Page:Particular and impartial account, of what happened on the scaffold, at the execution of Colonel Marcus Despard, Thomas Broughton, John Francis, Arthur Graham, John MacNamara, John Wood, and J. Sedgwick Wratten, for high treason.pdf/3

 Monday next, and for so doing this shall be your Warrant.

As soon as the warrant for execution was received, it was communicated to the unhappy persons by the keeper of the prison, Mr Ives, with as much tenderness anand [sic] humanity as the awful nature of the case required We believe it was expected by all-it was received with resignation and fortitude  When the arrival of the death warrant was announced to Colonel Despard he was a little startled and complained that the time was short. He seemed to have had some hopes of a pardon The other six prisoners did not appear to have entertained any such expectations and heard their approaching fate announced with great composure All his papers and every thing he possessed were immediately taken from Colonel Despard He was strictly to discover whether he had any knife or means of self-destruction concealed about him and everything that it was thought might enable him to put and end to his existence was conveyed out of his reach There is no reason to suppose that he had the slightest sign of committing suicide, but there are the usual and necessary precautionary measures.

Mrs. Delpard was greatly affected when she