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 legs, there appeared no other movement of the body but such as he effected. It was quite manifest that Thurtell’s spirit continued unshaken till it left its earthly mansion for ever. Thus terminated the life of John Thurtell, at the early age of thirty; a man endowed with great talents, and improved by a gentleman’s education. There is no idea that Thurtell has made any confession.

It might have been natural to expect that the fate of Thurtell would have excited, if not terror, at least reflection in the minds of many of many of his former associates; but, extraordinary as it may appear, it is still not less true, that though they were aware that Thurtell’s first plunge into crime was occasioned by his prediction for prize-fighting and similar savage amusements, many of them were speculating, at the very moment before his death, whether he had heard of the recent fight which took place near Worcester. We know not what the feelings of such men may be; but we should have