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Title: 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
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Lighton, William Beebey, b. 1805
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Publisher: Concord, N.H., The author
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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spot, as I understood the captain and hissoldiers pursued me with rifles and pistols.But 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 prison.JNVjr 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
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LIFE OF W. B. LIGHTON. 117 was then recognizable for the act of desertion.This 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 one, when my fortitude and eve-ry feeling of my agitated soul was put to itstrial as I was ushered into the cold damp prisonof Montreal. The harsh grating of the irondoors, the massive bolts and bars by which theywere secured, and above all, the gloomy dun-geon in which I was placed, sunk my spirits in-to the depths of despondency and grief. Ad-ded to this, I was placed in a room in companywith some of the vilest miscreants in creation.Men who seemed by a long con

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