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Til UItTEI.I, AND lIIS ASSOCIATES. 11ERTFoRD, J AN. S.- At half-past eight e'clock-this morning the Chaplain repaired to the prison, having felt it to he his duty, and in fact with the approbation of Thurtell, to perform in the course of the morning the religious offices, to which, for the consolation of prisoners in his unhappy situation, the Sunday before execution is generally devoted. The day of the week not admitting the intervention of the Sunday, it was nevertheless deemed necessary to give the pri • soners the benefit of this ceremony on the eve of execution.--Thurtell, after the Chaplain had left him an 'Wednesday night, was .thoughtful and resigned, and soon after threw himself upon a mattress, and fell into a sound sleep. He awoke • about-one o'clock, and addressing one of the at tend6its, said, " William, " are you awake ?" ' 'Tlre man said " Yes, sir." Thurtell rejoined, " All's right," and i❑ a few minutes exhausted natnre again- composed him, and he slept and snored loudly. He awoke again about six o'clock, dressed, and took some tea. At a- quarter before nine o'clock, he was brought from his chamber into the ante-room of the -chapel, where he saw Hunt, who was miserably • dejected. Thurtell merely recognized his fellow priSoner with a nod of the head, but spoke not to •him. Thurtell's demeanour was calm r and corn posed. lle repeated his thanks to Mr. Wilson, .he Governor of the prison, for his unform kind- J:ess to him, and said, " I suppose, Sir, by this to-trnorrow, all will be over." " Not so early, Mr. Thurtell," said Mr. Wilson, " but compose yourself to prayer." A prayer-book was then '?sanded to him, and he passed, followed by the other prisoners, into the chapel. The Rev. Mr. Owen, a near relative of the High Sheriff, was in the chapel. As soon as . the necessary arrange nwnts were made, the Chaplain (l\lr. Franklin) commenced the service. lie began with the fol :loWing prayer, which he delivered in the most impressive manner : THE PRAYER. Oh ! thou great and glorious Lord God, Thou high and eiy One, who inhabl - test eternity, and despisest not the meanest of thy works, we humbly beseech thee to looklown in compas sion upon us, thy poor vile and sinful creatures, who now pre sent our prayers and supplications unto thee. Have mercy upon us—O Lord, have mercy upon us ! According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out all our transgressions, and re member our sins and iniquities no more. And do thou, in pity to our infirmities, dispose our hearts, and strengthen our resolutions, to serve and fear thee, the only God, all the days of our lives. " Grant us the grace of thy holy spirit, that v..e may every • . day become better, And wiser into salvation ; that we may be . enabled to reform And amend all that is amiss in the frame and temper of our minds, and in the course and action of our lives ; • that we may minify our lusts, govern our passions, and direct •our whole conversation aright. Assist us mercifully, 0 God, • to do all that is good - ; to avoid all that is evil ; and finally, to be Partakers of thy heavenly kingdom. "We humbly beseech thee, 0 Lord, to bless and preserve us, thine - unWorthy 'servants, we are at this time assembled in ' thy name, to be present in the midst of us, and to assist us in the holy service of devotion in which we are engaged-; and grant, that those truths which shall be delivered, oat of thy revealed word, may have their due effect, and lasting infhence upon the hearts and consciences, upon the - lives and conduct of Us all. "tfhe prayers, 0 Heavenly Father, we humbly offer up unto:the throne of mercy, in the name and through the merits and mediation of oar Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in whose 12103 t comprehensive form of words we sum up ail our petitions." The prayer being concluded, after a short and solemn pause, the 11.everend Gentleman remarked, that this season of advent was appointed by the Church, not only the advent, or coming, or appearance of Jesus Christ in human shape on earth, but alo to put us annually in mind of his se.:ond coming, that we may prepare our hearts and minds, our thoughts and ac tion s , t o meet him At his second coming to judge the world in righteousness. No subject could be more appropriate to this solemn and affecting season of the year, than the general , judgment by Jesus Christ. lie then, in a manner which is described to us by a gentle man present to have been the most impressive he ever witness ed on any occasion, proceeded to the delivery of the sermon. CONDEMNED SERMON. Text-2d Co:. v. 10. " We must all appetr before the judgment_ eat of Christ, " that every one may receive the things done in his body, accord.. ineto that he bath dyne, whether it be good or bad." The Rev. Chaplain said, that in the beginning of the chapter, St. Paul expressed an earnest desire to quit this earthly tabernacle tai t house not made with hands, and to be present with the Lut that, however the Almighty should dispose of him, he ah id malo, it his constant labour and study so to conduct himself, that both in this world and at his presentation into the neat, he might hoe to be approved and accepted by his God, • and that to this cod his action; were daily governed arid direct . cat. He then enforced upon the prisoners the simple and ex pressive rule of St. Paul, and emphaticr...kiy pointed out the ' force7aod valu e o f attent i on t o it. He implored the prisoners to ' consider the certainty of a future judgment. Not to dwell on the persuasion and belief of all heathens and Pagans in every age and country, in this respect, on the dictates of every man's natural conscience, his self-approbation of secret virtue, his self-condemnation of secret vice, the hopes and the fears that agitate every man's•breast on account of his most private ac tions; and the inmost thoughts of his heart, were all, he said so man: proofs of his belief in a future judgment. • La the second place, be said, that neitln;r was it necessary to take an extensive view of the unequal distribution of happiness and misery in this life : how virtuous and holy men were often afflicted in this world, and that,. too, even for righteousness' sake, and that profligate, dating, and impious men, often flourish and prosper—they came pot into trouble, neither were they plagued like other men ; hence the justice of God seemed to require that at the final consummation of all things, this seeming injustice should be rectified, and that God would one day fully vindicate the rizbteousum of NI government, . . acquit the honour of his justice, and that there would be held a general anise of all nten that ever breathed on the face of the whole earth, when they would all have a fair and open trig, and God would render to each according to his wOrks. The Chaplain then -enforced the truth of the divine jedgment, and after maliing poiverfal impresaion upon his auditory by the eloqudralee of hi‘ argument, he exclaimed— " Hear the words Of 'Our- Rededniei-- , The day is coming in which all who at to thir grwitalhall hear the voice of their r Judge, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.' " He remarked upon the asto nishing indifference of some persons to the divine declaration, and the impossibility of theirconductingthemselves in the manner some did, were they impressed with its truth. He was parti cularly solemn and impressive in dwelling upon the profligacy and profaneness of' some were not deterred by a sense of religion from the commission of sin, just as if eternal justice were asleep—just as if all their wicked actions would be buried with their dead bodies, and should never rise again in judgment against their immortal souls. He cantrasted with such impious indifference, the calmness, the consolation, and hope of a true Christian who built his hope on the fundamental belief of happiness hereafte r , an d ill ustrate d t h e value of such a hope j by the practice of St. Paul and the serenity and piety of his life. The Chaplain then said, that it would be easy to draw a ter rific picture of the great and terrible day of judgment, but he I preferred the arguments which cool reason suggested, to those which terror and amazement inspired. He invoked the attention of the prisoners to the plain and powerful expression of the Holy Scriptures. Suppose then, said he, that " you saw the heavens opened, and the son of man coming in great power and glory, and all his holy angels with him. Suppose that you heard the mighty cherubim, in burning rows, sounding the loud trumpet of archangels, and a mighty voice piercing the heavens and the earth-4 Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment!'—Suppose you saw the throne set, and the great Judge sitting upon the throne of his glory ; and all nations gathered before him ; and all the dead, both small and great, standing before God ; the books opened, and the dead judged out of the things written in those books; suppose you heard the respective sentences upon all mankind pronounced by the mouth of Christ himself- 4 Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you, - from the foundation of the world !' and, Depart from me, ye ' cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.' " Would not this," continued the Reverend Gentle man, " be an appalling scene, and did not the Gospel posi tively declare that it should come to pass ?" He asked; then, why was not that dreadful fact operative upon human conduct ? Why, then, such insensibility to human interests—why stifle the voice of conscience--why labour to drown its cries, by the din and riot of worldly cares and pleasures ? After dwelling forcibly on this topic, the Rev, Gentleman exclaimed Let this present season of Advent constrain us all to look carefully and steadily to our last great account; and seeing now, with our own eyes, the awful spectacle before us, where human justice is about to vindicate the violation of her laws, let us lift up our hearts to higher views, and raise our thoughts from earthly to heavenly subjects. Let us argue thus :—lf the day of God's judgment be so dreadful, at a distance, that I can hardly now hear the very thought' of it, from the recollection of my sins, how insupportable will the thought itself be, when it eternally does come!" He, in conclu sion, contrasted the times of ignorance of the Heathen arid the Christian world, and, as St. Paul said, " the ignorance of the for mer God winked at, but now all men were commanded to repent, because he hate appointed a day in which he will judge the world." " Oh, then, at once," said the Chaplain, with great fervour and earnestness, " repent ! Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him turn unto the Lord, who will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, who will abundantly pardon, through the merits and me diation of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour." Repeatedly, during the delivery of the sermon, of which the above only furnishes a brief and imperfect abstract, the Chap lain was affected to tears. Thurtell at times evinced uncoils men emotion—his manner was extremely penitent, but his for titude was still maintained, and he awaits with composure his impending fate. He hopes, he says, to meet it with the firm ness of a man, and the resignation of a Christian. In the course of the service, the Chaplain read the Litany, though out of order, very Properly judging there were parts in it more applicable to the case of the prisoners than occurred in the rest or the service. When the following prayer was read, Hunt seemed dread fully aineted, and his head dropped upon the front of the pew " That it may please Thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed." Thursday Evening, five P.M. prisoners in irons ; but It was originally proposed to try. n er c i. f o f n tt s e . i M lle r g . a T li a ty yl o o f r, su ti c i l e i b a a p rr r i o s e t e er e , di r i e ig pr , es a e n n a t t e i t i d i e le t P o.: T i i i t q l:i n e ti li on ig w h a S s i quence abandoned. A meeting of th e M ag i s t ra tes was held this morning, at which the plac e where, and the time when, sentence shall be executed upon Thurtell, was taken into consideration. It was finally resolved that the culprit should be executed at 12 o'clock to. morrow, in front of the centre door (which is called the "Mill," or Tread:min door") of the jail, and not in the field or gravel pit, opposite the prison, where malefactors-are usually executed. The workmen have been employed since half-past 2 o'clock in making the neces sar y p re p ara ti ons f or the e rection of a new gallows and drop. The materials, which are now lying at the prison-door, shew that it is intended to erect a strut!_ Lure of consid era ble h e i g h t an d extent. The country in• the neighbourho o d b e ing, h owever , very l evel, the view of th e execution will be necessarilyrestricted to th ose who may have strength and hardihood sufficient to force their way near the scaffold. The whole poser comitatus have been tsummoned to attend on this occasion ; it is the only legal disposable force whi c h th e Magistrates can command ; an d ev ery body must approve of the abandonment of an intention which, it is rumoured, was once entertained—th at o f calling on the Yeo manry for their assistance. The M ag i strates have propriety directed Bishop, Ruthv en , and Upton, of' w ith great the 130w street establishment, to remain until the behests of the law have been complied with. Thomas Thurtell has just taken his last farewell of his un fortunate brother. This scene was singularly solemn and affecting. John Thurtell appeared to feel, with strongsensibility the awfulness of his situation. lie grasped his brother by the hands, and pressed them with gres 9 force and fervency. His expression was, " God bless you, Thomas. There are now nine of us ; by this time to-morrow there will be but eight !" The latter part of the sentence was delivered in a tone in which the firm and pathetic were equally mingled. Thurtell's father, mother, and indeed the whole of his family, are plunged in the most profound grief. Runt's execution has been fixed for this day fortnight, if the application to the Crown, in behalf of the prisoner, should not prove successful. Fourteen days are, as we stated yesterday, allowed by law, to accessaries in cases of murder ; and there fore the High Sheriff has named the day which we have men tioned. Hunt is not aware of this circumstance. Lie believes that his fate is to be sealed in the morning, and he is preparing for death, but in a state of great agony and exhaustion. The contrast between him and Thurtell is extreme. The latter is cool, manly, and firm, without any intermixture of thought lessness or levity ; the former is timid, whining, and pusil lanimous. All admission to the prison for the purpose of witnessing the proceedings to-morrow morning, has been most positively and peremptorily interdicted, except to those who are immediately connected with those proceedings. Applications from person s of rank and consideration have been negatived in the most de- cided and unequivocal manner. It will be recollected that Mr. Justice Park, on Tuesday morning, censured the conduct of Mr. Fenton, Thurtell's at torney, for not having been in Court at seven o'clock. The re proof was given on the supposition that Mr. Fenton had tleglected his duty, which was not. the case. Mr. Fenton was, at six o'clock in the morning, attendingat the door appropriated to tile admittance of Barristers and Attornies. He endeavoured, over and over again, and in those endeavours he was assisted by a Barrister, to gain admittance, but the door-keepers effectually prevented his entrance. Half-past 7.—The workmen are still employed in erecting the gallows. The work is now half perfected. It will not be compleated until four o'clOck in the morning. Thurtell is in a part of the prison where the " dreadful note of preparation" is not likely to mar his meditations. Mr. Clutterbuck, the Magistrate, was in close conference with Thurtell for a considerable length of time to-day, at Thurtell's own particular desire. The subject of the confe recce, it is said, related to matters of a private nature. In the course of the evening, two gentlemen arrived from Cambridge, to inquire respecting any information which l'hur tell could give on the subject of the disappearance of the Rev. Mr. Colton. The object of their inquiry was to ascertain, for the purposes of' the College, whether Thurtell could furnish any information which might possibly prevent the lapse of the living from devolving upon the diocess. Thurtell's answer last night to this application was, that he knew nothing of Mr. Colton. At ten o'clock this warning; Probert, having been informed that he was at liberty depart, left Hartford gaol, in which he slept on the proceeding night. As he was about to quit the gaol, one of the turnkeys, of whom he had borrowed two or three shillings, stopped him and insisted on being paid ; but it was not without some hesitation that he discharged the debt. Before Probert had proceeded far from the gaol, he met his wife, Miss Noyes, and Thomas Noyes. Their recognition of each other was cold; and after conversing for a few minutes, Probert left the party, and proceeded in an opposite direction to that which they took. He was afterwards seen walking round the town with a man of respectable appearance. He himself was well dressed, and walked with a swaggering air. He was not, as far as we could perceive, recognized by the inhabitants. The High Sheriffhas issued directions that no person what- HERTFORD, THURSDAY, JAN. B.—Robert Sutton, Esq., immediately went down to the jail on being apprised of Thur. tell's wish, and remained with him for a considerable time.— The result of this interview will not transpire till after the execution. Dlr. Sutton expressed his warm satisfaction at the manner in which the unhappy man conducted himself. [FrRTIIER PARTICULARS.] After the prisoners' return to the jail, last night, two ladies, who have been lodging in the town for the last month, from a desire to he present at the trial, arrived at the gate, and wanted to be admitted to see them. Ihe Reverend Mr. Lloyd saw them, but at once told them of the utter impossibility of their wishes being complied with. They seemed only to be actuated by a feeling of curiosity ; and they will in all proba bility wait to witness the execution. On the Rev. Mr. Lloyd's arrival, he found Mr. Jay and Mr. Fenton in the prison. He at once informed them that it was utterly impossible they could be admitted to the prisoner ; the High Sheriff's order being peremptory, that no person what ever should be suffered to see him without his written authority. This seemed, he said, to be the more necessary, as it was de sirable his mind should not be disturbed. We understand that previous to the departure of Mr. Justice Park from Hertford, he informed Mr. Fenton that he might, if he chose, petition the Crown forthc delay of Thurtell's execution till Monday, for the purpose which the unhapPy man had stated, 'of seeing and. taking leave of his friends. Mr. Fenton thanked his Lordship for the intimation, and proceeded to consult,with Mr. Jay, his principal, on the subject. Mr. Jay, however, at once said that the delay could be productive of no earthly good, for that he was sure Thurtell's friends would not come up from Nor wich to ...;ee him • an interview, of such a descripti on , cou ld on l y be productiv e Of unnecessary anguish to all parties. Under these cir cumstances, h e declined tak i ng the course suggested ; indeed we thi n k , even i f t h e app li cat i on had been- made, no ground co u ld h ave b een state d on w hi c h a d eparture from the ordinary f orms o f law cou ld h ave b een j ustified. Both Mr. Jay a n d M r. F enton were dreadfully affected, an d evidently felt the strongest commiseration for the situation of their client. Th e rumour of Mi ss Thurtell . having b een i n Hertford, we l earn, is unfounded. The sisters, since th e ap prehension o f t h e i r brother, h ave confined hemselves to their father's house, and have abandoned all those pursuits of pleasure and amusement which previously occupied their time. The father, too, has altogether abstained from society, and remains at ho me a prey to the d e ep est me l anc h o l y. we base heard that an application has been made on the part of tile family, to have the body sent down to Norwjch to be inter- I red. This arrargement may, by a proper understanding, b e made. The usual course, in such cases, is, after execution, to open the chest of the corpse and exhibit the heart and lungs, subsequently it is sent f or di ssec tion. The surgeon may, if l e thinks proper, waive his right, and deliver the body to hi s friends. The Under Sheriff yeste r d a y applied to Ruthven, th e B ow. street officer, for the coat and waistcoat and pistol which he Produced during his evidence on the trial. Ruthven refused to delir e r them up, and some warm conversation followed, the Under Sh er iff asserti ng t h at t h e y had b ecome th e property of the High Sheriff, in con seque nce of the capital convi ct i on of Thurtell. Ruthven persisted in his right to detain them, an d did so in defiance of a th reat to make application to Mr. Jus tlee Park. It - appears that Ruthven received notice from the assign ees .of Thurtell,..who is:-an uncertificated bankrupt, to detai n t h ese things on th e i r behalf. - : It seems that a request was sent to Mr. Wontner, the Gaoler of Newgate, to send a proper man, in the event of his services becoming necessary; and the deputy to the ordinary hangman, received instructions to come down. Without loss of time lie set off, bringing with him two ropes and two caps. On his arrival in the town lie proceeded to public-house, where he was soon recognised, and, on being questioned, gave a full account of his office, and of his mode of per forming his dreadful duties. For this information he re ceived several douceurs in money and liquor, and ultimately became intoxicated and fought with a coachman. During this quarrel his apparatus was stolen from him, and he was finally turned into the st ree t. He then went down to the gaol, where, as a matter of pr u d enc e, he was l oc k e d up, an d will remain i n the care of Mr. Wilson till the time appointed for execution. Mr. Jay left Hertford for Cambrid ge , this mornin g , b u t Mr. Fenton s till remains.—lt is understood' that Hunt entertains a hope that he will be respired. Additional guards are placed round the gaol every night. The Chaplain again saw the prisoner at a late hour this even ing, and still fo un d hi m perfectly calm and resigned—he has admitted the justice of his sentence —and expresses his desire for the termination of his suffering s in this world. Hi s co nduct throughout ha s b een mos t c r e di ta b le. He entreated t h at t h e Ch a pl a i n would not be long absent from him ; an d requeste d , soma oranges, which were imme diately sent to him. At a late h our l as t night, a pape r , rat h er o f a singular cha racter, was sent to the Prisoner enclosed in an envelope, ear nestly requestin g M r . Wilson to communicate it to the prisoner Thurtell. The following is a correct copy : " Joirx—"fhat which is appointed to all men is now coming upon you. Outward circumstances, the eyes and the thoughts of men, are below the notice of an immortal being about to stand the trial for eternity before the Supreme Judge of Heaven and Earth.' _ . "These solemn --- and impressive words, addressed by Dr. Johnson to Dr. Dodd, the day before he suffered, may now, without impropriety be applied to you. That day is about to open which must close your eyes in the night of death. At the moment when this meets your view, the friends who once tend ed your infancy, and locked on your advancing youth with hope, sigh for the mournful state to which you have sunk in the flower of manhood. In them, so far as your life is con cerned, anxiety has ceased, being terminated by despair. It is, however, even now in your power to aggravate their afflic tion, great as it is, and to give them cause to lament that which is not, like your fate, inevitable. " It has been circulated by some of your late companions, in a tone not very unlike that of guilty exultation, that " Thur. tell would be found to the last such as he had ever been." Let not the recommendation of these influence your conduct in the awful hour which approaches. The best and the bravest of the sons of men have not been aehamed. to confess that death is no fit theme fur jesting. Those who affect to laugh at it, only labour to conceal terror under the mask of bravado. The plaudits of the idlers who could. approve such conduct will never reach you. Seek not then to become the object of them, for were they breathed over your remains to-morrow, the flattery could not soothe " the dUll cold ear of death," and reason and religion alike enjoin you to pr e f er th e humble resignation of the Christian, to all the glories of Pagan phi losophy. You are reported to h a ve jocularly i nqu i re d if a no i se which was heard when you were first brought up to the Court house at Hertford, was that of 'some fellow crying your dying speech.' If you were capable of such folly then, afford your friends the satisfaction of knowing that more becoming reflec tions have since occupied your mind. Waste not the minutes which remain to you in trifling, but apply yourself with zealous humility to those devout exercises which may encourage the re latives to whom you have been dear, to believe that it may one day be theirs to rejoin you in a happier state of being. " The sentiments expressed by many who have stood in the place to which you are now brought, have been such as in part to atone tOr the crimes proved against them. These have left the world with humble hope of pardon through redeeming goodness, and their friends have seen cause to consider that the fetters and the walls which enthralled the limbs, and depressed the body, were rendered the means of bringing liberty and life everlasting to the soul. " Sir Thomas More, great and good as he w as , h as b een thought blameable for the levity which he displayed on the scaffold. The celebrated Lord Strafford met his fate with equal courage, but did not deem it wise to fill up his last hour with mirthful pleasantries. His Royal Master was still more illustrious in death, and the union of courage, meekness, and charity, made his passage to eternity the most splendid one of his life. " It may be well that you should recall the sentiments in spired by the deportment of men who professed to feel that sort of indifference about leaving the world, which has been, your relatives suspect, but too truly ascribed to you. Of these the most remarkable was Eugine Aram. He, a highly gifted man, learned almost beyond all his cotemporaries, but wanting 1 ever shall be admitted to Thurtull, it being his wish to be kept perfectly composed. . • Messrs. Jay and Fenton, the solicitors, applied for per mission to see Thurtell, but met with a refusal. It is not ex pected that any of Thurtell's.relatives will visit him previous to the execution, owing to the almost distracted state in which they are at present. At the conclusion of the trial on Wednesday, Mr. Justice PAR observed, that if Thurtellreally wished for the postpone ment of the execution in order Mallow his friends time to visit him, he ought to make an. appliCation to the Crown, in whom alone was vested the power of acceding to it. Probert and his wile left town this evening in a post-chaise, with the blinds up. Where can this unhappy wretch hide his head ? The grave is his only refuge. As the waters receded when the Lama approached them, NO must society recede when he attempts to mingle with it. In the midst of mankind he will find himself worse than in solitude. In the latter he would indeed be inflicted by the pangs of conscience, by the - gnawings of " the worm that never dies ;" but, should he appear in so ciety, he will, in addition, have to encounter " the slow and moving finger" of public scorn, which will point him out at every step and turn. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd is said to have defrayed the expellee of the post-chaise which conveyed him away. ghat is more essential than even talent or learning—religion; • I.le attempted to defend by a miserable substitute for reason ing the propriety of regarding death as an occurrence of no moment. "To die," he wrote on a paper which he left in his cell, "is natural and proper. Perfectly sensible of this, 1 fear no more to die than I did to be born." Such were his vain expressions, But bow did that unhappy man seek to prove that he felt so perfectly unmoved as he wished the world, or at least a few proflig a t es i n i t, to believe? He could so ill b ear his own meditations, that he madly . strove to be his own execu. timer, anti thus attempted to add to the crime of murder of which he stood convicted—the awful crime of suicide. " Another criminal, whose hands had also been stained with blood, but a man whose habits were very different from those of Eugene Aram sought the applause of those who had been his associates, by acting a part not exactly similar, but equally fearful to contemplate. Jeremiah Abershaw displayed what • he expected would be mistaken for courage, by indulging in low jests on the punishment to which he had been doomed, and by the most profane mockery of religious instruction. On his way to the scene of expiation, he wasted the precious mo ments which might have been most conducive to his eternal welfare, in foolish laughter and indecorous conversation. You know the opinion which all his fellow men have enter tained of that sufferer's character. You do not lack understand ing, and departing sura.;7—surely you would rather that it should be said you died with the humble contrite spirit of a penitent, than that you had at all resembled the misguided Abershaw, who pretended to scoff at • the punishment which appalled him, while passing with fictitious merriment, and with a flower in his mouth to the fatal tree. " Within your own recollection, and but a few years back, a young man named Cashman was executed in London for a riot. His conduct on the last morning was marked by a weak desire to appear intrepidly wicked. All the efforts of the Rev. Gentleman who attended him in his dying moments, to reclaim him, proved unavailing. Nothing could repress the reprobate folly which had taken possession of him. The most shocking blasphemies escaped from his lips when prayer ought to have occupied his whole soul. To the last he continued to sin ; and uttering language too horrid to be repeated, the still offend ing and unprepared spirit passed into the presence of an out raged Deity. " The case of that sufferer can hardly have escaped your notice, or your memory. You know what was the universal opinion respecting him. Did any one admire the heroism or the constancy of Cashman ? Could compassion itself do less than pronounce the impenitence with which lie perished, to be the offspring of habitual depravity, and lamentable ignorance ? " Happily the humane spirit of the present age exempts those adjudged to die, for whatever crime, from those tremend ous inflictions which might formerly have operated on the weakness of human nature, to the extent of withdrawing the prisoner's thoughts from his immortal concerns, to contemplate the horrors which awaited him on the day of execution. In England the forfeited life is taken without torture, and the offender's spirit di sm i s s e d a f t e r a b r i e f pang to the bar of God. It is the hope of your friends that knowing this, your mind will evince its strength in proving to the world that it en. joyed a holy calm up to your final hour, and enabled you in that to bear with resignation to the stern, but righteous decree, which removes you from the scene of your transgressions. " There are som e most str iki ng f eatures in your car i . It s the will of a just Providence th at y ou f a ll b y t h e t estimony of the partner of your guilt. You cannot but have known much bitterness of heart when this has occupied your thoughts. But let not resentment, however merited, interfere with your solemn preparations for another wo r ld . I f possible, die in charity with all mankind; but wishing so to die some exceptions may be absolutely necessary. You ought not to feel yourself restrained froth disclosing the true character of that diabolical association which has been stated to exist, if the statement be at all well founded. "The party by w h o m you are thus a d mon i s h ed would fain believe that it is unworthy of credit. You know the truth, and in the moment which calls you to his presence from whom no thing can be conce aled.-0 let it no t appear to you a duty to be faithful to th e iniquity which has brought you to your end. Think not of what the victims may say—but ask your heart what you ought to do, and let your last atonement to society be as perfect as your former sinnings have been great. Acting thus, the hearts which now weep for your distress will be en abled to admit the consoling impression, that " God, who knoweth our frailty, and desireth not our death, will accept your repentance for the sake of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." FATAL EFFECTS OF THE SMALLPDX. CORONERS' INQUES TS. -- Considerable alarm , a vi ng been excited inCambridge,:n consequence of the extent ;o which the small-pox has within these few weeks committed its dreadful ravages, several children having died, and it being the parish o f St.. Giles, it was deemed advisable, in r e p or ted' that' he infecti on was rapidly gaining ground, parti loo Yllinwing case, th at an inquest should be held, with the view ascertaining precisely t h e cause of the death of the c tch h ule ,l a d rf ; of t and on Illond a y l ast an inquisition was accordingly held a the Thre2 Swans, in that parish, before Mr. Ciit- VELL, one of the Coroners of this town, on view of the body of Maria Easton, when it appeared in evidence, that on Wednesday three weeks, the mother of the child went to a neighbour's house, with the deceased and another child, and took from the child of Mrs. Champion, (the neighbour) which was then lying ill, a quantity of matter, with which the mo ther performed innoculation on her own two children, by puncturing the skin of the right arm with a needle, and in troducing the matter. On the following day the mother con ceiving the arm of the deceased had not sufficiently received the infection, again took the deceased to Mrs. Champion's, and performed the operation again in a similar way. Previous to this, the mother admits that she gave the deceased a quan tity of salts. On the Sunday morning week after the inocu lation, the deceased s i c k ene d , as did the other child, and on last unday morning the deceased died. The other child is doing well. The mother stated the deceased to be a full gross child, and admitted that she did not call in any medical gentle man, or obtain medical assistance.—Mrs. Campion, the neigh bour, confirmed the above testimony, and further stated, that in two mornings she had permittednot less than thirty children in the neighbourhood to be inoculated from her child in this manner, and considered she was doing no harm.—Mr. F ar i s h , surgeon, examined the body a ft er its decease, and found the child had died of a very virulent confluent small-pox, and that the arm in oculated had the appearance of a large black spot, which look ed like gangrene ; that it was necessary previous to inocula tion to prepare the patient by a course of medicine, which depended upon the habit of body, and was of opinion that if a medical man had been called in after the child had sickened, some benefit might have arisen, but it was a very virulent infection of the small-pox. The Jury considered it a case of great im portance as it regarded the public health, and after a long deli beration returned the following verdict :—That the child died in consequence of inoculation for the small-pox by its own mother, without due attention to the previous habit of body, being a gross full child, and afterwards omitting to call in any medical advice during the progress of the infection. The following account of an executio n in Rome is from a letter from a young painter, Lon don, 1748--" About two months ago a person was found murdered in the stables of the Pope's Palace ; on which two fellows suspected of the fact were taken up, and put to the rack in order to extort a confession from them ; with ' out which no one can suffer here, though direct evidence appear against him. Only one of them confessed, and was condemned ; and on execution-day hundreds of odd dismal figures, in long black gowns, their faces covered with black cloth in the shape of a mask, marched through the principal streets, raffling a money box, to move charitable persons to contribute something towards prayers for the deliverance of the poor sufferer's soul out of purgatory. A long train of these sable petitioners preceeded the miserable wretch, immediately before whom was carried a crucifix, with a black covering over it,and lights all round him. He was seated in a cart be twixt two priests, who, with two of their hands supported him, and with the other two held a tab let close to his face,. having a Madona painted on one side. Being brought upon the scaffold close to which a gibbet was erected, his face was cover ed with black crape ; and being ordered to kneel down, the executioner instantly knocked him on the head with a mallet, and then cut his throat. After this his accomplice wars likewise brought upon the scaffold, and tied to a post, while the hangman quartered the other before his face, and hung up his limbs on the gibbet, where they remained till night; he was after. wards sent to the galleys for life. I stood within ten yards of the scaffold." Fret) ch Russian Neapolitan Austrian: Spanish Prussian Dan islt Portuguese Peruvian Chili Colombian New Loan, 00. 754. Six per Cent. Bonds, O. 00. New, Zi. ( Bank Siiares £22 105.—.C23. I Seven per Cent: 000. 1 Six per Cent. 00-000. Five per Cent. 00-000. Three per Cent. Poyais A meri can PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, JAN. G. Bank Stock 252 Grand Canal Loan, Gp.ct. 50 Gov. Deb. 34 per cent 96 —Ditto 4 per cent.... Stock, 3? per ct 95-1 —DittoStock ..... ....... ov. Deb. 4 per cent. — Royal Canal Stock ..... . ... 2i G ov.G Deb. 5 per cent. --Stock, 4 per cent.... s h ut Do. Deb. with Gov. Se... Treasury ----NBills, 5 p er cent ew Deb. 5 per ct . Do. 6 City Debentures per cent. , 5 per ct. Ballast Office Govt. Sec. Lying in Hospital 4 per ot. 5 per cent. -.Exchange on London, Jan. 6, 81. HIGH WATER AT LONI)01 , Alorning, 37 minutes after 7. I sT BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 7 minutes after S. THE SUN. SOLEII QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1824 , EXPRESS FROM PARIS. At a late hour this forenoon we have received „by express the _Otoile of yesterday, and Galig nani's Messenger of a Preceding date, from which we subjoin extracts :---.. ( From the Etoile of Thursday, Ja n . 8.) PARIS, JAN. 7.—111 s Majesty heard mass in his apartments. His Majesty presided at a Coun cil of Ministers, which lasted till half-past one o'clock. Some letters from Italy announce that the Emperor of Russia is expected at Rome in the middle of next April. MADRID, DEC.~7.--~~r ehave received the 'ollowing from Port St. Mary : We yesterday received letter s of the 28th from Gibraltar, by which we learn that his Britannic Majesty's Government has forbidden the entrance into that Port of all Spaniards who belonged to the Revolutionary Government. Since this order was known, several Constitutionalists were driven off th e Port. After a long report to the King on the state of the commerce of France with her foreign Co lonies, the following Decree has been issued : Louis, by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre. On the Report of the President of our Council of Ministers. We order as follows :._. 1. There shall he formed a superior. Council of Commerce, and for the Colonies, charged to ame liorate the Laws and Tariffs which relate to French Commerce, which shall be presented for our approbation. 2. The Supreme Council of Commerce and Colonies shall be composed under the inspection of our President of Council of Ministers as well as the Minister of State, and the Director Ge neral of the Customs. 3. There shall be formed by the President of the Council of Ministers an Office of Commerce and Colonies, charged to procure documents to enlighten the deliberations of the Superior Coun sel, and our own determinations on all that re lates to the commerce of our Government with Foreign States as well as the Colonies. 4. The Office shall be composed of the Di rector-General of Customs, Vice-President, &c. Given at the Palace of the Tuileries. Jan. LOUIS- [From Galignani's _Messenger of Jan. 7.] PARIS, JAN. 7.—(Stook Exchange, Jan. 6.) — The price of Stocks has experienced a declines to-day, which is attributed to the fall of the English Funds. The Five per Cent., for Money, closed at 941. The Exchange Market is in a state of stagnation. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the house of Connt Villele. Extract of a Letter from Sarragossa.-- 4 4 The number of French troops that pass through this City on their way home is very great ; the last column is to depart to-morrow. Several indi viduals known to he Constitutionalists, and among others San Miguel, have put themselves under the protection of the French." The prices of French Itentes on Wednesday, according to the Eloile, were as follows : Rented opened at 93. 70., and at three o'clock were at 93. 55. Ducats, 79.—Spanish, 26.4. In our front page we have given extracts from French and Brussels Papers. We also subjoin, --- PRICE OF STOCKS TT! IS DAY AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 233 India Stock ................ 261 i 3 per Cent. Red. Ba 138 i India Bonds ............ 83s. 815' per f t) . :1t.C0n5....87 86t 87;, South Sea Stock 93i •.-it . , per Cent 94 Old Annuities ~ Cent, f Old WIG E. Bills 55 5 3 4 p er Cal " rt New 105 M Ditto Small 5 per Cents. 1797 — Bank for Act. -- Bank Long Ann. 22 I-I6th i 1 India f or C on. Acct. ...... --' Imp. 3 per C ents . 861 I Cons. for Op. „ - 'RICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, JAN. gt AT ONE O'CLOCK. r Five per Cents. 00. I Scrip, 5L pm. Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 89. Five per Cent. Bonds, 89. Scrip, 5 prem. r Five per Cent. Bonds, 1829, 00. Ditto Ditto 1823, 00. Five pe r C ent . B onds, 0 18 1 : 4 11 . , 24 i e Ditto New, 892 i. Five per Cent. Bonds, 91. 00. hi, elop ca la Sup 41, 1 tip]