July 9. 1853.] 



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affrighted mountaineers, the bubble burst ; officers of 

 justice appeared, the stranger was easily intercepted 

 from flight, and, upon a capital charge, he was home 

 away to Carlisle. At the ensuing assizes he was tried 

 for forgery on the prosecution of the Post-office, found 

 guilty, left for execution, and executed accordingly." — 

 P. 199. 



" One common scaffold confounds the most flinty 

 hearts and the tenderest. However, it was in some 

 measure the heartless part of Hatfield's conduct which 

 drew upon him his ruin : for the Cumberland jury, as I 

 have been told, declared their unwillingness to hang him 

 for having forged a frank ; and both they, and those who 

 refused to aid his escape when first apprehended, were 

 reconciled to this harshness entirely by what they heard 

 of his conduct to their injured young fellow -country- 

 woman." — P. 201. 



Hatfield was not "easily intercepted from flight." 

 Sir Frederick Vane granted a warrant to appre- 

 hend him on the charge of forging franks. Hatfield 

 ordered dinner at the Queen's Head, Keswick, to 

 be ready at three ; took a boat, and did not return. 

 This was on October 6 : he was married to Mary 

 on the 2nd. In November he was apprehended 

 near Brecknock, in Wales : so those who refused 

 to aid his escape, if such there were, were not 

 " reconciled to the hardship by what they heard 

 of his conduct to their young fellow-country- 

 woman." The "startling of the thunderclap" 

 was preceded by an ordinary proclamation, de- 

 scribing the offender, and offei'ing a reward of 

 501. for his apprehension. He was not " hurried 

 away to Carlisle," but deliberately taken to Lon- 

 don on December 12 ; examined at Bow Street, 

 remanded three times, and finally committed ; 

 and sent to Carlisle, where he was tried on 

 August 15, 1803. 



Three indictments were preferred against him : 

 the first for forging a bill of exchange for 20Z., 

 drawn by Alexander Augustus Hope on John 

 Crump, payable to George Wood ; the second for 

 a similar bill for 30Z. ; and the third for counter- 

 feiting Colonel Hope's handwriting to defraud 

 the Post-office. 



The Cumberland jury did not " declare their 

 unwillingness to hang him for forging a frank," 

 that not being a capital offence. I infer, also, 

 that it was one for which he was not tried. He 

 was convicted on the first indictment ; the court 

 rose immediately after the jury had given their 

 verdict ; and the prisoner was called up for judg- 

 ment at eight the next morning. Trying a man 

 under sentence of death for a transportable felony, 

 is contrary to all practice. Hatfield was executed 

 at Carlisle on September 3, 1803. 



Mary's misfortunes induced the sympathising 

 public to convert her into a minor heroine. She 

 seems to have been a common-place person, with 

 small claims to the title of " The Beauty of But- 

 termere." A cotemporary account says, " she is 



rather gap-toothed and somewhat pock-marked." 

 And Mr. De Quincey, after noticing her good 

 figure, says, " the expression of her countenance 

 was often disagreeable." 



" A lady, not very scrupulous in her embellishment 

 of facts, used to tell an anecdote of her which I hope 

 was exaggerated. Some friend of hers, as she affirmed, 

 in company with a large party, visited Buttermere a 

 day or two after that on which Hatfield suffered ; and 

 she protested that Mary threw on the table, with an 

 emphatic gesture, the Carlisle paper containing an 

 elaborate account of the execution." — P. 204. 



Considering the treatment she had received, 

 it is not unlikely that her love, if she ever had 

 any for a fat man of forty-five, was turned into 

 hatred ; and it was not to be expected that her 

 taste would keep down the manifestation of such 

 feeling. When Hatfield was examined at Bow 

 Street, Sir Richard Ford, the chief magistrate, 

 ordered the clerk to read aloud a letter which he 

 received from her. It was : 



« Sir, — The man whom I had the misfortune to 

 marry, and who has ruined me and my aged and 

 unhappy parents, always told me that he was the Hon. 

 Colonel Hope, the next brother to the Earl of Hope- 

 toun. 



" Your grateful and unfortunate servant, 

 " Maev Robinson." 



I do not blame Mr. De Quincey, having no 

 doubt that he believed what he was told ; but I 

 have put together these facts and discrepancies, to 

 show how careful we should be in accepting tra- 

 ditions, when a man of very high ability, with the 

 best opportunities of getting at the truth, was so 

 egregiously misled. 



My authorities are, The Annual Register, 1803, 

 pp. 421. and 428.; The Gentleman's Magazine, 

 1803, pp.779. 876. and 983.; Kirby's Wonderful 

 Magazine, vol. i. pp. 309. and 336. The Newgate 

 Calendar gives a similar account ; but not having 

 it at hand, I cannot vouch it. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



NOTES UPON THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE EAELT 

 INHABITANTS OF HEULAS. 



I. I have never seen it yet noticed, that the 

 names Pyrrha, ^olus, Xuthus, Ion, are all names 

 of colours. Is there anything in this, or is it for- 

 tuitous ? 



II. In accordance with the above, I think we 

 may refer most of the names of the early inhabit- 

 ants of Greece to words denoting light or colour, 

 or the like. 



(1.) Pelas-gi. The first part of this word is, by 

 Mr. Donaldson, connected with ij.4\-as, which is 

 also, probably, the root of Mol-ossi. 



(2.) Hellenes, connected with Helli, Selli, er^Xos, 

 6!Ja.7j, ^Moi. This derivation is made more probable 



