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 a general respite; and it is supposed he will be transported for life.

After sentence was passed upon this unhappy criminal, he became seriously devoted to the solemnities which belong to the dread transition from life to death; he deplored the follies and the crimes which stained his career in this world; he implored forgiveness of that Great Being, who is the author and disposer of human destiny. He bitterly lamented the sorrow and the shame cast, by his fate, upon his fathers family; hut of the particular deed for which he was sentenced to suffer, he expressed no feeling or observation. He admitted, that he had a fair and impartial trial, and complained of no one. With Hunt he repeatedly shaked hands, and unreservedly gave him his forgiveness. He frequently declared that he no longer bore any resentment against any human being. Still, however, quite consistently with his high resolution and unshaken firmness, he calmly protested his preference of his own situation to