The Sun. — London, England, 1819-06-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION. pile rl l'is mor n i ng t h e l ast me l anc h o l y o p era ti on o f l aw was carried into effect on the following our c'nunate criminals convicted at the April Ses sions • , viz Nicholas Benign Albin (Aged 32), and Thr 'mos Jeffcott. (aged SG), for stealing letters ermlainin;,-; Bank-notes, entrusted to them in their t _ li lbaciri es as C l erks i n the G enera l P ost O ffi ce ; uharles !fright (aged 42), for a burdary under cpircuinstances of peculiar aggravation ; George i " (aged 20), for putting off a forged Bank of li I'' n gland Note for 201. to Messrs. Wood, Phil. ps, and Co.; and William Ambrose (aged 28), for Viliciously s h oot i ng .it, with intent to murder, R. lner. A few minutes before eight, Wright se ended the sca ff o ld with much fortitude, and )Dined in prayer with the Reverend Mr. Covros. i rice was the next, and Albin and Jeffcott fol rv"' ; the se t wo were atten d e d by the Rev. Mr. I 41 R, as well as the Reverend Ordinary, and ." ( incted th emse l ves i n a manne r hi g hly becom i'lg, their un h appy s i tuat i on . A m b ro s e c am e up 4 .4 : t sand seeme d to ev i nce a 'd ea l o f hardihood. ; i " a few moments spen t i n d e v o tion, the signal lea: given, the drop fell, and the unfortunate suf ,. j e rs appeared so on out of their misery.—The ` ) flaexions of Albin and Jeffcott were highly re ectable and great exertions had been made to obtain a mitigation of their sentence, but we un verstand the answer to such applications was, that " turpitude and extent of their offence preClad c the possiblity." Jeficott,,up to the ptesent ti iscov eiy, bore the most exemplary character, anti) 'vas held i n the highest esteem ; he has left 1 : e " Parents to lament his untimely end. Albin al so left a wife and infant child to bewail his : I ° 4- iinio ns departure from this world. Wright a n 3 a ° old offender, and Ambrose was a well yl,l,•wn desperate character, Price, though a b j r n g man, had long been in the traffic for which „ a;Plleited his life.—Thomas Bradbury, who was oered f or execution at the same time, received a rts Pile for 7 days late yesterday evening, CORONERS' INQUESTS. aie h ; T ERHINED SUICIDE.--Yesterdsy afternoon 'cluelq was held at the King's Arms,Chandos 36eet. on William Raymond Brotherhood, aged t ' surgeon, who cut his throat on Monday In 4,439 e-court. On Mon(Ny last the deceased went i - d t° ,: h e Coffee-room in Castle-court, and request- Grimaldi to lend him a sharp knife to rime himself, which she refused. He left the , and shortly afterwards something was 4 1," to fall, and on looking up the court, the , h . - • ee sted was dashing his head on the pavement, Iv t t ll his legs in the air ; he got up and walked on. `lieu he arrived near Mr. Donaldson's, the tia t 7 lcel. ' he moved his neck-bandlercr,ivf, and a lancet, after a sudden start round, inflicted (Ica Wound. He afterwards took off his hand e-elliet and cut his throat again, he then stag itr"l about five yards and fell back, the blood e '"g proft it was useless to render any b aerli c y 5 t a assistance. - Mr. Bell, of the Crown rise te `pl, said, the deceased had ,occupied apart \:" at his house since February last. He was Vj - ,' t imes very collected, and at other times flighty. 1 41 : "ill the last five years he had ran througl; an ' n` " u se sum, though now be was in very indi 'te • cltr umstances? His father and brother are respecta ble his Clergymen in Northamptonshire, and i n l ie and family are at Lancaster. 'When go leilo bed on Sunday night, he requested Mr. rnor ;`) look into his b e d-room the following n 'ut•'•• Witness asked," Are you going to kill Rlos/ours elf l - he replied, c. No, persons who talk t o to, °f that do it the least, but it wa,s impossible 'Y What m i g h t h appen. " H e got up t h e fol -lowitig morniog at .six o'clock, though he gene. p o I t slept till el even , an d as k e d M r . Bell if his 711 : Id hail r come (meaning shine money from *er e 4 Several pawnbrokers duplicates Pro duced. --Verdict, Insanity. - , ste r d ay afternoon, between four and five tfek 4 e k k , a Co roner ' s I nquest was h e ld on t h e b o d y to ie 7°Y, aged I I years , w h o was ran over b y t h e 12 of, a cart in High -street, Shadwell, on 11► e Next elmestlav last, and died in the London Hospi e al t iaY.--It was deposed in evidence, - hat c, e 's Playin g wi, h some boys in the middle of t n"ie street, and f a lli ng d own , t h e w h ee l s went _ v . . . 1 "'in, and caused his death. Verdict—" Ac ellital Death." At t th e f the same ti me anot h er I nquest was held at Hospital, on the body of a sailor, Vt7,::: lt ng to a vessel lying off King James's-stairs, l l P ' l 'g• It appeared in evidence that he 'Vent i i, c a tc 't ) lt, and his foot slipping, he fell on the pi to Was so bruised that he died in the Hos tile next day. Verdict— " Accidental death." . . ir on C Qf 4l '"l.z. i 3 ex p ecte d to se ll h i s usual proPor , Capit a l s To-Mortaow, when ALL th e Lot lLY ' 4•11 b e d rawn. This is the Smallest Lottery ‘yt evet contained Two Prize of 030,0001 ! I 1., • 706 , a P r i ze of Twenty Thousand Guineas . .. ,, Iris "'l by CARROLL, in the last Contract, at p. is (.Ivortunate Offices No. 19, Comilla, and '2o, "'llford -street. ' 1 1 , 8 , ‘lntiati DEATn.—Ori Wednesday last, Mis li,"!Edelt, proprietor of the Marine Library and -dtta n . i . Ii °ate was tiding oat in a itoi t.,- louse, Rams •, P 0 IkeY'Cliai;;e,•and being overtaken by a heavy zilower, directed the driver to make for Brom °tie House, the seat of Geoige Hannan', Esci. lith en ;1• she was t a k en suddenly ill, and before me -7 3 1c41 aid or a c onveyance from Ramsgate could e (,?btained, she expired. losi l . :scope of Campbell j; onz Wigton Goal.—The Aoner's brother, dressed in lernale attire, to it4:Qter with some women, paid him a visit abont f r L l `r O'clock on Thursday last. In the absence of (,:." cosier, the Iwo brot hers, It h o resemble each 4itt,,,_,',,ex.thanged ielothes, and on the re-appear tii" (it the gaoler s wile to let out the visitors, j::b aletomorphosed lair one %valise(' off with the •Itest decency and deliberation along %vitt) her vo "'IC compinions leavin g the brother in the rioce t:f the ' ' It er , u , .., l'r"oller. The deception was disco -4:. nuout an hour after, when people were Reed l : d c in all directions, and every exertion was . " etiect the re -apprehension of the 1" - i) ' b ut be wus of to be fuund.—(Glasg"2 °Per ) PARLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 22. The Royal Assent was notified by Commission o the Barnstaple Witnesses Protection Bill, and 'our other Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquess of Winchester, and the Bail of Shaftesbury. The Third Report of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests wac presented by Mr. Miller, and ordered to lie upon the table. The American Trade . Bill, the Poreign Enlist ment Bill, the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, and a Pri vate Bill, were brotiOlt up from the House of Commons, by Mr. Brogden, Lord Althorp, Mr. Lnwndes, and other Members, and read a fi; st time. Notice was given by the Lail SPENCRR of his intention to move the second reading of the Nor thampton Small Debts Bilkto-morrovr,'and a short conversation ensued, in which we understood the Lord Chancellor to intimate his intention of fram ing some general measure respecting the recovery of small debts. A Petition was presented by the Earl of Hann limits from owners and occupiers of land in Cam bridgeshire, complaining of the depression of agriculture, in consequence of low ,prices, and praying to be protected against the importation of foreign agricultural produce.—Ordered to lie upon the table. The Earl of LAUDERDALE gove notice .of his intention to move to-morrow the second reading of Dunn's Divorce Bill. The Cotton Factories Bill was read a third ►ime and passed. atter some observations in opposition to it front the Earl Grosvenor, who thougut it tended to convey an ujust imputation upon the manufacturers, and was not called for by the evidence respecting the actual state of the fac tories. FRAME-WORK KNITTERS. The Duke of RUTLAND. 011 moving the second reading of the . Frame-Work Knitters' Bill, ob served, that it was of vital importance to a nu merous and a very distressed class of persons at, and in the neighhonrhoodiot Leicester.. By the introthiction of a sp,rions article into the lileloll— that is to say, of stockings cnt from the web and sowed together, instead of being wove with selvages, the men employed, who could tor. merly earn 15s. a-week by working 12 hours a .day. .were now obliged to work from 15 to 16 hours per day for the small pi , tance of 7s per week. Pauperism had greatly increased, and if this measure was not resorted to, the manufac ture itself . would soon be totally ruined.. The Earl of LAUDERDALR lamented the distress of those individuals, but contended aeainst the principle ut the Bill, as highly injutious. It went to substitpite a dear article for a cheap one, and at the same time to !blow out of employment 3000 persons who were- employed in the cheap article, without any certainty that the sale of the dear article could be torced, so as to en sine the employment of these persons in its ma nufacture. The'Earl of DENBIGH maintained, that if the Bill was passed the 3000 persons employed in the spurious arliele, vt hi. would he thrown out of employ, wild he much more advantageously employel in she regular manufacture. The Earl GRosveNoß opposed the Bill, on the ground of its interference with the principle of free liihoor. The Earl of WESTMORLAND contended, that if this Bill were not past-td, the manufacture in ques-, tion must be inev,itahly ruined. Thr Earl of ROS..LYN objected to the principle of the Bill as unjust and impolitic, and contended that it would produce, in the first place, a posi tive evil, without any security that the promised good would be effected. • The House divided on the que... , tion for the se cond readihk. ' _ Contents 20—Not Contents B—Majority ti. The Bill Was read a second time. BARNSTAPLE—APPEALS. On strangers' re-admission, Lord Reits was found speaking with reference to an order made by the House for hearingevidence respecting the Barn staple Bribery Bill to-muctow moining. His Lordship urged the hardship that would ensue to the suitors in appeals, who were attending at a great expence, ,if the practice was resorted to of taking tor, other purposes the. mornings agreed to be allotted to the hearing of appeals. The LORD CHANCRLLOR expressed his perfect readiness, so tar as lie was personally concerned, to concur in any arrangement that the House thought fit, either' to hear the' evidence in the Barnstaple case in the morning or the evening, but he must be allowed time to consider of the judgments to be given_ in the appeals already heard, and it was not likely there could be much hearing of new appeals during the short remain der of the Session. The Marquess of . LANSDOWN urged the consti tutional importance of the Barnstaple Bill, which not merely affected the rights of the Electors of that Borough, but until the decision of which, the representation of the Borough in Parliament was actually suspended. It was material, there fore, that the Bill should be gone'through lietore the close of the Session. The Earl of LAUDERDALE expressed his readi-. ness to attend in the evening for the purpose of hearing the evidence on the Barnstaple Bill, in order• that the mornings might be devoted to appeals. Lord ROLLS said, he did not wish to suspend the proceedings, but was anxious that the busi ness should he , (nought forward whet, the House was more fully attended than it could be expected to be at ten o'clock in the morning. , The Earl of CAENARVON observed, ibat many witnesses were in attendance who catug from dis tant parts of the country, and that was the reason why he was anxious that the earliest opportunity should be seized to give diem an opportunity of returning home as Soon as was convenient. The LORD CHANCELLOR remarked, that the great pressure of business was such as to require that lie should have the advantage of the morn. ings of those days, which ware devoted to the heating of appeal 3, viiitout the interference of other busineSs. Atter -some further observations frotti the Mar quf.ss of LANSDoWNE and the E3rl of LAUDER DALE, it was arranged that the House would sit at ten o'clock to-mot row morning to hear evidence on the 13ill. The Scotch Saving Banks Bill went through a Com p ittce. VOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL. On the first reading of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, the Earl of SHAFTESrWRY stated, that his Noble Friend (the Earl of Liverpool) would in form the House to-morrow on what day it was his intention to move the second reading.—Ad journed, HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER acqu,,ii►ted the House, that the Royal Assent had been given by Commission in the House of Lords, that day i to several Public and Private Bills.—See Lords. The Insolvent Debtors Bill. was read a third time and passed. The Southern Whale Fishery 13111 went through a Committee.—Report to-morrow.. The House went into a Committee on the Pil charl Act.—Report to-morrow. The Report of the Parish Vestries Bill was taken into consideration.—To be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. C. WYNNE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to indemnity persons giving any evidence re specting any bribery, or corrupt, or illegal prac tices, before either House of Parliament or Com mittees thereof.—Leave given. The I'Veight of Bread Bill was read a second time.—To be committed on Friday next. The Report of the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was taken into farther consideration.—Or dered to he read a third time to-morrow. FRAUDS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE. Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY wished to call the atten tion of the House for a few moments to a subject which came home to the feelings of every man. In consequence of a petition which bad been put into his hands by a Gentleman of the name of Wilkes, from the parish of Westerham, complain ing of Abuses in the Collection of the Revenue at Seven-Oaks, he had been induced to look into the subject, when he had seen such a system of fraud and peculation was established as justified him in calling on that House to look into it, that the poor people there might not be oppressed — that the revenue might not be robbed, and that swindlers in office should not fatten on the pion- der of the country. He had early in the present' Sessions moved for papers on the subject, to which such a voluminous retort' had been made, that it became necessary to make a selection front them, and this selection, with some additions from the opposite side of the House, had been sent to a Committee. A detailed account of the proceedings which bad taken place had been ob tained froth the Board of Taxes, and this, though not furnished by the party bringing forward the accusation, but by the accused, was sufficient for his purpose. From this paper he read some ex tracts, to show that through the connivance of a person under the Commissioners, it had been con trived in almost every parish that assessments should be returned to the Treasury below thoSe given to the tax-gatherer.' This had opened a door to abuses of various kinds, which, he main tained, now called for the strictest investigation on'the.part of that House. Great deleiquency and defaulters had been proved on the part of two per'ons, whom he mentioned ; Mr. Austin be could not regard as the respectable character be had been described to be, and did not see that he was entitled to the reward he had received. Mr. Malcolm, the inspector, he considered to have participated in the frauds committed at Seven- Oaks, and for acting such a part he was now sent as inspector to the four Northern Counties, that he might abuse them in the same way. He wished to know of the Right Honourable Gentleman, whe►her any re-assessment was to take place in the parish of Westerhain. The . case he regarded as one of great hardship, and he hoped it would meet with every consideration on the part of Mi nisters. A man of the name of Bankes, a Solici tor, had had the effrontery to say that the petition which he bad presented to that House some time back was a false petition. He regretted that he had not brought that person to the Bar of the House. Such an assertion, it appeared to him, was that which ought to be punished, when it could be proved that it was wholly void of founda tion. He then noticed the hardships experienced from surcharges, and concluded by moving for a report of the Receiver-General for Bromley, Blackheath, and Dartford, for a return of the net sum or sums paid into the Exchequer, on account of the property tax, for three years, 1814, 1815, 1816, and also accounts of the sums paid to. Mr. Rogers, for the four districts surveyed by hint, and to the Clerks and Surveyors employed beside, with a return of the number of surcharges made, and the sums allowed es poundage, with the sa laries and emoluments received by each officer in the last three years. Mr. LusniNoTote said, •the scope of the mo tion of the Hon. Gentleman, was so much large► than he had expected, that he was not prepared to give satisfaction on evety point. He complained that he had extracted from the papers produced all the venom they contained, anti brought it to bear on his object without bringing with it that matter of a contrary nature which they presented. He then proceeded to show that, if some abuses had taken place in the districts referred to, mea sures had been promptly bad recourse to, which made it impossible that they should again occur. The remarks which had been made appeared to him, in a great measure, uncalled for. He had iequired into the private character of Mr. Austin, and haul found, from all the information he could collect, that be was a most respectable man. He had no objection to the motion. To him it ap peared too largely worded to meet the object of the Hon. Gentleman ; but this was no business of his. Sir W. CANSPI6NY very briefly replied. An Hon. MENDER, whose name could not be learned, said the country was much indebted to the Hon. Baronet for exposing such a scene of robbery as be had laid open. The evil complained of haft 'arisen from a dtp:;c.i!e assessment having beets sigued by the proper Wbrers iuste;oi of t,e actual assessment, which Alone ought to ha.e re ceived their signature. It was .desitabic that this should he txplaity2d, to guard against the poissi bili,y of the recurrence of such an abuse. 'rile motion was then a. recd to, On the 'notion of Lord J. 110,stut, the second reading of the Gt . arnpound Brihcry Bill was post poned till Monday next. Sir C. Motipx. understood that the (Itomilri Porte had acceded to the Treaty of 1813 r, qicct ing the lonian Ilands, and wi%;,ed to kw,* from he Nohle Lord opposite (Castlertagn) the date of the accession ? Lord CASTLEREAGH Said it %VAS not in his power to afford the Honourable likAronet the information he sough:. Mr. C. WYNNE brought hi the Witnesses on Elections Indemnity litibery ; and after a tew. %%or& from Mr. MARTIN, of tvay, who oppos ed the principle of the Lill, it was read a fiist time, and oroered to be read a second time to. morrow (this day ) EXCISE PROSECUTIONS. Mr. D. W. HARVEI; hoped the House would indulge him with their attention wink he endea voured-to put them in possession of the circum stances stated in a petition which he was about to present. The petition was from a person of the name of Bryant, tie Captain of a vessel called the Margaret, trading from Surinam to the port of London. Under a statute of .the 26th George the Third, commonly called the Manifest Act, the Captain is bound, before he leaves any foreign .port, to have a manifest or statement of tile con tents of the ship made out. With such a docu ment Captain Bryant sailed from Sarinem in the year 1814, and arrived in the port of London in August last year. He immediately transmitted what is called the ship report (which is required by law) to the Commissioners of the Customs, containing a statement of the ship's cargo. Among other things he gave a return of 145 bags of cof fee. This document was forwarded to the Ex cise, who then sent, as is customary,. some of their officers called Searchers, to compare the ma nifest with the cargo, and if these should be found at variance, to place a legal fiat on the ves sel till a satisfactory explanation should be given. On exaneiniug the cOnteuts, of the Margaret, it was found, that instead of the 145 bags of coffee returned, there were but 140 on board. If any package were wanting, the Captain was liable to a penalty of 2001. provided that it should not be proved that there was a mistake in the mainitest, its which case the penalty was not to be incurred. On its being discovered that five bags of coffee were wanting, the Captain applied to his Mate and the acting part of his crew, for an explana tion of the circumstance, when it wined out that on leaving Surinam, from which place they had departed in great haste, that they might not lose the convoy, the mate, to gain greater stowage, had put the contents of 145 bags of coffee into 140, and the quantity therefore•remained undimi nished. This explanation was transmitted to the Customs, the fiat on the vessel removed, and Captain Bryant, after this was warranted in sup posing the account beta esn him and these who might have claimed the penalty of 2001. from him was for ever closed. For two years be heard nothing on the subject, when, wi bout any pre vious notice or admonition, he found a process had commenced in the Court of Exchequer, which was introductory to the filing of an information against him. On former occasions, when cases of this description had come before the House, it bad been urged that the . petitioners were persons of, indifferent characters, who gained a living by violating the law. Now, whatever might be said of former petitioners, this could not be objected to Captain Bryant, as he (Mr. Harvey) was thoroughly satisfied, from the respectability of the legal Gentlemen who were now acting for him, that his character would bear investigarion. Within the last year, he wi'hed it to be remem bered there had been 761 Excise prosecutions, at the average expense of 1611. each. This it would be seen created a serious charge to be borne by the public. Captain Bsyant replied to the notice he received, by sending his own affidavit, and the affidavits of several of his crew, to the facts he had stated, and by offs ring to giVe the most ample explanations. The answer to this proper applies. Lion was, that a person accused could not be be lieved, and the only way to escape was by making a compromise. Subsequently, Captain Bryant offered to compromise, but the Officers of the Ex cise thee refused to see him. The reason for this might be guessed. It was to be supposed that where parties had an interest in 76s prosecu tions, at 1601. each, they would not be very willing to let these go off for 3 or 41. each. To expect this was monstrous, and therefore it ap peared' to bins that smite tribunal was wanting between the Excise Officers and - the Yeblic to protect the revenue on the one hand, and to se cure the subject front oppression on the other. The cause was at last brought before the Court of Exchequer, which Court seemed to him in some respects to revive the Star Chsm!ier, had existed in this country from the time of Henry the Seventh down to the early part of ale reign of Charles the First, and the powers of the Solicitor of Excise he regarded as similar to those of the Master of the Critwu, which had beet' abolished by the 3d and eLli of William and Mary. It therefore will be seen that there was some thing to excite alarm, exclusive of the dreadful inflicts to which those prosecuted werg liable. In the Court, though the statute provided that where a mistake in the manifest was proved, the case might be dismissed by the Coromissioneis of the Excise, the Judge had said the Commissioners had no such power, and a verdict must be given against the defendant. A verdict wa'saccordingly given. Captain Bryant then presented a petition to the Treasury, which was the same vet bat im as that, which be bad before presented to the Com missioners of the Excise, and the consequence was, the Lords-of the Treasury immediately re mitted the penalty, and directed him merely to pay the costs. The Treasury had thus etf,ce declared that the prosecution ought not to have bsen commenced, But what was the situation in which Captain Bryant was then placed ? He (Mr. Harvey) held in his band a receipt from the Soliel tor of ills: Excise, dated Dcc. 10, 18113, for 16(11.