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a partial explosion had taken place — Had the
whole ignited as had been intended the result must
have been awful and yet this accomplished
vagabond is looked upon in the United States
as a martyr by many and has even been styled
by one of their highest officials a great man

Lett himelf who had no idea
that he had been thus betrayed was immediately
arrested while sitting on the steps at the door of
an Inn. — The constables knowing the desperate
character they had to deal with, seized him by
the arms from behind — A pistol and bowie
knife were found on his person — He was shortly
afterwards tried for the offence, and while on the
railroad in charge of the Sheriff on his way to
Auburn to undergo the sentence of his imprisonment
like Kelly was suffered to escape from the
custody of that official

This villains next enterprize was
the destruction of the monument on Queenston
Heights by means of gunpowder, which has rent
it in twain the splendid testimonial of the heroic
deeds of the Gallant General Brock not only
erected to immortalize his heroism, but in the
circumstances of its destruction also the gothic
barbarism of a people who style themselves the
most enlightened in the world

The monument was erected over the
remains of the General near the spot where he recieved
his mortal wound when defending the