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wound which laid him prostrate. His attendants, 
seeing him fall, threw down their arms, and the en¬ 
raged populace, seizing the person of the wretch¬ 
ed governor, who was still alive, tore him into a 
thousand pieces, and scattered his reeking limbs in 
the street. Besides the governor, an ensign and 
thirteen private soldiers who fought in his cause, 
were killed outright, and a lieutenant and twenty- 
four privates wounded. Of the people, thirty-two 
were killed and wounded, besides Mr. Piggot. 
The governor’s death instantly put an end to this 
’bloody conflict. 
Thus perished, in a general insurrection of an 
insulted and indignant community, a brutal and li¬ 
centious despot, than whom no state criminal was 
•ever more deservedly punished. Fie was a mon¬ 
ster in wickedness, and being placed by his situa¬ 
tion beyond the reach of ordinary restraint, it w r as 
as lawful to cut him off by every means possible, as 
It would have been to shoot a wild beast that had 
broke its limits, and was gorging itself with human 
blood. “ The people of England,” says an eminent 
writer,* £;C heard with astonishment of Park’s un¬ 
timely fate; but the public were divided in their 
sentiments; some looking upon his death as an act 
of rebellion against the crown, and others consi¬ 
dering it as a sacrifice to liberty. The flagrancy of 
the perpetration, and compassion for the man, at 
last got the better.” In the latter assertion howe¬ 
ver, the writer is clearly mistaken; for the English 
* Universal History, vol. xii. 
