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PgM&y $ ** & humtLnhy . I amsure ; S * Jsi yoit will j <) in me in nibst rfe * vQgll ^ ivisbingi that this may prove to . betrmejr and that , in the mean
unit * , every >• experiment , " may be made iflo rder to prove it . And among others we cannot but most heartily wish godd success to this benevolent and laudable society , which has been formed for the diffusion of knowledge respecting the punishment of death and the
improvement of prison discipline . IJut my inducement , Sir , tc writingthis letter , is not so much froin the interesting * extract yon have published , as your own ap . peijded invitation ; that any corn .
mum cation , tending to promote the ^ qbject of the society , will be inserted in your work . This has encouraged me to send you the following account , in the business of which I took some part . —
¦ ' " "' ¦ '" quorum pars—fui . " But : I will not use either of Virgil ' sepithets ^ miserrima or niagna : not the latter because it would be arrogant ; nor the former , because
we | £ o t through our difficulties to a haijipy issue . But you % vill judge how far the insertion of this SLecount may be useful ; and to that jud g ment I willingly submir / whethe * it be affirmative or
negative . S ^ miiel Hpughton is a labour , ing inan , fc % ying in J 7 Q 9 , a feraily of seven if hi Id rep , aqd his wife pregriant . ' Two witnesses on the
trial which I am about to mention , ^ avei&iiTi th ^ character of a ? ery iioiiest and industrious man * Between the spring and summer assiaes of , t ^ 3 tj ? ar he * was i n a h ^ ii
public hoube ;;"^^ v a man came int ^ the housed and behaved very rudely , because the people of the house refused to let "him have
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fi ^ u ; he- went to a compai ,. who were sitting at a table , \ Jl some of their liquf > r and drankT Houghton remonstrated egain ^ this behaviour ; but what he saW
did not amount to as much asoc curs dail y in the common irrital tions of a quarrel . So far as ] can remember , the conversation between the two men was to this purpose : u What business hast thou with their liquor ? thotide
serves to be beau" U T 11 take any liquor I please . Ill take thine if I like . " " Wilt thou take mine ?" u Yes I will . '' Hougbton hrfd his glass in his left hand : and the other snatched it out of his band , and drank what was in it . Hough . ton struck him twice . Thestcond
blow , which was immediatel y after the first , skilled him . For some time , Houghton believed that the man only pretended tote hurt . But as soon as he knew
that he was really hurt , he ex . pressed great sorrow , and did every thing he could to recover him . When the coroner ' s inquest sat on the body , they brought itt their verdict , manslaughter : in
consequence of which he was bailed . On the second day of the assizes at Lancaster , he surrendered himself . One of the witnesses on his trial , either rashly or wicked * ly , accused him of some joking speeches ; which were uttered hy another person . And this
testimony was contradicted by f * sons after the trija . 1 , on an examination before a justice of peace . He w&s a parishoner of Mr . Hornby , the rector of Winwick , wbo » brother-in-law to Lord perby *
and who p 6 * s £ Sjs $ a ^ the most W * able rectory ih the Icing dom ; but who alsf > possesses what is inucn more valuable , a humane and benevolent heart . He was very mucn
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/6/
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