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ers, who now as cowardly as fero- 
cious, abandoned their mangled 
prey, arid betook themselves preci- 
pitately to concert some measures 
of defence. The slender resistance 
they made, and their flight and dis- 
persion, we have already related. 
As soon as the streets were a little 
cleared, some humane persons ven- 
tured to approach the scene of blood 
and massacre.—The body of the 
nephew was found at the distance of 
afew yards from the spot where the 
carriage had been stopped; whence 
it was conjectured that he had con- 
trived in the crowd to escape that 
Jength, but was soon pursued, and 
his murder there consummated. 
Strange to relate, that of lord Kil- 
warden was found not totally be- 
reaved of life!. He was carried to 
the nearest watch-house, where he 
received such accommodation as 
that wretched place could aflord. 
In this pitiable situation he breath- 
ed his last, having survived his car- 
‘ng in thitherabout halfan hour.— 
#9» ‘e lived long enough to im- 
But h. his name by his last 
mortage 46 close a most useful 
avords, aga 
and respectable 
sive testimony of . 
which had, throughou | eatie 
been his safe and wpe i gwce- 
His last words, uttered in iced 
nies of a most cruel and yUNIU" 
death—bleeding, and beieit E 
friend or acquaintance—on the 
hard bed of a watch-house— were 
such as would have graced the lips 
of justice in her most dignified situ- 
‘ation, and in the full possession of 
her most undisturbed reflection. 
“A bye-stander, shocked at_ the 
dreadful scene, had exclaimed with 
a warmth, commensurate with the 
extent ot the feeling it had inspired, 
fat the assassins should be exe 
life with an impres- 
the bonest mind, 
't its progress, 
cuted the next day. That justice 
which this great man, (truly such at 
this trying moment,) was accustom- 
ed to dispense, arose to the mind, to 
the lips, of the expiring magistrate— 
that love of law and order, which 
governed all his actions, revived his 
drooping powers, and he raised his 
head for the last time, to exclaim, 
“* Murder must be punished, but let 
** no man suffer formy death, but on 
“a fair trial, and by the Jaws of 
“« his country.” Memorable words! 
which compose the noblest epitaph 
for his tomb, and which will carry 
down his name with veneration and 
applause to latest posterity. 
Arthur Wolfe, lord viscount Kil- 
warden, was a native of the kingdom 
of Ireland, and had served the 
crown in the usual gradations of the 
highest. law offices. _He became 
solicitor general of Ireland, when 
the present viscount ‘arleton was 
promoted to the common pleas; 
and attorney general, on the Jate 
lord Clare’s accession to the seals. 
The earl of Clonmel] was his lord- 
ship’s immediate predecessor in his 
last high office, that of chief justice 
of Ireland. As crown prosecutor, 
during a period which unfortu- 
nately called very much for the 
exercise of the duties of that of- 
fice, he was fair, candid, and gen- 
tle; disposed to give the delinquent 
every reasonable advantage, and 
always less desirous to exaggerate 
ouilt, than to ascertain innocence. 
As # judge, no man ever attempted 
¢o censure him on any ground, 
other (han a strenuous, and what 
some considered in. critical times, 
an overstvained assertion of the li- 
berty of the subject. .He was not, 
from his talents or attainments, cal- 
culated to extend the limits of 
science, or multiply the lights eS 
‘his 
