The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-18 00:00:00

EXECUTIONS.

SCOTL AN n. —Wetlitehtlay, Alexander Robertson was
executed at Glasgow, conformably to big sentence at the
High Court of Justiciary, for rubbing the vs shut se of
Mr. John Love. At live • lee helm.. tssu o'clock the
magistrates enured die Town-hail, whistir was crowded
to eteeP4, and Bailie Alston, acting chief magistrate, or-
dered the criminal to be produced. lie was attended by
Mr. Macgregor, the gaoler, and the assistants, and walkvd
with considerable firionesa. The Rev. Ur. Lockhart, who
had paid peat attention to him during his confinement,
was seated at the head of the table, and read loom the
511 i velar of the 22.1 Psalm, and the greater part joining
in the singing. The set etched inset paid great atteritiurs,
arid the Doctor then offered up a very appropriate prayer,
during which the prisoner seemed s cry much affected, and
the per Poll sitting next him wiped his lace with a hand-
kerchief. Psalms were again sling, in which the prisoner
jollied with firmness, but without rising any gesticulation;
and the service vas finished by an affecting prayer from
the Rev, Mr. Ewing, whose feelings were much moved,
Dr. Lockhart then stated to the magistrates the prisoner's
gratitude fur their Lind attention t and trip essed his con-
s lotion that such a change had been effected on the pri-
soner as was likely, bad he been spared, to make his con-
duct very different. At • quarter before three o'clock
the hall was cleared. The unhappy prisoner Robertson
mounted the scaffold with a firm step and a calm counte-
nance. The Mop was very considerable, sad the crash
excited a miring, sensation throughout the surrounding
multitude, not less, it is supposed, than 30,000 ; but it
was his own request, as, from his being a light man, he
was afraid of struggling. He had been in business ou his
own account, and had made a voyage to America as a
merchant; but soon after 116 return home, lie gut ac-
quainted with loose company, and was tssire tried before
&Ito perpetration of the crime for which lie suffered. Some
time after his rotten fiuur Lilinburgh, where lie was con-
s icted, be was rather Magner ellt to his late ; but when all
hopes of a reprieve haul vatii.lied, he became all that his
clerical attendants could wi-11, and they seemed very in-
terested about him. He was genteel looking, and was
only 24 years of age. After hanging 45 minors. the body
was cut down, and the crowd quietly dispersed.
IRELAND.—Mund4y, O'Hare and Brennan, who were
capitally convicted at the last assizes of Roscommon, un-
derwent the ass fill sentence of the law al that place. On
Sunday night, March ZU, about six o'clock iii the eveninlr
minediately after the clergyman left Omni, the ttuderf

gaoler, who was most Inintanely kind to them, went as
usual to lock them op. He sat a few minutes with them,
when they sent hint for some turf, and on his return to the
cell, they knocked-4nm down and unordered him in a cruel
instiller, by ',li.rangtilation. He has left an unfortunate
widow and 10 childrete to deplore his loss. After they
unordered hint, they took Rom him the keys, by which
Means they got to the top of the prison to effect their es•
cape, when fortunately one of the 16111 Regiment,. who
was sentinel, perceived them on the top, by the noise of
their !Adis, and ease the alarm, when they were immedi-
ately secured. 'Duey solesitely declared their innocence
of the minder, and nitro brought out to see the dead
body, called on God to witness their innocence, but at one
o'c►ock in the morning they confessed their guilt of the•
murder, as well as the robbery for which they were to
stiffer. These men's relations in Roscommon are respec-
table farmers, far above the lower orders, but they have
always been men of bad character. They scented un-
concerned at the awful fate which awaited theist, wail
the day before their execution, on the morning of which
they seemed penitent, and ascended the fatal platfui
with much s!easliness. They spoke at some length to Ilse
populace, which exceeded in ttttt nber tiny Odin; ever wit-
nessed on a Sumter OCC.IblOtl, and warned them against
illegal meetings and bad company, which brought them to
the gallows. At hall-past 12 they were launched into
eteinity. They did nut suffer much. Their bodies were
then, by the dirt-cairns of Goverimeent to the Sheriff, bu-
ried is the gaol-y urd, which seemed to have an equal effect
with tie execution on the popnlace. Previous to the ex-
ecution, the Sheriff, n tau received an order from Govern-
ment to remove all the convicts under sentence of Ira les-
pus 'idiot' on that day, to Cork, caused the convicts all to
be put on cars, chained together, in fimit of the prison,
to witness the execution, when their friends attended to
lake leave put them. moment the execution Willi over,
they were marched off under* strong eseuit.

SOAIRWE7' IMSIZAS.
COOK, V. DOBYM.

This was an action brought by Air. Cooke, upholder,
of Bath, against the defundant, fur seducing his daughter,
Harriet Cooke.

Mr. G. F. Williams opened the case on the part of
the plaintiff. by stating, that Mr. Cooke was a respect-
able tradesman of Bath ; was father of a large family ;
and lived in comfort by his exenions in trade. Miss
Cooke, the daughter of the plaintiff, was an actress of
some edebrity at the Bath theatre, and who, until the
unfortunate acquaintance with the defendant, was of
unblemished reputation; that the defendant became
acquainted with the pia' 'IN daughter by attendiug
he I the scenes at the theatre, its January is $B, whet.
he enacted the part of Iloilo, fur Mr. Cuttway's benefit,
and he had succeeded in accoinplistaing his designs
AI its Cooke was then examined for a few minutes. when
M. Sergi:Jut Cousiad far the ddeudaut uffcred

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3001. and eons. which the plaintiff% Couti,el accepted ;
and the learned herjealit stated, th it Mi.; (.unk
appeared to have heea otherwise taut etr.uotts except
with the delendant.