The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

nesses who appeared on behalf of the &C.
cused, and shouted with joy when the
verdict of guilty was pronounced.
Some of these wretches were already
beyond the reach of human justice. Bed
loe had died in his wiokedness, without
one sign of remorse or shame. Dugdale
had followed to the grave, driven mad,
men said, by the furies of an evil con,
science, and with loud shrieks imploring
those who stood round bis bed to take
away Lord Stafford. Carstairs, too, was
gone. His end was all horror and des pair;
and with his last breath he had told his
attendants to throw him into ditch like
a dog, for that he was not fit to sleep in a
Christian battle-ground. But Oates and
Dangerfeld were still within the reach of
the stern prince whom they had wronged
Two bills of indictment against him
Oates for perjury had been found by the
Grand Jury Of Middlescx, few weeks be-
fore the death of Charles. Soon after the
close of the elections the trial came on.
On the day in which he Was brought to
the bar, Westminster Hall was crowded
with spectators, among whom were many
Roman Catholics eager to see the misery
and humiliation of their prosecutor. a few
years earlier, his short neck, his legs un-
even as those of badger, his forehead low
as that ola baboon, his purple cheeks, and
his monstrous length of chin, had been IA
miliar to all who frequented the courts of
law. He had been the idol of the nation.
Wherever he had appeared, men had I'M
covered their heads to him.. The lives and
estates of the magnates of the realm had
been at his mercy. Time had now
changed; and many who had formerly re-
garded him as the deliverer Of his coun-
try, shuddered at the sight of those hid
eous features on which villainy seemed to
be written by the hand of God.
1t was proved beyond all possibility of
doubt that this man had, by false testimo-
ny, deliberately murdered several guiltless
persons. He called in vain on the most
eminent members of the parliament which
bad rewarded and extoled him, to give
evidence in his favor. Some of those
whom he had summoned absented them
selves. None Of them said anything tend
ing to his vindication. One Of them, the
Earl of Huntington, bitterly reproached
him with having deceived the houses, and
drawn on them the guilt of shedding ;nno.
cent blood.
He was convicted on both indictm ents.
His offense, though, in moral light, muir
der of the most aggravated kind, was, in
the eye of the law, merely misdemeanor.
The tribunal, however, was DESTROYS to
make his punishment moro severe than
that of felons or traitors, and not merely
to put him to death, but to put him to
death by frightful torments. He was
sentenced to be stripped of his clerical
habits, to be piloried in Palace Yard, to
be led round Westminster Hall, with an
inscription declaring his infamy over his
head, to be pilloried again in front Of the
Royal Exchange, to be whipped from
Aldgate to Newgate, aud after an interval
of two days to be whipped from New gate
to Tyburn. If against all probability be
should happen to survive this horrible in
Fiction, he was to be kept close prison
err during life. Five times every year he
was to be brought forth from his dungeon
and exposed on the pillory in different
parts of the capital.
This rigorous sentence was vigorously
executed.