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Finnerty and Mr. Drakard were much better treated, yet that the commission and the inquiry ended together in mere smoke. On the nineteenth of March, dollars were made current at five shillings and sixpence each; and on the twentieth of March in this year, 1811, the Empress Maria Louisa of France was brought to bed of a son, who was immediately created King of Rome.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

Drakard, of the Stamford News, Mr. Peter Finnerty, and other literary characters, were incarcerated in the dungeons of the borough-mongers. Under this system eight persons were executed at Manchester for rioting, and many others suffered death in various parts of the country.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3

Drakard confined in Lincoln Castle at the time that a commission was sent down to inquire into its abuses, and the misconduct of the Gaoler Merewether, and the Parson Justice Doctor Illingworth, the public of course expected that some important exposures would be made, and that very important benefits would result from the inquiry; but we shall see, by and by, that, from some cause or other, although Mr.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

As these proceedings were very similar to those which have recently taken place in this gaol, I will, at the proper time, give a more ample detail of them; particularly as Mr. Drakard, the editor of the Stamford News, was at this time also a prisoner in Lincoln Castle.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2