American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-06-12

LIZ REN ENhNl.
"There are but two classes Of persons in the world
those who hanged, and those who not hanged
it has been my lot 10 belong TO The former"
There are few men, perhaps. who have not
hundred times in the course OF life. et curiosity
to know what their sensations would be il they were
compelled to Law life down. The very impossible
ty in all ordinary Of obtaining any approach
to this knowledge, is an incessant spur pressing or
the fancy in its endeayors to arrive at it. Thu:
poets and painters have ever made the estate of a
man condemned to die one ofthcir favorite themes
Of comment or description. Footboys and prenti
ces hang themselves almost every other day. con
vely-missing their arrangement for slipping
the knot half way-out of seeming instinct t,
try the secrets of that fate, which-less Jest thar
earnest--thev feel an inward mention may becom,
their own Aud thousands of men, III early life,
uneasy until they have mounted breach or fou9h
duel. merely because they wish to know, expe
rimentaIv. that their nerves are capable OF carry
ine them through that peculiar ordeal. Now an
in situation to speak, from experience, upon tina
very interesting questionable sensations attend
ant upon passage from life TO death have beef
HANGED. and am ALIvE--perhaps there are no
three other men, at this moment, IN Europe, VIII
can make the same declaration. Before this state
ment meets the public eve, ! shall have qnltte'
England for ever; therefore have no advantage
to cain from its publication. And, for the vanit
Of knowing. when shall be sojourner in ia
country. that my name-for good or ills talke
about in this,-such fame would scarcely do eve
my ptjde much good when dare not lay claim t
! its idcntty Hut the cause which eXcites me
write il this Ny great pleasure, through HE, ha
been the perusal ofany extraordinary narratives q
fact. An account 81 shpwreck IN which hund
red, have pershed; Of plague winch has depor
ulated towns or cities: anecdotes anu inquire
connected with tile regulation OF prisons, hosp
fails. or lunatic receptac.rs. nav, the very polio
lrcports nf a common newspapcl-a as relative 10 ma
tiers Of reality have always excited degree I
interest in nv mind which cannot be produced
the best invented tale Of fiction. Because beliey
therefore that. to persons Of temper like my owl
the rea1in" that which lave to relate will attnr
very hich qualification ;--and because know ais
that what | describe can do mischief to no on
& while it may prevent the symptoms and details
a very rare consummatl1n from being lost s. I
these reasons | am dcsifous. as lar as very lynn
ed education will permit me. to write PLAN INST
nv of the strange fortunes and misefles to which.
rino the last twelve months. have been su5Jeete
Fl lave stated already, that have been hanged al
I an alive. | can gain nothing now by misrcpr
: sentation--i was GUILTY Of the act 70, winch
suffered. There are individuals at respectable
!. whom my conduct already has dsgraced ami W
G not revive then shame and griet by publishing 4
e name But Il stands in the list OF capital conv
Q t;nns in The Old ,ae, Calender for the W mi
;, Sessions 1896; aud this reference, coupled with
few If the facts which fnow. will be sufficient
guide any persons who are doubtful, TO me pr
that my statement is a true one. In the teai Is.
I vas clerk IN a Russia brokers house, and !;
at ocd between Broad Street Buildings and Batso
y Coffee housc, and the London Docks, from n
?, n inc morning to six in the evening. for sail
y. oT ffty mounds year. did ths-not cantent
a ,y-but | endured it living spatinely IN III
m, ,odoinp at !sngton tor two years; TIL iell
love with poor, but very beautiful girl, who '
honcst where it was very hard TO be honest; {
worked twelve hours a day at sewing and mi
= nery. in MERGERS shop in Cheapside. Tor ha
guinea week. To make short OF long ta
III ibis .rl did not know how poor was anu
H. about six months, committed seven or eisht
ID. oc,ies 10 the amount Of near two hundred pour
Us was seized one mornng-i expected it for wee
Is, as regularly as awoke-every morning;
:" carried. after ver} few questions. for examna
-. before the Lord Mayor At the Mansion lilo
.iR had nothing to plead. Fortunately my mott
70 Ind not been watched; and 50 no one but my
for was imnIicated in the charge-as no one else
{ really guilty. sort OF instinct to try the
- hone made me listen to the magistrates caut
and remain silent; or else. lor any chance o.
in cane had, | might as well have confessed
,vh0lp truth at once iHc
half an hour; when was fully committed Tor
Al. and sent away to Newgatc =,
The shock Of my first arrest was very slight
deed: indeed almost question # it was not re
n nsS rather than shock, 70 me For months
but known perfectly that my eventual asca 20
lich certain. tried TO SHAKE me thuuS'i' " '
luc- Inf Il was of no usel dreamed OF It even IN
Mise -. 80 I MAYER entered our counting nous
be !, morning. or saw my master take up the G
!, hoax in tie course Of the day that my heart
: u not up in my mouth. and my hand shook 50 Il
:. could not hold the pcn-for twenty minutes a