The National Register. — London, England, 1813-01-17 00:00:00

T A 1 •, N _ • 7; __._ •.1 h r., LN i • -If A .., a . . . . ... .. +..., . .. 2 ) rl ,- .PrS were sitting 'sewn until the oath was aimitiistering, when they ' le.sing in g t neral, the greatness of h is sins, hut- without. any-allusion a!! stood up. Zachary Baiees, the buy, stood with his hack against to the crime f o r w hic h he suffered. The surrounding multitude were the de, to keep it s hut . Macdonald himself was afraid lest the evidently aßected. William Thorp pred, bu jo t in in his the voice w as as . watch and. ward should come e he, however, sat do wn, and said he not so well heasd. Smith said little, but e also ay seemed to weuld pay fur something to drink. Old Baines said he expected the tion with great seriousness. tonch and ward. and they had better go. All the prisoners but old - The prisoners were then moved to the front of the platform, and ; Baines, and Zschary Baines. weat with Macitonale to the Crispin. Mellor said, " Some of my enemies may be here; if there be. I treely Gosling, the police assistant, came in almost immediately after, am. forgive them, and all the world, and I hope the world will forgive they sat clriek ng t, gether ; lalacdonald toid Gosling, in the presence • , me." Thorpe said, " I hope no of those who are now before of the prisoners then in the house, that he had been twisted in. me, will ever come to this place." The exedutioner then proceeded A day or two afterwards they met again, when Macdonald told Goa- to perform his fatal office, and the.drop fell. They were executed i li , g, that is the old man that twisted me in. Baines sad he had, and in their irons. They appeared slightly convulsed for a few moments. put his hand up, and said, they must he cautions t h reesh they said The number of people assembled was much greater than is usual in . tha . Hush ! his eyes had been opened a matter of d twenty r York, on these melancholy occasions ; but not the slightest indication years Title was confirmed by Gosling. Alibis were set up for each 'of tumult prevailed, and the greatest silence reigned during the whole t of the prisoners, but the jury, who retired about five minutes, re- of this solemn and painful scene. turned a verdict of guilty against the five first-named prisoners ; and Such has been the issue of that fatal system, which, after having Zachary Belles, the boy, not guilty. produced in its progress great terror and alarm, and much mischief to Tuesday, James Hay, Joseph Crowther, and Natligeiel Hoyle, were the community, .has at length terminated in the death of those who tried For assaulting. putting in fear, and taking from the person of James bloom were itsmost ac tive partizans : and thus have pe . rished, in . the very Broolse, at Hudders fi eld, in the West Riding of the County of York, a of life , three young men, who, had they - directed their talents to lawful pursuits, might have lived happy and respected. They ! prouissety note, for the payment of money, namely, the sum of one . round. and so he s Ivey and copper coin, on the night of the eSnli o f • I }natures of assassins. November last. Alter a minute inveetigation, they were all found t On the tate of these malefactors, and on the dang erous tendency to guOty themselves of the association of which they were members, one obser- The tri ifs now closed ; after which two prisoners, David Moorhouse vation presents itself too important to be omitted at the close of the sad .Toliii Smith. weie arreinged upon an iinfietutetit for burglary, but melaecholy details that we have felt it to be our duty to lay below the 1 Mr. Petite said, he trusted that as the riegleaders of these deluded men public. It will from hence appear, that men confederated for the were already executed, and several others were under conviction of ca- commission of crimes, can have no wsll-rounded confidence in each heir ways, and that by the other—not even when their compact is confirmed by oaths and ce- 1 pitah felonies, they would see the error of t i merited in blood. If this be a punishment inflicted on thorns convicted , the peace and tranquillity ond f trut h of the observ ation , and the history ofe . very age a country confirms the the inference is i the county would be restored. The prisoners were t h e refore acquitted, irresistible , i that all those persons who may in future be invited to . I no evidence being offered on the part of the Crown. become members of such confederacies, should resist such invitations, The several prisnnerc, aeainst whom indictments were preferred and as they would avoid the greatest calamity ; and all those who may found, were, through the lenity of Government and the Learned Judges, have been so fat infatuated as to become membet sof such societies, and on the upplicati .n of the prig , eons ' Counsel, arid the emisent of Mr. should, from this moment, and by one common consent, desist from Parke, Counted for the Crown, admitted to bail on their emeriti , ' into taking another step in furtherance of their objects. They must now .1 . reeetheealice, the prisoners in tO)01. each, arid their bail ROI. each. see t hat they have stood on the brink of a frightful precipice, and that Mr. Baron Thompson (present Mr. Justice Le Blanc) then, in an inn' another step might have plunged them into that gut p h which has over- I whelmed thee - less fiertunate associates.—Leeds Mercury. pressive addre-s, passed sentence on the treveral prisoners. es _ — e . -- Fifteen were sentenced to Death, six to be transported for seven years, 16 were discharged ust bail, and 16 were discharged without bail. PROVINCIALS. --......—. EXECUTION of the MURDERFRS of Mr. HORSFALL, The town and neighbourhood of Langport, Somerset, have lately at YORK. been quite in confusion, occasioeet by a man having predicted the day eni hour of his dissolution. His name is Grintar, a journeyman .....or tailor. Frequently whilst sitting on the shop-board, he has informed I. erns, :(an. 9.—During the whole of the trial, and even while the his eompateens that at such an hour he should be norribly drawn, as solemn sentence of the law Was passsing, not one of the prisoners if convulsed, which never failed happening as lie had said. He has shed a tear, but their behaviour was perfectly free from aPliv indecent men) , times affirmed that an angel appeared to him, at different times, boldness or unbecoming levity. 'The proceedings of the Court were which was pretty generally believed by those who were intimately conducted with unusual solemnity, and the behaviour of the specta- acquainted with hm ;he being ►apparently a very religious man. The toss was strictly decorous and becoming. From amongst the nume- 10th of DeeeMber was the day fixed on for his death, at three o'clock us relatives and friends of the unhappy malefactors, an expression in the afternoon. He settled all his worldly atftirs, and at ten o'clock a anguish frequently reached the ear, but it was deep not loud ; an d on the morning previons to his expec ted de p arture, he was taken in that part of the auditory that was conne cted with them only by a suddenly ill at his master's house; his features became convulsed— common nature, abhorrence at their enormous crime was net un- crowds of people went to see him—those who before had given no mixed with commiseration at the premature fate of these early victims credit to what he said, now began-to believe, and the others were of a lawless confederacy. more fully convinced that his predictions were about to be verified. At the °peeing of the Court on Thursday morning, the Jury recom- At intervals he was able to talk with the multitude, and to give them Mended Thomas Smith to mercy; and an application was we under- good advice. About noon feeling himself rather better, he expressed stand, made to the Judges to have the sentenceof the law, on such of a wish to go to the house of his father, at Muchelney, about a mile the murderers as they might think proper to older for execution, car- distant, which was instantly complied with ; and he went accompa- tied into effect, not at the usual place of execution, but on the spot stied by one of his companions, and a woman, to lay him out after he where the murder was petgretrated ; but we hear, that it was not had ceased to breathe. So much was he talked of about the country, thought exoedient to comply with this application. that people came from twenty miles round to behold this wondertul 4 In the interval between the trial and execution, the prisoners be- man in his last moments. A person who was there, and troM whom hayed very penitently, though they refused to make any confession I had the account, declares that there were not less than tbree hundred either in the prison or at the place of execution. Thorpe, on being , people to see him in the course of a few hours ; so great Was the asked it he did not acknowledge the justice of his sentence, said, "Do general curiosity. 'As the rime drew nigh, several stood by him, looking not ask me any question." Mellor declared, " that he would rather at thei‘ watches.—He repeatedly enquired the time, and when at length be in the situation he was then placed in, dreadful as it was, than informed it was near three, he lifted up his hands, gave a loud grdan, have to answer for the .crime of their accuser; and that he would and fell back on the bed, to all appearance lifeless, in which state lie not change situations with him, even for his liberty and two thousand remained, the spectators trying various msthods whether he really pounds ;" but with all his resolution, he could not conceal the agonies breathed or not, as he shewed no symptom of lite, except that not the of his mind, for on the night before the execution, he fell to the ground slightest alteration had taken place in his features. At eleven oo.lock itea state of iniensibility, and it was thought he would have died in (Probably tired with so long a continuanee in the same posture) he . , his cell ; but he soon recovered, and in the morning his health was gradually opened his eyes. The witnesses expressed amazement, and perfectly restored. thought he had been in a swoon ; but he soon convinced them to the EXECUTION. c ontrary, by relating alt the conversation o hich passed between them, The execution of these unhappy men to k place Yesterday, at nine not one word of wino) had escaped him. So fully assured was h o'clock, at the ti tell prone behind the Castle, at York. Every pre- , diet he could not survive the time specified, that he had actually caution had been taken to render a rescue impracticable. Two troops given many of his timings away.—No sytnptoins of insanity had eve: of cavalry were drawn up in front of the drop, and the avenues to the appear: din him, nor was ate evev considered oilier then a religieus castle were guarded by infantry. Five minutes before nine o'clock, geod young man. Wit- n thoroughly aroused he appeared very much the prisoners came upon the platform . After' the Ordinary had read y e f, Those who had been N . /Arching by him reired te speed t :e, the accustomed forms o f prayer, George Mellor prayed for about ten iemainder of the night in dancing and drinking whilst he left the minutes—he spoke with great apparent fervency and devotion, cone it village and has never since been heard of.—(Slierburae jourgal.) 0