The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

In this order the procession moved slowly towards the
heath, the criminal frequently turning up his eyes to
Heaver', and ejaculating " 0 Lord, have mercy upon me!
Christ, have mercy upon me!" About lOJ yards from the
prison-gate his mother caught his eye in the crowd. He
did not appear to be much moved at seeing her, but bent
his bead towards one of the officers who sat before him,
and said, " Mind, tell Mr. Bowen to do something for my
family." The procession arrived at the place of execu-
tion about ten minutes before 12, and the waggon was
drawn up along the side of the scaffold The chaplain
then joined the criminal in prayer, and the stillest silence
pervaded tl.e immense crowd, who stood uncovered while
the servied was reading. The criminal, who had knelt
det•in by Mr. Harkei's side, joined in the prayers with as
mach fervour as his agitation would permit. His hands
were clasped together and uplifted, and his eyes nitre
sometimes directed downwards to the book in the chap-
lain's hand, as if lie did not understand what was read;
occasionally they were turned up to heaven, but during
the greater part of the time they wandered unconsciously
over the crowd, without any definite direction.
When the devotions were closed, and the criminal was
about to be removed from the waggon, lie observed near
him Mr. Hry, the b k master of Woolwich, and said
he wished to speak to him. Mr. Hay came forward and
said, "For God's sake, Nesbett, be sincere; consider
what you are about, and tell the truth." He replied, " I
have told the truth already, and nothing but the truth.
My family knows nothing of my guilt, and I hope you will
do something for them." Mr. Hay asked him it' lie had
confessed his guilt ; and he replied, " I have confessed it
to another person." He then mounted the stage with a
firm step, and the executioner proceeded to put a cap
over his eyes, and to adjust the rope round his neck.
Having seen Nlr. Bowen, of Woolwich, near the scaffold,
he called to him, and said, " Mr. Bowen, I hope you will
have some regard to my family. Poor things! they arc
innocent. None that belongs to me knows any thing of
my doings." Mr. Bowen called to bins to confess his
crime, on which he replied, " I have made all the confeg •
*ion I had to make. That will be known after I ant gone.
The people is convenient that has it. It is enough for one
person to know."

At five minutes after 12 o'clock the fatal signal was
given. He did not seem to suffer more than one minute.
The body, after hanging the usual Iliac, was cot down,
and conveyed in a shell to Messrs. Day and ‘Vaison's, to
be anatomized, pursuant to his sentence.
Previously to his trial, Nesbett hail prepared the fol-
lowing declaration, in his own hand-writing, to be deli-
vered to Mr. Hay, the harmck-master at Woolwich, an
intelligent and humane gentleman, who was anxious to
have it ascertained that the family of the murderer were
not implicated in his guilt:—

" Maidstone, the 45th July, 182 Q
" This is the truth, u I have God to melt in the next world,
let me Be Gilty or Not, no one of my family, father or mother
wife or Childem or any &Quoit of mine knowes whether I am
Gilty or Not of the Crime that is laid to my Charge, that is the
mourder of Mr. Parker and his House keepr or any other part
of that Crime that is laid to my Charge, or any other Crime that
is laid to me, as God has my soul in his Charge this Dty to try
my Gilt that is the truth, and I hope no one will Cast it ap to my
wife or Childer, for the Do not Do,ervit. I sine this to be truth

"JAMES NESBET."
Addressed for —Mr. nay !wick Muter Woolwich Kent."
Endorsed in the hand-writing of Mr. Hay, but the diction of
the prisoner :
"As I have this Bible in my hand, and God to meet, I declare
the contents of this paper are true.
"JAMES NESBET.
" Maidstone Gaol, 46th July, 1840."
" Witness, STEPHEN PAGE, Turnkey.

1)oltre.

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GUILDHALL

Rossaa or Ma. JOHNSON'S FOUNDRT.—George
Kirkland, a young man, on Friday underwent a final
examination before Sir James Shaw, on a charge of hay-
mite stolen property to a considerable amount belonging
to Messrs. Johnson and Co. brass.founders, New Street
Square.
Robert Bitrns,shopman to Mrs. Morrit, pawnbroker,
in Lung Acre, stated, that some days ago the pi boner
pledged a pair of bronze candlesticks at their shop.-
-The witness remarked that they were very goad
bronze, and asked where the prisoner lived. The
prisoner replied that they were his own make and
property, and that he lived at No. 5, in Brown-
low Street. The witness suspected that the prisoner's
account of himself was not quite she truth, and he
took the trouble pogo to Bromduty Street, hut !mind
that no such person lived there. He subsequently,
however, saw a man at that place, who was in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Johnson and Co. and by whom he was
informed that the prisoner also was in tile employ of the
firm. The witnesi desired the labourer to give intima-
twit to his employers of the articles the prisoner had
been pledging.
David I mill, head clerk to Messrs. Johnson and Co.
stated, that in consequence of the intimation winch had
been reetivcd from Mr. Burns, he looked over their
stock, and missed property to the amount of nearly 4W.
Being inform. d that the prisoner had lieeti pledging
property of the description missed, he was taken into
custody. They were infuruied that sfmie eai.dlestieks of
heir ni mufacture had been seen at a sale shop in White-
cross Street.

B. Fletcher, who !teepg a sale shop in Whiteeross-
street, produced two pair of bronze eandlosiick., which
he had bought of the prisoner for 30s.
A servant of Mr. Citatters, pawnbroker, produced a
pair of bronze candlesticks, wiiich the prisober had
pledg,d at their shop.
The prisoner said, he bad been ruined by bad com-
pany.
Sir James Shaw regretted the obligation which he
was under of sending an tuiforitinate mall like the pri-
soner to the Old Bailey. but it was his impenous duty
to send him to take his trial for the offence. Sir James
said, the conduct of Burns, the shoimiau, was highly
commendable.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

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953 •-• ,

WARWICK ASSIZES, Mouth Eversisse.

The Judges arrived here on Saturday, and immedi-
ately afterwards opened the commissicni of assize. Yes-
terday they attended divine service at St. Mary's church.
The calendar of the prisoners in the county gaol to be
tried at this assize contains the names of seventy-foot
individuals ; but the crimes of which they are accused.
with a few exceptions, are not of an aggravated nature.
They are most of them petty robberies, but we are sorry
to say that there are no less than five accused of forgeries.
vt o of the) forgeries are upon the Bank of England ,
the othee three are upon the Sturminster and Dorchester
batik, kept by Messrs. %Vary, Colbourn and Best. An
itiiintilual is also charged with haying conspited, last
February, to put into circulation several 51. notes of the
said bank, which he knew had been stolen front it
There are also three cases for uttering forged notes,
which the parties knew to be forged. But the promi-
nent feature of these assizes is the political cases, of
which there are no less than eight to be tried.
The first is an indictment against a person named
Brandis, who was a member of the Birmingham Union •
Society, for publishing an inflammatory Address to the
Reformers.

The second case is the King v. Edmonds. The de-
fendant is charged in this oasis with publishing a. sedi-
tious libel upon the magistrates of Birmingham.
The third case is the King v. Lewis (the editor of the
Coversiry Recorder), for a seditious libel published is •
that work, which called upon the people to arm against
the tyrant boroughniongels, the seat-buyets and sellers -
in the House or Commons.
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The fourth cause is the King v. Russell, a bookseller
at Birmingham (who wcs tried 12 months ago for pub- .
fishing Hone s Political Litany), for vending one of
Carlisle's Republicans, which libelled the Kin 4. &c.
The fifth is the cause of the Ki:ig v. George Hagg, a
bookseller at Biriiiiiiehain, for publishing one of the
numbers of the Republican.
The sixth indictment is against Osborne, a bookseller
at Birmingham, for publishing a number of the Black. .
Book.

The Bank of Ireland refuses to take guineas in
lodgments or payments at the Bank. The reason is -
obvious, the change being so low between this
country and England ; guineas are thew lodged this
day at 5,1 per cent., and drawn out to-morrow at
par, by which an enormous profit is made by the
persons holding them. To prevent a recurrence of
this, the Bank has judged it prudent, for the present,
to declthe taking auy more guineas.
At Cheltenham Races twelve horses started for
the Gloucestershire, Stakes of 25 guineas each, 100
guineas added, 56 subscribers. This proved a hard
contested and most excellent race; but the pleasure
imparted by it was much damped by an unfortu-
nate accident : as the horses were coming in, the
persons appointed to prevent a rush of horsemen
following the racers, raised the rope for that pur-
pose just as the last horse, (Mr. Edward's Fanny).
was crossing, and the horse and rider were both
thrown. The latter received so much injury that
no hopes are entertained of his recovery.
SMALL-POl.—During the last month of July the
deaths by small-pox in the bills of mortality
amounted to 57, of which the middle week was the
most severe, the loss having then amounted to 24 in.
T days ! The fatality has since abated.
One of the pugilistic tribe was taken before a
Magistrate at Norwich, last weak, charged with
having sent a letter to a weaver with a challenge, to
provoke him to fight. On being asked if he signed
his name at the bottom of the letter, he replied in
the negative, and said it was always his custom to
—mate his stars. His Worship dismissed the
complaint.
On Thursday a requisition (signed by npwards of
100 persons) was presented to the Right Worshipful
the Mayor of Worcester, (E. Isaac, Esq.) requesting
him to convene a common.hall, for the purpose of
voting an address of condolence and congratulation
to her Majesty the Queen. The Mayor informed
them that he could not, consistently with his sense
of public duty, comply with their request. The
requisitionists being thus disappointed, a meeting
took place at the Rein Deer on. Monday, when an
address was agreed to.

A letter from Corsica, datedtl6th ult. states, that
a fleet, supposed to be Algerines, consisting of five
armed vessels, passed before that place, and appeared
to shape their course for the Tuscan coast, and had
captured three Tuscan vessels.
BRIGHTON, A uo. I.—A gentleman of the name of
Hyde, a passenger on blard the Elizabeth packet,
just arrived in our roads front Dieppe, was, by a
sudden gust of wind, blown overboard, whilst in
the act of getting into a boat purposely sent from
shore, as is customary at this place. Every' effort
to save hint was ineffectual, from the violence of a
strong south-westerly wind, which has been preva-
lent all day. Brighten is, at this moment, not very
much frequented.
An extraordinary phenomenon wee lately observed
at Augsburg. At daybreak two luminous bodies
appeared on each side of the sun. The sun itself
was surrounded by a brilliant circle not entirely
closed. In the evening, from 38 minutes after. six
to within 17 minutes after.seven, the gronad. was .
Covered with transparent dew ; and nftes :Input 4.
thick fog arose

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7•
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The Paris IL:pers of Thursday last contain further
p rticulars of the drcadilil and desolating fire .be-
tween the Barrier.; de Rapee and the Barriere de
Berry. Seventeen extensive stores were destroyed,
containing 80,000 barrels of wine a:ld brandy, and
the buildings, which present a sad spectacle of lace-
rated ruins, cannot be rebuilt under un expence of a
million of francs.—Seccral persons lost their lives,
and about eighty were wounded, occasioned chiefly
by the effects of intoxication. The Journal des De-
eats of Wednesday states, on the authority of a pri-
vate letter from St. Sebastian, that the Algerine
fleet had been encountered, off the coast of Andalu-
sia, by the Dutch squadron, and completely defeated.
Two of their ships were sunk, but it must have
been dangerous to take possession of the remainder,
as it is reverted that some of the crews had died of
the plague. Count Bergs, Imi passed through Milan,
about the 17th of last month, on his way to Lom-
bardy. It is said he intends to publich a Memoir,
justifying his own conduct, which it is rumoured
mill contain divers important revelations, little cre-
ditable to the English Ministry. It is also men-
tioned that the Italian Gazette of Lugano contains
"sume very interesting particulars on this subject,
calculated to throw some light on the conduct of
some persons concerned in the proceedings against
the Queen of Engle., 3." They are supposed to
refer to the Milan Commission. The Paris Paper,
the Constitatioanel, .gives a private letter from Na-
ples, dated the 17th ult. which mentions the mutiny
of the Farnese regiment, and confirms the ori.lxinal
statement, that it had no connection with political
events. •rWe have now," it adds, et one hundred
thousand men of the National Guard, armed and
equipped at the ezpence of the citizens. This has
been done simultaneously in every part of the king-
dom. Nothing can better demonstrate how much
the whole nation is interested in the new order of
tnings, and how many sacrifices it is disposed to
make. for the maintenance of its rights and indepen-
dence."

DILICTO or THS Doe HEBB OF Yonx.-•—• The
Duchess of York has long been in a declining state.
An express on Saturday evening announced a great
change for the worse, and yesterday morning be-
tween eight and nine o'clock she expired. The
cer.monies on such occasions, such as tolling St
Paul's great bell, &c. &c. were of mune gone
through. It might be deemed indelicate, from the
obvious contrast, to point at the respect which was
paid I y the illustrious couple to decorum ; but it
cannot fail to occur to every ()Wryer of passing
events, that the nation would not be in the present
convulsed state if the same deference to public feel-
ing had guided the conduct of others in the most
exalted station.

Madras Papers have arrived to the 11th March.
They contain no decisive intelligence with respect to
the operations of the expedition under Sir W. G.
Keir, on the Persian Gulf. An article from Bombay
mentions the arrival, at that Presidency, on the 18th
of February, of the Nautilus cruizer, with dispatches
from Sir W. Keir, and a copy of the Treaty which
had been concluded with the pirate Chiefs, who had
accepted the terms dictated to them. It is added,
" with the exception of the troops necessary to gar-
rison the stations that may be retained in the Gulf,
and the shipping requisite for their supplies of wa-
ter and .provision, the whole ot* the expedition is
expected to return to this port in the course of next
month, or at latest in April. We may hope, there-
fore, that the rumour which was in circulation a
week or ten days ago, respecting the severe loss said
to have been sustained by the 47th and 64th regi.
wants, will prove to have been unfounded.—We
learn from these Papers, that the clidera mortar,
which bad so h ng afflicted the island of Mauritius,
had almost entirely ceased its ravages.
Abel Hill, aged 23, a most hardened wretch,
was condemned at Stafford, and has been since
executed, for murdering, (by drowning) Mary
Marti:y*6 her infant child, 16 months old, of
which.o 141 the father and the unhappy woman
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WARWICK ASSIZES, Atigusi S.
CONSPIRACY.
THE KING V. %JOS NTIVRIGHT, WOOLEN!, SIMONDS,

AND 1/IHERS.
'Flits case, which has excited very little interest in the
comity where the °Hence was committed, rattle on this
morning before the Lout Chief Baron RiClllll Ili and
Special July. At alum flee minutes after tithe o'clock
line Judge ttsuk his seal, shortly atter which Major Cart-
wright entered the Court, accompanied by Mr. Fysli
Palmer, M.P., Williem Williams, Esq., M. P., Mr. Peter
Welker, and severA tithe' permits.
The indictment charges, that the defendants, intending',
to raise and excite. discontent and disaffection in the
minds of the liege subjects of the King, and did coosPllc
to cause and procure to be unlawfully n acrd, eleet•
cd, and appointed a ',proton to be the Representative of
the inhabitants of Biriniegliam, and tee Cl4llll admission as
snot into the COMMONS House of Parliament as a Menthes
thee col.
And in further pm-seance of such conspiracy the said
defendants did with a loud voice soy, publish, and niter,
its tier presenee and hearitig is. the venoms au assembled,
divers seditious, malicious, and inflammatory speeches'
itsultitions and writings.
Setting out the speeches and resolutions made and read
a! the meeting, ore. etc.
Mr. S. erjniti Vaughan addressed the Jury and proceed-
ed to call witnesses to > stipisisit the juilgont sit.
The CAP' for the pris.eentioso brick: closest,
Ms. Drimisn adoressea t Curl I and Jury, as Counsel
f r the defendants Lomond. and Ninoldoens. 'lie e vi-
'nonce against bladeloe ks. said Mr. De 00000 411, I', ler sue
grave a charge, the empt est lie rose, met a tili; it is
noosed that he went to 51 ajor Call* 's lodgings nil
t!.e Sunday moulting ;he st olked in ipso 1211 tli street
darer, and it. losuati eay light; the ova- er of the Louse
s•sseing lout at the nom. lie es mat even 1 h aged with
baviag game there 41! Monday at au; it IS Mot even Owed
at lee is seen at the m in nt in New Lin Hall, taking
pail in the pioceednips, end thus ends (lie evidence of
this mons(' war a onspiretcy as aflt Os Mr. Haddocks Well,
now, n lia! Is ssid cif Eeinssids?—There is the evidence of
Johnson, Dickenson, erd Pemberton ; Johnson§ mimes a
vet y tong speech, et lin It lie said was 111:111e by Edmonds at
the Inerting, lie ceilainly pets into err) great detail;
but alien he is questioned shelter the %turtle he murals
to were those actually used by Edmunds, he tells you they
me the sneer of what he said. Now, gentlemen, recol-
lect the manner in which this perooin gave his evidence;
lie tells you dial he did nut make his motes until tete days
Niter the meeting, and nut mss it lie had seen Mr. Ed-
munds's publicatiuti ; and the account he gives happens to
agree ',wisely in every syllable, every word, with the
publication itself. There was nothing like violence or
issresdeime shout the meeting, all was quiet and orderly;
the individual elected was merely deputed to wait upon
the Speaker of the House of Cue 00000 ens, and he thought it
hardly worth while to pursue the del ;Wants for so trifling
au offence, if indeed it lie any; hut there appeared among
Inure of the law officers a taste fur these persecutions,
which he hoped woutel semi be gratified.
Mr. Hill then cunimenced a lung and argumentative
speech in defence of Major Cartwright. by going into a
armorial review of the particular .f the case, in
doing which he read to the July extracts hunt venous
others, which clearly demonstrated, as be contended, the
ancient existetice of meetings of the mann of *hick his
client had been iturieteel for engaging is.
Mr. Worrier said, that es he was likely to occupy the
Court for three or tour hours, lie begged his Lordship
would adjourn, *hick was accordingly done at half-past
ten.
SECOND DAY, FRIDAY. AeousT 4.
The Court met this morning pursuant to adjournmeot,
at ten o'clock. The de (ordains did nut, however, arrive
',mil half past; but Major Cat twright was not with Went,
nor were any of thegruilemen alio y esterdayaccunipanied
him. The AlitVirdiuseser, soon enteieeL
TneJery bring ceded over,
Mr. Wouler ruse and said, it'niithtaulm rather singular
for him to assert that the real truistics of the case were
not WC*, She Court. The iesil retwersuoi to try we'
fink
of principle. mid lout individuals. The origin of this pea.
secution was to be traced to a period long mitecedenv to
the time when it took p ace. 'llle prieeiples of Reform
have beets advocated tot several years. 41111 to pot tlover
principles down by three which they could not eunquer
by reason, has been the Indio, ts ions endeavour of Govern•
uncut tor some lime past. Hr cu 11111 l eided on the general
character of meetings of Reform which hail been 'Wowed
to be held. If the proper 111111101itirs did tint inietfere
with the existence of such 'twenties, they were privy to
their crienisality, if indeed it were au, seal ought not to
entrap, as it were, individuals into the commission of arts,
of w hick they afterwards look advantage. Hr cliailetaged
the Learned Gentleman opposite to pi wince airy 1.14,161 V
1110 by the most nice emote uctiun or biterpretattout could
Milner the great hotly of Eieglisl .n to imagine cleat these
meetings were illegal. lie C41111'111114111141 lie bad s right
to maintain the free exercise of any political opinion he
might think proper to adopt, and nitrate, being obliged
to answer to any one his reason fur elite' tendon( such an
opinion. With three few rensatks he should proceed to
the consideration of the particular case before hint:—the
first ounce that he or any oily else had received of the
illegality of such meetings as those complained of, was the
pruclansation of the King.published about twelve coolants
ago. Hr then went 11110 the history of the case, which lee
detailed with cunsedrrabte ability, suit commented iii
strong terms on the unbecoming and unfair manner in
which the case had, Irmo its commencement, been so un-
blushingly persevered in by the prosecutors.
Major Cartwright addressed a few wends to the Court,
expressive of the desire that, as Mr. Hill had nut been
permitted, its addition tea his own 'preen to read the is it-
ten defence the Major had prepared, he might be per.
united to put in some tenets and testimonials of the Duke
of Richmond, eke. *hen Baton Richards not only com-
plied with the request, but gave immediate permission to
Mr. PC4IIIOII to read the whole defence. The Major,
however, obviously appears to have been much mule
actuated with (lie desire of *indicating his principles that,
of warding of the punishment with which he was me-
naced.
The speech of Mr. Lewis, who followed, was still less
propitious—and we would advise those who may hereafter
tall under persecution, to remember that the advantages
of serf-defense belong only to the discreet, the able, and