The National Register. — London, England, 1820-05-07 00:00:00

He looked round upon the crowd, and bowed twice. His demeanour was serious 3htl becoming his situation. There was the usual expression of dejection on his coon tenancy. While the final arrangements were making by the e xecutioner, Mr. Cotton stood beside the wretched 111311, and continued exhorting him to pray, and also pot some questions which could not be dis tinctly heard; but were understood to he, if he repented of his crino s t he exclaimed several times, "No ; not at all !" lle was also heard to say, " 1 shall soon know the last grand secret." Tidd was the next brought out. lie ran swiftly up the steps, and bowed around, with a hardened smile There w.s a partial cheering when he made his appear ance. logs then came out. The conduct of this man was truly horrible. The moment he had taken his station, he moved his head to and fro, and cried " hum" seve ral times He then commenced singing, "0, give lute death or liberty'!"—liere there was a partial cheerio!: from a few ragamuffins on the roof of an opposite house. He continued now and then exclaiming—'• Here we go, my lads—you see the last remains of James logs— remember I the the enemy of tyranny, and would sooner die in chains than live in slavery." ‘Vhen Mr. Cotton addressed lion, lie said lanahingly, " I am not atraul to go before God or man ;" then addressing himself to itte executioner, he exclaimed, " Now,Ohl Maio, 1111151) wd tidy !—Put the halter a little tighter, it may slip!" lie then, as well as he could, waved a hankerchiel, and sari he hoped Mr. Cotton would give him a good caaramer. Just belire the rope was adjusted, he said to an officer, " Give lily respects to George, and tell him I go out of the world wiltiont any animosity towards him. I never intended him aitv harm." He asked if this was the gal lows on which people were visually hanged, and observ ing the (Mims, said—" I suppose there are for us."—He requested that an officer would desire Mr. Harmer to publish his defence. Davidson, tie Mall of colour, and Brunt, came out last. The betias our of the former presented a gratoy ing contrast with that of his companions. His deport ment was mild, yet fine, and he prayed with great fer vency. When he stepped on the scaffold, he said to those widths, " God bless you all! good bye." lie joined in the Lord's ['raver, and said, " God bless the King!" He repeatedly expressed great penitence for his crimes Brunt said very little, but was as hardened as any of the rest. He said just before he Cattle out, that he had mu staid:box, but he had some snuff in nis waistcoat pocket, and requested some sunnier by to get some out for him, as his hands were tied. 'This was done with great coolness. He said he wondered where they would put him, that he supposed it would be somewhere that he would sleep well He added, that lie would ainake a present of his body to King George the Fotlftil. Thistlewood, just before he was turned off, said, in a low tone to a person under the scaffold—" I have now but a few moments more to live, and I hope the world will think that 1 have at least been sincere in my en deavours " 'raid said to Ings, about the same moment—" How are ye My ilearty r About six minutes after eight the signal was given by Mr. Comm, and the unhappy men were launched into eternity. Thistlewood died almost without a struggle. !nos struggled extremely, and appeared to suffer much. It is a remarkable tact that just as the fatal signal was about to be given, logs was observed to join Davidson in prayer. When the bodies had been suspended exactly half an hour, the executioner and an assistant appeared on the scaffold to prepare for the revolting ceremony of decapi tation. Thistlewood was the first cut down, and being placed with his head on the block, all eminent medical professor, it ttaS supposed, disguised in a rough jacket and trowsers, and a mask on his face, appeared with an amputating knife, and in a few moments die head was severed front the body, and given to the exectaitnieCs assistant, who held it up by the hair, and turning north and south, aml t hen to the front of the scaffold, exclaimed three times. "This is the head of Arthur Thistlewood, traitor." The body with the head was then placed on a coffin. 'lite sauce ecremoity was perlormed with Tidd, Ings, Davidson, dud Brunt, in succession. 'lire opera lion was perform d won ,teat skill, and it; as slim'. a time as possible. The operator was loudly hissed glad groanea at by the mob, and stone atrocious expressions vs eri applied to hits. The I.lllllCrsai ace past by some fcuwle shrieks, Ilell he first coinmenced upon Thistlewood, Lad at. .rntul cilver. Tue bodies were 5000 altta r. nun , • room iu tut, prison. When in ins firs. appea. C4l upuu tin scan": there *t n, Ulatie whitai the troopsstatioliili in the a ,xis drew as close as possible 10 Ha pla• e i Tne Lord Mayor was at the Lon don eio reaniness to g o e his assistance in case of . placards were prepared, on which was prints, , if oilier, the Riot Act has ()CCU read , disperse i,. .. rely." These were to have been exlii bited to t, amwd it there had been any necessity ha reading the Riot Act, but we are happy to state Ilist titL was not the slialvest 'rube:intro of disorder amoopt ii people, and tom they rlis a ersed quietly when the dre,ol ful scene had finally closed. We regret to odd, however, that a serious aceitle. occurred by the falling of it part of the railing of St Sepulchre's clout:la i u which a great nuntherof people both sexes had daubed. Several were so erely halt, and It was reported that two woolen were killed, but we could not ascertain he mall of to is. It was a matter ot much surprise that Jig cat taorthu.,iv n umber or women, some well drt4sed, were present si tots most awitt THE NATIONAL REGISTER. sap for the laws of tyrants have parted us for ever. My dear, this is the last time you will ever hear from me. I hope you will perform your duty without delay, which is for the benefit of yourself and children, which I have explained to you before.— My dear, of the anxiety and regard which I have for you and the children, I know not how to explain myself; but I must die according to law, and leave you in a land full of corruption, where justice and liberty have taken their Right from. to other distant shores. My dear, I have heard men remark that they would not marry a widow, not without her husband was hanged. Now my dear. I hope you will bear in mind that the cause of my being consigned to the scaffold was a pure motive. " I thought I should have rendered my starving fellow-men women and children, a service ; and my wish is, when you make another choice, that this question you will put before you tie the knot. My dear, it is of no use tbr me to make remarks respect ing my children. lam convinced you will do your duty as tar as lies in your power. My dear, your leaving me but a few hours before 1 wrote these few lines, I have nothing more to say.— Farewell, farewell, my dear wife and children, for ever. Give my love to your mother and Elizabeth. I conclude a constant lover to you and your children, and all friends. I die the saute, but an enemy to all tyrants. " JAMES INGS." " P. S. My dear wife, give my love to my father and mother, brother and sisters, and aunt Mary, and beg of them to think nothing about my unfortunate flue, for 1 am gone out of a very troublesome world, and Mope you will let it pass like a auminer cloud over the earth. " Newgate, four o'clock, Sunday afternoon, April 30, 1820. TO HIS DAWIITEIIS. " To my dear llaughters,—MY dear little girls, receive my kind love and atilt:don. once more, for ever, and adhere to these my sincere wishes, and recollect, though in a short time, you will have nothing more of your tither. Let me entreat you to be loving, kind, and obedient to your poor mother, and strive all in your powers to comfort her, and assist her whilst you exist in this transitory world, and let your conduct througnout life be that of virtue, hon es ty, and industry ; and endeavour to avoid all temptation, and at the same tint.: put your trust in God. 1 hope unity peace, and concord will remain amongst you all. Fare. well, farewell, my dear children, your untbrtunate tither. "To Wm. Stone hags and his tasters. " JAMES I NGS." - TO HIS SON. " My little dear boy, Win. Stone Ings, I hope you will live to read these few lines when the remains of yr. poor father is mouldered to dust. My dr. boy, I hope you will bear in mind the unforte. end of your father, and not place confidence in any person or persons whatever ; fur the deception, the corruption, and the ingenuity in man lamat a loss to comprehend—it is beyond all calculation. My dear boy, I hope you will make a bright man in society ; and it appears to me the road you ought to pursue is, to be holiest, sober, industrious, and upright in all your dealings : and to'ilu unto all men as you would wish they should do unto you. My dear boy, put your trust in one God ; and be cautious of every shrewd, designing, flattering tongue.— My dear boy, be a good, kind, and obedient child to your poor mother, and comfort her, and be a loving brother to your sisters. My dear boy, I sincerely hope and trust you will regard these, my last instmetions.--1 r. loving and unforte. father. •' JAMES INGS." " Newgate, Sunday night, eight o'clock, April 30, lb.X." FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. C. Kennard, Pett, Sussex, tailor. BAN K ItUPTS. W. G. Cook,. High Street, Shadwell, optician. Solicitor, Mr. Partington, Dyer's Buildings, Holborn. T. Lynn, Jerusalem CAW House, Coenhill, merchant. Sol. Mr. Wilde, College Hill. T. J. Guuston, Liverpool, merchant. Sol. Mr. Brooke, Li verpool. D. Wilson and A. Gresdale. Manchester. linen drapers. Sols. Messrs. Willis and Co., Warntind Court, Throgmortun Street. S. Perry, Liverpool, merchant. Sole. Messrs. Lowe and Bower, Southampton Buildings. J. Hardman, Spotland. Lancashire, cotton spinner. Seas. Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple. J. 1,. Gandcrton, Pershore, Worcestershire, plumber. Sols. Messrs. 'turd and Johnson, Temple. W. Clark, South Shields, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. Bell and Brudrick, Bow Church Yard. J. Bourke, Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, wine merchant. Sols. Messrs. Reardon and Davies, Corbel Court, Gracechurch Street. R. Mathewman, Leeds, merchant. Sols. Messrs. ltobinson and Burrows, Austinftiars. DIVIDENDS. May 47, N. Evans, Cheapside, silk manufacturer-9, S. Hue. Tell, Minories, corn dealer-6, 11. Hodgson, Fleet Street, oilman —47, C. Pruitt, Birmingham, glover-50, J. Suywell, 'Maccles field, and It. Kirkman, Wood Street, Cheapside, silk manutac • turers-45, T. Fisher. Batty Mills, Yorkshire, oil crusher—al, G. Bayley, J. James, and 3. Scholes, :Manchester, fustian manutacturers-25, M., J., and IL Griffith;, Bristol, masons -96. P. Bass. Ashborne, Derby, dealer-47, J. Pitcher, Back Hoed. St. George's, bricklayer-30,1. Kohler, St. Swithitt's Lane, Lombard Street,inerchant-50, W. 'rez well, Drury Lane, elteesemonger-27, .1. Cowan, Union Street, Somers Town, cabinet ma ker-27, T. I'. o,:kley, Ealing, br:wer-27, T. Stan ton, Drury Lam', cheescitionger-47, It. H. :41rrell. Kirby Street, Hatton Cz:den, prince: -43. T. and W. Jackson. Liverpool, merchants-44, .1. Iluddon, North Shields, ship owner-23, C. Chink, Portsea, ironmonger—lune 3, T. H. liaise and 'l'. D. Meriton, Maiden Lime, Wood Street, Cheap bide, button manufacturers. cll.:tau:lc: 1 / 4 1.Es to he graned May '25. T. ;Mellish, New Kent Road, ship owner—W. 11. and C. Bar nanl, Liverpool, merchants—J. Littltwood, Manchester, dealer —.I. Gaunt, Arniley, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer—J. Par• mer, Skinner Street, victualler—J. Goldin , Colchester, tanner —G. Woodhead, North Anston, Yorkshire. starch manufacturer —T. Booker, Emsworth, Southampton, Harrison, Yeldersley, Derbyshire. dealer—J. Makeeti, Liverpool, livery gable keeper—W. Turner and J. North, Moil Green, York, fancy clothiers. Saturday cve►:ing live fellows were surprised who got into an empty house near the Five Fields, Chel sea, who had stripped the roof of a quantity of lead. Two of them escaped, but by the activity of the neighbours the remaining three were taken into custody. It was evidently the determination com pletely to gut the house, as the window sashes of the shop were taken down for the purpose of re moval. A curious discovery has been made since it u;:s determined to remodel the Crown. Several of the large gems, we have not heard how many, turn out to he paste. It is supposed thut this fra,' was coal • the OLD BAILEY, Friday, May 5. 151 DARING AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—FraIICIS Fee. derick Pitt, William Prussia, Thomas Dodd, James Simpson, awl John Hewitt were indicted for stealing 130 yards of woollen cloth, the property of John Thome* Dolin and his Copartners, and nine yards of cloth, the property of John Arlington and Janie. Smith. Al tchael Franklin was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have beets sullen. Mr. Andrews appeared for the prosecution„ and Messrs. Alley, Adolphus, and Arabia for the prisoners. 1 t appeared in evidence, that the prosecutors, Messrs. Dolan, are cloth dealers, in Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn fields. About three o'clock on the mottling of Feb. 2.9, a watchman near the warehouse saw two or three men lurking near the place, and also saw a coach with yel low 'moods standing in Whetstone Park close by. He suspected and watched the motions of these men, who moved towards the prosecutor's warehouses, but hobo: he could reach them, they returned, and ran into Whet stone Park, and the coach drove off. He examined the outer warehouse, and fouod the dour had been forced open and several rolls of cloth lying in the passage as if dropped in consequence of some alarm. lie sprung his rattle, and the coach was pursued, but without success. About aquarter past six o clock the same morning the hackney coach, drivel, by the prisoner Hewitt, was seen by a boy going through Dorset Street, Spitallields. 'Cite coach stopped at the entrance of Little Paternoster-row, where the prisoner Franklin resided as a broker. Hewitt jumped down and held the coach door open while the iOur passengers alighted, and taking three tolls of cloth from the coach, conveyed them into Franklin's house. The boy told what he had seen to Nit.. Gregory, a neighbour, who sent a inesseuger for some police officers, and went himself to Franklin's where he saw Put, Prussia, Dodd, Simpson, and Franklin, sit ' ting together, and the cloth lying on the floor.— The moment they saw him, the four first prisoners ran into a hack yard. lii a short time the officers arrived, and Put, Simpson, and Prussia were secured, after some resistance, anti Dodd escaped over the wail, but was subsequently apprehended, alter knockinK down two persons who attempted to stop num. They were conveyed to the watch-house;. and on searching them, a tinder-box, some pick-lock keys, and center bits were found. On Simpson also was Mond a piece of list, which had evidently been cut from the cloth in question. On enquiry by the officers,. the robbery at Messrs. Dolan's was ascertained, and Mr. John Dotati, on seeing the cloth, immediately identified it as that whicit had been stolen front the warehouse. Franklin was not taken into custody at the time, but was ordered to NV ori.hip•street Office to give evidence, when the Nlagistrates thought proper to-commit hint as the re ceiver. lie said when Mr. Gregory went into his house first, that he had been knocked up by Put, who was the son of a former toaster of Isis, and that lit had no knowledge that the goods were commg there, or front ' whence they were lnouglit. Nine witoessses of the most respectable description gave Franklin a good character. Persons were also called for the other prisoners. The Jury found all the proners—Gasilty. The Common Serjeant, in pastimg sentence observed, that this was on: of the worst cases that had.coine. un der his cognizance for a great many years, and it was much to be lamented, for the sake 01 the public, that the indictment was not laid as it certainly ought to have been, fur the capital offence of burglary. His Lordship then sentenced Pitt, Prussia, Dodd, Hewitt, and Simpson, to seven years, and Franklin to fourteen years' transportation. Thomas New was convicted of stealing a large quan tity of liquorice root from the grounds or Mr. Moore, of Mitcham, Surrey. The particulars of this case have been reported from the Police Ojice. The prisoner was sentenced to Seven years transportation. Thomas Matthews was convicted of stealing sonic articles of plate, from tlie house of a gentleman la Wo burn Place, Russel: Square, and sentenced to the like punishment. Coltorerso's INQUEST.—On Tuesday night an Inquest was held at the workhouse of St. Giles's in the Fields, on the body of Edward Groom, who put a period to his existence by coning Ins throat. It appeared by the evidence of John King, who is I;milnan to a gentleman, residing, at No. 95, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury, that the deceased cattle-about six o'clock on Sunday motility. to his master's house and rung we bell; he o i teoed me dour, and, found the deceased there. He (the deceased) asked him to let I a letter, and he took min into Use kitchen. The deceased wrote his letter, and carne into the pantry, and asked him for a scaler and sonic beer, as he was in a great bony. He took a non; for the purpose of. getting the deceased the beer, and went o u t of the pantry. The dece.ised shot the door anti lucked it. He reitirned to the dour and en deavoured to force it open, but could he then opened ttcu dours which led to the back area, and saw the uereti.aed througn the w:111:0w, with his coat and waistcoat oil and his shirt coiiar munitioned, with a car ving knife in his baud, cutting his throat. He wps very [notch disarmed, and eau Up st ors and informed his master. They then went to the wmtlow, aunt deceased appeared staggering and almost exhatisicd. His master then sent for an officer, who directly broke a pane of glass anti unfasteueil the window, got into the room and un locked the dour; he there found the deceased had made use of ',hive knives, (a 510411 table knife, and two carving knives,) and Ile also Mond a lever written by the de 'eased. - " , tied with blood. Ile tit( -in for a surgeon, 11 , M.: /,, ,-. aw a.. o tart .. ...t• 6gsas. . . The following- are copies of three letters sent by . 'ted as tar back as the time of Ch .tries 11. ceased, coveted with blood. Ile then sent fora surgeon, drags. They will, we have no doubt, be hiA milted ue- who came WIOIIII three minutes, but 5341 he was too e? MR. Counm.—Mr. Cobbett was surrendered in far gone for him to do any good. The Jury returned a ceptable to our readers:— execution to the King's Ben c h on S a turday last, in verdict—" that the deceased cut his own throat in a state TO WS WIFE. " My dear Celia..l hardly know how to begin, or 'what to discharge of his bail in an action 14 debt. of temporary derangement." —._: