Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-28
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He was tormented by acruel internal dis.
ease, which the most skillful surgeons of that
age were seldom able to relieve. One solace
was left to him-brandy. Even when he
had causes to try and councils to; attend he /;
had seldom gone to bed sober. Now, when
he had nothing to occupy his mind, save ter q
rible recollections and terrible forebodings,.
he abandoned himself without reserve to his !.
favorite vice. Many believed him ODE bent
on shortening his life by excess. He thought
it better, they said, to go off in drunken
fit than to be hacked by Ketch, or torn limb
from limb by the populace. 4. -
Once he was reused from state Of abject
dependency by an agreeable sensation;
speedily followed by mortifying disappoint-
ment. A parcel had been.left for him at
the Tower. 1t appeared to. be barrel Of
Colchester oysters, his fayorite dainties. he
was greatly moved; for there are moments
when those who least deserve affection are
pleased to think that they inspireit. aThank
God," he exclaimed, 81 have still some
friends left" He opened the barrel !; and
from among a heap Of shells out tumbled. 8
stout halter. Fs+E " S2 IS
It does not appear that one of the Aattsr.s
ers or bufoons, whom he had enriched ont
of the plunder of his victims, came toscom.
fort him in the daylof trouble But he Was
not left in utter solitude. John Tutchin,
whom he had sentenced to be aogged every
fortnight for seven years, made his way into
the Tower, and presented himself before the
fallen oppressor. Poor Jeferys, humbled to-
the dust, behaved with abject ciYility, and
called for wine. 81 am glad, sir, !" he said,
''to see you" "And lam glad, 2 ansNereds
the resentful whig, "to see your lordship in
this place" 81 served my master, said
Jeferys: 81 was bound in conscience to dos
So" "Where was your conscience, said
Tutchin, "when you passed that sentence on
me at Dorchester, ?" aIt was set down. in
my Instructions" answered Jeferys, fawn:
ingly, sthat was to show no mercy TO men
like you, men of parts and courage. When.
1 went back to court, was reprimanded for
my lenity." .s.s. IS &: &; = :
! Even Tutchin, acrimonious as was his ma
ture, and great as were his wrongs, seems to-
have been little mollifed by the piiabie
spectacle which he had at first contemplated
with vindictive pleasure. He always denied
the truth of the report that he was the per
son who sent the Colchester barrel to the
tower.
A more benevolent man, John Sharp, the
excellent Dean of Norwich, forced himself
to visit the prisoner. It was . painful taak, :
but Sharp had been treated by Jeferys, il
old times, as kindly as it was the nature Of
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the storm Of curses and invectiyes had spent
itself, andby dexterously seizing the; moment
of good humor, to obtain for unhappy fami-
lies some mitigation Of their sufaings. The
prisoner was surprised and pleased. Whatt!p.
he said, 'dare you own me now r.
1t was in vain, however, that the amiable
divine tried to give a salutary pain to that
scared conscience. Jeferys, instead Of &c.
knowledging his guilt, exclaimed yehement-
ly against the injustice Of mankind. 1PeosF
pie call me murderer for doing what at: the
time was applauded by some who are now
high in public favor. They call me adun.
kard because take punch to relieve me In
my agony" He would not admit that as
President of the High Commission, be had
done anything that deserved reproach. sHb
colleagues, he said, were the real criminaisj;s
and now they threw all the, blame on him.
He spoke with peculiar asperity Of Spratt,
who had undoubtedly been the most humane
and moderate member of the Beard. sE
1t soon became clear:tha the wicked judge
was fast sinking under the. weight. Of bodily
and mental suffering DR.. John Scott, pre-
bendary Of Saint Pauls clergyman Of great
sanctity, and author Of the Christian Life, .
treatise once widely renowned, was summon.
ed, probably on the recommendation Of his
intimate friend. Sharp, to the bedside of the,
dying man. It was in vain, however, that
Scott spoke, as Sharp had already spoken Of
the hideous butcheries of Dorchester and
Taunton. To the last, Jeferys continued
to repeat that those who thought him cruel
did not know what his orders were, that he
deserved praise instead Of blame, and that
his clemency had drawn on him the extreme
displeasure of his master.
Disease, assisted by strong drink and mis-.
cry, did its work fast. The patients stom-
ach rejected all nourishment. He dwindled
in few weeks from a portly and even cor.
pulent man to skeleton. On the 18th Of
April he died, in the 4lst year Of his age
He had been Chief Justice of the King,a
Bench at 35, and Lord Chancellor at 37.--
In the whole history of the English bar
there is no other instance Of so rapid an ele-
vation, or Of so terrible q fall. The emacia..
ted corpse was laid, with all privacy, nextto
the corpse of Monmouth, in the chapefof the
Tower 1. ra@
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