Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-10-23

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this place. II served my fnaster.s sslie:
Jeffreys. 81 was bound In conscience ia
do 81" sWhere was your conscience, y
said Tuichia, ''when you passed the SEN
tence one at Dorchester" at was
set down IN my Instructions answered
Jeffreys, fawningly, .'thal was to show
no mercy tc men hike you, men of parts
and courage. When | wen, back 70
court, | was reprimanded for my lenity. /"
Even Tutchin, acrimonious as was his
naturu, and great as were hrs wrongs,
seems 10 have been a little mollifed by
the pitiable spectacle which he had at frs,
contemplated with vindictive pleasure.
He always denied the truth Of the report
that he was the person who sent the Col
chester barrel TO the Tower.
"A more benevolent man, John Sharp.
the excellent Dean of Norwich. forced
himself 10 visit the prisoner. Ii was a
painful task; but Sharp had been treated
by Jeilreys, in old times, us kindly as
1t was in the nature Of Jeffreys to treat
anybody, and had once or twice been able,
by patiently waiting until the storm of
curses and inyectiyes had spent itself, and
| by dexterously seizing the moment of
good humor to obtain for unhappy fami-
lies some mitigation of their sufferings
The prisoner was surprised and pleased.
"What" he said, 'dare you own me
now r.
IL MAS in vain, however, TINT the amia-
bic divine tried to give a salutary pain 10
that scared conscience. Jeffreys, instead
Of acknowledging his guilt, exclaimed ve-
hemently against the injustice Of man
ttiind. sPeepac cab mo . murderer fcr
4 / !l1isa ufssl lillle svussa afpl4uae6 11
some who are now high in public favor.
They cali me drunltard because / take
punch to relieve me in my agony" He
would not admit that, as President of the
High Commission, he had done anything
that deserved reproach. His colleagues,
he said, were the real criminal; and now
they threw all the blame on him. He
spoke with peculiar asperity Of Sprat, who
had undoubtedly been the most humane
and moderate member of the beard.
Il soon became clear that the wicked
Judge WIS fast sinking under the weight
of bodily and mental suffering. Doctor
John Scott, prebendary of Saint Paul's, a
clergyman of great sanctity, and author
( of the Christian Life, treatise once
widely renowned, was summoned, prcba-
Ibly on the recommendation OF his intimate
friend Sharp, 10 the bedside Of the dying
man. II was in vain, however, thai
Scott spoke, as Sharp had alrealky spoken.
of the hideous butcheries of Dorchester
and Taunton To the last Jefreys con-
tinued to repeat that those who thought
him cruel did moi know what his orders
were, that he deserved praise instead of
blame, and that his clcmcncy had drawn
on him the extreme displeasure of his
master.
Disease, assisted by strong drink and
) misery, did its work fast. The patients
stomach rejected all nonrishment. He
dwindled ain few weeks from P5ra;iyi
and even Compliant man 10 a skeleton.
On the 18th Of April he died, in the Ais
year of his age. He had been Chief
Justice of the Kings Bench a. 35, and
Lord Chancellor at 81. In the whole his.
tory Of the English bar there s@ro oihei
inslapce of so rapid an easeeuiefi, es-ofes
: terrible a fall. The emaciated corps,
was laid, with all privacy, next to th'
corpse of Monmouth, in the third chape
of the Tower. .Mdcdtdays History o
( ENGLAND.