"The soldiers were next day publicly thanked by a letter from the
Secretary-at-War in his master's name. McLaughlin, who actually killed
the inoffensive Allen, was withdrawn from justice and could never be
found, so that though his two associates Donald Maclaine and Donald
Maclaury, with their commanding officer Alexander Murray, were
proceeded against for the murder, the prosecution came to nothing and
only contributed to heighten the general discontent."
With respect to the monument in St. Mary's, Newington, I extract the
following from the _Oxford Magazine_ for 1769, p. 39.:--
"Tuesday, July 25. A fine large marble tombstone, elegantly finished,
was erected over the grave of Mr. Allen, junr., in the church-yard of
St. Mary, Newington, Surry. It had been placed twice before, but taken
away on some disputed points. On the sides are the following
inscriptions:--
_North Side._
Sacred to the Memory of
William Allen,
An Englishman of unspotted life and amiable disposition, [who was
inhumanely murdered near St. George's Fields, the 10th day of May,
1768, by the Scottish detachment from the army.][1]
"His disconsolate parents, _inhabitants of this parish_, caused this
tomb to be erected to an only son, lost to them and the world, in his
twentieth year, as a monument of his virtues and their affections."
At page 53. of the same volume is a copperplate representing the tomb. On
one side appears a soldier leaning on his musket. On his cap is inscribed
"3rd Regt.;" his right hand points to the tomb; and a label proceeding from
his mouth represents him saying, "I have obtained a pension of a shilling a
day only for putting an end to thy days." At the foot of the tomb is
represented a large thistle, from the centre of which proceeds the words,
"Murder screened and rewarded."