lOO DEFECTS 1!^ THE LAWS OF G. BRITAIN. Sept. 28. 



on the 17 th of Augufl laft, was driven from defpair of 

 ever cljrainin;^ redrefs, deliberately to put a period to 

 his e:xiftcnce, in the prelence of his fovereign ; hop- 

 ing, that from the manner in which the a£l: was per- 

 petrated, it would make fuch an impreffion on the 

 public as to tend in fome meafure to check the prac- 

 tice of fuch enormities in future. 



Everv pcrfon knows that Mr. Sutherland had drawn 

 up, and caufed to be printed before his death, a 

 pamphlet containing an account of his cafe, which he 

 gave orders Cioukl not be publifhed till twelve o'clock 

 on the fatal day he had refolved to perpetrate this def- 

 perate deed. That pamphlet is now before the pub- 

 lic, and from it the following fads have been ga- 

 thered : 



Mr. Sutherland liad experienced all the horrors cf a 

 clofe and rigorous confinement, v/hile in the execu- 

 tion of his duty, and the immediate fervlce of the 

 flate ; he was ftill fubjeft to the deplorable efFefts of 

 a dangerous malady, occafioned by his imprifonment 

 in a foreign goal ; he had been fufpendcd from an 

 honourable and lucrative employment, without the 

 aihgnmcnt of a reafon, by the ftrong arm of power ; after 

 having obtained the verdicl of a jury of his country- 

 men for damages, means were ftill found to deprive 

 him of his right ; for fcven long years he had peti- 

 tioned, in vain, every branch of the executive govern- 

 ment of his country, from the monarch on the throne, 

 to the clerk of the under fecretary of ftate ; from" 

 affluence he was reduced to mifery ; from refpesf!: and 

 eueem, to a commiferation bordering on contempt. 

 He was purfued by the harpies of the law ; he wcs 

 overwhelmed with the diftrefles of a f:ck!y wife, and 

 a helplefs family looking up to him for phyfic and for 

 food. He tried every method in his power to extricate 

 himfelf from this diftrefiful fituation, zi\6 ?t lafl v.«3 

 pbligei to fuccumb. 



