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/8

 times Waving his hand with an air of exultation The clergyman now shook hands with each of them. Colonel Despard bowed, and seemed to thank him as he shook hands with him - The executioners pulled the caps over the unhappy persons faces and descended the scaffold-Most of them exclaimed 'Lord Jesus receive our souls!"

At seven minutes before 9 o'clock, the signal was given the platform dropped, and they were all launched into eternity!!!

They remained suspended about half an hour when they were cut down and decapitated by an axe, the operation beginning with that of the Colonel, after which the heads were successively exhibited by the executioner, making the usual proclamation—"This is the head of a traitor!" and designating each by his name.

May the fate of there desperately infatuated men operate as a wholesome lesson, to those who may have been dazzled by the false glare of Revolutionary Politics!!