enſues. The bailiffs claim their priſoner.[1] An officer of the guards, not then on duty, takes part in the affair, applies to the lieutenant[2] commanding the Tilt-yard guard, and urges him to turn out his guard to relieve a general officer. The lieutenant declines interfering in perſon, but ſtands at a diſtance, and ſuffers the buſineſs to be done. The officer takes upon himſelf to order out the guard. In a moment they are in arms, quit their guard, march, reſcue the general, drive away the ſheriff's officers, who, in vain, repreſent their right to the priſoner, and the nature of the arreſt. The ſoldiers firſt conduct the general into the guard-room, then eſcort him to a place of ſafety, with bayonets fixed, and in all the forms of military triumph. I will not enlarge upon the various circumſtances which attended this atrocious proceeding. The perſonal injury received by the officers of the law, in the execution of their duty, may perhaps, be atoned for by ſome private compensation. I conſider nothing but the wound, which has been given to the law itself, to which no remedy has been applied, no ſatisfaction made.
