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4 enues. The bailiffs claim their prioner. An officer of the guards, not then on duty, takes part in the affair, applies to the lieutenant commanding the Tilt-yard guard, and urges him to turn out his guard to relieve a general officer. The lieutenant declines interfering in peron, but tands at a ditance, and uffers the buines to be done. The officer takes upon himelf to order out the guard. In a moment they are in arms, quit their guard, march, recue the general, drive away the heriff's officers, who, in vain, repreent their right to the prioner, and the nature of the arret. The oldiers firt conduct the general into the guard-room, then ecort him to a place of afety, with bayonets fixed, and in all the forms of military triumph. I will not enlarge upon the various circumtances which attended this atrocious proceeding. The peronal injury received by the officers of the law, in the execution of their duty, may perhaps, be atoned for by ome private compensation. I conider nothing but the wound, which has been given to the law itself, to which no remedy has been applied, no atisfaction made. Neither 4