Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-21

we heard, like laigh suen thunder, the SCUM
o. the great muffled drum, aye played on, We
ken, by black man; in this case, an African
neegger, sax feet four; and what bangs he giet
| the bass-the whites O. his cen rowin' about as
if he was glad, atween every stroke! The tread
of the troops was like the stepo' ae giant--sac
perfate was their discipleen-and afore weel
kent that they were a in the Links, three sides
O. a square were formed-and the SCUM O.
the great drum ceased, as at an inaudible
word of command, or wavin O. haun, or the
| lowerin' O. banner. 1t was but ae man that
was about to debut for that ae man, had their
awe no Kindred them, twenty thousan' folk wad
at that moment haze broken out into lamenta-
| tons and rueful cries-but as yet not tear was
shed-not sigh was hcaved-for had a that
vast crowd been sac mony images, or corpses
raised up by cantrip in their death-cIass, they
couldna hae been mair motioness than at that
minute, nor MAR speeches. than that multitude
O. levin souls! There, a. at ance, hoo or
WHARF he came frae name could tell; there, say,
"a at ance stood the Mutineer. Some telp:m
afterwards that they had seen him marchin' a
long, twa or three yards ahint his coffin, VII his
head Just wee thocht inclined downwards,
not in fear O. man or death, but in awe o God
and Judgment, keepin' time WI a military step
that was natural to him, and no unbecoming
brave man on the way to the grave, and his cen
fixed on the green that was fadin ava for ever
and ever frae aneath his feet; but that was a
SIGHT saw not-for the first time beheld him
he was standin', a unlike the ither men, in the
middle o. that three-sided square, and there was
shudder through the hail multitude, just as if
we had been a. standn' haun in haun, and ma
tural philosopher had given us a shock O. his
electrical machine "That's him-that's him
-puir, puir fallow!-Oh! but he's pretty
man"-Such were the CALCULATIONS frae thous-
ans O women, maist O them young anes bat
some O. them auld, and grey-headed aneath
their mutches, and no few WI babies sookin'
or caterwaIlin' at their breasts.-His name was
Lewis Northumberland as fine young man he
was as ever stepped on heather The moment
before he knelt down on his coffin, he seemed as
flu O. life as if he had stripped aft his jacket for
game at foot-ba', or to fling the hammer
Ay, weel MIGHT the women-folk gaze on him
wi red weeping cen, for he had loed them but
over weel, and mony time, it is said, had he
let himself down the Castle-rock at night, God
knows hoo, to meet his lemans--but a that, a.
his sins, and a his crimes acted or only med-
tated, were at an end noo--puir fallow--and
the platoon, WI fixed beggonets, were drawn
up within ten yards, or less, o WHARF he stood,
and he himsel having tied handkerchief over
his cen, dropped down on his knees on his cot.
fin, wi faulded hands, and lips movln fast, and
white as ashes, in prayer.
NORTH.
Cursed be the memorable justice Of military
law! he might have been pardoned.
SHEPHERD.
Pardoned! Hadna he disarmed his ain cap
tain o. his sword, and run him through the
shoulther-in mutiny of which he was him
sci the ringle ader?--King George on the throne
much Is s efSw hm WAS w wSqd hss been
could King, Kintra, and Constitution thole
standing army, in which mutiny was not pun.
ished wi DEATH
Six balls pierced him-through head and
heart-and what shrek, James, then arose,
SHEPHERD
Ay, to hae heard that shrek, YOU would bae
bought that the woman that raised it wad me-
'er haze LAUGHED again; but in few hours as
une as night-fsll darkened the city. some O.
hem were gossipin' about tae shootin' o. tn.
odger to their neighbors, ome dancin' at hons
hat shall be nameless, some sitting on their
weethearts' knees WI the arms roun' their
lifting thochtfu' by the freside, or AVA to bed
sadness, an hour sooner than usual, and then
'st asleep i
NORTH
saw his old father, James, with nv own
res, step out from the crowd, and way being
ade for him, he walked up to his sons dead
'dy, and embracing it, kissed his bloody head,
I'd then, with clasped hands, looked up to
,aven.
SHEPHERD
A strang and stately auld man, and ane too
at had been soldier in his youth Sorrow.
It shame. somewhat bowed his head, and ance
reePd as if he were faint on sudden But
nat the deevil's the use O. me haverin ava
Is way about the shootin O. a sodger thretty
ars sin syne, and mair too for did ma see
at auld silvery headed father o. the mutineer
'ggerlng alang the Grass Market, the vera I'D
xt day after the execution, as fou' as the Bal
wi heap o. mischievous weans halIoen' Is
er him, and him a the while in dwam O /
nix and despair, maunderin' about his son
WIS, then lynn a barken'd WI blood in his LEI
IN, six feet deep, in fine rich loan. Use
North. Ath
! Every same afternoon, heard the drums ~
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