concerned in any riot or tumult, is universally acknowledged, and a
more general good character is nowhere to be found. This McLaughlin
soon made his escape, therefore was a deserter as well as a murtherer,
yet he has had a discharge sent him with an allowance of a shilling a
day."

Maclane was most probably the "Mac" alluded to by SENEX; but his account
differs in so many respects from cotemporaneous records that I have
ventured to trespass somewhat largely upon your space. I may add, that I by
no means agree in the propriety of erasing a monumental inscription of more
than eighty years' existence without some much stronger proof of its
falsehood; for I quite coincide with the remarks of Rev. D. Lysons, in his
allusion to this monument (_Surrey_, p. 393.), that

"Allen was illegally killed, whether he was concerned in the riots or
not, _as he was shot apart from the mob at a time when he might, if
necessary, have been apprehended and brought to justice_."

E.B. PRICE.

September 30. 1850.

The Rev. Dr. John Free[2] preached a sermon on the above occasion (which
was printed) from the {334} 24th chapter of Leviticus, 21st and 22nd
verses, "He that killeth a man," &c.; and he boldly and fearlessly
denominates the act as a murder, and severely reprehends those in authority
who screened and protected the murderer. The sermon is of sixteen pages,
and there is an appendix of twenty-six pages, in which are detailed various
depositions, and all the circumstances connected with the catastrophe.