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to practices by which on his detection, 

 in accordance with the sanguinary laws 

 then in operation, his life had become 

 forfeited, and, rather than expiate his 

 crime upon the scaffold, that he, it was 

 supposed by means of prussic acid, had 

 terminated his existence, in the condemned 

 cell in Newgate, on the night preceding 

 his intended execution in the front of that 

 prison. The incident caused great ex- 

 citement at the time. 



I will now relate a reminiscence on 

 the road of a totally different com- 

 plexion. 



One winter's morning, before it was 

 light, I was hailed to pull up at the 

 " Cross Keys," in St. John Street, where 

 the Leicester coach usually stopped, and 

 was asked by a gentleman if I could 

 overtake the Leicester coach, which had 

 been gone five or ten minutes. 



I replied, " Yes, as its passengers 



