The Sun.
London, England, 1813-04-28 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF EDITH MORREY.

On Friday morning lust, the '23d, at 12 o'clock,
this wretched woman was delivered 4y Mr. hind-
Son, constahlesof ChesterCtistle, iato,the hands
of Messrs.. Thomas and Beonet, the City Sheriffs,
fur execution.
She walked from the. Castle to Glover's Stone,
having hold of . llndsott's aria, with the ut-
most tirnmess, amidst un.• unusual pressure horn
the immense crowd assembled ; she then got into
the cart, and immediately laid hereselt down on
oneside; concealing her face. with her handker-
chief, which she has 'invariably done when in
public, from her first appearance before thee
judges to her final dissolution, and no per-
son obtained a view of her face out of the Castle.
since her commitment, except the ordinary, etc.
Upon her arrival ;it. the City goal, she continued
in prayer with the Rev. W. Fish till one o'clock,
when she ascended the scaffold with a firm and
undaunted step, with her face covered with a
handkerchief, and she immediately turned her
back to the populace.
After continuing iw prayer a short time, the
clergyman withdrew, and the exeCutifmer pre-
pared to finish the a witil sentence of the lay At.
'this period, whet, theelergyman had recommend-
ed her to dismiss all worldly thoughts, aced fix 'her
whole soul on her Redeemer, through whom alone
she could hope for mercy, she twice called tor
the tvirtikey (John 'Robinson) to bid hint farewell
—he came at the second tall, and having taken
leave of her, she remained about half a minute,
when she dropped the- handkerchief and was int=
mediately launched into eternity. .
She was very much convulsed for four minutes,
when her pangs ceased in ,this worhr,—After
hanging the tinal time, her body was deli'ered
to the surgeons for dissection, and was open to
public inspection during all Saturday,.
There 'appeared an apathy in this woman which
is truly astonishing—when the Judges •CLIIIIC into
town, she asked permission to go ou the terrace
of the Castle to see the procession, though she
knew their coming was the signal of her. fate.
On the morning. the Rev-Mr. Fish preached what
is usually deri6ntiriated the condemned sermon ;
she 'was suffused in tears, and her convulsive sobs
were heard throughout the chapel—yet, an hour
after, the impression seemed entirely erased.-,--
She slept very sound, the night previous to the
morning of her execution, and eat a hearty break-
fast upon her awakening.
-It is worthy of remark, that on the 23d day. of
April, 1763, one Muryffleald was strangled and
burnt to ashes, at:Chester, for poisoning her has-,
band—exactly 50 years, to the day and year, When
Edith lliarrey was executed.

The V!CR4:IIANCRLLOR sur, in Chancery yester-
day, on the, right hand side of the Loan CHAN-
CELLOR, without the green curtain, and is to sit
with ,his Lordship on the Bench at the first Seal
before Easter Term, this day, when he is to assume
his judicial functions on the rising of the LORD
CuANnattoa after opening the Seal.
The Commissioners for roads aml bridges** the
Scotland have resolved on erecting a
mownl across the Little Ferry, in the County of
Sutherland, and the work .will speedily be began.
This undertaking, in addition to the iron bridge
Bonar, will complete the communication by land:
from John o'Groat's to the Land's End of England.
An. Irish estate has recently been advertised in
a Cork Newspaper, with temptations to a pur-
chaser. of no ordinary kind, it consists of two vil-
lages, the future prospects of which are set forth,
by, stating, that one of them is let for nine hundred
yeitrs, and the other on a leave for ever! on the ex-
piration of which terms, both the said villaubes
•
will be capable of great improveMent.

CMIN-EXCHANGE„A.PRIL 28.—The stnte of the
Market to-day was very similar to that of Mon-
day, the supply being good, mid the side for grain
geurral heavy ; the little that th*ie ltd
Wheat was upon the sane terms as on 'Monday;
there are' a few arrivals in the River from the
BalticiNumptes of which have not appeared here ;
Oats, Rye,..tieans, Peas, and Malt, continue at
onr last quotations ; ',Barley of a saperior quality
is much in tlemancl, but Itch higher.

Wheat - 63%. 755; Ric
Fine ditto - 1354.
Rye - 704.

- 7Us. nig.
—s,

'rich Itinifiti-
Old ditto. - -
Sinllll ditto -

Walley - - a 3, 399. G 6;•
New Ditto - -
Malt - r. - 81*. 9IA.
Fine 4rtmli )
wl,401,010) * (boil.). 100 s. )14s.
New (lino -

Fecit Outs -17 s. 20P.
rot,ilitto - 401,..469.
Ottgittti ditto - -
Fillet ditto - -
.Potattoe ditto
1141pe,tiveil iter lot

°t►:} Veasc ' d7t. ei,9s. 78, I
Nev.' Otto - - —4. —*.

110 s.
SlNwitis -160 s. 105*

FRENCH PAPERS:

[FURTHER EXTRACTS.)

NAPLES, Nratt.s.---tireat 'events silently have
lately broken out in 'Palermo. :,King Fer4itratui
had been withdrawn from his obscarity, and sud-
denly called to the bosom of his hint
already written to his son, Er 111163, that' his
health being re-established, he-was going to re-
sume the Government provisionally confided to
that 'Prihce, in quality of Vicarlieneral. 'Lord:
llentinck, who thought there was more to he
feared in keeping the. King at prisoner, ttticl in
it state of debasement, and in eftiploying a
part of his forces as his guard, considered
it the more nece.,,sarys, to skew. him to the
inhabitants of Palermo, as a fermentation threat-
ened .un approaching revolt ;. but the foresight of
the English Minister:wits too tardy: The people,
wearied to thilast degree with their extreme mi-
cOnld no longer support. the still increasing
price of'objects of the' first necessity, and especi-
ally,of corn, which they daily saw exhorted from
the island, to support their oppressors at Malta,.
in the 'Mediterranean, and on' the boast of Spain.
The .patience of the people had been tried to the
utmost; and, in a few moments the city of Palermo
presented the spectacle of a revolted city. When
Ferdinand re-appeared in the capital, the inha-
bitants believed to find in him Al support in throw-
ing off a foreign yoke, They spread themselves
in crowds throtighout all the streets of the capital,
causing the cry of death against their oppressors
to be e•iery where heard. The English insulted,
pursued, were obliged to seek an asylum in tl.eir
barracks. Lord lientinek put himself' at the head
ofhis troops and artillery, and marched against
the people. A ship of the line, and two frig:As
were stationed before the city, and pointed their
guns ntinn. The English Marched against the Pa-
from whence King Ferdinand escitp..:l iii
miler to retire to Montreal not considering him-
self even in safety at this place, he took refuge at
Freuzza. .

The revolt having fur the moment been calmed
by force, many persons of. distinction, suspected
of baying excited the people ugaiwit the English,
were arrested. The Marquis of Allah, the.Prinee
Of Trahbia, and the Fiscal Advocate Finite, are
particularly mention: d. It is s:►id that Prince de
Butira saved himself in the mountains. •

The English have made return from fhe chair-
ent points of the island, all the forces which he
ttlotight could be drawn from them without danger.
The English frigate (laity, twenty-four hours la-
ter her arrival at Messina, where she was to re-
turn, had orders to immediately sail. This is the
way in which the English treat their allies. The
fate Of Sicily is tlmtwhich awaits all nations who
have the misfortune of finding themselves under
iron yoke, We would not he stirprUeed at quickly
receiving accounts of some bloody catastrophe.
PARIS, APRIL IB.—To-tlay before mass, her
Majesty the Empress Itegew, surromuled by her
Grand Prineei,, received the Diplomatic
Corps.---[Here follows a list of the 'presentations
which took place.]
NAPLES, APRIL ,3.—Yesterday all the flotilla
•anchored in the. Mail 3. the King went to vi4t;the
different ships which compose it, and held a
Council ctf Ministers on board the Renommer.
FRANCKPOIIT, APRIL 6.,---13csides the regiment
of Hankers of the Imperial Guard, ull the oilier
troops of this fine branch to-day left opt town, to
protecd to their ulterior destination.. Daring the
five weeks these troops' have remained here, we
have not beard of any complaints either on,t4e
part of the troops, or of the Inhabitants.
A part of his Majesty the Emperor and .Kl.ng's
baggage, lately arrived iu our town. Generals
Baron NOirat and Fiste have arrived here.

STRASBURG, Arca, M.— A great number or
horses have left this, and all the neighbouring
stations, tor the department of Mont-Tannery,
on the route from Metz to Mayence. We ron-
tiitue to see pass through our town, or set out
from it, a very considerable number of troops of
all descriptions, for our Armies in Germany.

IRISH PATuoi.ics.—We extract the following
passage from an utticle.in The Dublin Jouinal,
a paper that, with persevering zeal, knowle‘lge,
and ability, has dernonstrated the evils ‘vhrelt
wolifil probably result from assenting to the de-
mands of the Papists -of Ireland', and, which, in
fact, would most probably be the total destructiOu
of the Protestant ascendancy in that branch of the
British Empire •
" The very means which the Papists have used
to decry the Protestant Peiition, prove the 'danger
of entrusting' theni with power. They have most
ungratefully iint forward that Wealth• and influ-
ence which Protestant kindness enabied them to
acquire; as inStrnments to euteirce their
moods nod to disable our resistance. lii 1770,
the Papists could .not inherit u foot of land ; they
could not even possess an horse or a sword. In
the' Papists'. vaunt 'of their property, and
parade their " MILITARY MLAN4."--110W thht
property, and how those " means" came into their
hands, tmless'by the favour of a Protestant Go•
vernment, let the Papists answer :—but this Nye
know, that while they were •Without estates and
without arms, they wereytiet, and that, sbi‘c,e OTT
were entrusted with property, their ".11'11.$TARY
NtitAws" have been exercised in Two Rreri,LioNs
and are threatened in it Not the
inference naturally follow, thli their atitilkitlio!'
of further power will be used 1.14C1 1";!:%1::
iiin(l applied
,to the procureinentolf ,
(limey t"

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tot, been g encr ' 11101 wed that ".!,71.t,
.rS:tll3B.
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l'ows is going to retttinto the stage 11v
sore(l that she has positively determined never to
resume the theatrical profession, though; on c 4)..
plicatiou,: she has,' we understand, - kindly eon.
sewed to perform: once 'more for the benefit of
that truly laudable 'lnstitution which alifirds sup-
port to actors and actresses when they can exert
their talents no longer, anti hate not been ahir to
secure a provision for declining life. This exeel4.-
lent Fund, we learn with nitwit regret.,is enctur-
hered with burtihens which it would he unable to
sustain without the powerful a-istance Of those
groat tnlents which arc to he so benevolently 'ex-
erted once more on the occasion which we 'have
mentioned.