HISTORY OF. EUROPE. 
the dangers they had escaped, by 
the clamor of the frequent patroles, 
the posting of guards, and the ge- 
neral trepidation and panic of the 
next morning. 
Tt was darker than it usually 
is, at ten o’clock of a night in 
July, when the ill-fated party 
approached the scene of its 
sufferings: as it proceeded into 
St. James’s-street, the mob had 
nearly evacuated it at the other 
extremity, and had advanced into 
Thomas-street, so that yet even in 
the town, his lordship did not ex- 
perience any hostile interruption. 
A gentleman of no particular con- 
sideration had a few minutes before 
atrived in a post-chaise, and pro- 
bably would have been the victim 
of this ferocious and insane ban- 
ditti, but that the arrival of lord 
Kilwarden’s equipage arrested his 
fate, and drew off their attention’ 
from him to an object of so much 
greater magnitude; and the former 
captive, bustling unobserved thro’ 
the crowd, eflected his escape. 
The chaise conveying the lord 
chief justice and his family, was 
stopped about twenty yards from 
the entrance of Thomas-street— 
lord Kilwarden immediately de- 
clared, his name, and earnestly 
prayed for mercy; but in vain— 
the three individuals were dragged 
from the carriage, the savages ex- 
claiming they would sacrifice lord 
Kilwarden and his male companion, 
but must spare the lady! They 
then desired the latter to escape as 
well as she could, and permitted 
her to pass through their entire 
column without injury or interrup- 
tion! 
Lord Kilwarden and his nephew 
were then felled to the ground, of 
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course without resistance, but still 
imploring for some return of huma~ 
nity—the savages to whom they 
sued were deaf to all entreaty, and 
pierced them with innumerable 
wounds. It was afterwards stated 
by his lordship’s servant in evidence, 
that the ruffians violently contend- 
ed and even fought for the distine- 
tion of stabbing with their pikes 
the prostrate and defenceless vic- 
tims! 
No portion of the conduct of as- 
sassins, which makes us shudder at 
their unfeeling barbarity, and 
blush for human nature, can ever 
be the theme of our applause; bus 
in the permitting, in the moment of 
blind and infuriate rage, the escape 
of Miss Wolfe, we can trace some 
of the lineaments of ‘the native 
character of the country, such as 
it exhibited before its people were 
corrupted by faction, brutalized by 
misrule,and maddened and depraved 
by the influence of that combina- 
tion of all vice, and the source of 
every popular perversion—jaco- 
binism! 
The unfortunate young lady, 
having ran through the streets, 
scarcely knowing whither, fortu- 
nately reached the castle in astate, 
as might well be imagined, border- 
ing on phrenzy; where she an- 
nounced the situation in which she 
had left her father! 
The alarm having been univer- 
sally spread by the murder of col. 
Browne, and the other instances of 
outrage which we have already de- 
tailed, the approach of the smalk 
_ bodies of the military force hastily 
collected by the good sense, gallan- 
try, and presence of mind of some 
subaltern officers, gave cause of 
other consideration to the murder- 
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