it aloud, Mr. Hug?" inquired Miss Quirk; and the
barrister, with solemn emphasis, read the following remarkable
document:--

"_Condemned Cell, Newgate,_
_Sunday night, half-past 11 o'clock,_
_30th April, 18--._

"SIR,

"At this awful moment, when this world is closing rapidly upon me
and my fellow-sufferers, and the sounds of the wretches putting up
the Grim Gallows are audible to my listening ears, and on the
morrow the most horrible death that _malicious tyrants_ can inflict
awaits me, my soul being calm and full of fortitude, and beating
responsive to the call of GLORIOUS LIBERTY, I feel prouder than the
King upon his throne. I feel that I have done much to secure the
liberties of my _injured country_.

'For Liberty, glorious Liberty,
Who 'd fear to die?'

Many thanks to you, sir, for your truly indefatigable efforts on my
behalf, and the constant exercise of a skill that nearly secured us
a _Glorious Acquittal_. What a Flame we would have raised in
England! That should have _blasted_ the enemies of True Freedom. I
go to Hereafter (if, indeed, there be a hereafter), as we shall
soon know, not with my soul _crammed with Priestcraft_, but a Bold
Briton, having laid down my life for my country, knowing that
_Future Ages_ will do me Justice.

"Adieu, Tyrants, adieu! Do your worst!! My soul defies you!!!

"I am, Sir,
"Your humble, obliged, and
"undismayed servant,
"ARTHUR GRIZZLEGUT

"To CALEB QUIRK, ESQ.

"'Tyrants grim,
Will, on the morrow, cut me limb from limb:--
While Liberty looks on with terrible eye,
And says, _I will avenge him by-and-by_.'

"ARTHUR GRIZZLEGUT."

The reading of the above produced a great sensation. "That man's name
will be enrolled among the Sidneys and the Hampdens of his country!"
said Viper, with a grim and excited air. "That letter deserves to be
carved on a golden tablet! The last four lines are sublime! They are
worthy of Milton! He was a martyr to principles that are silently and
rapidly making their way in this country!"--How much farther he would
have gone on in this strain, seeing no one pr