book, but the description applies as well as if it had been written
expressly for it.

Upon the whole, the piece was not very full of events. The doctor,
to all appearances, was rendered perfectly stupid from despair. His
hat was flapped all round, and pulled over his eyes, which were
never directed to any object around, nor even raised, except now and
then lifted up in the course of his prayers. He came in a coach, and
a very heavy shower of rain fell just upon his entering the
executioner's cart, and another just at his putting on his nightcap.
During the shower an umbrella was held over his head, which Gilly
Williams, who was present, observed was quite unnecessary, as the
doctor was going to a place where he might be dried.

He was a considerable time in praying, which some people standing
about seemed rather tired with; they rather wished for a more
interesting part of the tragedy. The wind, which was high, blew off
his hat, which rather embarrassed him, and discovered to us his
countenance, which we could scarcely see before. His hat, however,
was soon restored to him, and he went on with his prayers. There
were two clergymen attending on him, one of whom seemed very much
affected. The other, I suppose, was the Ordinary of Newgate, as he
was perfectly indifferent and unfeeling in everything he did and
said.

The executioner took both the hat and wig off at the same time. Why
he put on his wig again I do not know, but he did; and the doctor
took off his wig a second time, and then tied on the nightcap which
did not fit him; but whether he stretched that or took another, I
did not perceive. He then put on his nightcap himself, and upon his