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    laff been wioinded ; lying- by the dde of it I was obliged telj « there too until a few more stonners joiiied £ ff& » andspked . tbe said officer if he had any money to give me . He replied in the nega tive , but handed me over « gold repeating watch ^ wWeh lifterwards sold to Lord Ratcliffe , a lieutenant in the 52 nd regiment * for 70 dollars . Our men having entered the town , i now * pushed and

    into the market-place ^ where we gavethueereteeraj com * menced firing in the air , each party being then in search of am opeitJioiisfe , " 1 ^/ , - ' ^— n r-v ; - . '• <>''¦ ¦ - , — -k . * " * o- ^¦ ^¦ - «¦ - ¦ The first place that attracted attention was a storehouse of spirits , with a sentinel posted over iti He was a German , and resisted our entrance : he was therefOTe run ^ oi ^ h tfe ^ - body by some o * ed soldier , * whose name L did not know . We no& entetea ¦ in fo

    the premises ^ which we un d / several puncheons of agwdenlt * and having knocked in their heads ^ co mmenced filling wri cauteens ^ drinking , and again Eepteriiddng . In the strilggk- ti ^ fill their canteens ^ two of the ¦ unfortunate fellows , in sto ^ opingy pitched ov ^ r , head foremost into ! the huge barrel and were smothered ; but their unfeeling comrades took no notice , and while tbey remained heels uppermost , shifted their legs on one side and continued

    fflling thqir canteens i&A drinking as if nothing had happened , it being now quitfe dark , some called out for lights , and when one was procured , the confusion increased * and by some ^ ecident the strdwifthat was in the place took iire . The house was soon in a blaze . i flThe men . who were drinking up stairs , escaped Out at the windows , but numbers whowere drunk below B © iri ^ 4 i ^ : th ^

    rtiiife . M now met my comrade , Ilobert ^^ Fairfootr a ^ d W ^ oA proposed to-go to a house together , and turning downline next street ojfa saw a glimmering light in a house upstairs ., We knocked at the door—no . answer ; We innjiediatej-yrrtr | ed the Rifleman ' s key , viz . a bullet through the key-hole , but found that the door bad been barred within ; we therefore » nwwsh ^< Jj ^ rtvip ^ oWi

    and With my wfle in my hand I got into the room , wh ^ W ^ pping about , for it was very dark , I found a number oftjwti&itil bottles , and discovered that I had landed in a ehemisfc ' s ahop . i I . then helped far my comrades , and , with rifles loaded and eopk ^ d ^ we moved upstairs , whfere we found a room aecotnmbdated with « n excellent fim r and a ready prepared auppefr ^ cAfayiiflW ^ porllj We fiin

    &c . Where i ^ ere the inmateH ? searched abttut ^ ^ iatj ^ nflftli discovered ; under the bed , a little French cdH ^ issary «[ ^ Wt £ a young Spanish woman cuddling by his side / I / Ti ^) foWW bplb extrenlely alarmed . * We told the Spanish woouati * o put some wine on the ^ tftbley promiwng that we would not hurt he ^? * nd the youtig Frenchman We dhc ^ fcemoiiiouriy mndAasomewiiatnraugbl ' y Juraed

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/29/