A Lone Woman In Ireland.

course. The ship proceeded on her homeward voyage, and as she drew near the Irish shore young Lynch conceived the idea of concealing one crime by committing another. Having seduced or frightened the crew into becoming participators, the Spanish youth was seized and thrown overboard. The father and friends of Lynch received the voyager with joy; and he proposed for a very beautiful girl, the daughter of a wealthy neighbor, in marriage. The proposal was accepted; but previous to the appointed day one of the seamen was taken suddenly ill, and in a fit of remorse summoned Warder Lynch to his dying bed and communicated to him a full relation of the villainy of his only and beloved son. Young Lynch was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to execution, the father being his judge. The wretched prisoner had many friends among the people; his relations determined he should not die a shameful death, and they resolved to rescue him.

“Day had scarcely dawned when the signal of preparation was heard among the guards without. The father arose and assisted the executioner to remove the fetters which bound his unfortunate son. Then unlocking the door, he placed him between the priest and himself, leaning upon an arm of each. In this manner they ascended a flight of steps lined with soldiers, and were passing on to gain the street, when a new trial assailed the magistrate, for which he appears not to have been unprepared. His wife, who was a Blake, failing in her personal exertions to save the life of her son, had gone in distraction to the heads of her own family and prevailed on them, for the honor of their house, to rescue him from ignominy. They flew to arms, and a prodigious concourse soon assembled, whose outcries for mercy for the culprit would have shaken any nerves less firm than those of the mayor of Galway. He exhorted them to yield submission to the laws of their country; but finding all his efforts fruitless to accomplish the ends of justice at the accustomed place and by the usual hands, he, by a desperate victory over parental feelings, resolved himself to perform the sacrifice which he had vowed to pay on its altar. Still retaining a hold of his unfortunate son, he mounted with him by a winding stair within the building, that led to an arched window overlooking the street, which he saw filled with the populace. Here he secured the end of the rope, which had previously been fixed round the neck of his son, to an iron staple projecting from the wall, and after taking from him a last embrace he launched him into eternity. The intrepid magistrate expected instant death from the fury of the mob, but the people seemed so much overawed or confounded by the justice of the act that they retired slowly and peaceably to their several dwellings. The innocent cause of this sad tragedy is said to have died soon after of grief, and the father of Walter Lynch to have secluded himself from all society except that of his mourning family.”