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PARTICULARS OF HATFIELD. 337
<cool and collected during the time he was in the chaise ;
and as soon as he got back to his room, he fell upon bis
knees, and prayed in a fervent and serious manner for
about half an hour ; after which he desired some refresh-
ment. His behaviour, when sentence of death was passed
upon him next morning, was equally cool and deliberate.
He knelt, look fixedly at the Judge, bowed, but said not
a word.
“ I had an opportunity of seeing him soon after his re-
turn to prison on the morning of his condemnation.—He
was writing when I entered his room, but seemed perfectly
resigned to his fate. I conversed with him a good deal,
and he told me that he had been fairly tried and convicted
by the laws of his country; that indeed the world was
now, and had long been, a misery to him—that he had
been unhappy in his mind for nearly twenty years. The
original cause of that unhappiness I could not learn, -nor,
as he did not think proper to disclose it, did I press him
upon the subject. He said, he bad for some time past
been employed in making bis peace with the Almighty,
whose pardon, he humbly hoped, he should obtain, and
who, he fervently prayed, would give him fortitude to
bear the last great event, that should close this world upon
him for ever. I left him in a few minutes after he bad ex-
pressed this hope, and as I quitted the room, I observed
him drop on his knees in prayer.—He does not seem to
entertain the slightest hope of being pardoned.
“ He passes much of his time in reading and writing ;
a great part of every day has been employed in writing
letters to his acquaintance : the number of these letters are
very great. The rest of his time he passes in prayer, and
reading the Bible. None of his relations have visited him
since his condemnation. He keeps entirely in his own
room, and will see no one but those belonging to the gaol,
and two clergymen of the Church of England, Mr. Pattison
of Carlisle, and Mr. Marke of Burgh on Sands. They
‘ have
<cool and collected during the time he was in the chaise ;
and as soon as he got back to his room, he fell upon bis
knees, and prayed in a fervent and serious manner for
about half an hour ; after which he desired some refresh-
ment. His behaviour, when sentence of death was passed
upon him next morning, was equally cool and deliberate.
He knelt, look fixedly at the Judge, bowed, but said not
a word.
“ I had an opportunity of seeing him soon after his re-
turn to prison on the morning of his condemnation.—He
was writing when I entered his room, but seemed perfectly
resigned to his fate. I conversed with him a good deal,
and he told me that he had been fairly tried and convicted
by the laws of his country; that indeed the world was
now, and had long been, a misery to him—that he had
been unhappy in his mind for nearly twenty years. The
original cause of that unhappiness I could not learn, -nor,
as he did not think proper to disclose it, did I press him
upon the subject. He said, he bad for some time past
been employed in making bis peace with the Almighty,
whose pardon, he humbly hoped, he should obtain, and
who, he fervently prayed, would give him fortitude to
bear the last great event, that should close this world upon
him for ever. I left him in a few minutes after he bad ex-
pressed this hope, and as I quitted the room, I observed
him drop on his knees in prayer.—He does not seem to
entertain the slightest hope of being pardoned.
“ He passes much of his time in reading and writing ;
a great part of every day has been employed in writing
letters to his acquaintance : the number of these letters are
very great. The rest of his time he passes in prayer, and
reading the Bible. None of his relations have visited him
since his condemnation. He keeps entirely in his own
room, and will see no one but those belonging to the gaol,
and two clergymen of the Church of England, Mr. Pattison
of Carlisle, and Mr. Marke of Burgh on Sands. They
‘ have