The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-24 00:00:00

CAPTAIN OTALLAGHAA.

The ft;llost mg Memorials from Captain ('Callaghan and the
Jurors by wain he was tried, addressed to the serretary of
State for the Home Department, were, we understand, pire,hte4
to the Right Honourable Gentleman by Lord Montfwd on Satur-
day last
I" TO Tilt RIGHT HOW. ROBERT PEEL, MS AJPAT
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TILE ROME I)E.

r M:.NT.
" he Lui.lrAc Memorial of Luke Carlos O'Callaghan, a pd.
serer r.-.A confined in the Surrey County Gaul, fur an assault

or. the I(ev. James Saurin,
" Sheweth,—That your Memorialist was, on the 14th instant,
tried at the Quarter Sessions for the county of Surrey, fur an as-
sault on the Rev. James Saurin.
That the Jury, on that accession. returned a verdict of
Guilty, but strongly recornatentled your Memorialist to mercy,
on the ground in the provocation given by the conduct of the
prosecutor.
That the (mire sentenced your ,Memorialist to pay a fine of
201. and to one month's imprisonment in the County Gaol.
" That, in consequence of the treatment experienced by your
Memorialist since his imprisonment, he transmitted the annexed
Memorial (marked A.) to the Court of Quarter Sessions, and was
by that Court referred to the Visiting Magistrates, to whom he
then transmitted the Memorial (marked B.)
" That to this Memorial your Memorialist has not rectived
any answer, that he still continues to be treated, in every
respect, more like a felon than a mere misdemeanant.
" That Toe Jle noralist humbly submits, that the irepr!soz,
mint of eight days, twelve hours of each of which he has yea
Ipknepsotn siinrolwitalry.ceco of Dreadnfinemeitiinr4 water, and subjected to many °thee, with no other sustenance than thd
pries' ions, is more than adequate to the crime of which let has
been found guilty.
" That your Memoralist humbly begs to call your attention to
the annexed memorial (marked C.) of the Jurors by whom he was
tried, and implores that, taking all the circumstances of the case into
consideration, you will be pleased to recommend him to the mercy
of the Crown, and to advise a remission of the remainder of fus
sentence.
" And your Memorialist will ever pray.
(Signed) " L. C. OTALLAGITAY.
1 " surrey County th.ol, llorsernonger-lane, June 21, 11r2.4."

" To the Right Hon. Robert Peel. his Majesty's Principal Seere.
tart of State for the Home IJepartment,
"The Humble Memorial of the Undersigned, the Juan who
tried the case of the Ring at the Prosecution of the /by.
James Saurin, against L. C. ()'Callaghan, at the Surrey Sea-
sines, on Monday the lath instant,
" Sheweth—That your Memorialists, after hearing the evidence
on both sides, felt themselves bound to return a verdict of guilty; n
but at the saute time they were deeply impressed with the reeling
that though th t assault eimmiael by the defendant was not justi.
fable in strict law, yet that the provoking conduct of the prose.
cuter gave to the offence the high at degree of palliation.
" That, in consequence of this impression, they strongly teen.
mended the defendant to the m ivy of the Court.
" That, notwithstanding such recommendation, the Court sm.
teneed the defendant to one month', imprisonment in the county
gaol, and a fire of 291.
" That your Memo-ialists, being firmly convinced that the
punishment which the defendant has already suffered (cora:tiering
the severe manner in which esivicted misdemeanants are treated by
the ml s of the Surrey gaol) is snore than commensurate with the
slight degree of gu It which was proved befbre them, mat humbly
I and most earnestly beg lea,: to recommend his case for the OHM.
ful consideration 0- the Crown, and to implore the remission of his
sentence, and y ur Memorialists will ever pray.
(Signed)
" Joint DAt.GETTT, 236 Bermonfisey-strtet, Newnan.
" JOHN WOOL/ACTT 7, Itothirbithe•
" JOHN WATSON. 211, Rntherhithe.wall.
" OwEnn 31•Csernv, 1 11, 01km-street, Borough.
" THOMAS WRIGHT, 2; Mo a -street, Lambeth.
" Roamer ASHLEY, 4 Yo nt.street, Lambeth.
" Writ.rax loan, 14, lilo •nt•street, Lambeth.
" JOSEPH RATHENT, 1, 3101.111.1H/EH, Lambeth.
" NVILLIAM FOLIEST, Hercule...buildings, Lambed].
" Jolts BAILEY, 11. Itotherhtthr.wall.
" JAMI a Wince, 3:, Rother.iithe.walL
" Thomas Wood, another of the Jutors in the above ease,
for himself must humbly begs leave to recommend the defendant
to the mercy of the Crown, rot on axount of provocation by the
prosecutor, but in consequence of the over severity of the prison
regulations, to which he is sub* ted.
(Signed) " THOMAS WOOD, 164, Union-street, Borough."
The majority of the Jury who signed the above memorial, express.
cd their indignation and astonishment at the seventy of the sentence,
after their recommendation, from the provocation the defendant re.
ccived. Before the Memorial was determined upon, it had been pro.
posed by one of the Jury to pay the fine of 2MI. between them, should
it meet with the approbation of Captain ('Callaghan, in order to
mark their sense of the severity exercised towards him.
Such conduct, from men wholly unconnected with and unknown
to the defendant. puts in a very strong light the feeling which his
cave has recited,
The above case is, we understand, not the only one in which the
severity exercised towards prisoners confined in the Surrey gaol is
likely to come before the public. The debtors confined in the pri-
son have signed a petition to Paliament, aunplaining of the suf.
ferings to which they are subjected, by the rigid regulations esta-
blished by the Visiting Justices, contrary, as they contend, to
the spirit of the late ` - Gaol Act." The petition has been trans.
knitted to Mr. ilobbouse, 31. P., and is to be presented to the House
this evening.

EXTENSIVE FRAUD.