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 17 passed from each wrist to reach ankle. In this dreadful state of torture and confine- ment, he was conducted by John Richard- son, and an Irish officer by the name of Robinson, to Dumfries. They were three days and two nights upon the road, and all the time he never had his haid to his month, and was fed like a sucking turkey in bedlam, and treated like a helpless in- fant. As to the officers who conveyed him, never could man behave better to his own son then they both did to him. He had known John Richardson before, and had long been acquainted with his humane dis- position, which was tried and proved on: this occasion. They travelled a good way' on the road before he would acknowledge that he had ever seen John; but he saw. that it was of no use to keep up his pre- tended ignorance any longer. Indeed, from the time he was placed in the con- ddemned cells of Kilmainham, he had only done so out of obstincy. On their: approach towards Dumfries which was in the dark, there were many thousands of people on the road, many of them with torches in their hands waiting his arrival; and when he got to the jail door, it was scarcely possible to get him out of the coach for the multitude-all crowded for a sight HAGGART THE