plice, as may be seen by the proceedings on their trial. The accomplice being admitted an evidence, and so rescued for this time from the deserved punishment of his crime, was yet very near losing that forfeited life by the unprovoked fury of a virago, a prisoner in the press-yard side of Newgate, who stabbed him in the side with a table-fork, in so violent and desperate a manner, that his life was for some time after doubtful. This happened during the sessions, soon after the prisoners had been conducted through the pressyard to the court, in order to be arraigned and tried; when she came up to him, cursing him and saying, You are an evidence, take that. This youth, being now in a fair way of recovery, 'tis hoped will ever remember that he has in this case, visibly and remarkably escaped a double death, both of them violent and untimely, in the flower of his age, being under 18 years; and that he will truly devote the remainder of that life, to Him whose gift it is; the renewed gift of the tender forbearance, and patient longsuffering of Heaven; notwithstanding some very provoking and aggravated circumstances of this crime, at their out setting, as may be collected from his own account of it in his evidence; wherein after he has said, " We had not money " enough to buy pistols, Dupuy pawn'd " my coat to a pawn-broker," he adds, I sold a bible in Fleet-Street, &c. which made 12 s. out of which they bought two pistols at 5 s. each. Let him, let both the survivors reflect, deeply and seriously reflect, whether this was not selling the charter of life, both a present and future life, to purchase the instrument and means of death, both temporal and eternal death; let them think again whether this was not to act like, nay, far worse than, prophane Esau, to sell the Christian's birth-right? and therefore should they not pray earnestly for a repentance, more prevailing and successful than his? Should they not seek and beg for grace to trust in God, in every difficulty and distress, and learn to know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. If these two survivors, snatch'd like brands out of the fire, do not thus endeavour to exercise a true and earnest repentance for this fact in particular, let them consider whether the words of that book will not rise up against them, when it is the time of justice, when the season of mercy, and the day of grace is spent, when the dreadful threats denounced against the despisers of that word, are come to the point of being executed by long-suffering power, unerring wisdom, and irresistible justice. In the mean time, should they not heartily thank the divine mercy for giving them a fresh warning to repent, by their being thus suddenly overtaken and corrected for this crime, and thereby prevented, it is to be hoped, from ever returning to their folly.

This warning is doubtless, equally applicable to him who in the criminal fact, defied the muzzle of a blunderbuss, which while it flashed against him in the pan, was providentially and most mercifully arrested from cutting him off quick in his guilt: and again a second time rescued from the jaws of death, when respited under the fatal tree, by the distinguishing mercy of a Sovereign whose glory it is to imitate his Heavenly King.

The behaviour of Dupuy, who has paid the debt of justice to the laws of his country, was rather careless and inconsiderate for a person in his sad situation, both before his trial, and after his conviction, till a few days before he suffered; when he seemed heartily affected on several occasions.