88 
She was, 4s that account mentions, rather 
low of ftature, of a pale complexion, to 
which anxiety, and near feven months im- 
prifonment, had given a yellowifh tint. Na- 
turally, the appears to have been fair, aswhen 
fhe coloured,the colour a¢tually diffused itfelf, 
Her countenance was very pleafing, of a 
meek and modeft expreffion, perfectly charac- 
teriftic of a mild affectionate temper. She 
_ had large eyes and eye-lids, a fhort and well- 
formed nofe, an open forehead of a grand and 
ingenuous character, and very regular and 
pleafing features ; her hair darkith brown, and 
her eye-brows rather darker than her hair ; 
fhe had an uncommon, and unaffected {weet- 
nefs in her voice and manner. She feemed to 
be above impatience or difcontent, fear orof- 
tentation, exempt from felfifa emotion, but 
attentive with pure fympathy to thofe whom 
her ftate, and the affecting fingularity of her 
cafe, and her uniformly admirably behayiour, 
jnteretted in her behalf. When aiked, 23d of 
April, 1800, the morning on which fhe fuf- 
fered, how fhe had flept the preceding night, 
fhe faid, not well the hegimning, but quite 
well the latter part of the night. She took 
an affectionate, but compofed, and even chear- 
ful, leave of her fellow-prifoners, and rather 
gave them comfort, than needed to receive it. 
It was a rainy and windy morning. She 
accepted of, and held over her head, an um- 
brella which I had. brought with me,. and 
without afliftance (though her arms were 
confined) fteadily fupported it all the way 
from the prifon, not much lefs than a mile. 
What I faid at the place of execution, if 
it had been far better faid than I was then 
able to exprefs myfelf, under the diftrefs I 
felt; would have been little in comparifon of 
the effect of her appearanceand behaviour on 
the whole aflembly. That effect, none who 
were not pretent can imagine, 
Before this J] never-attended an execution ; 
but it was indeed a duty to attend this, and to 
give the laft teftimony of efteem and refpect 
to a young perfon, whofe behaviour after her 
fentence (IJ had not feen ‘her before, for in 
cout fhe was concealed from me by the fur- 
rounding crowd) had rendered fodelerving of 
every potlible attcntion. 
Thofe who have been accuftomed to fuch 
diftrefling obfervations remarked, that the ex- 
ecutioner, though uted to his dreadful office, 
appeared exceedingly embarraffed, and was 
uncommonly flow in thofe preparations which 
immediately precede the fatal moment, and 
which, in tuch a kind of death, are a fevere 
trial of tl e iortitude of the ftrongeft and moft 
exalted mind, and much the more fo as they 
tend to defroy the fympathy refulting from 
the aflociated ideas of dignity in fuffering ; 
yet the dignited, by her deportment, every 
humiliating circumftance of this otherwile 
moft degrading of deaths, and maintained an 
unaltered equanimity and recollectednefs, 
herfelf aflitted in pulling back her hair, and 
adjuiiing the inftrument of deathto her neck. 
§ uffole. 
fAuguf 1, 
There was no platform, nor any thing in @ 
common degree fuitable to fupply the want of 
one ; yet this very young, and wholly unedu- 
cated, woman, naturally of a very tender dil- 
pofition, and from her mild and amiable tem- 
per, accuftomed to be treatedas their child in 
the families in which fhe had lived, and who 
confequently had not learned fortitude from 
experience either of danger or of hardthip, 
(and in prifon, the humanity of Mr. Or- 
k1pDGx had been parental towards her) ap- 
peared with a ferenity that feemed more 
than human ; and when fhe gave the fignal, 
there was a recollected gracefulnefs and tub- 
limity in her manner that ftrack every heart; 
and is above words or idea. 
I was fo very near to her the whole time, 
that near-lighted as I am, I can fully depend 
on the certainty of my obfervation. 
After fhe had been fufpended more than a 
minute, her hands were twice evenly and 
gently raifed, and gradually let to fall with- 
out the leaft appearance of convulfive or invo- 
luntary motion, in a manner which could 
hardly be miftaken, when interpreted, as de- 
figned to fignify content and refignation. 
At all events, independently of this cir- 
cumftance which was noticed by many, her 
whole conduét evidently fhewed, from this 
temper of mind,a compofed andeven cheerful 
‘Ms 
.fubmiffion to the views and the wil/ of Hra- 
VEN ; a modeft unaffeCting fubmifhon entire- 
ly becoming her age, her fex, and fituation. 
As [ have referred you to the Jp/wich paper, 
I muft mention one exprefiion in it, the word 
“ accomplice” is uled. Whoever admits a 
man was concerned will fee reafon to regard 
that man as far more than an accomplice. 
I believe it were not impoflible (but would 
indeed be nearly mevitable) for any attentive 
mind, weighing the circumftances of this 
perhaps unexampled cafe, to come to the 
fame conclufion which has long impreffed it- 
felfon mine. That conclufion leaves to her 
a fhare of the guilt which is indeed “ compa- 
rative innocence,” and the verpicT of the 
sury, (who, I believe; in thet verdict 
thought that they had faved her life) imports 
not a great flare, 
Yet they knew nothing of the admirable 
charater which has been given her by thofe 
in whofe fervice fhe had longeit lived* ; for 
tle beft temper, a meek, peaceable, quict 
dilpofition; honefty, modefty, uniformly 
good behaviour in all refpeéts ; freedom not 
only from blame, but from any circuinftances 
tending to fufpicion of it. The sury knew 
of her character only by her affecting appeal 
to Mrs. Syrr, the profecutrix herfelf. For 
fhe had not been fending after thofe who 
could fpeak to her charaéter during her con- 
finement, and therefore being afked, fhe an- 

* Mr. Jounson, of Bitprsron, grocer 
and linen draper. Mr. Henry, farmer; 
from Midfummer, 1795, to Michaelmas, 
avr. 
I fwered, 
