The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-02 00:00:00

CAPTAIN 1110 IR.

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What with the bustle consequent on the approaching
contested election on the one band, and the excitement
consequent upon the recent conviction of Captain Moir,
this town is quite in motion. The fate of this unfortunate
gentleman appears, however, for the moment, to swallow
up almost every other consideration, inasmuch as, in addi-
tion to the application made by Mr. Dowling, after convic-
tion, to stay the execution, a petition, numerously signed
by the respectable inhabitants of this borough and county,
has been presented to the Executive, and, down to this
hour, Captain Moir appears to anticipate that it will at
least produce a respite. After the prisoner was convicted he
was removed to the convict gaol, on Springfield-green,
under the charge of Mr. Neale, the governor, he having
previous to trial been confined at the county gaol, in the
custody of Mr. Cornwell. Upon his arrival at the former
prison the convict was, according to custom, stripped and
strictly examined, he afterwards substituted another suit
of clothes for the new ones in which be was tried. Ws
demeanour was steady and resigned, without listlessness
on the one band, or apparent compunction on the other.
Yesterday the Captain was visited by his wife, mother,
brother, sister, and others of his intimate friends, who all
have been buoyed up with hopes that the man they hold
most dear on earth will be spared the disgrace of an igno-
minima exit.

This morning the culprit attended divine service, when

the Rev. Mr. Lewis, the excellent chaplain of the prison,
delivered an appropriate discourse; but, as by a rigid
order $lO person was allowed to be present it she solemn
service, the public will be left to conjecture what apparent
effect it had upon the mind of the prisoner. A great
number of persons grumble at this exelneien, but it is
due to the Rev. Chaplain and Mr. Neale to state, that
they, if left to themselves, would gladly give every informa-
tion.. About one o'clock the near relations already al.

luded to were introduced to the prisoner in his cell, and
they remained with him down to the present time,
anxiously hoping a favourable reply to their application to
the throne. Captain Moir remains unmoved, and appears
determined to meet his fate undauntedly; nevertheless, so
sanguine were his expectations, that he calculated upon a
different verdict, although he had been candidly dealt with
by his friends. He has uniformly manifested a great
like of exposure, from, if I mistake not, a dread that his
sorrowful end should be embodied in the calendar of crime.
ItVN o'cLoct.
The die itcast, Sir Robert Peel has communicated that
no respite: of judgment can be allowed. Toil annuncia-.
tion gave a shock to the too-ardent expectant relatives of
the convict : their tears became them, and their sorrow
was natural.

Captain Moir, who " hoped Against hope," teemed but
little surprised when the awful fiat was announced to him,
that the diurnal index of time would not perform its course
before the infiexib?o arm of the la* would pronounce to
him that "time shalt be no longer."
Captain Moir bits done one thing, which will, in some
degree, blunt the sting of his offence—he has settled an
annuity on the widow of his victim for life: he could do
no more, and, as a person of wealth, he ought not to have
done less.

The QUEEN, attended by Lord Howr,
Baron TIAUMBACII, Lord CLINTON, and Miss Fill-
CLA.RXNCX, on her ♦isit to the Colosseum. on Friday last,
expressed, in the most gracious terms her entire approba-
tion of the various, alterations and additions that had been
made to this magnificent establishment since last year,
when she frequently viewed its progress.

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