Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

EXECUTION OF O'COIGLEY.

O'Coigley, a clergyman, has been executed in Ireland for high treason.

When he arrived at Pennenden Heath, to which place he had been conveyed in the usual manner on a hurdle, he proceeded to read some latin and English prayers. After reading about five minutes, he took an orange out of his pocket, and then a penknife; but his arms being bound behind, he could not cut the orange; upon which he beckoned to a friend, who attended him, saying—" Cut this orange with my penknife : It has been said they would not trust me with a penknife; lest I should cut my throat; but they little knew that I would not deprive myself of the glory of dying in this way."He desired his friend to keep his penknife for his sake, and to hold some of the pieces of orange, all of which he ate in the course of his devotions. After he had finished the long prayer, he kneeled in the hurdle, and sung a psalm He then repeated another prayer to himself, with which he concluded —A Roman clergyman, of the name of Griffiths, who had in vain solicited him to make confession, gave him absolution. He then shook hands with all around him, and immediately ascended the platform by means of a ladder, and on being tied up to the gallows, he delivered a speech, some parts of which were very violent.