Crime & punishment > Life and farewell address of Peter Aug. Heaman, who was executed at Leith, on the 9th of January last, for the crimes of piracy and murder

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11 days amongst sick men, where they died
from 50 to 100 in a day. Our child took the
infectious fever. We left this place, and after
a few days’ journey came to a town called
Crespy, where our little child died at about
two o’clock in the morning, and was buried
the same day at eight; afterwards, on that day,
we went a very long journey before we rested,
being at the time the Russian army beseiged
Meaux, 10 leagues distant from Paris. We
travelled through the whole country, until we
came to a place called D’Aublane, near Bour-
deaux, where we remained until the peace, but
in a scattered manner, a few in one village and
a few in another.
When peace took place, we were sent down
to the sea side to be exchanged ; but as I and
my wife had no certain home to go to, and
she being then near her time, we went first, as
ordered, to Calais, and then back to Longwy,
to have her bed there. From Longwy we
went to Bourdeaux ; passing through Paris,
expecting to get some employment there. At
Paris we stayed a few days with a relation of
my wife, and then proceeded to Bourdeaux.
When we got there we were greatly disap¬
pointed, for business was quite slack. Getting
no employment, I proceeded to Liverpool, and