A few days after, on Monday, the 14th of May, Colonel Oxburgh was executed at Tyburn. From the time he was sentenced till he died, the gallant soldier behaved with unostentatious bravery. ‘To give the Colonel his Due,’ says the ‘Mercurius Politicus,’ against which no charge of sympathy will lie, ‘his Behaviour was very composed, and though decently Bold, yet very Serious and Religious in his Way. It is reported,’ adds ‘Mercurius,’ ‘that he fasted the day before his execution, and that all the prisoners who were Romans did the like for him; and then sent him word, they would come and visit him, if he pleased; but he thanked them, and declined it, desiring to be alone in his preparations. He was drawn in a sledge, with a book in his hand, on which he fixed his eyes, without once looking up till he came to the place of execution. When he was in the Cart, he applied himself immediately to his private devotions; and afterwards delivered the following paper to the Sheriff.’ The paper here alluded to abounded in sentiments of charity. The writer died ‘a member of the Holy Roman Catholic Church,’ in charity with all men, including those who had brought him to this death, for whom he desired the blessings that he himself had missed. Oxburgh solemnly declared that his allegiance to James III. was not paid to that prince as a Catholic, but as his legitimate sovereign. It would have been rendered as unreservedly had James been a Protestant. He then expressed, without bitterness, his disappointment that England should be, as he believed, ‘the only country where prisoners at discretion are not understood to have their lives saved.’ Finally, he prayed for unity and happiness among Englishmen, whose only objects, he trusted, would soon be, the glory of God and the true interests of the nation. Noble as the sentiments of this last address of a dying man must be allowed to be, it gave great offence to the Whigs and Hanoverians. An _ultra_ among both those classes declared that ‘Lord Derwentwater’s speech and Colonel Oxburgh’s paper, both certainly came out of the same mint; for they were sent to the printer’s, both written in the same hand. So that we doubt not but that there is a common speech-maker for the party, and much good may do him with his office!’ In examining the two addresses, the ultra Whig says he is doing no wrong to the English peer or to the brave soldier, but that he is only dealing with a ‘cunning Jesuit.’ The examination of the document extends to more than five columns of a newspaper, and is in the fierce ultra-Protestant spirit of the times. [Sidenote: _A HEAD ON TEMPLE BAR._]