The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-10 00:00:00

Olt KOV. 16. DERBY, Nov. 7. aware of the precise manner in which he was tube ex ecuted ? which the Gentleman conversing with hint was pro , ecling to describe ; when Brandreth toll him the explanation might be spared, as he had witnessed the execution of Colonel Despard and his associates, and knew all that was to be dune. _ _ Chi the tidlowing morning the Chaplain communi. cited to Ludlam and Turner the final determination respecting them. They made no reply, nor uttotea any exelatuation. Turner looked ghastly pale ; Lutt him covered his eyes with his hand, and seemed, in the agonies of his heart, to deplore his hopeless ease. EXEC:711(01 JEREMIAD BRANDRETIL WILLIAM TURNIII, AND ISAAC LUDLAM. FOR HIGH TRUASQN. Before we detail the circumstances that attended the last awful scene of the distressing drama which ignor ance, delusion, and discontent have lately exhibited in this place, we beg leave to mention a fe . w particulars of the conduct of the wretched victims of the law on the day precrlip e ,o. the execution It will be recollected that Brandreth latterly spoke less favourably of his trial than he bud done ut first. He was heard occasionally to mutter, " Oliver has Lrought me to this." " But fin. Oliver I should not have been brought here." On Thursday morning, the Bev. Mr. Pickering said to him, that it was well known where Oliver was fin. several days before the icsurrection, and it could be proved he was not with him. He made no reply. He was then asked how he came to engage in such an enterprise. lie said he would answer no questions of that kind, and begged that he should not be troubled with any. The clergy man asked him if he felt no dread of death ',hat was now so near ; he replied " I feel . no dread." He afterwards prayed in the hearing of the clergyman, who remarked to him that he had expressed no !!tal trition on that subject. Thus he continued, ready to join in the act of religion, insensible of any remorse, and proof against all tear. At half-past 4in the af ternoon he took his usual walk. It rained pretty hea vily, and his heels were seen bare through his worn-out stockings; yet he walked backwards and forwards as if' loth his mind and his body were perfectiv at case. At the same time his features and looks had no symptom of insensibility. George Weightman was labouring slowly and heavily along, with his massy chain clinking at his heels ; the reprieved prisoners were singing hyms in the adjoining rooms; Brandreth was quite re gardless of all Turner and Ludlam declined again to move out of their cell. Ludlam's sons, his brothers, and his sister saw him flir the last time. They prayed together with an earnestness and a fervour that were quite overpower ing. They were greatly a g itated at parting. Yet Lud lam shortly afterwards said he had feared it would have been worse. Turner's brother saw him again on this day ('Thursday), and their final parting was deeply af fecting. Both Turner and Ludlam were extremely penitent. They protested they never should have mo ved in the unfortunate affair but for Bacon and Brand reth. They blamed Thomas Bacon more particularly and said they considered him as the author of all the mischief: Turner had been with Brandreth on the (hit 7th, and Bth of June. They both continued to express much anxiety that Brandreth should become penitent and sorrowful for his cruelties and bloodshed. Ludlam expressed a strong wish that the people would hereafter be submissive and obedient to the King and the laws. This morning Ludlam and Turner looked shockingly wan and spiritless. They had watched the whole night in prayer and psalm-sin g ing. ACnine the Chaplain vi sited them, and assisted them in their devotions. They afterwards continued to pray aloud till the moment of immediate preparation arrived. Their expressions were always the same :—" 0 Lord have mercy !" " 0 Lord, save my soul !" If lam on a bad foundation, upon a sandy foundation, 0 Lord, take it now away, and set me upon the rock." 0 pardon all my sins fin. the sake of thy Son, who died once for all mankind." " 0 Lord, come now with thy strength, and support my soul." While the one fervently uttered these expressions, the other kept answering " Amen." Then the other took up the prayer, and was accompanied in the same man ner by his companion. Their voices were dejected in the extreme. Brandreth slept as usual, rose in good spirits, and showed no sign of despondency or fear. From an early hour in the morning the scaffolding and dr. , p were erecting in front of the gaol, and a con siderable number of persons were collected in the street, quietly looking on, anti listening with visible alarm to each sad note of preparation. At halt' past 10 all the prisoners went up to the cha pel. Ludlam and Turner looked like walking spectres. Brandrcth slept forward firmly. All the other prisoners appeared to feel much sympathy. At the same moment the crowd without felt some trepidation on seing the horse led into the gaol that was to draw the hurdle along the yard. At half-irast 11 all the prisoners, excepting the three men to be executed, and George Weightneui, left the chapel. All held their haudkerehiefis to their eyes, and sobbed deeply. Shortly after they had come into the yard, Turner'sb:Jthar o Edward, THE NATMNAL REGIS?! lt. ribly, and was carried into a room by two men. The Chaplain tlica administered the sacrament to the four cunviets. At 1:1! precisely, Mr. Simpson, the under-sheriff, no. pcued with a few javelin men, and a considerable number of special constables. The prisoners then de scended from the chapel to the room which Brandreth and Wei , ghtaian lied occupied. Here their irons were knocked. off. Turner and Ludlam kept pniying all the while. When Lodlain's chains were knotting oil he exclaimed, ". 0 Lord Jesus, Thou art tender hearted, 0 be now my portion." At a quarter past 1.2 the hurdle was drawn up at the door of this room. It was a very simple machine, tbruied of a few boards nailed upon twO . long beams. Brandreth came out first, and, while placing himself' on the hur dle, said " Some oue hold me, lest I fall off." A man held him while the horse was driven slowly round the yard. He nodded to the several prisoners as he passed along. William Turner was next drawn on the hurdle.— When he came close by the ether prisoners they all screamed and wept most bitterly. When Isaac Lud lam was placed on the hurdle, ho .clesped his hands and raised a fervent look towards Heaven. The pri soners cried out still more bitterly. Turner and Lila him kept their eyes shut while on the hurdle. Bran dreth and Turner were kept in a narrow passage of the gaol till Ludlam joined them. He seeing them stand there, asked if he might not walk tligrelbr a little.— Turning to the Chaplain he said, "Atu remember what I mentioned to you," (we believe something. rtlatim , to his fitmilv.) They then proceeded immediately in the this same order to the scaffold. Brandreth looked. coolly around upon the immense multitude of spectators, and m a loud and firm voice said, " God be with you all and Lord Castlereagh." lie stood resolute and silent while the executioner adjusted the rope round his neck. Turner came out next, and advanced with unusual firmness of step. While the executioner was putting the rope round his neck, he exclaimed loudly ,and distinctly, " This is all Oliver and Government." The Chaplain at this moment came in front of these two, and prevented any further observations. Isaac Ludlam came. out last, and when the rope was applied to his neck, devoutly said, " I receive this at the hand of the Lord:" then raising his voice to a loud er pitch he prayed thus :—" 0 may my soul now tow er up to glory. 0 may I now go where angels and saints worship thee. May I meet this great concourse of people in Heaven. 0 Lord I pray for high and low, rich and poor, bond and free. May this awful dispensation of thy providence be sanctified." Here the Chaplain's voice in prayer having become louder than 'Ludlam's, Ludlam ceased to use any expressions of his own, and joined the Chaplain by repeating, " Amen" to every particular petition. They all repeated the Lord's Prayer very distinctly, and immediately afterwards the drop tell. _ _ . Brandreth appeared perfi..ctly composed during the whole time. He held a black silk handkerchief (the mine which he had worn at the trial, and which had just been taken from his neck) in his clasped hands while at their last devotions. This he held exactly in the same manner after life forsook his frame. He dropped finite still, and seemed dead at once. His beard, which remained untouched, looked very frightful from underneath the white cap that was drawn over his face. Turner, too, seemed sufficiently firm in his last mo ments, and died quietly. Ludlam while prayin ,, , im mediately before the drop fell, was visibly agitated, and seemed to die with much pain, for he was repeatedly convulsed after he had been thrown off: The drop fell a quarter before I, and at a quarter past 1 they were cut down. Their coffins were piled upon the scaffold. The block, a long piece of timber, supported at each endb y pieces a fiat high. and having a small cog laid across the upper end of it, on which the neck of the hotly was to he placed, was placed at the extretnity of the seadeld. Two axes and two knives, were at the same time exhibited. Some saw dust was then strewed on the scatibld. Tho crowd, considerably more than 6,000 persons, kept together all this time. Bran dreth's body Is as then laid upon the block, with the !lice downwards, and:the head towards the street, in full view of the people: the scaffold not being more than ten feet from the ground. The executioner raised the axe and struck at the neck with all his tbrce. At that instant there was a burst of horror from the crowd. The exe cutioner then took up the head, and holding it by the hair addressed the people, " Behold the head ofJere mialt Brandreth, the traitor." Hitherto the multitude had bean quiet and motionless. The instant the head was exhibited, there was a tremendous shriek set up, anti they ran violently in all directions, as it' under the impulse of sudden phrenzv. Those that resu nied their stations groaned and hooted. The javlin men and constables were all in motion, and a few dragoons. who had been ststiotml at both ends of the street, drew nearer with drawn swords. But all became immediate lv calm. ‘'ery few of the immense multitude now re mained, anti these looked quietly on while the heads of Turner and Ludlam were successively exhibited in the same way. The heads anti bodies were then thrown into the coffins, And all the vetaturs dispersed. REVIEW OF LITERATURE. Narrative of a Voyage in his Ittfleisfis late Ship Al ceste, to Me Yellow Sea, along. the Coast (4' the Corm, and through itssatmeroashithertonudiscw rie d Islands, to the Island of Lined:eta, Wit Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gasp BY JOHN hi'LEOD, SURGEON OF THE ALCESTE. (etwriulalfruns °lark:S.) W ::N the Natives of the island of Lewehew had sa. tislied yes that there was nothing hostile towards them connected with the arrival of the Alceste and Lyra, they readily acceded to Captain Maxwell's re quest to be allowed to retain in the harbour a length of time sufficient to repair the vessels, and to be sap. plied with water and provisions, payment for which should be made, The supply of both, and indeed of every thing necessary, was abundant, but they would receive no payment whatever. It being requisite to have some accommodations on shore flu the rope. makers, smiths, carpenters, &c. this was hinted to them ; but they desired that nothing of the kind might be attempted till the king's pleasure should be known; in compliance with this, nothing was done, cscry one remained on board till the 2:2a, when the Captain was infOrmed that a distinguished personage intended pay. ing him a visit. " At the mouth of a little ricer, in front of which we were anchored, we observed this chief embarking amidst a great concourse of people. He was saluted on his approach with three gums from each ship, sod received on hoard with every mark of respect. He was a Mall about sixty years of age, with a venerable beard ; his dress a purple robe, with very loose Metres, and fastened round his middle with a sash of red silk 1 he had sandals on his feet, with white gaiters, not unlike short stockings. His cap (the badge (Whim dignity) was made of some slight material, twisted 'math into folds, and covered with a light purple coloured silk. He had a on. merous suite with Idol ; some Were official people of different ranks, and the rest his personal attendants. Here the occa sion of our visit was again discussed; the pumps were set to work to shew the effect of the leak ; and promises, on their past, remewed,of every assistance. " Although they had not heard from the king on the sob. jeet of our coming on shore, and notwithstamling it was con. nary to a genet al rule for any stranger to land II pun their coast, yet a few of the ‘;fficers were always is 011ie to walk about o Ohm eel tido bounds. After pal taking of a very handsome entertainment, he took his leave, the captain promising to re • tarn his visit. At one o'clock on the following day the boats were manned, and Captains Maxwell and Hall, with several of the officers in full on,form, proceeded into Napa-kiang. " At the lauding place, the party were met by some o f t h e chiefs, who hail been most it: the habit of visiting the ships, each of whom, taking one of the officers by the hand, led him through us immense collection of spectators to the gate of a public building, where the old gentleman already mentioned attended to welcome them into the house. Here an enter tai 1111 l ent was served up which a pastry-cook, or connoisseur in eating might describe; bUt which to another might be a difficult task. The utmost good humour, however, prevailed,, and a liqueur (chazzi) something like rosolio, was passed round in abundance, so that it was quite a loan's owe fault if he was Dot cheerful. " Many loyal and ft iendly toasts, applicable to both coon.. tries, were given and drank with enthusiasm. As they had hitherto generously supplied the ships with fresh provisions, vegetables, atid Enid, sod constantly reinsert any kind of payinebt, either in money ur by way of barter, the captains thought this A proper opportunity to offer, as a mark of their personal regard, some presents to the chiefs, consisting of various wines, cherry brandy, English broad cloths, a tele. scope, and other things ; and on this ground only they were accepted, reserving it to themselves, at the same time, to make what personal return they might think proper to this interchange of friendship. " At the run of this conference, when it was proposed to take a walk over the city, a consultation %t is held 4isiong them; when the request was mildly declined, supposed to be through the influence of Buontsparte, a man of dark and pe. culler aspect, so named because lie was suspected of being the must incluied to keep us at at [ifs lenglii,) stating, they were afraid sonic bad people might be induced to treat tit with disrespect. It was evident they hail not the power, without higher authority, to admit us to liver ricers; tUr the people tbemsclve•, almost without exception, appeared by this :Mae to have no appi ehension about our motives. After much hilaiity the party took their leave, attended the saute way as on landing. •' It was M otthy of notice bow much regularity and deco rum existed among so many thousands as were here collected. A lame Was formed, on the inner side of which the smallest boys (generally kneeling) were placed; aitothyr row squatted behind these ; (hell the men (thou: nearest stooping a tittle); and outside the still taller p,•upie.or those mutinied on stones, ; so that all, without bustle or coolusion, might have a conipkte view of the sitmagers. The utmost silence reigned, and nut a whisper was health Perhaps tl:ey had I tnpose.y sent their women out of the way, but the ladies managed kits usual) to outwit them, and to gratify curiosity, in defiance of eve' y precaution to the contrary. A number of them had either been placed intentionally ou the min ,side oi the river, or left nitre in consequence ot all the men haying collie ucer to the silOW ; but the boats, in Ainug out, had to pass %attain a few yards of their pier -head; when, finding Iltem.•elves ut almost exclusive possession of that bank, they tell tite.r sn,:- n•n, on a bill, ran down to the point, and hail then p.e l •, whilst their t tends t u the opposite shore were un mid if been their intention, to keep them in the tack aronsto. " About this period a mutual friendship bewitt es...l‘. be tween tis ; coundence took place of timidity ; and it %%, stead of permitliug only a few to *isit the Ault at a tone, 'Ile: tatted up the golden of a temple as .tent of general for us: the habitations of the pries:s wen• atiotted rs .w loispiial fur the sick, whilst oth.r t. :rotary boildines bamboo *vete et ected for the reception powder, sib:. requited ai: mg. and for various at ~s w.aittts 4 insi.t...t .1. aid tepau. "The rope-makers, smiles , and usher al .I..re. weir established at a couvem. tit spur, About a mits. Moog the beach. They con, aim u it,, t. 1,1141 suppmt•s, ing us even fresh water on board in then boats ; and , t Standing we requited some wood for spars, they tel.. Gees, ❑oated them dowil We river, and towed them ..:43 317