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London, England, 1808-04-19 00:00:00

JUDGE 11.4 i? DINGE.

1110 ataaro4 ou rusing seuicaze sba Irittiam Williams, at this
left Ciirdi.f Aware.

a• Williams—, nu ore 000viete.i of a
base awl cruel murder. Four's is the very deepest
soiour of that guilt, whit*, in its in./Meat views nisi
shadeseevery notde and generous current of the
bean :injures old repels—kou have columned the
Linsicide of a closer l's reveug.a—x lay suass upon
the cowardice. It is the serpett in' the was ;and
lite adder in the path, who 444 the heel to death.
4t is not the' passian (depaved by its excess) of
tliat elevated creature man. Revenge itself is in
ins very nature cowardice. The man of true spirit
IbrAives ; anti proves, by that courage, that hit
enemies (who hay.• delimited or have injured liiia) ,
{re at ma feet.o.'ll..re iii nn victory tan prostal.—.
You arc a alisholio ir to your comitryiatal.—The
Welsh are too paersionate (I admit Batter tiieto) but
*bey are brave, Impair they%re generous. ene-
mies. Therevengi which grraded 'you to thin in-
train ocis et the beet, was priJe, stung to the
art by en °distils unmerited...but at the worst it
*so atecompanied, if not awakened, by the consci-
ousness of guilt and fear of atindetikaions if you
bad felt yourself cal uasniated, theism woo open to
*our claim-of redress, i.nd would have ensilded you
to re-assert sad re-establish your is4oreti character.
" Be taking away this poor creature's life you in-
tercepted aoristilled his evidence against you ; anal
io far you have been discreet iu the address of
ga It. But where is the, wisdom of such cunning?
It is left handed, said the 1.-:t hand betna)s the
a' The disappearance of rule boy—the time and
place of it—toe (tete( teal conceal/toast of the death
—marks of external violenc./—blood upon your
otother--und upon the knife in ;tour pocket—the
eorrespondence of numerous and mortal wounds to
t)'at instrument—waited their pareethal testimonies
aviast you ; and were cosibris.ted by your condi/tit;
for you ant only had fled, but had amounted fur
your flight by a deliberate. acid subtle fiction. You
bud coother enemy and at home. It was pun.
engine, that sure implement of treaeliery to guilt.
he depraved cannot. Ise silent--they are self ac-
cusers by force, net the listening ear betrays them.
You awakened suspicion against you ley saysi;:c me-
naces of revenge extending to the victim's life, anal
pointim,r at the concealment of the death. You
bane only two days to live ; on Monday next you
are to Is no more, lint 1 hope you have employed
the long period of your iniprisonrneut in making
your lamer with a God of enemy and forlwarance,
can lovcs nil his creatures, and whose image has
been violated by your impious hand. Your death
will satisfy the law—it is the last atonement which
is in your power to your fellow-crest:les ; who are
sill of &can deeply laity/lei/is! this murder, a► if the
child had been their own—for the social world is a
family of loves--Him )on cannot recall—you will
•gn to hisn'—he cannot a return to ion'—he is in
the lesion of his Father stud of has God—with
trembling hope that if at se early an age of his play-
ful course in this world, he had vicious habits store-
pented, or vicioria propensities undisciplined, a
death so vinprepared may plead for mercy to him.—
Hope in tliip vrovhd# run give you cone.—Mope. of
user-yin iiesot .1 dam not either give or with-
bold; • becsaaSe the wisdom and goodness of the
Jorige who will determine your fate, (not for days,
fur mointlui, for years, or centuries of vents, but Inc
an unfathoinatile eternity,) cannot be'estimated by
man.

A. This, however, I can safely tell yeti, because a
lirdeenting God has told it rue, that if you sin-
errely repent—yon will save yoire lOW alive.
What i. the measure and spirit of repentance that
will produce that 'fruit, will • be sown is weak-
re-.. !rut will he raised in power'—will • NOW in
tarn but witt reap in joy,' it aiould be impious for
the to coojeettnet But
I can prompt the depth of
ite;enuoits remorse, and the conciliating efficacy of
prayer, se i i.pensible to your prejiaration for i hat
awful state of roeompenee and of judgment,
tempered with love and mercy) which you
ire now going. to enter.
" May your soul, after it has left the body, (and
staids naked tar fwe its Creme-, its Redeemer, gml
It. Jad.te.) 'find its deliverance at the awful
tribunal of eternity! and may it be saved alive ty
a new spirit bf self-abliorrence—by hated of the
mud by unequivocal peuitence-.-by likuung at

the hadulgence of criminal par ions, and 11 a ve-
teran of tat: nedi.." .

atuage then passed the sentence of duath.

•
The mot:v.l6o made ay Willies lia:ns, ese-
. uteu at Larchit, last. ara *. lot thewilfut murder
at thivut 13. sltiauis, was—that he watched so op-
portunity, os the morniug of thc.day ou which he
committed the 'erase. of meeting the deirawed
alone. and having overtaken him in a field bn his
return to higiraiidfother s house, after some words,
he knocked the boy down, kitilmml him on the tight
t. Mph, and in the stomach,. •• doubled low, and
broke bps hack-bone." lie then took a stake tioni
the hed4e-ifide;.alterpetied at use end, at.d stabbed
him repeatedly in 'the neck,. two of which thrusts
(being made with both howls), went through and
through ; and once, he believed, he stubbed him
in the belly. lie afterwards went home to his fa-
ther's house, but returned at night, and shagged
the body about I.so yards to a ditch, into which lie
• threw it. 'the Prisoner's father found the stake on
Sunday se'iinight, the day before his soa's esccu.
tine, and on chewing it to the Prisoner, lie acknow-
ledged it to be the ideaticul instrument with which
be perpetrated the horrid deed.