The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-16 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 14.—John Wright, aged 94 years, and
an out-pensioner, of Chelsea Hospital, was indicted for an
attempt to defile the person of Eliza Harris, a child only nine
years of age, Lis: July. The offence was clearly proved, and
the Jury returned a verdict of Cult y.
V the Chairman asked the prisoner in the usual way
what he had to say why sentence shon.il not he passed upon
hint, lie addres..ed the Court about a quarter of an hour, stating
Ills Great age ; his ha‘: .g ',cried in the artily 45 years ; and
herrn.; fought and beef, wounded in the service of the country
in every quarter of tl e globe. lie snide he never was a pri-
soner of war but fur one quarter of an hour, and flint be slew
t:•ree persons who were set over him as a guard on that ocra
SUM in the wilds of America. Daring his momentary impri-
sonment, lie had been offered s commission in the Amtrir an
rebel army., w; ich he refused, and travelled GOO milts through
woods and forests, ic.ll2l,itrd only by beasts of prey, and
eventually joined the British aruiy. lie was sentenced to two
months' solitary confinement in the (louse of Correction.

On Thursday last about one o'clock, one of Car-
lile's *lymen was arrested at his shop, No. .5,
Stater-lane, on suspicion of selling " Paliner's Prin-
ciples of Nature" behind the curtain. Smith, the
informer in this case, is in the employment of the
Society for the Suppression of Vice.
SupEnsTiTtoN.-011 the day the sale of Mrs.
Donatty'e furniture took place, and the public curiosity was so
great, that the house was ezuwded with persons more for the
purpose of seeing the place, and emit trying about her murder,
than for the sake of making elia-es. tine whole of the rowan
were well furnished, but, from their filthy appearance, did Hot
look as if they bad been entered for years. The boards under
the oil•elotlt in the passage exhibited a shocking right, being as
much covered with die blood of the deceased as they were tut-
int.diately after the murder. About half past eight in the even-
ing the whole siei.;libourhood was alarmed at the report, that
Mrs. IJonatty's Omni appeared to Mrs. Lail, a woman lodging
in the first floor at the next house to that of the neceased, a cl
who wan the person who heard the screams of murder issuing
from 31rs. Meow", on the night of the minder. The Street WAS
elf)* persons, and Mrs. Earl's cries were heard firou
o.ur end of the street to the other—it was reported that Mrs.
Diniatty's ghost appeared to her. Mrs. Elil having alarmed
all the instates of the house, to whom she related the circum-
ailtlirll, slue aftcrwar... went into IQ sterieks, in which state she
remained a counideranle part of the night, during which time
the crowd began to increase in the Street, and it was found
necessary to rail the watchmen to di.peis,• them.
ExEl UTION —6.tturdity the 7th inst. V. Costelo,
aged :10, who bail been fused guilty at the late Assizes for
being one of deem concerned with Mown in the abduction of
Alias Gould, was executed at I.altow's green. Fitzumurice,
otherwise Ceptein Rock, who hail pleaded guilty on the
was to have suuered with Costello, hut lie wus
respited the evening before. Costello, who had been convicted
principally on the tcati.moiy of .11r. Gould, continued to the last
to declare his innocence, not only of the shove crime, but of airy
cueitexiiiii with, ur any other Imo age committed he, the %Vliite
Boys. The history he gave of hi." miefortune to persons who
conversed with him in the gaol previous to going to execution,
was tine was a relative of Browit's and was workman to
Lim for live years, up to September, 1821 ; lie then left him for
fur the purpose of assisting his brother, whose wife then died,
leav•.ng a large family. lie then continued in the practice of
habits of industry, and, an lie declared on the acatfold, knew
nothing of Hue abduction of Miss Gould till the morning after.—
kle slept, he declared, on that night, nod it was endeavoured
to be established 011 the trial, with his brother ; and litaniau-
ric.C, who pleaded guilty, frequently slime was heard to declare
the innocence of this unfortunate man. Before going out to exe-
cution, he übsert ed to a person in the gaol—" Are not these
queer law a that make a man's life depend on the oath of one
witness r' 'iv also asked this person whether lie than ltd. there
was much pain to the punishment lie had to under,:o ? but being
assured there was not, and that it was only instantansous, it
forded I consolation. 'f he only thing that lie seem.d to ap-
prehend was, the first bi,;lit of the hangman, and the tying up of
his arms; but Laing reenuned with Oil Ibesr points, he acqui.
weed 111 their propriety, and assumed his usual firmness; and
when flip )))) er wire to 110 lit. arms lie put them Si far
back that the tightness became extremely painful to him iii his
progress to the gillnws. Ilia manner of going to ned at the
place of execui ioa was such as to awaken the sympathy and ex-
cite the astoisiblimeet of ■ll, even of those who euvriled him,
seine I f whom were obeerved to shed leers. He was firm to
the lust, 51111 in him was oh Isle that Ullorestitning confidence,
which vuulil arise from no other source but the iiiiliwvitre of
his heart, and has consign/tie free.diam trout the crime fur *ldols
he buifet ed. Ilia Attesit ttttt to the cirri:4ll4ll who accompanied
kite shooed him t be deeply impressed with 'feelings of true
itirt) : Lc died bl.ssiag his piunrcuiers, and begging the
pral.os of the people. Ile was a veal-haul:Mg mon, with rasher
soft and epi n I ountenacce, and lied nothing timing or &fez
hairiest w his appearsace. The crowd which atteuded the els
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