The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-19 00:00:00

LXECCI 70A S.

ScorbaNts.—Wednesday, Alexander Robertson was
executed at Glasgow, conformably to his sentence at the
High Court of Justiciary, for robbing the willehlelse of
\lr. John Love. At ti re minutes before two o'clock the
magistrates entered the Town-bail, which wee crowded
to excess, and Bailie Alstun, acting chief magistrate, or-
dered the et inainal to be produced. He was attended by
Mr. Moiegregor, the gaoler, and the assistants, and walked
with considerable firmness. The Rev. Dr. Lockhart, who
had paid great attention to hint dining his confinement,
was seated at the head of the table, and read ft he
sth verse of the 32d Psalm, and the greater part joining
in the singing. The wretched man paid great attention,
and the Doutor then offered tip a very appropriate prayer,
during which the prisoner seemed very much affected, anal
the prison sitting next him wiped his face with a hand-
kerchief. Psalms ware again sling, in which the prisoner
joined with firmness, hot without using any gesticulation;
and the service v-as finished by an affecting maser f
the Rev, Mr. Ewing, whose feelings were much moved
Dr. Lockhart then stated to the magistrates the prisoners
gratitude for their kind attention ; and expressed his cue-
viction that such a change lied been effected on the poi-
soner as was likely, had tie been spared, to make his con-
duct very different. At a quarter befoie three o'clock
the hall was cleared. The unhappy prisoner Robertson
mounted the scaffold wills a firm step and a calm counte-
nance. The drop was very considerable, and the clash
excited a strong sensation throughout the surrounding
multitude, riot less, it is supposed, than 39,000 ; but it
wag his own request, as, from his being a light man, he
was afraid of struggling. He had been in business on his
own account, and had made a voyage to Ames ice as a
met chant; but soon after his radii, u home, lie got ac-
quainted with loose company, and was twice tried before
Hie per petration of the mime for which lie suffered. Some
time after his return ft Edinburgh, where lie was con-
victed, lie was rather indifferent le his fate ; but when all
hopes of a reprieve had vanished, lie became all that his
clerical attendants could wish, and they seemed very in-
terested about I . tie was voted-looking, and was
only 24 yea's of age. After hanging -15 minutes, the body
was cut down, and the crowd quietly dispersed.
IREL.IMU.—Monday, O'Hara and Brennan, who were
capitally convicted at the last assizes of Roscommon, un-
derwent the awful sentence of the law at that place. Ou
Sunday night, March SO, about six o'clock in the evening,
diately after the elergvistan left them, the nudes--
gaoler, who was most humanely kind to them, went as
usual to lock them up. He sat a few minutes with them,
when they sent him for some turf, and on his return to the
cell, they knocked him down and dered him in a cruel
manner, by ;strangulation. He has left an unfortunate
widow and 10 children to deplore his loss. After they
murdered him, they took from hint the keys, by which
means they got to the top of the prison to effect their es-
cape, when fortunately one of the 10th Regiment, who
was sentinel, perceived them on the top, by the noise of
their bolts, and gave the alarm, when they were immedi-
ately secured. They solemnly declared their innocence
of the murder, and wheat brought out to see the dead
body, called on God to witness their innocence, but at one
o'clock in the morning they confessed their guilt of the
murder, as well as the robbery for which they were to
suffer. These men's relations in Roscommon are respec-
table farmers, fir above the lower (wale's, but they have
always been men of bad charaeter. They scented Un-
concerned at the awful fate which awaited them, until
the day before their execution, on the morning of which
they seemed penitent, mid ascended the fatal platform
with much steadiness. They spoke at some length to the
populace, which exceeded in number any thing ever u it-
tiessaol on a former occasion, and warned them against
illegal meetings and had company, which brought them to
the gellows. At half-past 12 they were launched into
eternity. 'l' hey did not suffer touch. Their bodies were
then, by the directions of Government to the Sheriff, bu-
ried in the gaol-y Jail, which seemed to have equal effect
with the execution on the populace. Precious to the ex-
ecution, the Sklar, who received an order Isom Govern-
ment to remove all the convicts under sentence of trans.
pal talian tat that flay, to Cork, canard the convicts all to
be put on cars, chained together, in front of the prism,
to witness the execution, where their friends 'attended to
take leave of them. The moment the execution was over,
they were marched off ender a strong escort.

30.11ER.SE7' AsSIZES.

COOS, V. DOBTW.

This was an action brought by Mr. Cooke, upholder,
of Bath, against the defendant, for seducing his daughter,
Harriet Cooke.

Mr. G. F. Williams opened the case on the part of
the plaintiff, by staling, th-t Mr. Cooke was a respect-
able tradesman or Rath ; was father of .a large family ;
and hued in comfort by his exertions in trade. Miss
Cooke, the daughter of the plaintiff, was an actress of
some celebrity et the Rah theatre, And who, until the
unfortunate mequaitstatece with the defendant, was of
unblemished reputation; that the defendant became
acquainted with the plaintiffs daughter by attending
hehind the sernea at the theatre, in January 1818, whets
he enacted the Nil al nulls, for Mr. Com,. ay's benefit,
and he haul succeeded In accomplishing his designs.—
M iss Cooke was theticxamined for a few s, when
Mr. Sergeant Yell, Cutumel for the deleutLut offered

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3001. and roses, which die plaintifFs Counsel accepted ;
and the learited-Serjeant statrd, that Nliss Cook had not
appeared to have been otherwise than virtuous except
with the defendant.