The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS.

The two unhappy men, George Widget and
John Broach, whose lives are about to be sacrificed
to the offended laws of their country, were convicted
at the Old Bailey Sessions in April, the former of
sheep-stealing, and the latter for stealing in the
dwelling-house of Captain Patterson, in Cadogan-
place. Neither of them had been previously known
as criminals, but the crimes for which they are to
suffer were of a very aggravated description. Widget,
who is about 50 years of age, was formerly a man of
some property, and in a respectable way of business
as a farmer at Tonbridge Wells, which he quitted
eight or nine years since, and became a
cowkeeper and dairyman near the Hackney-
road, but appears to have been unfortunate
in that, and in eveiy speculation in which
he engaged. Two or three years ago he was
landlord of a public-house in Rosemary-lane, fre-
quented by some of the worst characters of the
neighbourhood, but failed in that business, and after-
wards returned to Tonbridge Wells with the wreck
of his property, and commenced business as a butcher,
but witk no better success; and finally came again to
London, and a few weeks before lie was appre-
hended, opened a small butcher's shop in Long-alley,
Shoreditch, but had no furniture in the house, and
appeared altogether in very low circumstances. He
was convicted of stealing five sheep, the property of
Mr. Stone, of Chilsfield, from an enclosure belong-
ing to Mr. Tyler, at Lewisham, where they had been
put to graze since last November.

The other convict, John Broach, is a young mar-
ried man, 29 years of age. Captain Patterson had
known him for many year..., had the highest opinion
of his integrity, and on quitting towns in October,
intrusted him with the care of the house in Cado-
gan-place. Upon the return of the family, in De-
cember, a false key which had been left in the lock
of a drawer attracted the Captain's attention, and
upon examination it was discovered that jewellery,
plate, and books, of very considerable value, had
been stolen.. The charge of stealing them was clearly
established against Broach, who, it appeared, had
carried them off at different times unobserved by a
female ser%ant who was in the house.
The convict Widget seemed from the first to re-
gard his case as hopeless. The young man Broach
expressed anxiety for his wife and family rather
than for himself. As already stated, he had pre-
viously borne a good character; but the alarming
extent to which robberies by confidential persons
has lately prevailed seemed to call for a severe
example, and he is accordingly doomed to pay the
utmost penalty of his crime.

At Crawley fair there was a very large supply,
and considerable business was transacted for the best of
all kinds ; but the inferior sorts met with a very dull sale,
and many were driven away unsold. There was a short
supply of beasts, and their quality in general was not very
good. Stores from 2s. 4d. to nearly 3s. per stone. Fat
beasts generally about 4s.

A sharp drought, easterly winds, and frosty
nights have affected the young barley plant in many places,
and checked any tendency towards a decline in prices,
which bar:ey might have experienced in common with all
other grain, during the last few weeks. The wheats do
not look so healthy on the land as they did a month ago,
the blade being rusty at the tip, while the plant is dis-
po.ed to spindle; it should be observed, that this is not
an unusual appearance in the month of May. The arrivals
of foreign wheat and flour have been larger than was anti.
cipated ; and although the quality is, generally speaking,
of a very inferior description, still the supply is so great
as to have had considerable effect in depressing the price
of the best article. Beans are in good request, from
a prevailing opinion that the grain is getting fast exhausted
in Essex and Kent, the two counties mainly depended
on for supplies at the London market. Peas are a very
dull 811 e; and the very large arrivals of foreign oats have
thrown a gloom over the trade. Good, handsome, and
dry oats, however, are tolerably firm in the market, though
the importations, particularly from Ireland, are very large.
A Liverpool Correspondent writes that the imports since
the Ist of April have been alike large of every article in the
trade, exceeding, in the aggregate, those of any previous
month since harvest. The greater proportion of the foreign
whe it is from the Mediterranean, and consists chiefly of
0 lessa, of secondary quality. Several thousand quarters
have also arrived from France and the North of Spain, to-
gether with two or three cargoes from the United States;
and within the last few days a number of vessels with this
grain have been reported from the Baltic—the quality ge-
nerally inferior, and in very indifferent condition.—Nor-
folk Herald,

CIP.NTIFIC VOYAGE OF MS MA-
JESTY'S SHIP CHANTICLEER.

(From the Plymoufl, Journal.)
His Majesty's sloop Chanticleer, Horatio Thomas
Austin, Acting Comm rider, arrived at Fahnouth
on the 6th inst., in eight days from St. Michael's.
l'he Chanticleer, Commander Henry Foster (1),
was fitted out by the orders and under the auspices
rf his present most Gracious Majesty, in 1827, to
wosecute a scientific voyage of research in the South-
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aTteortateurimi taetechthreonsoptneceitfiice
difference of mtritrans of the principle stations in
he Atlantic; and make observaeioes on magnet-
am, meteorology, i
&e. She left Spithead,n April,
1829; and has since visited some of the most inte-
,testing portions of oath hemispheres. The first
places visited by her were, Madeira, Teneriffe, St.
Antonio, Fernando de Noronha, Rio de Janeiro, and
Sr. Catherine's. At Monte Video, the pendulum
,xper.rnents commenced with the other ohjects of
research. At this place she remained eight weeks,
and took in provisions for her Southern voyage ;
from thence she proceeded to Staten Island, and
thence to the singular and remarkable Island of De-
ception (one of the South Shetland group.) This
Island is of volcanic origin, and affotds the most
striking contrarieties of character. After this, a
landing was effected on the most Southern tract
of land on the Globe, viz.., Prince William's
Land. From thence she went to St. Martin's Cave,
distance about eight miles from Cape Horn, where
she experienced nothing but hurricanes and severe
gales. Here the pendulum experiments and other
observations were again made, the which will, when
made known, afford some novel and important de-
ductions, and give a different view to that generally
entertained of the climate of the Southern Hemis-
phere. At this place many Fuegian families were
met with : the officers supplied them with axes,
knives, fish-hooks, needles, &c. In such a state of
nature were these people, that when those articles
were given they did riot know the use of them;
clothing they had none, but what is worn by the
most uncultivated Negro in Aide's clime, and this
too, at Cape Horn ! From Cape Horn the Chanti-
cleer, in twenty-eight days, ran to the Cape of
Good Hope, after living nine months on salt provi-
sions (and a part of that time on two-thirds allow-
ance.) She remained there four months, during
which period Commander Foster was sedulously
employed in the splendid observatory erected by
Government in this Colony, and the young gentle-
men of the Chanticleer equally so in their obser-
vations on magnetism, meteorology, &c. St.
Helena was the next place visited, which she left
on the 9th of Fel ruary, and arrived at that most
barren and desert of isles that was ever sheltered by
the British flag, on the 14th. After a stay of up-
wards of three months, and Captain Foster having
completed his observation, the Chanticleer quitted
for Fernando Noronha, a small but fertile island on
the coast of Brazil, and in the possession of the Bra-
zilians. It is used as a place of exile for political
delinquents anti criminals. Maratrhern was the place
next visited : leaving this, the Chanticleer ascended
etrhie ca Paradise_such are of the
Brazils, its
a branch of the river Amazon, to the city of Grand
Para, the capital of the province of that name,
pwrrheasizeuilmlisiesdacnsostre'sailhe Indiesdt/eir, extent
edbys
off
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resources, beauty- anti
fertility of soil, and nature appearing to hare no end
to its productions. The apathy, however, of the
inhabitants, conjoined with the system of misrule,
counteract in some degree this boon of nature.:--
The heat of the climate was intense (it being on
the equator), and although there was much swamp
and marshy ground, little or no disease was con-
tracted. From Para, the Chanticleer returned
down the Amazon (or Maranon), surveying by
the way. The place next visited was Trinidad,
in the tranquil Gulf of Paria, where she 'e-
rmined six weeks. Leaving Trinidad, she touched
at La Guayia, and proceeded to Porto Bello, where
in addition to the usual experiments and observa-
tions to be made at this place, Captain Foster had
to ascertain the difference of meridians, between
Panama, on the Pacific side, and Porto Bello, or
some fixed point on the Atlantic, by rockets. Soon
after the Chanticleer's arrival at Porto Bello, a
party, under the corpmand of Lieutenant Austen,
was despatched on foot across the Isthmus to ex-
plore and ascertain the nature of the country, and
fix upon the mountains most eligible for the explo-
sion of rockets. On their return, a party of sixteen
men and officers were detached into the interior,
and stationed on the highest hills ; a party were also
placed at Porto Bello, and the Captain was at Pa-
llama to observe the explosion of the rockets. These
parties slept many nights in the woods, and in the
open country, yet escaped without any disease.
though their risk was great and danger imminent.
With a view to effect to a certainty the purpose
of his mission to this place, Captain Foster
ascended the river Chagres in a canoe, and pro-
ceeded to Panama, to ascertain chronometically
their relative positions on the globe. This he
(lid a second time, and was returning down the
river Chagres, in a canoe, on the eve of the .sth of
February last, when he slipped from off the cover-
ing of the canoe, on which lie was incautiously
resting, and was unfortuervely drowned. His body
was, four days afterwards, found, and buried on its
banks. [The report of Captain Foster having met
his death by violent hands is thus satisfactorily shown
to be most untrue.] After this melancholy occur-
rence, the command of the Chanticleer devolved
upon senior Lieut. Horatio Thomas Austen. She
was at this time standing off and on Chagres, wait-
ing the Captain's return. From hence she returned
to Porto Bello, where having on the 12th Fe-
bruary obtained the necessary sights for the rates of
the numerous chronometers on board, she quitted it
and beat up to Santa Martha; from whence she
stretched across for the east end of Jamaica, where
the Commander having landed and made the neces-
sary observations, she proceeded to Cape Maysi, the
east end of Cubs; thence to Crooked Island. Her
instructions being fulfilled, the Chanticleer left for
Bermuda on the 2d April ; leaving there the Shan-
non, Captaiu Clement, from Jamaica, all well.—
Thus it will be perceived that the Chanticleer has
completed a voyage of three years' duration, with-
out the occurrence of a single death, save that of her
highly talented and gifted Commander, or any un-
toward event.

The late SIR JOSEPH YORKE Was a hale,
hearty, good-humoured old man, who will be long re-
membered with kindliness by many, both in public and
private life. In the House of Commons, where he was
we:l known, he was principally distinguished for the plain,
blunt way in which he contrived to put down a prosing
self-sufficient orator—it mattered little from which side of
the House he spoke. Although Sir JOSEPH hit hard, there
was so much good-nature mingled with his wartime, that
no one ever took amiss what the jolly knight said. HUNT,
indeed, used to get into a passion; but we don% reckon
Hutir anything. Sir JOSEPH was a sturdy Anti-Re-
former ; but his defence of his principles was neither
pompous like SanLEK's, nor fanatical like VYVYAN'S, nor
canting like PEEL's—it was the honest John 801 l defence
of a brave old sailor, wh6 felt soundly though he reasoned
inconclusively. The manner of Sir JOSEPH'S death is a
subject for moralists to ponder ova ;—a tough old tar,
who had faced " the battle and the breeze" for fifty years,
taken by the lee in a cockle-shell boat, by a capful of wind
while on an excursion of pleasure and in ten fathoms of
water ! Fare thee well, good sooth-speaking YORICE!--•
Truly the state might have better spared a better man.—
We would have been well content, at another time, to give
up half-a-dozen professing Liberals, rather than lose the
hearty roar which thy blunt drollery never failed to provoke.
—Spectator.

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