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Show 350 ATROCIOUS JUDGES. lA. D. lOSS. would have been almo t immediately in the po!Yer of his cnemic . 'I'he 1nate, 'vithout waiting to ee what became of him, hurried on shore, and treacherously gave information io . omc per on who had been in ptn'i' uit of him, that l1e was concealed in the Newcastle collier. 'fhey applied to justice" of the peace in the neighborhood for a warrant to arrest him, which was refu eel, on the ground that no specific charge was sworn against him. They then ·went to the lord ., of the council, whom they found sitting, and who actually gave them a \\Tarrant to apprehend him for high treason, under tl!C belief that the safety of the state r quired his detention. Armed with this, they returned to the coal ship in which he had taken Lis pa"'sage, Lut he was not there, and the captain, a man of honor, ua{Ilcd all their inquiries. lie slept securely in the vessel in which he had sought refuge; and had it not been for the n1ost extraordinary imprudence, leading to the belief that he was fated peedily to expiate his crime., he might have effected his e. cape. Probauly with a view of indulging more freely his habit of inten1perance, he next morning came a ·horc, anti n1ade his appearance at a little alehouse bearing the sign of "The Hed Cow," in Anchor and IIope Alley, n ar ICing I~dwanl'::; Stair"', "'\Vapping, and called for a poL of nle. \Vhen he l1a!l nearly finished it, still wearing hi ~ sailor's attire, with l1is hat on his head, he was so rashly conflclenL as to put hi:; h 'a<l out fron1 an open window to look at the passengers in the street. I must prepare my readers for the scene wllieh follows uy n'lating, in the words of l~oger North, an anecdote of the behavior of Jeffreys to a suitor in the heyday of his power mHl arrogance. "There was a ~eri vcncr of Wapping broughL A. D. l CSS.] GEORGE .TEFFREYS. 351 to h rnring for r elief against a bunwu'ry bond.* The conting<' ncy of lo;-;ing all being ·howed, 1hc uill was going to 1J' l~i - mis ·eel ; t l>ut one of the plaintifl"'s coun:cl said that the s nvcner wa a ·Lrangc fellow, and . ometin1c went to churcl1, sornetime. to conventicles, and none could tell wlw,t to Dlake of hin1; and it wa thought he wa a trimmer. At that the chancellor fired; and ' A tn·m mer. .t ' sa1· d he ,· 'I have heanl much of that mon. tor, but never saw one. Con1e forth, l\[r. Trimmer, turn yon rounu,, , an<.1 1 e"l t u. ee your hape' ' and at that rate talked o long that the poor fellow wa. re~ul y 1 o drop un<.1er ln. tn; but at 1a st tl 1e\ 1u,l·1 1 ' ', ,(.1 • .. di ·rni•s • ell with co.'ts, and he went his way. In t lw I1 .c \1 1 one of hi fi·i(·' nds askC'cl hiln how he cmne off. ' Can1c off;' , aid he; 'I arn . cap<'(l from the terror. of that man's face, which I would scarce un-derrro a rrain to av my l ·urc , an< 1 I ... h·c1 .ll certainly have the o b I 1. ' "+ frio·htful i1n1>re . ion of it as long a tvc. + . bI t happened, by a Inost extr aordinary C01• 11C•l t1 e nce, tl 1a, t tlns * "Bottomry bond." This contracti.O n s1 r ows, i1 c ctymoloCYy of an clc- l ~ . t <1 .· ·c gant English word from "bottom, '' w1 n .e · h Dr · J ohuson chooses o env from the Dutch word. "bomme." . 1 . t . 't was not usurious. t i. e. The principal being put m ~azar~l, t .~c m )~:.~:aitnrc of J cfl'rry~ on t The following is from Macaulay s c~,tbor.tl llhcrs all clf-re pcct, all the bench : ,, All tenderness for the fcehngs ofl ? .' ,cl, lie 't('<Juirrcl a . bl" t . i d from ns mm . ' sen. e of the bccommg, '"ere 0 1 cia c . 1 1 r express hatred an1l boundless command. of the rhetoric in which t]lc ~tu g~ .... t 1 ·v· c CJ)ithcts which . f l r ·f OllS an<. Yl upcr .. contempt. The profns1on o rna ~( H: 1 ·e ~been rivallctl in the fish-market composed his vocabulary could hardly hav . . , 111 st alw·rys have IJceu or the bear-garden. Ilt.s conn t en an c c 1' 111d Ius fv o,r cc 1 ·h he' se'e·m • s to have unamiablc; but t lr csc nat nra1 <l clv'· mta' rbr c•s - or sne 1 . that there were few thought them- he 1r a cl. u. npro\, e cl. to :such a c cgi ce 1 ~ . 1 im without emotion. . f 0 ld sec or .1c.n 1 who, m his paroxysms o rage, c n 'l'l larc of hi ryes h.ul a Impudence and feroc·i ty sa t upon his brow · rr g ' 1 , ·c fixed. )'Ct his brow fascination for the unhappy VI·C f nn °11 whom t 1ey '' cr · ' ·} ·<>CYC lines of his mmtlh. . 1 t ···llc than t1c sa, ... b . and eye w rc surd. to be cs~ ern) h ·d ·t oundcd hkc lli::; yell of fury, as was sm• .u 1 b y one w1 l 0 ha' d often ca.I 1 ' the thunder of the judgment day." |