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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ngs of the monarch altered towards him, and those of the court of course participated in the change. Mr. Gouger was seized upon as a British spy, and upon the still graver suspicion of being the brother-in-law of the Honorable East Indian Company. The Burmese statesmen were seriously of the opinion that the H. E. I. C. had married Mr. Gouger's sister. On these charges, he was hurried into captivity, exchanging his sumptuous fare and scarlet finery (for he wore a complete harlequin suit of Stuart tartan silk, by the gracious command of his majesty,) for the unimaginable horrors of the Let-ma yoon, toung, or Death-prison, its name, being literally interpreted, signifying "Hand! shrink not," from the revolting cruelties practised within its walls. "Although it was between four and five o'clock on a bright sunny afternoon, the rays of light only penetrated through the chinks and cracks of the walls sufficiently to disclose the utter wretchedness of all within. Some time elapsed befor