The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-18 00:00:00

THE LAND OF LIBERTY.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.—A squadron of Dutch frigates,
with five brigs, is expected at Spithead ; one of them was
met by the Hercules, on Wednesday, going home, with loss
of a fore top-gallantmast.
The squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. Sir Charles Paget has commenced moving. The
Corwallis, 74, went down to St. Helen's Road this after-
noon, and will be followed by the Asia, 84, and Vanguard,
8.1, to-morrow. Te Bellerophon' 84, and Pembroke, 74,
are both gone to cruize in the Channel for four or five
days, to stretch their ropes and sails. The Hercules, 74,
with the Rear-Admiral's flag, which has been shifted to this
ship from the Bellerophon, will go to St. Helen's as soon
as she has completed a few trifling fitments.
The Inconstant and Pique frigates, of 36 guns each,
were ordered this morning to be commissioned ; Capt.
John Hayes, C.B. ; Lieuts. Sacket Hope, the Hon. George
Hope, H.F. Mills, and W. N. Fowel ; Mr. D. M'Creight,
Master ; Mr. W. T. James, Purser ; Mr. W. Webb, Se-
cond Master ; Lord Frederick Kerr, and Lord Henry
Russell, Midshipmen ; and Mr. Beer, Boatswain, are ap-
pointed to the Inconstant. The Hon. Capt. Rous, Lieut.
Henry Broadhead, Lieut. Hon. G. H. St. Vincent de
l{os Kinnaird, and Lieut. Campbell, are appointed to the
Pique,
The rdfiptird, 84, returned from a short cruise on Tues-
day. The Bueillo went out of harbour on Wednesday,
and will sail to-morrow with the governor, Captain John
Hindmarsh, and a large party of settlers, for the new set-
tlement in St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia. The Her-
cities, 74, joined the squadron at Spithead, on Friday, from
Sheerness. The Alban steam-vessel, intended to convey
the mails from one island to another in the West Indies,
was paid wages, this morning, and will proceed to-morrow :
she takes Colonel Doyle, Governor of Grenada, as pas-
senger, The Partridge brig is attached as a tender to the
Royal George yacht.
The Pluto steam-vessel arrived on Tuesday from Wool-
wich, and after embarking a sergeant, corporal, and six
gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery, proceeded to San
Sebastian. On Pluto's arriving out, Commander M'Dougal,
with his officers, will be transferred to the Salamander, and
Lieut. Duffil will resume the command of the Pluto.
The Sulphur surveying ship, Captain Beechey, was at
Monte Video on the 7th of April, and going in a few days
to Port Famine, in the Straits of Magellan.
At Spithead—Hercules (flag ship), Asia, Vanguard,
Buffalo,Vulean (revenue steamer), Fredericksvcern (Swede).
At. St. Helen's—Cornwallis, Lady Raffles (free trader),
Caledonian Bandit (American).
in Harbour—Britannia, Excellent, Royal George, Ma-
dagascar, Deacon, Partridge, Cracker (tender), Diligence
(naval transport),
APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Russell Elliot to the Fly,
Lieut. W. L. Rees, Mr. Francis Hale, master, to the Hop-
packet ; Lieut. Smyth Griffith and Mr. P. C. D. Bean,
master, Magnet packet ; Lieut. E. Kuapman, ordinary,
Plymouth, vice Lawrence ; Capt. W. Hiliyar, to be secre-
tary to Rear-Admiral Sir • Charles Paget ; Lieuts. G. J.
Hertzell and Frederick Drew, additional lieutenants, Dub-
lin ; Lieut. Thos. Mallock, Malabar'; Lieut. G. Franklyn,
Coast Guard at Rye ; Lieut. G. Keatley, Royal George
revenue cutter, vice Seane, appointed to the Coast Guard
in Kent ; Lieut. Humphrey Butler, to be flag-lieutenant to
Lord Amelius Beauclerk ; Lieut. Edward Holland, to be
flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Fleming ; Mr. Henry
Jackson, second master, Mr. Walter Reid, mate, Bri-
tannia ; Mr. W. Harvey, second master, Partridge ; Mr.
F. T. M. Strong, second master, to Fairy steamer; Mr.
James Wood to be master of Buffalo ; Mr. R. D. Mitchell,
assistant-surgeon, and Mr. John F. Loney, second master,
Beacon ; Lieut. John P. Davey, Caledonia ; Mr. Ashley la
Touche, mate, Tribune ; Mr. James M.. Hobbs, to be se-
cretary's clerk in the Admiral's. Office, Portsmouth.
Mr. Hepburn is to be appointed master attendant, and
Mr. Sadler assistant master attendant, at this yard.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 14.—0 n Saturday arrived his Ma-
jesty's brig Nautilus, 10, Lieut. W. Crook, from Falmouth,
and,came into harbour to refit. Also the same day, his
Majesty's brig Savage, 10, Lieut. Loney, from the West
Indies, and came into harbour on Monciov last, to be paid
off. Arrived on Tuesday, his Majesty's ship Minden, 74,
Captain Sharpe, from the North Coast of Spain, having
delivered the stores for Lord John Hay's squemiron, and
landed the officers for the Legion. The whole of her lower
rigging has been condemned as totally unfit for further toe.
She is waiting orders from the Admiralty whether she is fo
be supplied with new rigging here, or to proceed to Ports-
mouth. Yesterday arrived his Majesty's steamer Pluto,
from Woolwich ; she will proceed to-morrow morning for
Passages. His Majesty's packet Plover, 4, Lieutenant W.
Luce, being found in so defective a state, orders were re-
ceived last night to pay her off into ordinary, His Ma-
jesty's packets Hope and Magnet were commissioned this
day. The Magpie cutter, 4, Lieut. Brock, will immediately
proceed to the Mediterranean, on the arrival of l.cr instru-
ments from the Mediterranean.

An Arab was lately executed at _Algiers for the mur-
der of an European. Such an event has :tot occurred for a
long time, and the crowd was consequently groat. At half-
past eleven in the forenoon the prisoner arrived at the en-
trance to the Faubourg Bab-Azoun, and was conducted to
the foot of the scaffold, which consisted of a few planks placed
on some uprights. While waiting for the sound of the gun
which annomices mid-day, he had sufficient leisure to view the
immense concourse of spectators assembled to see him die, and
also to gaze upon the mound formed of beach which had fallen
as his own was destined to fall. The sun shone with African
power, and, combined with the anxiety of the moment to make
the. poor wretch thirsty, and he asked for some water. On
seeing him drink the crowd expiesssed their surprise, as if they
were at a loss to understand how he could feel any want at
such a moment. When the gun fired the executioner made a
sign to the prisoner to mount the scatfeild, and, when he had
knelt down, he stepped behind him, taking care to conceal the
weapon with which he was going to strike. His assistant then
addressed some words to the Arab, which distracted his atten-
tion for an instant, and he took advantage of the opportunity ;
raised his ?Intaglio'', and in a moment, the prisoner's head
re'lled in the dust.—Noniteur Algerien.
A UGSBIIRG, JULY B.—The German Courier,
published at Stuttgard, says—" According to the Journal of
the Upper and Lower Rhine, the change in the course of the
mail between Paris and Strasburg, by way of Nancy, by which
it now arrives many hours sooner, commenced on the est re".
July ; and the Paris mail now arrives at Strasburg between
five and seven in the morning. No change has yet been made
in the despatch of the mail to Germany, and the Paris Journals
and letters remain above twelve hours at Strasinirg.” The
Swabian Mercury, alto published at Stuttgard, says—" To-
day, July 7, the French mails have for the first time arrived
eleven hours earlier than usual, in consequence of the accele-
rated course of the mail between Paris and Strasburg. No
charge has yet been made at Augsburg, hut we hope that we
may shortly expect :;t."
On Monday last, a double rainbow of a peculiar
character was observed at Dieppe about sunset. The sky was
without a cloud, and the sea kes smooth as glass. The colours
were faint, but they sprung from the water, one being turned
ort
towards the south, and the other :o the nh, the latter being
the faintest. The orange tint was 11,riglritaeirnbtohawns,tlainedbltuhee,balluide
was on the outer or convex edge of tin'
on the inner or concave edge. The hiteiwst
nonp oint of the archlasted but a very
v-as at about 30-degrees. This phenome
short time. At one in the afternoon of the.fullowing day, a
thermometer, placed 20 feet from the ground, and facing the
north, marked 25 degrees above zero of Reauenur, or 88i of
Fahrenheit, and at two, another thermometer, on the ground-
flocr of a room exposed to the reflection of the suet from the
pavement, was up at 28 R., or 95 F. In the evening there
was a violent storm on the coast of Brighton, and ow Wed-
el. e.,.'ey the ;.,cat abated considerably.
ApkeuEmeeisioN OF A GANG OF COINERS.—On
ast Ball. the officer e Polices-
Tuesday tefoesuation that a notorious gang of coir.ers
office, receive,
bad taken prenn7ses lii Jones's-court, Bainbridge-street, St.
Giles's. At twelve o'clock on Monday night he proceedeC,
in company of Nesbit, of this office, Reynolds, a Clerkenwell
constable, and Sergeant .:s sh:"' active officers, who were well
armed in the event of resistaCcC being made against them. On
ni;;eht I ,
their arrival in Jones's-court :tis"-Y found a gang of fellows
about the house, and they remai,
,tel. quietly until they
made co:cards the house No. 3,
dis-
persed, when they immediately
,
and proceeding up stairs to the first 110 2r on entering the
by the fire in
neartment they found a man and woman sitting:
plaster of
the act of melting Queen's metal in ladles Witt. a
Paris mould, for the purpose of coining.
kie it to
The n,4-e. instantly
threw down the mould, and, stamping upon it, bre
pieces; and, making a signal, two large furious bie 1 "gs
rushed from underneath the bedstead and flew upon the fig.
rushed and bit Sergeant Ashton severely on the lee, and the
rnan aie4 Ivornan made a resistance. The officers Fearing flat
e report of dire-arms would alarm the neighbourhood and brieg
feeietanee to hhe prisoners, prudent.' y avoided them, and re-
sorted to the use ~.! their staves-, with ediich they beat off the
dogs violently, until I:‘,Y
were dreadfully mutilated, and glad
te take refuge under the ikedstead, where they remained howl-
ing mail Hull had his prisonee's safely secure': with handcuffs,
when they were put into a hackreyecoach, and driicn
to
atithe
e
station- hottEC, where they gave their Halms Frane'ls li
and Margaret Net/lend, two notorious coincre, the Inelther of
the latter prisoner haelere been transported a few sessioCs ago
for a similar offence. I.'ht Friday tlle prisoners were cate-ied
before Messrs. Laing and Rogers, of the above office, and re-
manded. The officers apprehended another gang of coiners in
the immediate neighbourhood. The map istrates enquired
whether the above dogs were dead. The Akers replied that
they must be rendered useless from the violence they received.
They had been attacked before in a similar ;way ;ea. dogs, and
it seemed to be a new method of resistance adopted by coinerF,
«s they were evidently planted there for the purpose.
COLCHESTER.—A sample of new chevalier bet,
ley, in excellent condition, was exhibited in our market on
Saturday last, and was sold at 325. per eiesarter ; the purchaser
was offered an advance of 2s. per quarter, Let refused it. The
barley was self-sown, and steed the winter.
MAGIC FLUTE.—For some time Mr. Gaw-
.- Governor of the House of Correction :it York,had
;wipe, the - hearing the soft straine of a hole within that
' ',e exercised his vigilance to
prism), and in vain hats e _ t.'-d, as no such instrument cot:ld be
been surprised by .-
whence those sounds procete
risme • nor upon the person deny
discover
discovered in any part of trerpeciy, ~
of the prisonere. ' however, the mystery was
, rice
other
a stool in the day-room, one of the
cl"'Pa 4P' C.'" on
retneNtnben found that one of the prisoriers
feet came off, and. it was
had most ingeniously construct ,
uard - .a'ite out of it, in order to
'ion. We can hardly
lighten the weary hours of.
sc
ure tittle is irreelaitTv.
think that one who tl:u:;, dispose
. _

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
PURSERS.—We understand that a circular is now in the
course of being printed, by order of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, explanatory of the cause of de-
lay in the payment of the increase of the Pursers' half-pay.
We hear that it has been determined to allow four of
the superior officers of Royal Artillery, and the same num-
ber of superior officers of Royal Engineers, to retire on the
full pay of the ranks they held. We hope . this will be
followed by an extension of the same privilege to the senior
Can(; ins of the Royal Navy and field-officers of the Royal
Marines.
The Royal Tar arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, in three
days from St. Solß.o6w], bringing home the following officers
of the British Legion, but no news f---Majors Wilson and
Fitzgerald, both wounded ; Colonels and O'Connell ;
Captains W. Kellar and Duiwan ; Licuts. Cowley, Stack,
an•l Cheetham ; Dr. Silva ; and Ensign Mac!amara, the
latter in charge of invalids.
The Buzzard captured another slaver on the 4th u!!...
with '268 slaves (the Portuguese brig Manitto), being the
seventh vessel captured by the Buzzard since 17th Decem-
ber, 113 V, with a total of 2,637 slaves. _ . _

Capt. liertilag, three xerjeants, and three corporals, of
this division of Hoyai Marines, arc ordered on the recruiting
servi!T, and proceed immediately to Exeter. An extra ser-
jeant is also ordered to join the recruiting parties at other
places.
Retraining in limTwaze—Royal Adelaide, Imogene,
Savage, Nautilus, Pluto steamer, Magnet and Plover
packete, Duck lighter. In i3urnpool—Magpie surveying
vesel. to Or Sound—Minden. _

Naval Court•Motial—A court-martial, composed of the
following officers, viz., BfAr-Admiral Sir Charles Paget,
esident ; Captains Bouverie, Sir Thomas Felloms, Sa-
muel Jackson, William Fisher, Sir -J. R. Rowley, and
Thomas Hastings, assembled on board the Britann, at
Portsmouth, on Tuesday last, to try Mr. Rogers, late
nmster of the Rover, for breaches of the 2d and W.3d arti-
cles of war. After bearing evidence, the Court adjourned
to the following day, when the prosecution closed, and on
Tliursday, the Court again assembled to hear the defence.
The trial was not concluded on that day.

The quarterdeck and forecastle guns of the Inconstant,
are to be fitted on the outside principle, and the under part
of the slides arc not to be more than nine inches from

the `lc`""'
ard Codrington has been presented
Vice-Admiral Edw
with a very elegant piecd of plate, by the officers who were
his companions in arms at Navdrie, as a testimony of their
high estimation of his character.

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—Quebec papers were
received on Friday to the 13th ult. The number of emigrants
arriving. there from the 4th to the 11th of that month was—
vriglish, 2,200 ; Irish, 2.216 ; Scotch, 136 ; previously re-
.:,909; total, 9,461. ' Which exceeded the corres-
of last year by 3,98.5. There were about 1,000
--,rted. The following is a compara-
' - *he 9th of June, 1835, ard
- ••essels of 104,9-11
129,678
re_

porteu,
pending pent)...
atl Grosse Island not rip.,
t tons, and 3,184 elniqratits,rll-1835, 341
‘-
t,i,vestatement of the arrivals •
oils, and 9,115 emigrants? be' in8:6;011.40:e"ege4154,44
the date of the present •ea tips
the 1..
sent
year of 75 vessels, 24,737 too diAlibrifiil dmigranta.
By some fresh arrangements with time Postmaster
General, a mail-coach will leave IVlargate every afternoon, at
five o'cloCk, foS Gloucester, an proueea through Ramsgate,
Deal, Dover, Rye, liastings„ I3righton, Oxford, and Lea-
ingto;,-., to that city. Py this arrangetnept, all the above
places will save one.day in the delivery of letters.
GENEVA, Jur,Y. 9.—There are not many Eng-
. lish here. Among the ,few of note, Mr. and Mrs. Throck-
-3
- - - T ,srAi .na _Lady .fautlmmkell, and the Grosvenors have
, ~..-,:liac come from Rome,

Each Committee should enter, on the interleaved copies of
their district register; notes of all information as to the death
or disqualification of Voters. And one of these copies thould BURNING A MAN ALIVE!
be transmitted by each Local Committee to the District The following account of the horriVe scene at St. . Louis,
Committee, in the first week in July together with a list Oft Missouri, in the United States, is communicated in a , letter
all persons of reform principles quellfled, bet not registered, dated St. Louis, April 98, published in tL•e Boston. Eve. ling
so far as they have been able to ascertain thetti. Geeette :
The printed lists of persons qualified to act ae jurymen "`';lye jest returned from witnessing the' most herrid
will give great assistance in ascertaining who arc qualified to I that ever fell to the lot of clan--viz., the execution of Lynth
be on the list of voters. These lists may be generally had in 1 Law' upon 'a
iellovt• fellow, by the horrible mccns of a slow tine..
each parish. The cause of tcs almost unprecedented execution, I will now/
FORMS WILL BE SUPPLIED TO THE C EN- briefly relate. Dcouty Sheriff Hammond, while endeavouring:
TRAL COMMITTEES, ON APPLICATION TO THE to arrest an offender was, by the above-mentioned yellow fel-
REFORM ASSOCIATION, 3, CLEVELAND-ROW, low, defeated in his rin,'ent. During the scuffle, the prisoner
LONDON; escaped. Mr. Hammonet then arrested the yellow fellow for
And large or small quantities may be purchased at a cheap his interference, and took before a Justice of the Peace,
rate
.from Messrs. RIDGVVAY, Piccadilly, by ii horn lie was committed. While conducting him to geol,
accompanied by our constable, Mull, the prisoner drew a
knife and plunged it into the conetable's side. Upon witnese
sing this, Hammond sprang at the prisoner, who now turned
upon him and inflicted a terrible and mortal blow; the point
of the knife struck him on the chin, pelesed through his throat,
completely severing the jugular vein ; he staggered a few:
paces, .and fell dead. The prisoner then fled to a yard or passage
way, but being brought to bay by his pursuers, and still re-
tamping his knife, swore he would kill die first man who at-
tempted to arrest hint, His pursuers, perCeiving his threat-
ening manner, backed out, with the excepeion of one, who
seized a rail, broke it over his head, which s -lightly stunned
him, but soon recovering he resumed his meat cing attitude,
when a powerful and courageous man, but just aeritt-eikdin
rived, seized
him
upon a stone, and hurled it with herculean force, s r
upon the shoulder, and dislocating that limb. His arm
dropped useless at his side, his knife fell from
he was immediately arrested, bound, and carried to- grasp, and
and
We must now return to the dead and wounded. During
the lime occupied in the pursuit of the prisoner, the' news of
the affray had spread over town, and the crowd around Mr.
Hammond's body was joined by his son, an interesting lad
about 11 years of age, whose loud and heart-rending- lamenta-
tions infuriated the already excited spectators. They swore
that the murderer should not live another hour. This reso-
lution once formed, they proceeded to the gaol where the
prisoner was confined. Being too strong for the officers, who
could not, under existing circumstances, make much resist-.
ante, after forcing three doors they reached the cell that con-
tained the murderer, and led him forth amidst the shouts of the
multitude. Some few endeavoured to quell the tumult, but
to no purpose. The friends of Mr. Hammond (a nd there
were many, for he was universally beloved and resl.'ected),
were determined on revenge—a revenge that may st.ann
to
you unwarrantable, but take the case home to yourself—cem-
ccive your own brother in the situation of Mr. Hammond, an'd
you will find some palliating considerations to abate the horridl
character of this transaction.
" The mob conducted the murderer to a pasture at the back
of the city, with the intention of hanging him up, but some
among them cried out, burn him 1' The horrible sugges-
tion was immediately caught at. The moon had now riser)
bright and clear, the evening was calm and beautiful, too fair
a night for the appalling spectacle thi't was about to be wit-
nessed by at least 500 of our most respectable citizens. They
chained the murderer to a tree, and the pry arose, ' let the
fire be slow I' They piled shavings and rails round bins
until they reached the height of about two feel arid a half, a
match was applied to the shavings, and the murderer com-
menced singing a hymn, which he continued uneil the heat
became intense, and then these few half smothered words
soaped him, God take my life.' I had pressed forward,
anti? I stood in front of the sufferer, I could not clove—it
seemed as though some horrid fascination chained me to the
spot, and 1 witnessed all his agony.
" Never martyr suffered more courageously. Not one sinjle
scream escaped him : his chest heaved with the most intense
agony, vet all he had said was, ' God take my soul !—God take
my life 1' in accents so low that none except those immediately
about him could catch the sound. He had been burning about
fifteen minutes, when some one said, ' He feels no pain, he is
too far gone.' He immediately answered, Y-e-s I d-o
f-e-e-1 it I' Never, never can I forget his looks, when with
the utmost difficulty he uttered those few words. The fire was
so law that his legs and feet were burnt almost to a cinder be-
fore hie other parts were to any degree affected. The tree to
which he was chained was in full blossom, and seemed to smile
upon the horrid deed. The horror of that scene can never be
effaced from my memory. Imagine a human being chained to
a tree—a slow fire blunting around him—the boiling blood
in torrents front iis mouth—his legs burnt to a crisp,
gushing
yet his head moving from ode to side, and occasionally a half-
uttered groan. But I will mit, I cannot further enlarge upon
-kness at my heart, a dizziness
a sight so horrible—l feel a sit
in my head, occasioned by witne-ing that terrific sight ; but I
se
was rooted to the spot—l could nos withdraw my eye from the
sight before me."