The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-09-18
From the N. Y. Constellation. ]
COFFINED ALIVE.

very little DOUBT. we nave not, now
ever, heard Of any well attested ease Of
this kind, since The commencement of
the present epidemic in our city; and
the story we are about to relate, avouch-
es for no more than the coffining of a
man, who, as will appear in the sequel,
could not be persuaded that he was a
proper subject for burial.
In the course Of the disense, il has
sometimes occurred, that man, being
found dead-drunk in the street, has been
mistaken for cholera patient, lifted up
on litter, and carried off to one Of the
Hospitals. II has been customary, IN
these cases, for the medical attendants,
on ascertaining the mistake, to order
the drunken man to be laid in room,
used for that purpose, until he shnIl have
slept off the fumes Of liquor, and then
dismiss him to take care Of himself
Two or three weeks since, a patient
Of this description was one evening bro.
TO the---Hospital, supposed to be
nearly in the last stage of cholera aspha-
xia. Certain il is, that he was prodigi-
ously blue. The doctor examined him,
shook his head, and ordered him to the
drunkard's room.
Besides this apartment for those who
were merely dead-drunk. there was
another, wherein il was customary to
lay such as had actually died during the
night from whence they were to be
carried away and buried the next morn
ing. 1t SO happened that the above
mentioned patient was, by mistake. con-
veyed to the dead-room, instead 0f the
drmnkard's.
There he lay, unconscious Of his sit
uation. either personal or local, until
the morning; when the burial cart came.
and two Hibernians proceeded TO the
dead-room to take away she corpses. -
They found no other but the drunken
man, who being still fast locked in the
arms Of sleep, they forthwith proceeded
to coffin, and to nail up. They laid him
in his narrow house, and began to drive
the nails, when the noise awoke him.
He started up, thrust off the lid, and
asked them what the ID they were q
bout
"We're a goin to bury ye, sure," said
one Of the Hibernians, endeavoring to
make the man lie down again, and be
daecnfiy nailed Up.
"To bury me 7" exclaimed the aston
ished drunkard.
GAY, sure" returned the Irishman,
coolly "lt's we that buEies all that dies
Of the cholera"
"Bu I'm not dead !" said the Pc
tient.
''Not dead - exclaimed the Irishman
-''aint that pretty extravagant assar-
ton now for corpse to makel Not
dead And sure you can't be in your
right mind to say so. Come, lie down,
if ye plase, and we'll nail ye up and bu-
ry ye dacentIy."
"Daeensly"
cay, sure, as dacently as the times
will admit Of 1t isn't Ivery man now,
that can git CO fin. like yourself, to be
buried up in"
"But ] tell you, I'm not dead 70 per-
sisted the drunken man, struggling to
get out of the coffin.
"Not dead again !" exclaimed the
Hiberninn, endeavoring to keep him in
--"that ASSERTION won't do here. We
fetched ye out Of the broom, where
they put all the corpses and If so be,
you amt dead. there's no confidence at
all to be placed in doctors stuff"
SHAVE been under the hands Of the
doctor then 20
"Aint that a pretty question now for
q dead man IN ny 3S +t
D. it /! ! tell you, I'm not dead.'
'sWho knows better nor the doctor
Come Jenny. addressing his brother
Irishman,) you hould him down, while
! nail him up We can't be bothered
here all day, no how"
As the cofined man saw there was
no such thing rs reasoning these homes,
officials out Of their duty, and that he
must resort to main force to save him
self, he made one desperate effort, shool,
OF the dead-cnrt-men, sprang from the
coffin, and took to his heels.
The Russian Nero Nicholas L-Wha,
eplthet could indignation, or hatred O,
scorn, furnish suifi ,iently expressive OF
the enormities Of this man ?-(Grea,
cheers + Youth old age. aud innocence
fell equally before his ruthless barbarit
he has already transported to the wilds
Of Siberia or ordered to be butte in
savage reyenge, 10000 children. thus
heIlis'ily blasting in the bud the future
hopes of Poland, and whetsing his brutal
vengeance by the blood Of her gallant
mobiles. Out Of the group ofthc hideous
images that this mans atrocities called
up to the mind. he would take one the
wife of Gen Roensiein had two children
her only hope and fortune, their father
had nothing to leave them hut the inher-
itapce Of his patriotism, his bravery, and