The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-31 00:00:00

EXECUTION.

Sentence of death was yesterday morning carried into executiotr
at the Old Bailey on W. LAWN, aged 23 ; IV. Milker, 19 ; and
J. Ferguson, 25. The two former of these unhappy young men
had been accustomed for some time to pursue a course of life which
might naturally be expected to lead to so fatal a termination.
Lintot, whose crime was burglary, was the school-fellow of Dur-
ham, who suffered death about six weeks back; they were both
tried together in January Sessions, when Lintot was acquitted, but
detained till February Sessions, and then convicted. Although re-
spectably connected and religiously educated, he Is known to have
supported himself for some years past by dishonest practices, and
about two years back was sentenced to a term of imprisonment is
the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields ; he confessed, however,
to a Gentleman who visited him in Newgate recently, that he had
suffered many compunctions while engaged in nefarious pursuits,
which he, from time to time, resolved to forsake; but not hay-
ing been brought up to any trade, and bis character being lost,
he found it difficult to regain the paths of rectitude. Ili, con-
duct since his coodeumation bore evident marks of humility and
penitence.
Walker, who was convicted of robbing the house of Mr.
Downes, in Great James-street, Bedford-row, of a large quantity
of jewels, has been unhappily in kedept in crime, and was well
known to the police at the eastern part of the town ; he was ap-
prenticed to a pawnbroker : his brother was transported about a
year back. Ile has declared that he was induced to commit the of-
fence of which he will convicted, in consequence of information
given, and plans laid by a late servant in the family of his prosecu-
toe. This unfortunate youth appeared deeply sensible of the evil
of his former life; and after the service in the chapel, at Nes/gate,
on Sunday last, he rose in the condemned pew, and addressed his
fellow-prisoners at considerable length, with a propriety and fluency
which astonished all who heard him, exhorting them to take warn-
ing by his own melancholy situation.
Fergueon,m very tine young man, who suffered for breaking into
the house of Mr. Gilson, in Thames-street, his employer, and steal-
ing plate and other articles, had previously borne an unimparched
character. Being under some pecuniary embarrassments, and falling
into bad company, hews, led to commit the desperate act which has
brought him to a premature end. His fainily and connections were
most respectable; he, as well as his companions in affliction above.
mentioned, demeaned himself in a manner becoming his awful
situation. Seldom perhaps has it occurred that three such young
men, in the bloom of youth, and so respeembly connected and edu-
tined, have been doomed to weir together.
During the preparations for their death, the unfortunate yorng
men displayed the greatest firmness, and apparently the meat un-
affected devotion. Nothing could be conceived more becoming
than their whole demeanour during the last moments of trial and
affliction. They acknowledged the justice of their sentence, and
the kindness and humanity with which they had been treated
during their confinement. When his arms were shout to be pinioned,
Ferguson, recollecting himself, requested the of ieers to stop until
he had put on a pair of black silk gloves, the last present of an
esteemed friend, and in which he wished to die. It is needless to
say that this request was complied with. On ascending the scaf-
fold they bowed respectfully to the crowd, who seemed deeply
affected by the youth and prepossessing appearance of the unhappy
convicts. When the drop fell, Lintot struggltd for a little time
severely, but in the others sensation seemed to be almost imme-
diately extinct.
Sonic hopes were entertained of a commutation elf punishment
for Lintot, on account of his grandfather having been a servant
of the late King, and a petition in his favour was presented
through the Duke of York, we understand ; but Government saw
no reason why the law should not take its course.

IMF R.—At the Anises at Leicester, on Monday, a
man named Billsott was tried foe the murder of his wife on the 7th
of December last, It appeared in evidence, that on the day men.
tinned Billson ran out of the house crying " Murder !"and
holding up her hands to her throat, which was found to be cut in
two places, and that she died in about ten minutes after she entered
the house of a neighbour. The prisoner, who was jealous of his
wife, had been frequently heard to threaten her with murder, and
after his apprehension he confessed his guilt to two persons. At
the trial his son, a boy aged ten years, who was present at the mur-
der, was brougbt to give evidence against his father ; but it was
dispensed with, as the circumstances of the case sufficiently prorud
his guilt without such an afflicting testimony. Thu Learned Judge
(Mr. Baron Bullock), in summing up, was so much affected, that
for a time he was quite unable to proceed, and the Foreman of the
Jury was equally affected when he pronounced the verdict—Guilty.
One of the Jurors, when he heard sentence of death pronounced,
ejaculated " Oh, Christ !" and burst into tears. The prisoner, a
ferocious-looking man, declared that the evidence against him was
incomplete, and shook his head, as though he wished to insinua:c
that the witnesses had sworn falsely. It is said that his wile WAS*
most excellent woman, and that there were not the slightest grounds
for suspecting her of nandelity. ;She is repassmatal as basing been
very beautiful.
On Tuesday Richard Holderness, who was convicted
at the York Assizes of slim-King at, and dangerously wounding,
Richard Manners, the Focklington carrier, wait sentenced to he
hanged. Mr. Justice Holroyd, in passing sentence, told the pri-
soner, that the nature of bis crime was such as to prevent the
least possibility of the law not being carried with full effect against
him.—Charlotte Shaw, alias Peck, for child-stealing, at Leeds.
was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas tor the term o:
seven years.

MARKETS.
CORN EXCHANGE, Almecri SO, ISIS.

We bad but few itesh arrivals of.gruin this morning. In conse.
quence of the Corn Laws being likely us undergo sonic considees-
uon in the House of Commo.4 this Session, our market WWI
extremely dull to-day, and every article might have been purchased
on rather lower terms than on Monday.
COAL MARKET, M*iicu 30.