The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-01 00:00:00

384.

EXECUTIONS.
On Monday minting, John Holland, aged 48, and
'William King, aged :10, neon ezerule.l in (runt of the
debtors' /loin of Newgine, At an early hoar a crowd
',Craft le) and ninny persons were ow Ole spot at
throe Wein. k in tire morning, when the %naiad was
bronchi from the court-yard and treeted the gaol
• of Newiate. Holland, who vilosa Catholic, was attreideli

Ly the Hew. Mr. Deoreietta. wretched man, when
on his trial, was apparently in perfect health, Intl on
'Monday mor ghe was little better than a skeleton, and
Well AO weak as to be al 1111 l incapable of most AMINE the
weight of his emaciated rumor. lie has left a wife said
••twothildreto, of wham he tank leave on Sunday, alter
attending the rand J see . King has been at-
• t ended since lois condemnation by the Re•v. Mr. Baker, to
lioAe advice lie paid Scspeettiol attention, hut ohses veil a
sullen taciturnity Oil the moment of his death. Holland
acknowledged Iris crime, and tile justice of his fate, and
ever since the arrival of the warrant fur e geett I ion, his
time, night and day, has bes•n employed in loud exelama-
lions and petitions to the Supreme Being ►or surrey and
pardon. limoday night two persons of the Catholic
peromasion sat up wills hint, and were engaged in prayer
the greater pats of the time. Mr. I)everetix arrived at an
early boor, and administered the sacraments of the Lord's
Stopper, and Ilse Italy anctioot, or absolution. King re-
c.' it ed the sacrament at the hands of the Rev. Mr. Baker.

At a quit ter before eight o'clock the Sheriffs, Messrs.
Thompson and Lucas, with the Under-theroli,-- Clarke,
Esq. arrived 'ollie gaol, and ptueeeoled to the press yard,
where Holland was engaged no devotional exercises. He
was relieved tot Isis horns. This man had a very effeminate
'Moe, and kis Seredols of mental anguish were moat
ills whole frame was agoonsell wills terror.—
!King war brought Isom his cell next, and be approached
the anvil, to be released from his irons, with the greatest
firmness. Hu assisted the officer in taking them nth, and
then walked to the efiettll inner to he pinioned, passing by
Holland withooot noticing him, and bound. he ex-
pressed his readiness to 'floe (lurk had toot shriek
en/tau—the Shelia had their watches in their hands--ie
walled a n to of the time, this short Militate was alltiost

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sin eternity of agony to the slllMClable reaps its: at last the
hra of St. Sepsittliie's cluck chimed eight, the convicts
fli
'rted au room a dream, and were pieced in a kind of
pi el-rheum, following the sheriffs and clergyman, and they
walked through the passages of the prison, until they
united at the foot of the scoiduld. Holland was first tied
up, and then King ascended the scaffold ; he said to the
executioner, very hastily, " Pot the cap over my face."
'it is onppoie-1 he Pr w some person who knew him. At a
quarter past right o'clock the executioner said that all
was prepared, Dr. Coition commenced reading a prayer,
and•in the middle of it took out his handkerchief, and
gave the enstumary signal, the boat we. drawn, and the
men launched into Memory. 'flue instant the drop tell
time mob shouted loud tier rations repeatedly, and there
were clic* of " Where's the Bishop?" and oilier
expi elisions: At Iliac o'clock the bodies were cut down,
• and after being placed in dill...rent simile, were rye') to
the relatives fur Mteruncot.
Another :mini example was made en Wednesday, My 11:e