The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

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Llit own desire, lit r. place plhal the kPaterd Ppllft. NO Ihit be
;;ii td ceprei,sed un intention ef sailing for AOlOOOO. At s.e* OR
4 impieion- cf font play were entert used, but solmetrillit elictilli-
tamps led toy iilitin ay of the4lretullel deed, 'l -ha boat was
examined, and on the guiteale and nfter.bencb stamp of blood
wvli, (listinc.tly dilico.,vcltil, AlthOugh it eppearad tlict every at-
tempt had beep made by wails tit I 0111A111141 Vita 10 eirsdigit,
triton, This produced further emptily, and it maspertaiietl that
tho prisoner had :el oust fpr Bristol to a Mitts at entrenut penury;
diet at the time ha lett Pyle, on his return lIIMe with Site Is.
rimed, he was equally (lir/mired; btu thiOisupeedlaßly after he
latulcal at Woollaston, he to ptd to hate Mop ammtely rich,
He coinmeneed by ;Imaging two 11. missal the 011sotatats Bank,
one in payment of a small sum, and *oho wtowalfrar the Mk,
of the change, He also began to five in a style of extravagance,
quite et emianee with his former state of poverty. It was next
tound that the decesitcd, on the day of his leasing rile, was in
postamsian of three 41. Chepstow Rank Was, together with
some smaller ones of the same Dank. These he was eheerved.
previous to his embarkation. to put into his left 4 h nth brooches
pocket, which, when Ins body was subsequend4 •• • up. was
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found turned roads out. To these werre eel other facts
equally sospicious. On the morning of the suppoeell murder.
a handkerchief was seen in die hand of the deseatiede it woo
marked W, A., and this handkerchief watt traced to the posiew
si'.n of the prisoner. Upon an alarm being raised, be had lent
it to a tuan of the Paine of Dales. who would be Celled as a
witnses, It tardier torned out, that the prisoner. shOrtly ante-
cedent w the disappearance of Syrtis. lied been rermwdly ap-
plying to Hurd to lend him a hew shillings, His shaca had N.
eldemtelly bufst, and he then declmcd " that he was tumble to
refit bimarif, and that be must bps hard to raise the wand
to buy hiniself a pair of a .oes, though he should go the devil
for it." Upon bring called upon to ceeou nt for his increase of
wealth, he stated, that he had borrowed film; an pld ahlptcate
of the axone ofJcatet, while he was at Briesal. 81.; but onforto-
timely far him, and happily for the end; °Outdo°, this statement
was discovered to lie utterly without founds; en, for, inde-
pendent of the fact that, at the moment he was 1011,011 Bristol
he NO 001 114 utimns of payir.g for his breakfast, it would be
Fella by Me wife of Allies. the Man himself being ist Oa,
flop at thy limp in question Jones had beets very much dim"
tressed for money. end mild not have made any such advances.
added to which, his intimacy with the prisoner was of so hasped
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a nature as to forbid such an act of frienclship, even if he h. it
in his power. All these diselosores tended the more strong yto
confirm the guilt of the prisoner, which became still more appa-
rent on the morning of the 57th of November, when the body of
the unfortunate Syms was found floating on the Seyl.lll in a state
of putreseency. ft w ,s. however, satin identified, anti en being
examine:l by competent persona (resented two dreadful fractures
on the front and back of the head, either of which would hare
been sulij,pent to occasion instant death. Mr. 1..0d10w having
conoluded his detail, coiled his witliceeet: lictia4 white:Awl
were ealletl who proved the facts,
Mr—Justice Richardson then summed up the evidence with
great clearness and perspicuity, mid the Jim. after a edam con-
sultation, found the prisoner guilty,
Tile Leaancil Judge immediately proceeded 10 Pay the awful
sent. ate of (Meth. in the most lining sive manner, he observed
that the prisoner had been found guilty, upon the clearest evi
dente. of a Grime hate ul alike to God and man, Ha had de
privet an innocent fellow creature of life far the sake of his olio
personal gratification, and under eircumstances of barbarity, at
which the stoutest how could not but Sutdder. For this
offence, the only atonement he could make its his offended God,
and to his outraged country was the sacrifice of his owe hie, the
short remains of which meld not be devoted with too ;noel
ardour to tepentance and to prayers for duo mercy hereafter,
which in this world he uotiki nut lopt to more, The prisoog
was then ordered for execution on Tiuursday at one o'clock.
Tire Cote t was crowded to excess, and ail seemed to WPM is
the Jultiltlii of the eentemoe.
The prisoner underwent the punishment due to his crime at
the time appointed. in the pretense of an immense concourse of
spectators. lie had previously aanowleked the ,justice of his
alintence,

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la Fitsroyssquare, the lady of Charles Spell Chimney,
eq, of a still•burn I Qtl aaaaaa errial4o44, Lambeth,
Nlrs. 'rheum* Lett, of a sou.—At his house, Brumley,
bliddlosex, the lady 0"1•, Di see, t•sy, of a daughter,

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At St. George's, Queen square, Thomas, smut.' son of
A. Manning, esq, .1 the Ad. phi, to Mary Glare, tide ‘t
daughe. of S. Keefe, emi. of ity,ll Iliott-,quare.-.-At St.
Nicholas church, Rochester, Lienicultio,Col •f t:. W.
Paste), of the Royal Erutinters, to isloNs M4I the Matilda
Robe rts,secotid daughter of the hate Hun land t6O esq.