In spite of crowded levies at St. J—s's.
Then, while in prison Envy dooms their stay,
Here grateful Britons daily homage pay."
It is by no means necessary to trace the effects of the several balls fired upon this occasion; it will be quite enough to add that the innocent alone suffered.
To conclude the eventful story of poor Allen; his remains were deposited in the church-yard of St. Mary Newington, Surrey, where political friends honoured his memory with a handsome, if not a superb monument, thus inscribed:
North side:
"Sacred to the memory of
William Allen,
An Englishman of unspotted life and amiable
disposition,
Who was inhumanly murdered near St. George's-fields, the 10th day of May, 1768, by the Scottish detachment from the army. His disconsolate parents, inhabitants of this parish, caused this tomb to be erected to an only son, lost to them and to the world, in his 20th year, as a monument of his virtues and their affection!"
South side:
"O disembody'd Soul! most rudely driven