The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-20 00:00:00

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OUTRAGE ON TILE PEOPLE AT KILMAINIIAIf.
Oa Friday Bridget Butterly and Bridget
Lillis, port-mint to their sentence, were executed before
idle 1)ohliu, for the murder of Miss
Tnoiripsuit, alias B.tilia, of Portland •place. All accounts
agree iu stating that there never was a greater number of
iier,otts pros. nt.it an execution in Kilmainham. The
salemeity of the occasion, and the circumstances wlrch
attended the .antrder, had the effect of causing a deep
add awful impression 1011 the minds of the spectator>—
. and never did all assembly deport itself with greater pro-
; ri.ty and decorum. While they were waiting in silence
fin toe appearauce of the criminals on the fatal drop, a
persou of the name of Warren, who we understand is
Sob sheriff, appeared at the window, and waving his
with), ordered the police to clear the way anti drive the
envie back. Toe people were not its the way; on the
. (-moray, dies, had formed a semicircle at a considerable
instance from the scaffold. But the orders of this man
e..ere most p ptly obeyeal. These horse-gentlemen
citirged the elosely.wedged multitude w,th ai much
440 w, arid as little ceremony, as a squathou of cavalry
would a disordered eneany its a rout. Never was there
s.;eo a sight witnessedsiuce the Field of Peterloo—men
and women, old and young, were thrown into heaps.—
Toe screaming of the people—die brandishing of swords
—the trampling of horses—the fury of the assailants—
dely the powei of description. It was a shocking and
most atrocious outrage. No lives, however, were lost ;
but no thanks to the horse police for this. It was not
their fault that murder was not committed. It was Pro-
vidence that witted the crowd, and Out the forbearance of
those persons ,andio.are paid out of the pockets of the
crowd fur protecting their persons and property. Instead
of protectors, those kind horsemen dashed like execu-
tioners ainnua diem. Soldiers never displayed more
Jury in battle than those persons did against an unarmed
and passive.tnultitude. It appeared to be sport-royal to
titan; and we-west do Mr. Warren the justice to ob-
. see e, that, even after this scene of outrage, be justified
anti appeared to glory in the result. Unfortunately Mr.
Cobb, the high.sherifl, was not present. From his hu-
manity and good sense we should expect another kind
of conduct. :Mier being dispersed by the military at
Kilatainham, when li.gally assembled in the exercise of
their rights ; alter haat lig their religion and its ministers
&Mania taxed as dangerous to the safety of the cemntunity
—after being charged by mounted policequen, when as-
sembled to witness a public execution, and their lives
put in jeopardy by the trampling of the horses and the
sabres of their cold blooded riders, the people of Ire-
laud must surely be sunk into a deep and ignoble apathy
—that they can thus suffer themselves to be insulted and
trampled upon without making a f,eneral constitutional
effort to obtain a redress of their 'stoup and dsmand the
punishment of the guilty offenders.
FRAUD ON THE BANK.—On Tuesday last a disco-
. very took place in the Bank of Enland, which for some
mite, troth its nature, excited a good deal of alarm, and
which ultimately, led to thedetectioo of a fraud by which
a sum of ten thousand pounds, Navy -5 per cent. Sn;ck,
was created, and subsequently transferred so different
parties, to the sole advaatage of one of the clerks in the
idice, a young 111311 of the name of Thunitis•Swinney
Barnard Turner, the son of Sr -13. Turner, late Sheriff
of London. Tne ci cimistances as they transpired, have
tilt as yet been publicly Mt ulgeil. As far as we have
tr.'en able to collect, however, the instinct in which Ole
fraud was effected, WWI this :—Mr. Ittritei, its the course
or his duty. had to enter iii one of the transfer books a
Lena fade transfer of a given quantity oh stock, to the
amount of 4,0001.; to this he added 10,0001.; so that,
prim/acid, the transfer appeared to be 14,1001. Having
thus lam the Inundation of the object which he had in
view, the next step was to dispose iii the I o,outd., whieti
lie had thus, by a simple stroke of his pen, created
Tnia second step was accomplished with almost 39 1111301
facility as the krst. Purchasers were Imola ; reference
was had to the original Cory; there the stock was found
/c4istered, and the transfers were regularly made. In
accomplishing this ingenious colitrisatice, there was-ne
c:sssri!y much of complexity ; but the success was coin- A
-Cete. the next, and not less important scheme, was
t. disguise the ordinal entry.; and fur this purpose the
of the transer-hook ?ti which it was made was torn
i,ii. At the conclusion' of the investigation, Foy, the
1. ,dice officer, who is in the co:islasit employment oldie
B ink, was sent to take Turner into custody. He
found lu,n it his hoitse at Walworth, and brought him
to gone of The Directors, who were assembled in the
Batik parlour, before whom he underwent an examitia-
lt•in, and i'oy was directed to detain hint in custody till
the next day, a warrant having been obtained to justify
that deletsuun. The Directors were unwilling to ire it
• 1110 with ltiore harshness thin was consistent with his
p-•rsolial safely I they, therefore, permitted Foy to take '
Win to site place which he thought be more
convenient to himself, and where as little abridgement
iu his coilifiin, might' take place as the eircanistaisces
it.Ottit warrant. Foy under this authority, took the
unfortunate young titan to the Crown tavern on Cler
kenwelkreen, where he was treated with every
is,.nce, and wa*al night locke I up iti a lied-roan on the
third-their. Ills wi.her examination Was 10 hare
iiiacr on the towing day, but dining the night lie threw
himself inn of the ss outfits., by which his elbow and hip.
Voile was fractured—he tt as taken to St. Barttiolumew s
blapll4i, wiucre he no, tivpii his wile, a most
it,tetebtitig,yontag We, of highly 11111 iiiii ratite connexions,
to WHOM Ile has 1101 been married itbuse a twelvemotult,
mid whose sensations it is nattily necessary to say, art i•rt.t
6, no tale his. excitesl time cuisinsistra-
tom of * large circle of stegusidiatsces, by whom he was
to: e: rely es:eetnesl. The ()throve fist matt! to hint is 4141.
pge her oh newel 111111OC, 3101 het seethed * COnallittaitlo4
d arse of cusiosay. Various maims are assopsed ab stbv
aueenteitts to she. imprudent unarm IM sr/Isiah lie has
I.;eu nitwit ul