The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-21 00:00:00

RESPITE OF HUNT.

This wretched criminal, it will be remembered,
received sentence of death at the same time with
his companion in guilt, John Thuriell; but no
day was named by the Learned Judge for the
execution of the sentence, as far as regarded
him ; and the law allows to persons convicted
only as accessaries to a murder, the same lapse of
time between the sentence and the execution
which is allotted to all capital convicts (except
principals in murder), tried at county assizes,
namely 14 days. This (Wednesday) therefore
is the day upon which Hunt would have suf-
fered death, had no order to the contrary been
received from Government, and up to Mon-
day morning no such order had reached the per-
sons in authority at Hertford. Mr. NrcrtoLsoN,
UnderSheriff,under these circumstances, felt it his
duty to order the preparations necessary for an exe-
cution, and at the same time wrote to R.SUTTON,
Esq., the High Sheriff, acquainting him with the
steps he had taken, and stating that the total
silence observed in the higher quarters upon the
subject of the unhappy man's fate, had kept him
(Mr. Nicholson) in a most painful state of sus-
pense, after the impression which had been left
upon his mind, subsequent to the execution of
'l'hurtell, that pardon would be extended to the
accessary. The High Sheriff, with his ac-
customed prompt humanity, determined to wait
immediately upon the Under Secretary of
State, for he (Mr. SUTTON) had somehow or
other conceived that Thursday, and not Wed-
nesday, would be the day of execution, and
he thought it possible that a similarmistake might
have prevailed elsewhere. He accordingly at-
tended at the Home Office yesterday morning,
where he saw Mr. CAPPER (Mr. Hon/louse being
out of town in consequence of the death of a near
relation,) who informed him that Government
had determined to grant a respite for one week to
Hunt, and that he (Mr. CAPPER) had transmitted
the order to the Gaoler of Hertford, and had re.
ceived an acknowledgment from him of the receipt
of it. This acknowledgment he shewed to the
High Sheriff. Thus it would seem that Govern-
ment have not yet finally determined upon the
course to be pursued with respect to Hunt, and
the fate of the wretched man still remains in
doubt. Mr. HAnstut had an interview with
Hunt on Sunday last. He found him sunk in the
lowest depths of despair, and entertaining, to all
appearance, no hope whatever of a favourable
consideration of his case by the higher autho-
rities. Mr. HARMER told him that he had but
very slight hopes of a commutation of the sen-
tence, and left him in the most pitiable
state of
mind that can be conceived.

ROYAL WEST LONDON THEATRE.--.We lately
noticed the representation of Young Norval by
Mr. PERKINS, at this Theatre, and considered it
as the most promising effort of juvenile talents
which we had ever witnessed, as the performer,
we are assured, is hardly nineteen years of age.
Last night we attended this Theatre again, to
witness his performance of Octavian in The Moun-
taineers. This a more difficult part than the
former, but the young actor rose proportionably
and fully confirmed our impressions in, his favour.
There was a display of spirit, energy, and pathos,
which proved that lie entered with critical preci-
sion into the character. The second piece, called
Riding Coat, or The Bath Road, enabled him to
shew his comic powers, and though tragedy is
his forte, there was an easy gaiety in his acting.
The last piece was of the terrific nature, styled
The ,Spectre of the Rocks. He was more at home
in the part of the lost Son, and Mrs. BEVERLEY
was very impressive in Gertrude, the spectre.
The whole of these pieces were exhibited with
correctness and effect. Mr. BEVERLEY is not
a little entitled to credit for having discovered
and fostered the talents of the juvenile actor,
who promises very fair to make a figure on paten-
tee boards.

SANDWICH, JAN. f2o.—Yesterday being ap.
pointed for the funeral obsequies of the lateJosE PII gattP.TATT,
Esq. M.P., the inhabitants of the town of Sandwich, actuated
merely by a simultaneous feeling of respect for the memory of
their departed Representative, evinced their sense of duty on the
mournful occasion, " by closing the windows of their houses,
shops. &c." The most decorous and respectful silence seemed
to pervade the dwellings of far the greater part of the in.
habitants, both Freemen and others, for even those who
possessed no direct interest in the representation of the an.
cient Borough, very properly united in testifying their
esteem, for integrity, merit, and departed excellence, from the
earliest dawn of morning, until night again threw her mantle
around the scene. Minute-bells from the steeples of their re-
spective churches continued with their deep tones to reiterate as
it were, a solemn monody to the memory of a departed friend.
Precisely at mid-day the bells of St. Peter's tower commenced a
solemn dumb peal, which species of mournful dirge appeared
to accord with the melancholy feelings of all in whose hearts
the memory of Joseph Marryatt, Esq. will long be embalmed
by gratelui recollection.
Alas " he's gone" conveyed to the silent tomb,
A friend to all that knew him, " an enemy to none."

ELECTION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—
At a General Meeting of the Clergy of the
United Dioceses of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora,
held in the new Parish Chapel of St. Joseph,
Kinvara, on the 15th instant, the Very Rev. Dr.
EDMOND FttExcit, Warden of Galway, was
unanimously elected to the vacant See; and the
postulation proceeded to Rome for approbation
and confirmation of the Holy See.
An elopement has recently taken place in Pa-
ris ; the parties are Mrs. 1., the grand-daughter
of the celebrated Lady A., and Lord
which has occasioned a great deal of gossip and
scandal in that gay city. Lady A His
highly incensed at the imprudence of her grand-
daughter, and is reported to have destroyed a
codicil to her will, by which the fair fugitive, in
the event of the old Lady's death, would obtain
twenty-five thousand pounds and her valuable
diamonds.

THE SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.--This enter-
taining volume has met 2 most unprecedented
sale, from its combining in one work the whim,
wit, and variety of all the papers for the last
three years, perfectly free from all political bias.
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