On the 20th, time having been asked by the appellant’s counsel, the matter was finally disposed of, the judgment of the Court being “that the defendant be discharged from the appeal, and that he be allowed to go forth without bail.”

Though the rigid application of the letter of the law a second time saved this wretched man from punishment, nothing could remove from the public mind the conviction of his atrocity. Shunned by all who knew him — his very name become an object of terror — he, in a few months, attempted to proceed to America; but the sailors of the vessel in which he was about to embark refused to go to sea with such a character on board. He, however, succeeded in a subsequent attempt by disguising himself, and thus was his country relieved from the presence of one who was more than suspected of as large a load of moral crime as ever disgraced it in the form of a human being.