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8 agliast on beholding the awful spectacle, and-stung to the heart with remorse, she seized the fatal instrument of death, still reeking with the blood of her husband, and instantly ripped up her own belly in such a manner that her entrails tumbled out.

The daughter wondering at their delay in returning, went up stairs to learn the reason, which, alas! she too soon discovered. To see, at once, a father, a mother, and a brother, butchered in so shocking a manner, was too much for human nature to bear-quite overcome with horror and amazement at so bloody scene, she sunk down and instantly expired.

The names of this unfortunate family who thus, by sordid views, came to this untimely end, were prudently concealed for the sake of preserving their innocent relations from ignominy and shame. Peter Brown is the name the unfortunate youth gave himself when he left his parents, and was well known by many, sea-faring men both in Portsmouth and Plymouth.