The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-12 00:00:00

EAST INDIES

k From `;-1, .Dethc, Gazette= Lt', 4. )
ivis:KRCCTION OF A PRINCE OF THE HuC'SE OF TIMM; FOR
"MEL—The morning of Friday last presented the novel,
nArnt distressinesur, spectacle of a Prince descended from the great
expiating with his life on the scaffold a murder com-
mitted under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. For fear
of exciting prejudice against the accused, we have hitherto re-
framed from alluding to the crime during investigation. But
by the termination of the whole proceedings the restriction for
silence no longer exists : we therefore hasten to lay before tile
public a circumstantial detail of all particulars connected there-
with, to which
we have added a few brief remarks, which the
nature of the subject has suggested.
Majesty,
;
e criminal, Mirza Hydur Shekob, a cousin of his present
that took an opportunity during the height of a storm,
_at visited Delhee on the 11th ultimo, tomurder his wife, the
Kaudera Sultan Begum, by cutting her almost to pieces with
a sword, after which he quietly left the house, and threw him-
self down a well near at hand, with the intention of perpe-
htrating suicide. His courage, however, failed, and he was
wn out, and secured by persons, who had collected on
cries for help.
When the murder was reported to his Majesty, he directed
!'ls. Minister to wait on the Governor-General's Agent, and so-
licit his interference. Mr. Metcalfe accordingly deputed the
assistant Agent, Cornet Robinson, to proceed and hold an
Quest on the body, but it was some time time before the
relatives of the deceased would allow that gentleman to
enter the Anderoon. Permission was at last given, upon
condition that he alone should view the body, which presented
flesh 111°St appalling sight, being a complete mass of bloody
!te !.. It was stated by one of the female attendants thlt
victim was eight months advanced in pregnancy ;
and the fact was afterward substantiated on the trial.
b °Q Monday the 13th, Mr. Metcalfe waited on his Majesty,
zulYawtmt,itifvras requested that he would investigate the case,
proved-, the murderer should forthwith be put to
death, at the place where he committed the deed.
In accordance with the King's wish, all parties were in
attendance the same da at the Residency. After a careful
4.114 patient investigation of the case before our Agent, as-
ssted by Mooftee Sadder-oil Suddoor, the crime was fully
tri?ved, independent of t
he prisoner's voluntary confession,
no refused offering any defence in extenuation.
The -

proceedings with ihe Sudder-00l Suddoor's Futwa (de-
claring the prisoner liable to Kisass), having been submitted
trioiving
to Government, their reply was received on the 26th ult., ap-
of the same, and with reference to his Majesty's
in authorized a. authorized the same penalty of death being carried
I,_‘o effect on the prisoner, in snch manner as might be most
i'eni,ficial as .an example, and agreeable to his Majesty's
beeergs• It was finally determined that the prisoner should
ung on the following Friday, which sentence was commu-
eica
ted to him by the agent. He heard his doom with sullen
/mate
and merely replied—Bote-Acha, (very. good).
4ffatirore this his
period he employed himself in arranging
h rs' and, on the morning previous to execution, sent for
disease Child, about a year old, which was in the last stage of
isease; it expired during the day, and when told of its
death,r, he smiled, but said nothing.
are Palace
Friday at day break 200 of the Sappers and Miners,
due Palace Guards, and 400 of his Majesty's troops, were
urnitawn °tit (round the gallows erected within the Palace)
der command of Captain Wilson, the Killadar.
Rl',‘Abalf -past five his Majesty held a Durbar in the Mottee
0;."111, at which the Agent attended. In the meantime Mr.
ent Insou, to whom the superintendence of the execution was
re rusted, proceeded with his Majesty's Vakeel, and a party of
utilar', to the Killadar's quarters, at which place the prisoner
cess.confined. After a few moments spent in prayer, the pro-
,l;°n moved on, and reached the scaffold in about ten minutes.
dr he Prince havine. quitted his palanqueen, aicended the
prep with
great coolness. Mussulman executioners had been
_ provided, but he called the servant who had been in attend-
Eveee, and begged him to adjust the rope, which the man did.
the tiling being ready, the supporters were withdrawn, and
unfortunate Prince was launched into eternity. He ap-
reared to suffer very little—a few convulsive movements, and
ceePlas a corpse. Immediately afterwards the assistant pro-
ma?ed and reported the completion of the sentence to his
th JestY, who forthwith dismissed his Durbar and retired to
Mhehid, apparently greatly distressed. The body, after
• e hour's suspension, was taken down and buried in a place
prepared, close to the tomb of Nizam-00-deen Oliah.
torshe execution of this Prince within the palace of his ances-
o ' has caused no slight excitement among the inhabitar.ts
imperial city. It appears not a little singular, that
kiv.e of the Blood Royal, with a few exceptions, should ac-
orluwledge the justness of that sentence, which has consigned
h! of their race to an ignominious death, while on the other
~nl, the mass of the citizens of Delhee, viewed the deserved
kainaldnshment of the royal murderer as an act of tyranny,
isted Confirming the general belief that has lately ex-
tednee°re the desire of Government to detract from, and
r- every means in their power, those marks of
aideration and rivileges now enjoyed by the King of
ehei,hee• How this feeling' first originated shall form the
:act of a future argument; at present, our remarks are
.117,7 Y confined to the interesting subject under comment.
"Y the members of the Royal Family have coincided,
pre before stated, is easily explained. The victim was the
theee of his Majesty,independant respected, elated to
heads of the family, was universally beloved,
lifd admired, for her very correct and virtuous course of
and we fear she was a solitary instance among the female
.aabitants of the Palace. Mirza Hydur Shekoh was but a
remote branch of royalty without many connexions, and deemed
'1 all who knew him a reprobate. The supposed cause of
murder (namely, because his wife refused to associate with one
of his concubines) also lessened the feeling in his favour. We
ke afraid that had the victim been a poor helpless slave girl,
tie means would have been left untried to save his life.

We must not withhold our humble tribute of praise to the
King, for his firm and just conduct throught the whole
transaction ; the feeling and sentiments expressed by him
are worthy of the universal and great respect in which he
is held by all classes of people ; nor should the arduous
exertions of our Agent be forgotten. Few are aware of
the embarrassing situation in which he was placed, or of the
d'ffioulty experienced in bringing the proceeding to such a
Satisfactory close, without requiring the evidence of those
a 4,2, from their high rank and sex, could not have been ex-
tined without suffering disgrace in the eyes of the natives
49d last, but not least, we cannot sufficiently express our
.i4ausTvi r a-tion at the delicacy evinced by Government to his Ma-
aseet.the King of Delhee, in not interfering further than by
eottiii°eing the penalty of Death being carried into effect ac-
isag to his Majesty's wish. It is true that by the Treaty
the x?in3, tile power of life and death is guaranteed to
aant dg, but it speaks well for Government, that in the pre-
yet 47, when treaties are held drat so cinch wasteapaper, paper, it has
beh been mindful of that respect due to the fallen, but still
kipshed name of Timour.
RDER OF TIIE HEIR APPARENT TO THE

BURMESE THRONE.
of ATeaoutts from the Burmese empire state that the second act
Par harrawadie's usurpation was the executing the Heir Apn--
ell,rt t 0 the Throne with twenty-three of his followeprs,. lee
vini,ng three females. The charge against the young Prince
Cis supposed predilection towards the English.
JitnuititlEL CONDUCT OF THE KING OF A.VA.—(From. thoe.
Tae,4la,i° Chronicle of 16th June. )--On .the 3d waning of
nizej,-° he Tsekya Prince (the Heir-Apparent) applied, to his
(Iffer' the King, for permission to go next day and make some
Ch t°
the Moo-nee Pagoda. His Majesty granted it.
*killed-;'evening of the same day one of the King's daughters
Per astrology, having cast a horoscope, reported to
Tltgt
,741 father that she had divined he had enemies.
T'k—Me niht the Prince of Paghan surrou..nded. the
vri
with Princes residence with armed men, carried him off
ilbaYitiel:;, wife and children, and placed them in confinement,
"F Was about to rebel. At that time the Princess of
c' th 4 Interceded with her brother the King for the pardon
4:tl her Tsekya Prince, but for so doing she was deprived
h i.P,assessions notwithstanding which she took the infant
,e r,-nu daughter of the Prince to take care of. On
0, tbehing of that day the Tshan-she- 80, the Tounhg-ghyee-
„lllaki royal tailor with his father and his son, wit ot etrhse,
rib° eight i 11 were placed in confinement. On
4 tese • n a to the "Two Mango
rees .eight persons were taken out
ceeitlelt urial-ground," and there executed. On the 6th,
santr3_
:ht'ande'd hthe Tsekya Prince being bound wtih cords and
Wok.,:Y a party of armed men, at the head of whom wereo
ti,4at I-"gYees Moung-Shouay za and Moung-loong-.ny,
-get: out to the place of execution. On the way,
. within
deg ha he was allowed to wear sandals, but on arriving out-
*°liciabtihle inwas made to take them off and walk barefoot, his two
e Wives and his nurse were taken out at the same
ited,,„" Cart. Arrived at the place of execution, the ~ Two
atCtrans Burial rousd," and when about to be put to
I the Prince called out " I am not a rebel, it is my uncle
Aith n" rebel." On this he was struck on the throat
;aa the:t.,ich, and his hands and feet being tied together, he
14rot. r\'' uoubled u and thrust into a large open chatty or
:40wotni,nrithdiisogloud pee ofgrief and lamentation issued from
multitude,les gwhich was silenced by the armed
%Word --° ground, wh re sent to cut them down with their
;ere Fur
aatlth I°ed ng th eewcuetion of the Prince, the three womend
l'iilother'4eed in a pastureeex of supplication, their faces turned
"lick The Prince being executed, they also were
ilitlde.wboit?iiiiesteoef
tthhroat with a stickb. and their bodies doubled up.
k that, of et:elVoPrcionceu concubine
all
wives
three were
carriedthrust
downinto t
to
the, pots,
Gre4talt-wtriratvn into the river they being all of Royal blood..
eltltiv,, 44 the grief of all people at Amaranoora after this
the ten days none frequented the bazaar either.
relittio', and the town had a funeral aspect. This is
v,eti her of People from Ave and Rangoon who have ar-
il 'Notva• e.
Ora.l_B ofittlialli:g. the positive assertions of several indivi-
lianieesee, the
idea ivslslWllwitnesseredva_eexecution of the young
1 nt in Moulmein that he
aPed, and that vheirsyfapmily only were put to death.
is peers' and
from Rangoon confidently assert that
eheasp, and their assertions are in some measure
tilveirtltnessont
te -Y tne co the
statements of pretended eye-
eas jes of the execution. Some say they saw him cut to
taken
0o;
Palace yarcl,while others, as above related, saw
-n out to the place of execution.

;
,enant
Haeßte,ntartman, 9th Regiment, at Chinsurah,
4t
a bae:lfee bY a Court-Martial to be reprimanded for intruding
Qa ordrted i
by
dressed,_ and refusing to withdraw
Lg ro
erick y his superior officer, Captain Douglas.—
ntde.
11
tirerh pR4SON FOR NA RROW FOOTPATHS.—The
i.OIQ p4v°,4' Bankok, the capital of Siam, arc dirty and narrow,
ink tw walk the mile being scarcely wide enough
"to° persons to walk abreast The reason for this, accord-
the 'iamese is that e are no two of the same rank
44teretitilIZZ.; and etiquette does not permit individuals of
10 walk side by side.

CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH TH

ANSWERS.

( Continued from The Sun of Wednesday.)
234.--A baud of schemers has been busied, for some time
back, in organizing a system of agitation against the Corn-
laws. The simplicity, with which, at times, the more noisy
agents of the system betray the motives, by which their em-
ployers are animated, is amusing, and not uninstructive.
At Manchester, more especially, there has been formed an
Anti-Corn-law Association; and this association has employed
a spouter, named PAULTON, to perambulate the country, and
to reiterate the dull and shallow common-places, on which the
enemies of English agriculture trade. At Bolton, this worthy
delivered a lecture a few days ago, in which, as reported, may
be found some admissions of a very curious kind. Let the fol-
lowing be taken as a specimen :
" The lecturer then gave a detail of the injurious effects of
the sugar and coffae monopolies, and argued that the destruc-
tion of the corn monopoly would bring the landowners into op-
position to every other hind of morropoly."—Morning Herald,
7 Nov. 1838.

ANSWER.—The Corn-law supporters do the same on the
other side ; and in fact in these very paragraphs, they are
summoning the different kinds of monopolists to the rescue.
Let it be conceded then, that this is only a fair " pull
baker, pull devil," and must continue till the cribber of
bread and the great avenger settle their relative strengths
by experiment.

235. —The landowners of England are really deeply indebted
to the ingenuous Mr. PAULTON, and to his honest patrons 1 The aim
—the avowed aim—of the Anti- Corn-law faction is, not merely
to rob and ruin landowners and farmers—but after having ruined
them, to convert their desperation into the instrument of ruin-
ing every other class, whose possessions or privileges may re-
main to be an object of desire to Mr. PAULTON'S paymasters.
The landed " monopoly" is, in the first place to be pulled
down, and then the ex-monopolists of land are to be made use-
ful, after the fashion in which Mr. PAULTON himself now as.
pires to be useful—useful, that is to say, in the way of depriv-
ing other men of their utility, of their social value. All
" monopolies," in short, are destined to destruction—except-
ing, we presume, the " monopoly" on which Mr. PAULTON'S
employers thrive.—ld.

A.:—To be sure, they are. If Mr. PAULTON has got a
monopoly of his own in his pocket after all, he is going a
very bad way to see it thrive.

236.—The brief sentence which we have quoted, contains
an epitome of the whole policy of free trade—its ends, and the
means by which these have been already partially attained, and
by which they bid fair, at no distant period, to be worked out.
—/d.

A.—A cheering admission from an adversary. There is
nn doubt, that every public plunderer pulled down, falls
into the ranks of the honest men.

237.—The policy of free trade, in short, is that policy, which
dictates the sacrifice of one class of producers after another, in
the order, which may best suit the convenience of the idle con-
sumers of society—and which dictates, moreover, the conver-
sion of each of the ruined classes of producers into the instru-
ment subsequently of ruin to other classes.—ld.
A.—Which dictates the sacrifice of one class of disho-
nest producers after another, or all together, as may be best
within the reach of the community they wrong. The charge
against them being, that each derives its gain through a
double loss to the rest of the community, once by taking
money from the consumer without return, and once over
again by taking employment from the honest traders with
whom the consumer would have spent that money if he had
been let alone.

238. —Such has been the unfailing character of the effects,
which have, for twenty years, followed the march of Whig
political economy. The Currency Bill of 1819, for instance,
was a bill framed for the express purpose of placing all the
other classes of the community at the mercy of the moneyed
class, and of the body of idle consumers. That bill deprived
landowners of half their property, and ruined tens of thou-
sands of farmers and of respectable tradesmen. That bill
more than doubled the power of creditors over debtors—and
crippled productive industry in all its forms, as no single le-
gislative measure, perhaps, ever crippled productive industry
before. —ld.

A.—The Currency Bill was framed for the purpose of
undoing a great injustice, consisting in having first borrowed
money, and then purposely diminished the value of the
money in which the interest was to be paid. If it increased
the power of creditors over debtors, it was because there
had been a previous unjust increase of the power of debtors
over creditors. It was like the verdict of a jury giving
money to A, because he had previously been wronged by
B ;'and the oddest of all notions of legislation, would be
to find in that a reason for going back to the state of
things that had just been cured.

239. —The effects of the Currency Act did not, moreover,
terminate with the direct change which it wrought in the con-
dition of the classes which gained by it. No :—the classes of
producers who were crushed beneath the influence of that
measure became, of necessity, instruments for the destruction
of other orders of producers. —ld.
A.—lt is possible some classes might be put upon con-
sidering whether, as they had lost by the cessation of an
injustice upon other people, they could not find an injustice
somewhere which might be put down with advantage to
themselves. But it is not very clearly made out.

240.—Such, in like manner, have been the effects of free
trade, and of the unrestricted use of machinery on the condi-
tion of the hand. loom weavers. That body of producers—to
the number of 800,000—has been sacrificed to the idle con-
sumers of society ;—and then, the unfortunate hand-loom
weavers have been used as agents in depressing the condition
of every other class of labourers. —ld.
A.—The hand-loom weavers are beginning to know a
little more about the matter. They are finding out, that
when trade in general has been ruined by limiting the quan-
tity of food, they, a weakly and ailing trade from inherent
causes, must of necessity feel the pressure most. They
know, that as for stopping machinery, they may as well ask
mankind to cease from spades and scratch the ground with
their claws. If other people, therefore, are to be fed on
water-gruel, they are likely to get the water without the
gruel.

There seems to be thought to be a good joke in talking
of " idle consumers." Why are all consumers idle Y If
the working classes want to go against the really " idle
consumers," they know where to look for help.
241.—50, again, the new poor law was framed, in order
to rob the labourer of the fair value of his labour ;—and, then,
the hope of the schemers has been, that the defraudcd labourer
will assist them in defrauding the landowner, and the farmer.
--Id.

A.—The labourers are certainly to blame, if they do not
go against the landowners, who to increase their own gains,
took away the provision for the poor, and left the Corn-
laws standing.

242.—The fruit-growers of Kent arc, in conformity with
the same system, marked out for destruction ;—and no doubt,
it is contemplated by Mr. PAULTON'S patrons, that the
fruit-growers, when fairly ruined will join in the clamour
against the continuance to wheat-growers, of that protection
which has been withdrawn from themselves.—ld.

A.—They are to blame it they do ❑ot. It is in the nature
of man, when he is beaten out of a knavery of his own, to
go against the knavery of other people.
243. —The landowners and farmers are also, doomed ;—and
so confident are the anti-Corn-law schemers of the success of
this—the most important in their linked succession of plots
against native industry—that they are already calving out the
uses to which they mean to turn the whole band of farmers
and landowners, after they shall be ruined.—ld.
A. They are doomed, indeed ; but it no more abso-
lutely follows they are doomed to ruin, than that reivers.are
ruined by being kept from the gallows tree. They are
doomed to be turned out of their evil courses, there is no
doubt of that ; but there will be many honest paths open
to the reformed cow-stealers.

244.--" The destruction of the corn monopoly will bring
he landlords into opposition to every other kind of monopoly."

A.—lt will indeed. And keen will be the scent, and
sharp the eye, of the landed terrier to every sort of mono-
polizing vermin, the moment he has ceased himself to be
tempted by the garbage offered him for looking on.
245. —The repeal of the Corn-laws, in short, is, (if the free
traders prophes3 truly) to condemn the landowners of England
to do the dirty work, which is now done by men of the stamp
of Mr. PAULTON.—Id.

A.—See if they do not. Not the smallest compunction
will they feel, for thrusting themselves into the heart of a
monopoly though it were the most unsavoury in the list,
provided always they perceive clearly it acts against them-
selves. Be persuaded, that in this line, nothing will be too
dirty.