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    4 I 0 wire C ' s sons , as represented by ^ M rs . . arid the Df . ' s statement Perfectly agrees with the well known truth , that their

    education was committed entirely to the care and direction of the Rev . Mr . Jervis , now minister of the chapel in Princes-street , West-

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    ^ OGMAGOG ' ^ ANIMADVERSIONS ON A HOERIJ ) CLERIC 41 * FAKCE .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    sir ? London , June 8 1808 . I arn tempted to renew my correspondence with jou , which from indisposition and other caus ^

    es I had considered , as " wholly closed , by the indignation 1 have felt on reading in the New Annual Register of last year * , an account of a horrid clerical

    farce-At Wisbeach , July 10 , 1807 , Richard Faulkner , a lad under sixteen years of age , was capitally convicted of the wilful murder of George Burn / tarn , another lad about twelve years of age . The cause of the murder aliened in

    the An . Reg . is that the prisoner had been insulted by the mother of the deceased . Mercy , if mercy were not sometimes a strangei

    to British courts of justice , would have pleaded for the young criminal . The * feelings of the country would have been sufficiently respected by transporting him for

    life . A boy-murderer may be a monstrous , but he-is not a terrific character ; v ancl his execution would scarcely have the ' effect of making boys peaceable , or of disarming' men of revenge . The court which tried Faulkner , did frot however reason in this man-

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    minster ; the particular friend of the late Mr , Wood , and to whom is ascribed the just and generous tribute to his memdry in a

    memoir in the Athenseum | for May < t p . 480 arid 487 . :.- •• ¦ I am Sir , yours VrGORNIENSIS . 4 y \

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    ner : he was condemned and left for execution . Between his condemnation and execution he dis * played , it is stated , the utmost depravity and ferocity ; uttering the most dreadful oaths and imprecations on all who came near him . threatening to murder the

    clergyman who attended the goal , and refusing to listen to any religious advice or admonition . This is truly shocking , but not unaccountable . The awful apparatus of a court of criminal justice , the dreadful solitude of a

    dungeon , with the clanking of chains on every motion , and the expectation of speedy death by strangulation could not fail of making an ignorant boy raving mad , at least at intervals . In such a

    situation , the goaler was perhaps justified in chaining him , hands and feet , to the floor of his cell . But who would imagine any hu-¦ * II . ¦ ¦ bein

    man gs , capable of p l ^} u '\ g tricks with the wretched youth ? who would , believe that such beings were actually found in rhe garb of clergymen ? It fills me with horror to state , upon the autfiori y of the New Aiw . lteg . what I hope is not true , that with a view t »

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    Gfogmagog ' s Animadversions en q horrid clerical Farce * $ S $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/31/