The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-29 00:00:00

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AUaLTSIT 99.

cit.oaeieriie that c-rp... Eagiisli lost 91)00 men. The Loss of
the Fiend' is estimated at '2',00.
Art" the two assaults which the English made on the town of
San Seta..,tian, and in hotti which they were repulst.d, amt left the
hit-Aches and (Welles with their dead, they remained very quiet
on the .6th, but on the V7th, pe.ceiving the progress made by the
Duke of Dalmatia, they made ..);-eparatiens for raisin(' the siege, and
traosported toeir artillery lute the harbour, in order to put it en
board their ips.
The brave soldiers of the garrisott of San Sebastian, who had re-
pulsed troll %%ids so much vigour, sallied out hetore day-light, with r
the c‘ymitriol Litit.-Col. Lape, commander of the mountain ya-
ger, anti cut down *Ally thing the fomiti in the trenches.
comitcd tic•Ati bo,nes, anti 3--'2 prisoners, among 40.1itiii:
vet re 30 oftit err. It is belie sett that the Duke of Dalmatia will limo;
chtered ittoria on the 31st ofJstly or Ist of August. We may,
therefore estimate, that since our re-commencing offensive °yen'
Coos, the loss ttf the E tsltsll. Portuguese, and Spaidsli army amounts
to tn,.)00 men, 11111 'Nhicii are Bor 9000 English.
Another letter from that comely contains as follow The
Doke of Aliaitei a evacuated Valericta on th.e :its July, leaving gar-
-ohs in the citadel and Ittrt of Sagentum. He pa-sed the Ebro at
Tortosa and aerivcd at mi:Tagona, where he had the good fortune
of fold io t‘itii a composed of one-ronrth English, and the
other three-fourths Spa:dai ifs %chum he put to flight. He • made
1.-oo• prisoners. took ad their cannon, and killed and wounded a great
mitotic'. of their men.
" Gm. Graham, the second in command of the English army, is
dead of his womals.
" In the actions which took place on the fl4th, 'Vitt), and 16th, the
Englitth and Sp odardsh td covered the different hills over which the
French army had to puss with entrenchments ; all these works were
carried bt assault.
" columns of the Basqlies, which had joined the French army,
ant) gone round a mountain, did the enemy great damage. The Eng-
lish were in full flight on ad •=ith heat! quarters of the Duke
of Dalmatia are e‘pected at Vittoria."

PROVINCIAL ASSIZES, 4c.

WARWICK.

John Britain was indicted for the murder of his wife. On the
trial of this unhappy man, the principal evidence against him
his own son, who un the sight of his father, was scarcely able to
sastain the shock. His countenance betrayed his horror at the
li:dant part he was called on to act ; nor were his feelings confined
to himself : Jud,4es, Council, Jury, and spectators, were alike
affected at the scene. After some time had been allowed the w itness
to recover himself, the Jn:lge iSir S. lA' Blanc) told him that the
task was, indeed, a painful one; but that it was a duty be owed to
his God, his country, and the memory of his deceased mother, to state
to the Court such circumstances of the murder of his deceased parent
as wk re within his knowledge reeolleeting that his father haul
broken the chains that bind society together. After repeated
encouragement from the Counsel, lie proceeded in his testimony
with but little interruption, and in the course of it stated the follow-
ing facts:—.
The witness was sleeping, on the morning of the btli of April, in
the tame room with his father, mother, and a younger brother;
about sis o'clock, on being suddenly disturbed by a noise that
proceeded from that part of the room were his parents slept, he
rose and went to the spot, and there foninl his &tiler standiw, in
a threatening attitude over the bed in which his mother lay. "'On
examining the bed, he found his mother ‘veltering in her blood,
wick flowed from a wound she had received from a bar of iron
which his father held in his hand. The prisoner was again in the
act of raising Ids hand to strike the deceased, when witness milted
up to him, and wrested the bar from his atop, exclaiming at the
same time," 0, my dear father, have merry!" and in his endeavonr:
to obtain the murderous weapon, received a violent blow on ore o'
his arnm. On his father oscoming cooler, witness went again to his
mother and saw that she was much bruised about the head and face,
her blood flowing very fast ; her speech was gone, and she appeared
to he in extreme agony. lie wiped the Wood from her face with
some water, and his father in a short tune came to the bell and
assisted him. Witness left the room to call fur the assistance of
sonic neiglibomra, and then proceeded in search of onedical aid.
The witness further stated, that he had often been disturbed in his
reit during the last six or seven months pievious to the morder, by
his father's singular behaviour; as for instance, by his getting out of
bed at :light, going down stairs, and misplacing the furniture, and by
tue sf Wimp exiiressions. He ‘itas convinced that hi, father

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lakoured, at time,, under mental derangement, Ina nothing had
oceurredyf that description Mitliku a month previons to the murder.
Some other evidence, in corroboration of the facts anive stated,
was gone through, vrlit tr, the prisoner was called upon t'or his
defence. ite accordine'y uttered a long arid uneonnectt.d addresi,
partaking more of a soliloquy than of any thing else Hescesued
to rely on his insanity at the time the fatal deed was coliimitted,
and on the act being involuntary and unpremeditated;
The Learned Jndge, in stowing up, stated to the iiry,
they had to confine them,elves to the qiiestion, whether the prkiiiee•
was sane at the time of committing the tired, the tact, of the
Iceeased having met her death at his hands bcin4 intlitputalift%
The Jury in ten nintats returned their verdict--Guilty..
YORK.

Joseph Fourniss anal George Wilkinson, otherwise George Chew,
were charged with burglarionsly entering the dwellihg house of
George Holroyd, of Clifton, and stealing therefrom a quaetity of
bacon, butter, and eggs, on the f.Oth of April last.
George Holroyd, a clothier, who resides at Hartshead, stated,
that he was disturbed in the night of Friday, the :loth of April, awl
awoke from his sleep about one o'clock in the moron:};; the first
object he saw was a person standing at the heti-head, with a shovel
in his hand, who waved it over him in a nu naring attitude, anti
threatened to take away his life ifhe did nut deliver up al the
money 1w had This person he stated to be the prisoner Foul niss ;
witness almost immediately alter, saw another man; witness replied
they might take all he had, if they would only spare his life. He
said they thea demanded a candle, and that he directed theta
allure to tin(' one, which whit n found. they lighted at the fire. They
then demanded his gun, anti witness told them where to fiat! it.
Fourniss also got the gun, and demanded of the witness why it Was
cocked ? Witness told him it was only on the halfscoek. Fonrniss
then came again to his bedsside, and drew a tabloskitife front his
'metal, and said., it' he del not teti him were his notes were, he
would certainly take his life. He assured them that he had no
money worth their notice, but they might search were they would.
and take what they would, if' they would only spare his life.
rourniss said, money they wanted, and money they must have, anti
asked hint were his breeches were. IVitness told them they were
laid upon a chair by the bed side, but there was only witywnee in the
~ockcts, which was all the money he had ; he did not bee them
take it out, but in the mo.ning lie found that it was gone, and he
was sure that it was in his pocket when he went to bed ; after that,
Fourniss agaia• threatened to kill him with a knife ; they bath
eaate to his bed-head, anti Founds., said that as he would not into, to
them were his money was they w• add kill him; witness Vice
requested time for prayer. Wilkittsan said to Fourness," let him
pray," and the • witness prayed a few minutes whilst the pilsoners
stood over him, when he had done praying, Wilkinson seemed to
t•eiviit, for when the other Aaitl,"lle nib not show us where the money
we must kill him!" Wilkinson said, No Iwe will not kill him."
Fourniss thea went into the. cellar, leaving Wilkinson to shim! over
him with the knite. Wilkinson told the witness .he need not tie
afl..id bat might lte down and sleep, ter lie should not be hurt if he
mild help it. When Fourniss.came out of the ceder, he went into
a heck place where his loom was. Witness said, that when they
were standing over hin, flirt atenieg to take lite, he told them
it' they would spare his lite, he would eet them a new mites from his
;laughter, anti lay them in a hole at the hone end fur them, which
they might fetch away the -following night. Withess said, they
remained in the house about all hour, and took away nine or ten
pounds of bacon, a quantity of butter, and about fen ty eggs: they
took the key of his door, and went out of the back window, which
was the way they entered his house. The Jury retired for abort
(ma' as, hour, and on their return intq Court found the pr;soners—
Guilty, but reeomutentleti Wilkiasiin to mercy, on account of the
compassion he had shove.

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MOCK PARSON.

DOWN!, tTRICK. AVG 17.--Michael Mllvena was indicted for
represeiiting himself as a Clerzymao of the Eqablislied Church, mil
also as a Pari,h Priest ; atnd for s‘iltidly and feloni,in,ly cciOnati%t;
marriage, he beit;g a Lyman ; anti al?ro in, another count, for asyiii,t-
-i ng in the seduction of Mary Hair.
Mary Ilair sworn.---Lives as servant to Mr. John Knox,
Drumaiusekan, Hear Dromore ; went to keep lag Chri .dr
with her father and mother at lia!linahinrii; on her re'
day, she :net one Christopher Jeiming.; on the road, with
was formerly Requainteti, who took her Into t ptiVic house
Itc r, and pi ;tp,)..t d marriage to List, as he haikoften done '

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• which witness had consented; ti ey then went to Ballinahineh to'
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the house of one Singer, where they drank some punch; Jentungs
then ft witness there, and went out ;be returned, and took her to
die h se of Hugh Wilson, where the prisoner was ; Jennings then
said, here is the minister who will flurry you and me ; prisoner
rose up, took off his hat, and said that he was ; he then repeated
• what witness thought was a marriage ' • he asked Jennings if he
would take witness for his lawlid wife before God and the world,
and inked witness it she would take Jennings for her husband, and •
'joined their hands together. Witness is a Protestant of the &Ail-
blished Church - Jennings is a Roman Catholic. After the marriage,
witness asked for the marriage-lines, but prisoner said, it was not
usual with him to give marriage-lines: witness still insisting, Jen-
nings said, " Plea,e your Reverence you must satisfy the girl ;"
prisoner then wa...ot for paper, and wrote the lines which were pro-
duced in Court ; they were merely a scrawl on half a sheet of paper,
as follows :
" These are to certify, that Mary Hair is this day joined in
marriage to Christopher Jennings, of Drumara, as given tinder my
band, this 26th December, 1812. 46 W. M. G."
Jennings read them to the witness, who put tlein in her pocket ;
prisourr said he was always paid for such deities, and Jennings then
gave her three ten-pennies, which she gave to prisoter, who threw
them on the table dissatisfied saying, was he to be college-bred and !carn-
et!, and to be curbed of his fair demand ; it iiniogs said. '' An please
your Reverence, Mr. .Howdy. whatever is your demand I'll pay ;"
prisoner then took up the ten pennies and put them in his pocket ; pri-
soner then went out, and- on his return said he had got lodgings for
them from Mrs. 51'Kee, and took them there, saving to Mrs. M'Kee,
lie would he answerable for the consequences, ns they were Man and
wife ; witness accordingly staid there with Jennings all night as man
and wife, but has never lived with him ilium.
Cross examioed.--Ilad been acquainted with Jennings fur 12 months,
during which he courted her ; had been in a room alone with Jerioio.2.4,
before the day he took her to the prisoner to be manied, but nothinA
improper happened ; never any thing between them that she could care
who was present; did not say to any one before the marriage, that site
was the wite of -Jennings ; never went to meet Jennings at his own
lodgings ; was once in his room by accident, having been to the house
with a message, when Jennings treated witness; they drank the punch
as fast as possible, being in a hurry to go to liaalliaahinclt after they
had made it up.
Question by Mr. Scriven.--llad you no objection to be treated by
Jennings ?--A. I suppose you hare treated a girl before now yourself.
When Jennings proposed marriage, witness wanted to go to her
• brother and sister, but he would not let her. When M‘llvena intro-
duced them to the lodgings, he said to Mrs. M•Kee, he would take
his affidavit that they were decent married persons; which, on Mrs.
N'Kee seeming to doubt, he said, b—d and w—ds, would you doubt
my word ! The day after they were married, at parting, it was agreed
between them, that she should give warning to her master to leave
him; and Jennings undertook to satisfy her father and mother about
the runaway match. He-then, however, said, lie must tell her some
more of his roguery, fur that witness was not his wile. Witness re-
turned to her 'nester's.

Margaret Hair, the mother of the girl, was next examined ; can
neither read nor write; lived next door but one to Jennings; got the
lines from her daughter the Monday after Christmas; witness web very
angry Ishii her daughter, who cried bitterly ; she is seventeen yeure
of age; had only been a year and an hall from home, in Mr. Knues
service.
Jane MiCre lives in Ballinahincle ; prisoner came to her house, and
asked if she could give Jennings a►►d Mary Hair a bed ; witness said
she could, if they were man and wife ; he said they were, and that
he had been doing law business for them, and had detained them till
it was too late. He then brought Jennings and girl ; and on witness
expressing her doubts of their being married, he II .id lie would take
his affidavit of it : lie then loft them, and Jennings and Mary Hair r,at
down to the fire, while. witness was getting tea ready ; they slept to•
gether that night ; never beard that prisoner was a clergyman it was
said that he was a lawyer by profession.
Christopher Jennings sworn.- Knows Mary Heir; was in company
with her the day after Christtuat-day ; had been in a private room with
her before that, and had intimate knowledge of her for six months
before ; never heard Mary Hair say she was witness's wife ; prisOner
never married them, no•r joined their hands ; did not hear that Ike was
a Clergyman; he is called the Counsellor; Owner did not give Mary
Hair any marriage lines.
The Learned J edge charged the Jury, stating the nature of the
indictment, and summing -up the evidence. He animadverted on
the equivocating nature ofJettning's evidence, and put it to the Jury
to say what weight tiey should attach to it.

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The Jury retired, and in a short thou brou lit in a verdict finding
the prisoner guilty, Olt all the counts in the intrietment.
After Christopher Jennings had given Inc evidence, as aLove stated
be was removed from the table Mtn dock ; and on Thursday-Ja
tried on an indictment for a conspiracy debauch Mary Hair, and
an assault.--Ilie Jury brought him in Gnilty.
When Michael Al'llventi was called to the bar to receive sentence
and a,ked by the Clerk of the Crown, if he taxi . at.y thin:l to say wh
sentence of death ,hotild not pass ag..in,t him ; be seemed co;
unmoved, and said, it was a crime he sValr never guilty of.
His Lordship (Judge Mayne) pri.ceeded to pr‘mounce sentence
He said, be had been convicted of a crime of gredt ihagnitud• , ar

very destructive of the peace of society--that of pretending to be
Clergyman and marrying two persons of different religions persuasions__
(Prisoner. " I never did it, my Lord,)" tor the base porpo.e of et
bauching a voting and innocent woman. The crime he Lad bek
guilty of, had, by an express act of the Legislature, s, ills grelt
be en made a capital felony. Ile was sorry to observe, that in thi
conntry it was much too frequent --(Prisoner. " I never did it. it
pretended to do it.")--It was a clime calculated perhapa mare t!i;
col other to ruin the peace of families, and introduce the real;
disorders into civilized society. It is capital felony--iind aggi-av:it
by the impose for which it was committed, as %ethic:tin,' was evideo
part of the plan ; of all sehich, hi• Lordship oliserved, he had hero.
might say, twice found guilty, even by she testimony of Jennigs,
the satisfaction, opparemly, of all spectators. Nothing remaioed
him but to pass the sentence of the law :--that you, Michael M'llvey
be taken to the place frens whence you came, and tricot thence to II
minium place of execution, and there to be hung by the neck eni,
you are dead ; and the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Prisoner.--" I hope your Lordship will give me a long time."
His Lordship ob-erved, that sufficient time would be given him,
Ile hoped lie would make a good use of it.
The day of execution was tiled fur she 18th of September.
The Learned Judge, on passing sentence on Christopher Jennie;
animadverted on the enormity of the crime, observing that bis gu
was so much augmented by the attempt he made, as a witness,
screen his accomplice (Nl'llvena) from punishmetit, and in which
appeared to have committed wilful and corrupt perjury.
Ile was sentenced to stand on the pillory one hour, in Downpatric
to pay a fine of 501. and be imprisoned fur one year.

At the Truro Assizes, in an action brought by Mr. Wil;iams,
London merchant, against the proprietors of the mail-coach, hetwei
Exeter and Falmouth, fur having had his leg fractured, and some
his ribs broken, in consequence of the overturning of the coach
Poison-bridge, owing to the negligence of the coachman, a spec:
Jury gave a verdict of 2511. damages.
RlusEnv AND MURDER.—An Inquest has been held on the bed
of the Rev. Nicholas Westcombe, who was found 'wintered
Saturday se'unight, in a path way, at a short distance from Winch'
ter, leading to the Andover-road. It appeared, the deceased k
been seen walking upon the road, at nine o'clock in the morning
it was between nine and ten when his body was discovered.
belief prevailed that he had died by apoplexy; but, ona me
minute inspection of the body, a violent bruise was discoveil
111111C1' the jaw, which, it was imagined, produced instant deal'
added to which, a soldier of the WM regiment, of the name
Robert Glasse, on the death being mentioned in his hearing, i
mediately said he had seen the deceased lying near the si►,.
described in the morning, but that he did not attempt to disturb
hint, because be thought lie was asleep. The improbability of a
story (it being early in the morning), with some other circumstanc,
led to his being apprehended. Upon his examination, he was cal
upon to account for how he disposed of his time during the inornii
named ; which account he give ; but it was afterwards• falsified
many points, and the suspicions of his taring the perpetrator of
crime partook of rather a circumstantial form.- The Jury return
a verdict of fil(fui Murder against him, and he was committer'
the County Gaol. He is a man of more knowledge and
than are usually found in persons of his station, but of reputed bad
character. Mr. Westcombe was Rector of Barton Stacey, near
Winchester, Vicar of Cullingbonrne, and one of the Minor Canons
of Winchester Cathedral. A Watch and some money, which he
was known to have about him, were taken fronthis person.
.• FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MORDIHIV Or THE REV.
NICHOLAS WEsTcosstmaMednesday, Taunton, the officer, ar-
rived in town from Winchester. It appears dud the man who is in
custody under suspicion of being the pillipetritor of this lion id
deed, has -undergone many interrogatorilKin the greater part of
which he has prevaricated. He is unable ia-Aiti any evidence as to

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is time was disposed of the night the murder was coin-
iton states, that as the prisoner was shaving himself
ing following, a woman, mho lived in the house, acci-
moiling WI. and so great was his perturbation, that
au the glass in a state of frenzied Wel hereney, and ex-
)tly against the woman for having ply him in danger of
coat. It is said, that he had acquired some knowledge
appeared by the deposition of a person who resides in
she states, that sonic difference arose between them,
:e he seize.] her, and compressing the jugular vein,
,trangled her, had she not obtained assistance. By
_ Appositions of professional gentlemen, it seems that Mr. Wect-
roadie mu,:t have been first struck with an instrument on the head,
and afterwards the jugular vein must have been compressed, to have
caused 4eatli.

Wiliam Moir, formerly servant to Mr. Millingen, Gilkersclengh
Mains, Dumfriesshire, accused of poisoning his wife, by introducing
arsenic into a bacon ofoatineal, out of which she made and partook
of porridge, for her breakfast, en the morning of the Bth September,
has been apprehended within these few days in Fiteshire, anti
lodged in Edinburgh jail.
On Monday an Inquest was held at Chalford, Gloucestershire, on
the body of James Cox, an infant about six months old, linind lying
dead on the pillow near his mother, ss ith various discolourations on
the skin, usually remarked in cases of poison from deadly i.ight-
shade. It appeared in evidence, that a few of these pernicious
berries had been gatheied by a boy on the preceding Saturday,
MA left with some children at play, amongst whom was a girl
who had the care of this infant; and although the tact could
not be ascertained, strong suspicions were induced that the death
of the child had been occasioned by the effect of this deleterious
vegetable, and the Jury retnrned a verdict--Died by the visitation
of God.

A most melancholy and fatal accident happened on Tuesday
morning bast, at Winktield-park, the scat of William Mane, Esq.
A young; lady, Miss Blanc, daughter of Sir 0. Blanc, having gone
out cary in the morning, as she was accustomed to do, to skttch
views of the place, happened to seat herself upon a small stool,
%%Well she carried with her, close to the head of the pond,. and her
seat being insecurely fixed, she fell from it into the water. The
body was not fountl till past ten o'clock, and as she went out soon
after seven, it is probable that it might have been some time in the
water. Every means were tried, and continued fitr many 'hours, to
restore animation, but nolortunately without effect. She was a
lady in the bloom of youth, endowed with the most rate accom
plishments and finest dispositions. Her family and friends are in-
consolable.

Mint D R. —Friday-, the 6th instant, a barbaious murder was com.
milted on die body of Martin Cusack, of Glandree, in the parish of
Tulle, in the county of Ennis. by Darby Reddan and Michael Iteddan,
brothers, residing in the same place. About seven o'clock on the
evening of the 6th, they enicred the garden.wlkeie Cusack, the de-
ceased was at work during the day, and violently attackt-ci him: with a
spade and pitchfork. and, after inflicting at-number of wounds, and
fracturing his skull, they fled, leaving him app acidly dead. Juli son,
a :art of about eighteen years old, who was a melancholy spectator of
his father's murder, would have shared the same fate, were lit not
preserved by the liberal protection of a woman, who spread hersc'f
over him when she saw the rufflints approach him. The deceased was
immediately taken into his own house, where he lingered a few days,
and expired. In the mean time his marddreti a'bsconded. •
Snoca Arc 'DEN T.--A shocking ost6iirence took place at 'Wars'
Pond, about four miles from Egham, oft Thutaday evening. A Mr.
Knowley, accompanied by a friend, of the name of Smith, was re-
turning home at eleven o'clock at night, Itfter having (tined with .a
friend from.Eghans Races, at Englefield Galen, when tea-ligtee,started
out of the road and overturned the chaiseinw a kinCi ()Caravel pit,
sixteen feet below the surface of the road. The vehicle fell on Mr.
Knowley, and although he was not killed on. thg spot, he cannot pos-
sibly recover. The horse was kilted, but Mr. Smith miraculously
escaped unhurt, he having clung to the chaise in RI descent.
A nftowNEn WON n:i Friday morritig. as William Davis.
a fisherman, was getting into his boat, lying off Arundel Stairs, Strand,
he discovered the body of a woman. quite dead. in the mud. She was
nearly in a awe of nudity. The fisherman, with the assi,tairee-of
another, instantly took the body into the boat, and conveyed it or.
sh •re to the Receiving-house, in Strat.thine. An Inquest was held
the same day, at the Spatted Dog public-house. Strand-lane, before
Anthi.ny Gell, Esq. the Westminster, Corder, when a verdict was re-
corded. Found Drowned —The deceased was a pauper in the Wotk-
house belonging w St. Clesaeut'llines, and was in rte sixtieth year of
bar age.

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PHILIP NICHOLSON.

After sentence of' death was passed, Nicholson was placfml in the
condemned cell, which in the Maidstone gaol is under ground, and
the approach to it is dark and dreary, down many steps. In this
cell Mr. Boma had an interview with the prisoner, at half-past five
on Monday morning. On his approaching the cell, he found
Ni-
cholson on his knees at prayer.
At about twelve o'clock the preparations for the removal of Ni-
cholson being nearly completed , Mr. Ronar, accompanied by his
brother, and Mr. Bramston, the Catholic clergyman, had another
interview with the nnfortanate man ; soon after which, the Wardle
or sledge , which was in the shape of a SII3IIOVI box about six feet
by three, was drawn up to the gaol door • at each end was a seat
just capable of holding two persons. glichobon, doublekoneds
was first placed in it, with Isis back to the horses ; he was allo pini-
oned with ropes, and round his shoulders was coiled the fatal cord.
—by his side sat the executioner; opposite to the prisoner the Rev.
Mr. Bramston took Isis scat, and by his side sat one of the Maid-
stone jailers with a loaded blunderbuss. The procession advanced
at a very slow pace towards Pennenden-heath, distant from Maid-
stone neatly a• mile and an halt, on which was erected a tempo-
rary new drop, which had a platform raised about seven feet from
the ground, and was large enough to contain about a dozen per.
sons. A little before two o'eloek the hurdle-arrived, and stopped
immediately antler the galtows, wisest Mr. Bramston and Nicholson
knelt down on it, and remained for some time in prayer. Some
time previous to this Mr. Bonne arrived on the gronad in a post-
chaise, and took his stand within twelve yards of the spot, with
the front windows full on the gallows, and which he kept open dur-
ing the whole time ; but each of the side-windows was closed by
blinds. So anxious was Mr. Bonn to get from the mdisrtunate
wretch his very dying words, as to whether he is either motive or
accomplice, that a person was deputed to avee.:d the platform atter
the cord was round the prisoner's neck, and to ask him the follow-
ing quest ions, :
Q. " Now that you have not many moments to live, is all that
you have stated, namely. that you had no motive that you can tell
ot, nor hat you any accomplice, true i"—A. ," All that I have
stated is true." _ .

" Then there is no creature liviug on earth who had any thing to
do with the murder but yourself ?"—," No,. no one."
" Yon had no accomplices?"—" None."
" Had you any antipathy to either your master or mistress be-
. fore you committed the horrid murder ?" damping his hands to-
gether as well as his heavy irons would permit him, "As Clod is in
Heaven it was a momentary thought, as I have tepeatedly declare&
belbre."
The above were his last words : in a few minutes after they were
uttered, the bottom of the platform, was let fall, and Nicholson.
was laineched into eternity.
He died unusually hard, being greatly conynked. After hanging
an hour,- the body was put into a post-chaise, which drove off in
the direction for Bromley.
Nicholson ascended the gallows by a ladder,' with a firm step,.
and remainel/41 unshaken to the last moment of his existence. He
was ii:ked repeatedly during the morning of Monday bow he felt
himself ; and his answers were, that he had never telt himself so
conifortahle since the commission of the crime: That he died with
a full pursnasion that he had made his peace with God Almighty,
there eatmot be a doubt : he assured all who spoke to him of his
hope of salvation, and said, so firmly was his mind made up, and
so satisfied was he to die, that if a free pardon were to be laid dawn
to him, he would much rather die than accept of it.
The number of persons assembled to witness the execution was
immense.

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