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 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. The next day he set out on his retnrnreturn [sic] home, and left me in strict charge with my uncle, who would not allow me to leave the house. lI [sic] remained there for seven months. My lover heard of my removal from Greenock, and not being able to obtain information where I was, he wandered about, working a short time in his place, when he became oppressed in spirits on my account, and could not settlosettle [sic] to work. He took to excessive drinking, and associated with bad companions: he and two others robbed a gentleman named Heriot, on the Glasgow and Paisley road: the rest escaped, but he was arrested in Glasgow, where he was tried and sentenced to 7 years’ transportation. My parents were one evening conversing about me, my mother desired my father to fetch me back, but he refused until Taylor had left England.

Being overheard by Catherine M'Clarty, the chambermaid, who was fond of me, and knowing where my uncle resided, and learning by their conversation that I was in Glasgow, she resolved to set out in search of me immediately,—which she accordingly did, and contrived to deliver a letter which informed me of my lover’s fate. lI [sic] read it on going to bed at night, and my eeliugsfeelings [sic] maybe better imagined than described— lI [sic] sank insensible on the bed, where lI [sic] remained a considerable time: on recovering, lI [sic] passed the remainder of the night in planning my escape, which lI [sic] effected the next evening, taking £200 belonging to my nncleuncle [sic]. lI [sic] was determined to go to the same place as my lover: lI [sic] dressed myself in man’s apparel, and paid my passage on board the Maryanne, Emigrant ship, bound to New South Wales, where, I learned, Robert Taylor