escape out of the Tower, speak him to be master of more penetration than many of those whose characters suffer no blemish as to their understandings.’ [Sidenote: _MILITARY WITNESSES._] When Patten retired, the audience felt that the chief actor had left the stage, and that he had not come up to the general expectation. The officers of the royal army succeeded him. Lord Forrester (being a lord, he was ordered rather than allowed, to be seated on a chair) deposed that in the attack on Preston, his regiment alone had thirty men killed and forty wounded. On entering the place, he found the lords at the _Mitre_ tavern, where he disarmed them, Wintoun delivering up his pistols. General Carpenter, who had been summoned at the earl’s request, spoke to the attack and surrender. It was then seen why he had been called by the earl,――who asked the very absurd question,――if _he_ had had anything to do with the capitulation. Carpenter replied that Wintoun did not directly and personally interfere, but that he was included under the general treaty. Carpenter positively declared that he had held out no hope to the rebels that surrender would necessarily ensure the safety of their lives. When General Wills came forward to add his testimony, the attention of the audience was deepened, to hear if, on the last point, he would corroborate General Carpenter, and the audience must have been satisfied that no assurance of mercy was held out even to induce the Jacobites to surrender. General Wills deposed that when the first overture was made, by Mr. Oxburgh (an Irish ex-officer), sent out by Forster, the former offered that the force in Preston should lay down their arms and submit; and he expressed a hope that General Wills would ‘recommend them to the king’s mercy.’ ◆[Sidenote: _THE SURRENDER AT PRESTON._]◆ On this, Wills refused to treat at all with rebels who had slain the king’s subjects; but, on pressure of appeal to his sense of honour and feelings of mercy, he, Wills, agreed that if the rebels would surrender at discretion, ‘he would prevent the soldiers from cutting them to pieces.’ It was while these terms were under consideration that the Earl of Derwentwater and Mr. Mackintosh were sent to the English camp, as hostages, that nothing might be carried on for future furtherance of the defence, while the terms were being considered. At seven o’clock in the morning of the next day, Forster sent notice of their willingness to surrender at discretion. Mackintosh, standing near Wills, expressed his doubt of the Scots consenting to surrender on such terms. The negotiation was then, temporarily, broken off, but, at last, the surrender at discretion was made and accepted. Wills reiterated that no hope of mercy was held out to induce them to yield the place and themselves. Patten, in his ‘History of the Rebellion,’ states, in confirmation of the above, that he ‘heard the answer which Colonel Cotton, whilst he was at the