The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-07-06

"For some days (after his arrest) he
seemed to recover, until having taken
sudden turn he died very unexpectedly
Of water on the chest" The Sudden
turn" was occasioned by the removal
on Saturday from the charge of Lieu
tenant Stone, an officer who had been
appointed by the authorities to remain
with Lord Edward and see after his
comforts. Lord Edward liked this gen.
heman, and, without any assignable
cause, except that by his humanity he
had rendered himself pleasing to the
prisoner, he was removed from his
charge, while on the very same day
Mr.. John Clinch, young gentleman
of respectable family, was hanged in
front of Newgate prison, pursuant to
a sentence of a court martial which
had condemned him on the evidence
Of a mere boy. Clinch's body dangling
in the air just outside Lord Edwards
window was not calculated to soothe
troubled nerves. Lord Henry Fitzger-
aid, in letter to Lord Camden, the
lord lieutenant Of Ireland, written a
day after the death of his brother,
thus speaks Of the methods by which
he was deliberately done to death in
prison: "On Saturday may poor for
saken brother, who had but that night
and the next day to live, was disturbed
he heard the noise of the execution Of
Clinch at the prison door. He asked
eagerly, What noise is that?' and GER
tainly in some manner or other he
knew 1t; for-O God! what am to
write?-from that time he lost his
senses; most part Of the night he was
raving mad; keeper from mad
house was necessary. Thanks to the
Almighty, he got more composed to-
wards morning.
"Now, my lord, shall scruple to de-
clare to the world-I wish could to
the four quarters of it!-that among
you, your Ml-treatment has murdered
my brother, as much as If you had put
a pistol to his head. In his situation
no charitable message arrives to his
relations, no offer to allow attached SER
wants to attend upon him, who could
have been depended upon in keeping
dreadful news Of all sorts from him.
No, no; to his grave in madness you
would pursue him, to his grave you per-
secuted him.
zone would think I could add no
more-but have not yet done. At
this very time Mr.. Stone, an officer
that was in the room with him, whom
they tell me he grew fond Of and liked,
was removed, and total stranger put
about him. Are you aware, my lord,
of the comfort, Of the happiness, Of see
ing well-known faces round the bed Of
sickness, and the cruelty OF the re-
verse? or, have you hitherto been SO
much stranger to the inflrmitdes Of
this mortal life, as never to have known
what it was to feel joy in pain, or
cheerfulness in sorrow, from the pres
sure Of a friends hand, or the kind
looks Of relations? Yet he, my lord,
possessed as he was of the tenderness
of woman to all whom he loved,
was abandoned, most barbarously neg
lected-a man to attend him (and that,
only iatterly), as a nurse"
One of the state prisoners confined
in Newgate, an eminent solicitor of
Dublin, who had been an agent Of Mr..
Grattan, wrote letter to Lord Henry
Fitzgerald on Sunday, June 3, in which
he said: "Your brother, Lord Edward,
is dangerously ill-in fact-dying. He
was delirious some time last night"
He then refers to his acquaintance with
Lord Edward and Lord Henry in hap
pier days. and proceeds: "Surely you
OF any friend in whom he had conf
dence would be more conducive to his
recovery than fifty surgeons" On this
same day Lord Edwards aunt, Lady
Louisa Connolly, to whom he was deeply
attached. heard from the doctor that
he was dying. She came into Dublin.
and her nephew, Sir William Napier.
the famous HISTORIAN Of the peninsular