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342 REMARKABLE EARTHQUAKES
excessive weight, which occasioned this accident, speedily
relieved him from pain. He expired in a moment, and
without any struggle.
“ He was cut dov/il after he had hung about an hour.—>
On Wednesday last he had made a carpenter take his
Pleasure for a coffin. He gave particular directions that
it should be large, as he meant to be laid in it with all
his clothes on. It was made of oak, adorned with plates^
and extremely handsome every way. A hearse followed with
it to the ground, and afterwards bore him away.-—He was
then buried in a corner of the church-yard of St. Mary’s,'
Carlisle, at a distance from the tombs, without any cere-
mony ; and in less than two hours, the whole of the crowd
had dispersed.”
We have been thus minute in the particulars of the life
of a man, who, having occupied so much of the public at-
tention, had made himself of importance.—'But Hatfield,
'however, did not persist in his innocence, as some har-
dened criminals have done ; nor did he insult the ears or
understandings of the multitude that came to see him die,
with any fanatical effusions that often do more harm than
good—the law had laid him under the sword of justice, and
he received the final stroke without murmur or complaint.
One thing still we ought not to omit; viz. a report that
Mary of Buttermere opened and carried on a cojp’espond-
ence with him by letters, while he was in confinement,-
and was scarcely dissuaded by her friends from paying him
a personal visit.
The. History unremarkable Earthquakes in England,
and elsewhere.
(Continued from Page 288.)
The Philosophical Transactions, page 305, give an account
of an earthquake felt very sensibly at a place called Skeathill,
about eight miles south-west from Hartford, and that the
Same morning a piece of ground in a meadow in Earning-
ham,’
excessive weight, which occasioned this accident, speedily
relieved him from pain. He expired in a moment, and
without any struggle.
“ He was cut dov/il after he had hung about an hour.—>
On Wednesday last he had made a carpenter take his
Pleasure for a coffin. He gave particular directions that
it should be large, as he meant to be laid in it with all
his clothes on. It was made of oak, adorned with plates^
and extremely handsome every way. A hearse followed with
it to the ground, and afterwards bore him away.-—He was
then buried in a corner of the church-yard of St. Mary’s,'
Carlisle, at a distance from the tombs, without any cere-
mony ; and in less than two hours, the whole of the crowd
had dispersed.”
We have been thus minute in the particulars of the life
of a man, who, having occupied so much of the public at-
tention, had made himself of importance.—'But Hatfield,
'however, did not persist in his innocence, as some har-
dened criminals have done ; nor did he insult the ears or
understandings of the multitude that came to see him die,
with any fanatical effusions that often do more harm than
good—the law had laid him under the sword of justice, and
he received the final stroke without murmur or complaint.
One thing still we ought not to omit; viz. a report that
Mary of Buttermere opened and carried on a cojp’espond-
ence with him by letters, while he was in confinement,-
and was scarcely dissuaded by her friends from paying him
a personal visit.
The. History unremarkable Earthquakes in England,
and elsewhere.
(Continued from Page 288.)
The Philosophical Transactions, page 305, give an account
of an earthquake felt very sensibly at a place called Skeathill,
about eight miles south-west from Hartford, and that the
Same morning a piece of ground in a meadow in Earning-
ham,’