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A Habeas Corpus was moved for in the King's Bench by
Curran, to be directed to the keeper of the Provo :
but
Tone
died, having contrived to loosen the bandages round his neck
placed th. -I-.; hy Surgeon Lentaigne.
Haliday, who was at this time a boy and well remembered
both Lentaigne and Sandys, often heard his father tell, that
while Wolfe Tone was thus lying between life and death,
Sandys would say to Lentaigne.
"
Lentaigne, I will hang
your patient to-morrow morning his neck is well enough
for the rope." "No, no, you must not stir him," said Lentaigne,
adding in his broken English, "
By Gar, if you do, I will not
be answerable for his
"
life ! Grim jokes that best bespeak
the violent passions prevalent at that period of blood and
terror.
Mr. William Haliday passed the closing years of his life
at a villa called Mulberry-hill, still to be seen, at the west
end of the village of Chapelizod, and was buried in the graveyard
of the old church there, where may be seen his tomb-
stone, a large horizontal flag near the east window, with the
following epitaph : "Beneath this stone lie the earthly
remains of William Haliday, Esq., late of Arran-quay, in the
City of Dublin, who died the 7th day of September, 1830,
aged 76. Also of his sister, Margaret Haliday, spinster, who
died the 30th of March, 1836, aged 83."
William Haii- Charles Haliday's eldest brother was named William.
Lord Norbury, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was his
godfather, and having given the patent office of Filacer in
the Court to his eldest son, the Honorable Daniel Toler, he
made him appoint William Haliday his Deputy.
But the office being one of routine, he probably gave up
his leisure more to literature than to law. He could not
otherwise have made himself so distinguished a name as a
man of erudition, dying as he did at the early age of twenty-
four.
He had a passion for languages, and to the ordinary
subjects learned at schools, such as Latin and Greek, he