The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-20 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER

EXTRAORDINARY MALEFACTOR.—The following is
an extract of a letter of the 10th instant. from Bo-
login :—" Some weeks have now elapsed since a ma-
letae tor,whomatrocities in the history of human turpitude
have had no parallel, expiated his crimes under the sen-
tence of an Assize Court in this town, by the guillotine.
Yet though he acknowledged on the scaflidd the com-
mission of 16 murders, and amongst his victims two
English travellers, a marked silence has been observed
in the French journals; end 1 feel persuaded the occur-
rence has not been publicly known even at the short
distance of Montrcuil and Calais. Is this tenacity for I
national character consistent with the obligations of
truth? Arc the Editors of the Paris Journals equally
slow in giving circulation to:the ex-parte and unauthen-
ticated statements of sanguinary offences which some
weekly papers at your side of the water set forth with
such hideous colouring to the positive depreciation of
the moral character of England, in the apprehensions
of fitreigners ? But strange as it may appear, these pa-
pers, which an Englishman here can only consider as a
compost of all the crime, fraud, and ligitation, real and
imaginary, of his country, unrelieved by a single para-
graph in support of the interests and freedom of man-
kind, receive exclusive facility in this through every
part of the Continent. But to return to my subject.
This monster had not completed his 36th year. He
mounted the scaffold with a marked determination to
tshew that neither the:lawful rreparation, nor the con-
sciousness of admitted crime, could in the least affect
he iron temperament of his nerves. lle was merely
courteous to the clergyman who attended him ; and
seemed most solicitous to redeem the recollection of his
unequalled turpitude by the contempt of death, which
he certainly manifested. It was evidently on his part
a dramatic exhibition ; and a spectator, while he listen-
ed to the recommendation of the criminal to the stir-
rounding crowd, could not, until the machine effected its
object, but fancy it was a theatric illusion. One im-
pression was acknowledged to be felt universally by the
English who attended the execution, as to thehumane
use of that revolutionary instrument, the guillotine,
when compared with tile degrading anti torturing sus-
pension by the rope, which disgraces the extreme pu-
nishment ofour own country."

ABRAHAM THOHATON.-Wc have already announced the
arrest of this man, on a WI it of an appeal, at the snit of the
next of kin of the late until tonate and lamented Mary Ash-
ford, for whose murder Thornton was tried and acquitted.
The warrant wrs received en l'harsday week by Mr. Hack-
n-y, sheriti's officer of Lichfield, who, accompanied by Mar-
tin and Baker, two of his assistants, proceeded to Castle
Bromwich, and fintliag Tionoton at the house of his father,
took hint into custody, and brought him to the lock up-house
in Bell-street, the same night. On the following morning,
abort ten o'dock, he was conveyed, by Hackney-, in a chaise
to Witt wick anti safely delivered at the county gaol Upon
being info:tunic(' by the officer of the nature of his visit,
we
learn, he quietly submitted, without attempting to offer the
least resistaore. We subjoin a copy of the warrant molt r
which Thornton was a p.o chentled :-
.• WARWICKSHIRE TO WIT-'t Hon. Henry Verney, sheriff
of the county of Warwick aforevaid, to John Hackney, and at his
peril, to Thomas Martin, Jonathan Baker, and others, my bailiffs of
the said country, and to the keeper of the gal of Cie said county,
gTOCtillg.
-•• By virtue of writ of appeal of nor Sovereign Lord the King. to
me girected, I command you, and every of you, jointly and :4:virally
that youor mem' you, take A brabau% Thornton. of Castle Bromwich,
in the parish of Aston. near Birmingham. in the said aunty, la-
boater, it. he dhall be •foundin my bailiwick, and him safely keep,
widow.' may have his body before the Lord the King on the morrow
of ::11 Soul::. wheresoever the said Lord the King shall then be in
I:np:Laid. to answer sitfool, of the parish of Ilanta,.. in the
.county oi. Stafford, Namur, who was the &kat brother. and is heir
of Mary Ashford, late of Langley, in the parish of t,aton Coldtield.
in tor vrd bailiwick, spinster, &ceased ; of the said Mary Ashford,
whe.eof he appraleth hint. Thereof fail not, as you will answer at
your pail."
The statute under which Thornton has been avtin taken into.,
en•totly, in to der to molergo another '641, on at:ennui of the
murder of Io ry Milford, iv an Art of the 3d of Henry VII.
cap. I. It is said that he will be tried at-tire Courtof King's
Bench early in the next month.
To accommodate those persons in .the country who
wish to chose their own Numbers, T. BLSH has set
apat t the undermentioned Tickets, which may be hail
at No. 4, Coruhill, eithe in Whole Tickets, Halves,
Quarters, Eighths, nr :Sixteenths.
No. 140 4,026 1,172 3,1211 6.067
1:5 7,053 1,179 3,130 6,175
2:2 1.069 1,253 3,686 0,181
13 1,055 2,161 3,707 6,1K3
029 1.171 2,219 4.417 6,111
739 1,174 3,068 3,792 6,331
1,003 1,173 3,081 5.025 6,779
The following may be had at No. 9, Charing-Cross,
either in Whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or
Sixteenths.
10. 139 1,172 2,011 3.135 6, tl2
213 1,173 3,009 3,672 6.173
214 1,1711 3.127 4,298 6,174
224 1,177 5,138 6.003 8,152
.1,027 1,110 3,151 6,171 6,153
The present Lottery consists of 7,1(X) Numbers, Two
Tickets of each .Nutulx,r,, containing Six Prizes of
20,000, Money and Consols, besides various other Ca-
pitals, and 5,700 Tickets have very peculiar advantages,
for particulars of which see the Shcmcs, which are to
he had grab: at BISII's Pffices, where (as avail) in
the Last Lottery Contract, he sold Capitals trtatcr
in Nutsber and Amount than any other °dice-keeper.
I'III:SENT PRICE. - -

Tickcc
Ilalf £ul ' £l9
122013 6
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1401-Yaid duly amwend.

PRICE OF BRF..kr).
The highest price of the best Whcatcn Bread Throughout the me-
tropoli=, it stattxl by the Bakers to he 1441. the Quarteru
Some Eakas sell the Quarters Loot from Id. to 3d. lower.