The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-13 00:00:00

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DUBLIN, APRIL B.
Major-General D'Eeereux. oldie l'atriot Armies
of Venezuela mull New Grenada, his sailed fur
England. with pion of his Stall, on business con-
nected with the important service in which lie is
engaged, and upon which he ildP already conferred
su many valuable benefits.

EXECUTION OF O'HARA AND BRENNAN, AT
ROSCOMMON.

These two unfortunate wretches, who were ca-
pitally convicted at the last AlgiZell of Roscommon,
with eight others, who have since been reprieved,
underwent the awful sentence of the law on Mon.
day last, the sth April. On Sunday night, the
Ifttli March, about half-pest six o'clock in the even-
ing, immediately after the Clergyman left them, the
under-gaoler, who attended them in their cells since
their conviction, and who was most hoinanely kind
to them, went as usual to lock them up. Ile sat a
few minutes with them, when they sent him for
some turf ; sod when in the act of serving them in
this humane way, on his return to the cell they
knocked him down, and murdered him in a cruel
manner, by strangulation. lie has left an unfor-
tunate widow and ten children to deplore his loss.
We trust the Government will not suffer this un-
fortunate woman and children to die in misery. Af-
ter they unordered him, they took from him the keys,
by which means they got to the top of the primo to
effect their escape, when, fortunately, one of the
16th regiment, who was sentinel, perceived them
on top, by the noise of their bolts, and gave the
alarm, wben they were immediately secured. They
then solemisly.declared their innocence of the 'mur-
der, and though they were brought nut to see the
dead body, they called on God to witness their in-
nocence, and at one o'clock the next morning they
confessed their guilt of the murder, as well as the
robbery, for which they were to suffer. Those
morn's relations in this county are respectable far-
mers, tier above the lower orders, but they have
always been mesa of bad character. They seemed
unconcerned at the awful fate which awaited them,
°mil the day before their execution ; and on the
unarming of the execution they seemed very pent- •
tent, and ascended the fatal platform with much
steadiness. ''hey spoke at some length to the pis.
Wilmer, which exceeded iii number any thing ever
witnessed ou a former occasion (uot less than 5,000
persons witnessed the execution), and warned them
vpitset illegal meetings and bad company, which
brought them to the gallows. At about lialfpast
twelve they were launched into eternity. They did
nut suffer much. Their bodies were then, by the
directions of Government to the Sheriff, buried iii
the gaol yard, which seemed to have au equal ef-
fect with the execution on the populace. Previous
to their execution, the Sheriff, who received an
order from Government to remove all the convicts
under sentence of transportation ou that day to
Cork, caused the convicts all to be put on carts,
chained together iii frout of the prison, to witness,
the execution, which had a very good effect, as
their friends all *needed to take leave of them,..-
The Monsen* the execution was over they were
marched aft under a atroug escort.
..The whole
was an awful ceremony as ever was vritneetedz—
They alone ought to be a lesson to gaolers, never
to go themselves, or allow their deputies to go near
such people, without • sufficient guard to protect
them.

The prem nt population of the Danish States is
caleuirte4 at 1,862.0 W) *OOl4 viz—ln Denivark:
L,400.000, iu tie Ducbies of Sehleswick and of
Holstein, 650,000, in the Duch, of L,auenbgu►g.
30,000, and in the Isles of Faro, something mote
than 51,000.