. Narrative of the life and suffering of William B. Lighton. (minister of the gospel.) Who was a soldier, bound for life in the British army and in which is contained an account of its character, and the barbarous method practised in punishing their soldiers; with an interesting account of his escape from his regiment, his capture, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to death; his subsequent sufferings, and final escape from captivity, and from the British dominions. spot, as I understood the captain and hissoldiers pursued me with rifles and as it was, he first went and informed
. Narrative of the life and suffering of William B. Lighton. (minister of the gospel.) Who was a soldier, bound for life in the British army and in which is contained an account of its character, and the barbarous method practised in punishing their soldiers; with an interesting account of his escape from his regiment, his capture, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to death; his subsequent sufferings, and final escape from captivity, and from the British dominions. spot, as I understood the captain and hissoldiers pursued me with rifles and as it was, he first went and informed theofficers at the ball room, so that a sufficienttime elapsed for me to escape their pursuit, andthus my life was prolonged, and time given mefor repentance. Thus I have abundant reasonto thank and adore the divine goodness for themercy which spared me through this criticalevent ! Having remained for some days imprisonedin the main guard, under the most intense suf-fering of body and mind, I was informed oftheir intention to commit me to the city did I wait long before a non-commissionedofficer with two men of my company visitedme, brought me my clothes, &c. and said itwas their orders to conduct me to the civil pris-on. Inasmuch as the military law took no cog-nizance of my act of taking the horse, I wasin consequenceHhereof delivered over for civilprocess, which, after suffering the penalty ofmy crime, should the punishment not be death, I. LIFE OF W. B. LIGHTON. 117 was then recognizable for the act of change in mv situation filled me for a mo-ment with sensations of a pleasing nature,which however, were soon damped by the con-sideration that my crime, according to Britishlaw, was punishable with death. Notwithstand-ing my prospect was dark and dreary beforeme, I rejoiced that I had escaped the ignomyof a public whipping, which to me would havebeen worse than death, had I only been prepar-ed. This circumstance was to me a most pe-culiarly trying
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