The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF MAGE.VNIS.

CHESTER, APRIL 15.

The fearful sentence of the law was executed upon
Nlag.,nnis this day at noun; and we have a few pal ticu
lars, «birh may, peslllll/14, he interesting. )lagennis Wdi
a matt of strong capacity, but mieducati d. 01 his early
litr little i. know with c. 'dainty ; but h,• lids left a sue •
Inuit of considerable telietli in the bands Of the Rev. Mi.
Armistead, whirls will speedily be itultittited. •fi,e pro-
duction of this document hat' occupied Inns almost wholly
since lii. conviction. The father isiol mother at Mugellll444
w. rr at Ilse Established Chinch ; the man himself, how-
ever, apptiktr, by a statement he has pi otnulgated, to have
been, dining a lung time, the class-leader of a 'octet) or
Methodirts. About flute ytals !lame hr art ived at Stock-
, poll, hum Ireland, and foiluu ell his 01461141 calling 44 3
weaver. His restless disposition, 114/11112V1.F. soon led hint
to jnia one ut the Rodical societies 14411111.11 in the vidiiiity
of Stockt one Ile• attended the set HSI iiSlllll, 41141
.peedily became all 41'11V14 rekinser.
Ativi log collat'slia4ll44ll, Magennis lett the Court
the 111141 pi•heel 11111111boutl; out the certainty of drat•,
ptuthici d, iu this Conine at Ibe saute 114,, a cunsi'lritibu•
in 1114 tltale4llolll, He subscquently became
esti emety iretine.d.
On Flimsy, after lariaint; the condemned s. room, die
11111111 moats look 'lre sacrament, and slept u II last
I.lglit iii. mug he It'fl iiiiiiii 1114: uirutuu, 11114 eOlll-
- 14 4011111 11 w We torention. Was 1111/111411,
th.,l the Itilati; shotsia br pubbsittql. About half 11431 11
br uas euttoll,•lt.l lb the cell of Rind•. The sm. •ie
e.sas .Foil mitt dttrelt.g ; they •.k 11451.14 41 Into .1, ,
Altti,etottiN ieyeateal lilt' declarai...,, 1;41
%Lila 111110
cent. Alter quitting Eruct. hr• visited l'tlellor, who,e
executiuu for burglary will eliw•Uy take place. Mellor

maintained much of Iris wonted fortitude. lie then re.
maimed for some minutes in a yard of the poison, in which
several ol the Radicals of Stockport woe confined ; they
sl,ok hands with him, but with weal indifference. Ravi.
Icy, one or Ilse irt.ollll orators, was then Mamba:ed.
" ewell," and "g 1 b)e," writ the only %surds that
passed. Magennis then signed a declarative, that neither
Peas-11a, Hi nee, • his brother, James Magennis, wet e
ssere•‘.lll. • to his allellllll upon the life of the lurch, and
declared he was ready.
A fro minute• berme 12 o'clock the Bailiffs of the City
shei ills demanded the body or the Armlet ; and tender an
escort of the 71st regiment he was conducted to Glover',..
stone, where he sprang into the vast, and with the same
escort was cual•i. est to the city gaol. I)iiiing the whole
of the distance, Ms eyes were• steadily fixed upon a Ne•w
Testament, %%Melt was Wit into his hands by Mu. Keeling.
At the Ilion of the city caul lie re•cucnized a Wall, and
shook hands ‘sitli hint. He then remained about three
tom tel sof an lima in the• chapel of the prison, where he
played atth Ut. Keeling and the Oi dinar), ;1101 at te❑
minutes past shoe lie was brought on the dim,, attended by
Mr. Keeling and the Rev. Mr. Wiliam The exemitionei
then atritirsi the rope It) the beam, and he again Joined in
prayer with the Ordinary; but there did not appear to lie
that attention to his devotions which had e kionsly cha-
racterized him. His eyes wandered with a took .1 Mail-
ferenee over the intiltttmle below. Ou being tied up, he
expressed his intention of making a spring WM n the drop
fell, but was sathsiss ill IRA do so. The exe mtioner then
left him ; and be shuttled his intention, by moving his
hands, to address the crowd. was 61.4111 y ob-
tattled ; all that he said, how"ver, was, " Good-by, gen..
ilemen ! Farewell, farewell, my It :ends! farewell!" The
cap was then drawn over his fare, and lie immediately
gas, the bi4„Bl by throw mg down a 1E411(1km-thief. The
platform sunk, and in less titan two minutes he was DO

DISTURBING A REI.IttioUS CONGREGATION.—At the
Comity Session', for Oxfordshire, holden on Tuesday last,
before John At ky As Wris,ht, I:sq. and a Mil bench of Ma.
gistrates, an indictment nits prefer', d and tried against four
peisons of the names of Thomas Baylis, Itenj.iniiis Baylis,
John Willis, and William Adam-, for unlawfully distur!dog
a conxregatimi of in oti•stant dissenters, assemble LI fur divine
worship at a villwAe called Filkiin, in the ner_fabourhood of
Bamptum It appeared in evidence that the eon; egiition
)which usually assembles on Slonday eveninp), had far
several mouths past been greatly annoyed by the riotous
conduct of the defendants, and divers other prisons, who,
on these occasions, made a practice of collecting in coin,
derable numbers in a close adjoining tile building in winch
the preacher and his I riends met, and by almost every speciis
of noise and tumult, interrupting the reli_imis eAt ri ices of
the worshippers. On the day mentioned in the indictment,
in particular, so great w.,s the uproar, that the minister um:
under the neet ssity of mope titling the service, and iequestin4
some of his fi lends to go out, and, if in ssible. obtain silence.
The attempt an., lion ever, inetlectual; the tumult nos ob-
stinately continued, and the con,regation nits obln_ed to
separittc helot e 11w usual time. These facts hi tug fully es-
talihshed, the chaii matt proceeded to sum up and comment
I upon the evidence, the bearings of is hi, It he pointed out in
a very s.,tisfacluty manner. Ile Oleo explained the laws
which allect the question, and the Jut v, alter a tew minutes
I consideration, delivered a verdit t of Guilty agaiiist all the
defendants. The not thy inagistrite next atidressed the
1 delinqueuts in a must impressive manner, pointing out the
very seriotni tut tut e of their intent e, and informed tlwin that
persons as,cuibled fur the exercise of their religious duties in
the manner most agreeable to the dictatrs of their own
consciences, were under the protection of the bins, and
could not with impunit:4, lie tt,sturhed and ilarra•sed by the
rude insolence of a tumultuous mob, Ile then pronounced
the senteuee of the law, wined isitl•cts ini the defendants a
fine of-101. and they were ientanded till •t should be paid.
ALARMING, ACCIDeNT.—CIii Saiitlir ii.ni lung, about
five o'clock, the Inhabitarts Ilea' the London I hisintal,
\V hitt:chapel, were most wearifully ternfitql, their
houses shook to the hnuida tam, the ;.lass in their w ii,
'lows bloke'', their furnitute tossed about, and Menisci% t s
thrown out of their bed,; this, accoinpabieri with a
most dreadful exphision, as if from a t °leant), or the
firma of great guns; all was consternation, MI posing it
proceeded front the shock ti au earthquake. All ran
liaised into the streets, utuninatil of property, for
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ife purpose of saving their lives. Their fears, however,
were happily soon ab.tied, ou learniiig, that it was caused
by something of a combitstiole nattne having exploded
iii the oil and colour shop of Mr. llolliwell, opposite
the London Hospital, iu which, fortunately, no perstni
resided. The house was completely blow ti from the
foundation, and not one some left upon another; part of
the timber of the roof, Hootio,r, bricks, and Idea, were
blown as lar as the i lusliii I, oo the opposite
side of the street, aid Ili cVisty miler direction. The
adjoining honse,uccupteti hy Mr. Li!ley, u pork botcher,
was so much injured as to he obliged to he propped up.
A great part of the party wail fell tit on the loin of a bed,
its which were :bate or lour children, but who luckily
escaped wil..out any injury. The chuck was ro great
that Mr...ittl Mrs Utley were dimwit out of bed.•—the
furnittue vs :salmost all shuttered by being tossed about
the house. We are happy, however, nit et:glary, to find
that nu lises wire lost; there were no persons slept in
the house Mr. Holliwell haviiia, locked up Ilia a hop
d 134 ni I eleven o'clock on Saturday night, alai aunt boat*
to his house in Red Lion Street, %V latechapel, where he
lives, and has another shop, it is iitipossitiir to ascertain
from what came the aren't:lit proceeded. Mr. flolliwell
says, there were only five pouials of gunpowder on the
premises, and this was secure Irvin lite. Alter the ex.
plosion several utilities arrived, but no fire scar to be
seen. Several pates of iLlass, and articles of glass and
earthenware, in the neighbouring louses, were broken
by the shock. The only accident we heard of, and
which was bin trilling, happened to a boy who was
passing the road at the tiitie,t•y 3 piece of 'loafer falhog
upon him, and knocking low down. 'Ube home and
stock iu trati. are dl;
Thursday night souse villains broke into a new
building belonging to 11 illitttu siuore, Esq. of 130 W
Common-lune, Bromley, und cut the glass out of It
large sashes, which they carried to, together with
some carpenters' tools.

At the late Gloucester Assizes, the trial of Henry
Bradley, for a burglary in the house of Mr. Wilson, of
Lastgaie-street, in that city (in company with two other-
who ate still at large), and stealing thereout two che,t•
of tea, his property, and of George Martin, tried unfit
the same indictment for receiiing the said tea, knownig
it to have been stolen, commenced on Thursday soon
after eight o'clock, and was not brought to a close lid
half-past five in the afternoon. The highly reputab!,
situation in life which the latter prisoner had filied,
to the period of this unfortunate transaction (twin.:
long resided there as a grocer), excited a very consider-
s de degree of interest ; and at an early hour the Court
was crowded with spectators, anxious to hear the trail
On dellveriag in their verdict, several of the ittry were
risibly a fleeted, front the personal knowledge which they
hid of the prisoner Nlartm's former respectalultty. Mr.
Justice nolrovil nutlit•diately after, in the most impres-
sive manner, proceeded to pass sentence upon the pri-
soners, antithelverting in the strongest trims noon the
enormity of Martin's offence. He had been cotnicien
unto .ee el •arcst evidence; and the good chirac;••i-
-w telt had been given to him by the very respectable
w messes examined on his behalf, tended rather as an
avravation of his case, the event of this clay suewina
how 'mien the. had been deceived, and evineih4 the
great kedity with which he could pwsue such a nef.-
nous tradie unsospec ed by his neighbours. It was the
encoora2.etoent held out by such persons that led whets
to the commis:wit of deprcdittiotts which ftureitial tlieu
lives to th- .aw ; .1.“1 wiitt, ilopposol or resisted,
'night tt e•totoit ,id. mare born I
crime of murder! Sentence of transportation was then
passed in the usual form.
Ott XV, tittesthy evening, about half a dozen vin
lains, dressed as mechanics, went to the public
house at the corner of Moor Street, Seven Dials,
and pretended they wanted to look at the 'lob-
room, as they were about to form or remove a club
there. The young couple who kept the house, had
been there but a kw weeks, and they were glad of
an opportunity or inereating their business ; the
fellows engaged the room, which is next the land-
lord's bed room. They called for porter and pipes,
and Ca. bit IT the house waited upon them, and
soon atter wave o'clock they paid their reckoning
and left. The landlord having his fastnings good,
went up stairs to go to bed, when he found the door
of his r,,on, which he left locked, open, and his
drawers and trunks ransacked of 801. end upwards
which he bad received since lie took the house,
besides a watch and other articles, and unfortunately
not one of the thieves are known. A pipe was left
by the bed side.
A Fool Race Sweepstakes for 100 Guineas.—
A singular race took place on the Woodkrd road
.early on Tue.alay morning, which wits made on
Monday evening °vet the bottle, between a Captain
Fry, and Messrs. Adams, Lee, and Jones. The
listance was five miles, and Jones, who is rather
corpulent, was to receive one at starting, Lee
400 yards, and the other two to start together.—
Lee was overtaken at the two miles, and he gave in.
It was a good race between the two first until they
had done four miles, when Adams was beat 50 yards
and resigned The Captain knocked himself up in
endeavouring to catch Jones, who beat him, and won
the race by 50 yards, The Captain did his ground
in 30 minutes.
Vickery. the officer arrived itt London on Monday,
with Mr. Hunt, formerly a wine merchant in city,
whom he has been in pursuit of abroad fur about
five months. Hunt left England considerably in
debt. first having converted every thing possible
into nuatey ; in his absence he was made a bankrupt,
and his deficiencies were so great that Government
rendered every possible assistance A letter was
written by Lord Castlereagh to Sir Charles Stuart,
the English Ambassador at Paris, and t,) Lord Clan-
carty, at the Court of' the Netherlands : Baron
Fogel, the Ambassador from the Netherlands to the
British Court, who was abroad at the time, rendered
every possible assistance. Vickery was accompanied
by one of the assignees and the solicitor to the
bankruptcy. who knew Mr. Hunt's person. They
traced him to Dieppe, where they found hint in a
diligence„just going to start for I lav re, the prinei•
pal port titan ',hence vessels sail for America It
was dark, and they could only distinguish hint by
the assistance of it lighted lantern. Ile denied that
his name was I loot, havin., procured his passport by
the name of Hardy. He,' however, afteruards
confessed that his name was Hunt ; anti for his
false representation of himself' the French police
sentenced hint to be imprisoned' three months
During his confinement a correspondence was car-
ried on between the different government-officers,
as to his being given up at the expiration of his
confinement. On his hieing released, the French
police sent him to a village on the frontier, wheac
Vickery stopped him, and he received assistance
from the police-officers of the Netherlands. It is
expected that his creditors will recover "20
Vickery sailed with hint in custody from 0-i
and arrived in London with him on Monday. I •:•
officer wished to lodge him in Newoate, but
keeper doubted his power to receive hint 0141
warrant, it being issued by the Lord ChLf Justice
Abbott, which directed that he was to be lodged in
the prison where lie was taken. The Lord Chief