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<p n="1800">January 1799. -</p>
<p n="1801">and Webb, a few Days prior to this Visit, Bone<lb></lb>
wished to see me, I sent for him to the Office, he said<lb></lb>
he wanted to write a Letter to the Coroner which<lb></lb>
I permitted him to do it contained a Desire to<lb></lb>
see the Coroner stating that he had some thing<lb></lb>
to say to him respecting the Inquest that had<lb></lb>
lately been held before him concerning a Vagrant<lb></lb>
who Died a few Days after he was brought<lb></lb>
into the Prison - the Coroner came who had<lb></lb>
some Conversation with Bone, and examined<lb></lb>
again into the matter and declared the Jury<lb></lb>
had certainly given a very Correct Verdict<lb></lb>
that the Man had died by the Visitation of<lb></lb>
God - Bone told Sir Francis that he had<lb></lb>
one thing to mention to him in which they<lb></lb>
more all much interested which was that a<lb></lb>
Man who had died about a Week since had<lb></lb>
not come by his Death fairly, and that there<lb></lb>
were also two others who had Died in a<lb></lb>
similar manner, I said - Do you mean to<lb></lb>
say there were Murdered.? he replied "literally<lb></lb>
so", I said I would call a Committee to<lb></lb>
inquire into the matter, Sir Francis and his<lb></lb>
Companion said it was very proper they had<lb></lb>
related these Circumstances - Kear then told<lb></lb>
Sir Francis that he had also been used extremely<lb></lb>
ill, having been locked up Five Weeks in a<lb></lb>
Dark Cell, I told him he had better tell Sir<lb></lb>
Francis, what I had locked him up for which<lb></lb>
he not doing, I informed Sir Francis why he had<lb></lb>
been so Confined which was for having drawn a<lb></lb>
Gullotine upon the Wall, with a head knocked off<lb></lb>
and under it wrote, "this is the base Pitt", and also.</p>
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