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the public mind. Acting under the advice of several 
magistrates of Bristol, Savary pleaded guilty to the 
offence, refusing, although earnestly counselled by the 
Judge (Gifford), to amend his plea. He was in con¬ 
sequence sentenced to death, and, his crime occurring so 
recently after Fauntleroy’s, his execution was deemed 
equally certain. The punishment, however, was com¬ 
muted to transportation for life; and Savary shortly 
afterwards arrived in this Colony, where he was 
employed as a writer in one of the public departments. 
Having left a wife in England who was tenderly attached 
to him, she speedily followed her husband; but the 
ship (the Jessie Lawson) in which she had taken her 
passage was wrecked on the Hoe at Plymouth. The 
passengers nevertheless escaped, and Mrs. Savary, 
nothing daunted, embarked in another vessel. She 
escaped shipwreck in her second conveyance; but, unless 
report be false, made shipwreck of her husband’s peace 
of mind. The domestic affliction here alluded to is 
painfully narrated in a tale called Quintus Servington; 
a work published by Savary in Hobart Town in 1830, 
and which appears to be an authentic memoir so far of 
his ill-starred career. Goaded to frenzy, the miserable 
Savary attempted his life, by drawing a razor across his 
throat. The wound, however, was not mortal, and he 
was discovered in time to save his life. Shortly after his 
wife and child returned to England; and Savary, sub¬ 
sequently obtaining a ticket-of-leave, engaged in farming, 
—became bankrupt,—again had recourse to forgery,— 
was again convicted, and subjected to the ordeal of Port 
Arthur. There he experienced a shock of paralysis, and 
there ere long, in all human probability, the misguided 
man will terminate his wretched career.* 
It has been said by the slanderers of the Colony that 
1 Savary died shortly after, on the Otli February, 1812. Ed. 
