anti the work was 1 resolved to sell that life still dearer to his inten-d-
-reliticluielniti.. But shortly afar .1 had retired to my led warders dem even what they had already paid for
- Tixrtets, a deputation, Leaded by the brether of the! tile attempt to 4eprimblin of it. He did not lose a
deceased, came, AO respectfully askecd illY ilt'rufrs-1 moment after the villains had entered the room, to
sion to go on with the ceremeety, which was necessary i act with the eieterthination lit had adopted ; he struck i
for the honour and peace, of,. the village. I
simply : et.the fourth fellow with hie• knife, and wounded him,
said, 1 cannot louder you, but wish I could. They I and at the same instant he received a blow on the
r then,4with smiling countenances, resumed the Work of ! head, and found himself grappled with. He shortened
death, enjoined by superstition. I visited the pile con his hold of the knife and, and stabbed repeatedly at the
after the secrifice, and had to pass tit-nigh the crowde fellow with whom he found himself engaged. The
of then, women, and children on their return. lieevery; floor being slippery from time_ blood of the wounded
countenance the triumph of their religion was visible., man, Sir John and his adversary both fell ; and while
• I never saw so many faces so expressive of satisfac- they were on the ground, Sir John thinking that his
tine, and, wiling with joy. I looked into the pit rl thrusts with the,lenife, though made with all his force,
i . where the bodies were mouldering under the blazing ' did not seem toproduce the decisive effect, which they
faggots, and left the horror of the scene, With a look ' had in the beginning of the conflict, he examined the
. vinirch must have expressed mush sorrow, I asked an point of' his we ,eon with his finger, and found that
. ell man, who was amidst those who flocked round me, the blade of it hail bent near the point. As he lay
if he now 'w as pleased, and if lie thetight such an act struggling on tile ground, be endeavoured, but unsuc-
agreeable,to Goo ?
,He said it was fate. No, I ei- cesefully, to straighten the curvature in the kid& ; but
' claimed with einphasis, it is not the Me of. heaven, belt, while one hand was employed in this attempt, he ]
the viols Of wan. This caused a short silence; and It perceived that the grasp of his adversary was losing its
retired; After hiving walked about fifty steps, an !.constraint and pressure; and in a moment or two after 1
universal as hubbil wild of voices all confused" arose, lie found himself wholly released from it—the limbs oil
Dtiringfitl ipproalli to the burning place, seeing se-; the robber were in fact by this time unnerved by death.
verel men langhing and seemingly very glad, I call- ! ....Sir John found that this fellow bad a sword in has
ad mit, ".this is, then, a very pleasant antueement i" I hand, Rad this he immediately seized, and greveseve-
e Nob.they said, it wee not amusing. Why :htn do you 1 ral blows with it, his knife being no longer service- ,
liatiglte.and why did-you go to see e show 'a 1; ch could; able. At length, the robbers finding so tnimy of their
hoe amuse you ?_ what shallrsAy, said one to hie uext i party had been killed or wounded, lifted the bodies,
neigf;Niter 1 • and this -eftewion, ai hough, it might ;-out of the wintlows, and took them, away. When the
seedy hare b4en aris*etetoosoSettleem all.".'e riliio,s I robbers had tee red Sir•Juhn placej his. danghter-in-
xou ieirEnat'thank. me iiir iihi,s treat:tabu k 0.4 il i law' and grandchilds.who were elemillY inmates, he
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siesev'eteev lie s'in ids .sittla in hilif 64 Mc . iri:icts of safety, and took.sieeli preeautioas :Ai it'9llll..
anocE ivrkti of it. • . 1 ...
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st.c.ces poheted out ni the day iight appeared. flee
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