The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-08 00:00:00

oV OISIER'S LAST CONFES
SION.

T "owing is the translation of a letter addressed by
Couhrveo for
e the' Rev. Ordinary of Newgate on Saturday
last. osier t
It explei. -a several circumstances upon which the
public have hithe.' t°
n left in the dark, and being
eetive for falsehood: must have passed
written when every r considered as authenti?.:—
away, it will probably be ..
Nervgate Prison, July 4.
'merits which have been pub-
" After all the false state. no nlshrl m
treaine d to tell
was'
lished in the newspapers, I feel
all things as I related them to youyou
u agars
here.
i 4 becauseyuncle I did not
It there are any contradictions, it ,iestioned me, or be-
rightly understand the persons who q nod, It is true that
cause my answers were not well enders: ,
eut I have stated
I have not told the truth to Mr. Flower, elk
now am a
the reason why I did not. The public an
.thes' truth ;
liar, and they will not believe me when I s
sanding
therefore I pray you will correct all reisunde. * relate'lll
the subject, and I think it is good that I she
The evil
again all that has passed, and how it passed. .hatred)
dispositutis of my heart began by a strong dislike e "
citation.
of my situation, and by the wish for another situseat.
My next idea was, that I could live at the expo
serer
others. Then I thought that if I were to rob my m
of thirty or forty pounds, it would be so much gait. 4110 e
and I had aftcreards the idea that by k;lling my mast.
the robbery would be better concealed, enel that I should
have done with him all at once, and be .ready for my
journey. I took the plate out of the house oe Saturday
or Sunday evcnine. I was waiting for a laveueable op-
portunity of accomplishirg my design.
" Monday evening, the 4th of May, I had an evil thee:lo
of putting my hand to the work, but after 1 had forced tee
door a remnant of conscience told me that I was doing
wrong. I stepped about ten minutes, withcut knowing
what to do. I vanquished the temptation of the devil,
and went to bed, after having put again the door in order.
Oh, if I had but determined so on Tuesday night bow
happy' I should be ! I ought at least to 'eve prayed to
God, ant: thanked him for having preserved me during
that temptaticirl,. but I went to bed like a dog, without
thinking even that God had seen me. Tuesday eveteieg,
the sth of May, I bad some altercation with my master,
but it was not worth the while to speak of it. When he
was in bed I went down in the kitchen, where I remained
about an hour and a half. During 'that time I placed
all things in the state in which they were in the m-
ina in the passage, &c. I went up stairs, and going
by the dining-room, I entered into it, and took a kife, I
believe it was a great knife. I went up into Lord W.
Russell's bedroom. When I opened the dour I heard him
asleep, and stopped for a while, thinking of what I was
about to do; but the evil disposition of my heart .'lid not
allow eee to repent. I turned up my coat and shirt siceve
and came lieu to the bed on the sido of the window'.
There I heard a cry of my conscience, telling me, Thou
art doing wrong;' but I hardened myself against this voice,
and threw myself on my eictira and murdered him with the
knife I was fielding in my r..rht hand. I wiped my hand
and the knife with a towel which' II placed on the face of
Lord William. I then took his ke:et and opened the box
in which he kept his bank notes. Tie double napoleons
which I found were more than I expected. I put them in
a puree with the ring, &c. I took also the watch, and
placed them altogether in the basket till the m erning. I
placed a pair of shirt-buttons, a pair of spectacles, and
the
tea
sovereigns under the staircase carpet which goes from•
drawing-room to Lord William's bed-room. I went to teed.
" On Wednesday, when the police had searched a little
everywhere, I perceived that they watched me more atten-
tively than the other servants, and that they began to exa.
mile very carefully. I crept in the bottom of the scullery
and seized the psrcel I had put theie during the night and
put it in my pocket. As soon as I was in any pantry I
placed the purse where it was bound. One of the police
came then to me and told me I must go him, so that
I had ee time to conceal the watch. I was kept in the
dining-ream the whole day, excepting the time my room
was searched, rime could riot get rid of the watcyi.
" On Thursda), the 7th of May, when I went to led, I
took what I bad placed uncle, the staircase carpet.
Friday morning I wrapped the sovereigns in some
paper and concealed them in my stocking. I %vent down
to the paetry. Nobedy being there, I placed the woven
and the ring where they have been found. The poi, -temen
came then in the pantry to shave and wash themselves. I teeth
to the kitchen and burned the watch ribbon. I end not know,
what I was to do with the seals and two watch-keys. II
could not get rid of them for the present, and was re-
placed in the dining-room. Ail the morning I enter-
tained the hope that the things I had hidden would not be
discovered. I broke one of the watch keys in three or
four pieces, and then threw them in the fireplace. I broke
also the top and the bottom (the two extremities) of the
other. After they had found the puree, &c., they brought
me eewn into the pantry, where I stayed for some time.
One of the inspectors then went into the scullery, in which
I entered also, thinking of a place where I could cenceal
the two seals and the watch-key, the two extremities Of
which I had broken, The inspectors stooping to look
under the sink, I placed the great seal where it was found,
and threw the broken key among some 9141 rubbish its
the bottom of the scullery. I then came near she door.
After the two inspectors and two masons being
there, when I saw them busily engaged, I let
small seal fall to the ground, and put my foothy
upon it in order to heed it. I stooped, as if look'
ine under the boiler, took up the seal with the left band,
and rose up. I leaned my hand against the wall for *
time, waiting for the moment when those who watched me
should turn their heads, and succeeded in placing the seal
behind the pipe, where it was found. The inspectors went
out thence to the kitchen, excepting one, who remained
in the pantry with me for about an hour. During that
time I let fall the small locket of Lord William's and two
sovereigns. They took me then to my room, where I swell
searched for the Arst time. I bad two policemen with me.
They made me drase my boots, but not my stockings..
I went not to bed on Friday night nor on Saturday. On
Sunday night 1 went to ben for five minutes, but I did not
draw off my stockings. They made me rise up, and led
me into prison. When I was Tothill-fields Prison
the searched me very carefully. I feigned to be
very cold and shivering, as a person who has
the trembling fever, thinking they would let me keep WY
stockings on, but they told me to take them off, as I had
three stockings, two on the right leg. I first took off the
stocking which was alone, and then one of the others.
When they were feeling if there was any pin or needle, I
placed my hand under my heel, and concealed the ten
sovereigns in a paper, under the thumb of my hand. The
following morning they made me take a bath, when I had
a good opportunity of hiding them on my ;ierson, where
they remained till the morning of the day I cattle to Nee"
gate. I thought that I should perhaps be examined more
closely, and that, should that money be found on me, it
would be sufficient to condemn me to death ; but other
evidence was found, and this was not wanted. I placed
one behind the post of a bench in the cell at Bow-street,
the last time I appeared before the Magistrates : three Ojti
the top of the door, one on the window, as I believe, 30'
four or five in the pit of the water- closet.
" This is, Reverend Sir, to the b st of my recollection,
a faithful account of what has passed since the time I con'
ceived the dreadful idea of robbing and murdering ref
master to the day I came to Newgate. I wish to expires
to you my deep gratitude for the spiritual instruction you
have given me, and your interest in the salvation of WY
soul. —I am, my dear Sir, your bumble and thankful eere
vent, " F. B. COCRVoisIES.'
We, the undersigned, h •
having read over carefully these
decuments to F. B. Courvoisier, he assured us that he
had stated fully, truly, and faithfully all he remembered of
the circumstances connected wi h this horrible affair.
JAMEs CARVER, Chaplain of Newgate'
CHAttLES BAUD, Minister of the Freueh
Protestant Church in London.
Sunday afternoon July 4. •

Yesteiday an inquest was held before W. Carte!!
Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, at the Eight Bells tavern,Pun`i
ney, on the body of Mr. Batchelor, the landlord of the Star I'..A
Garter tavern, a man well known to every one accustom
to the river sports. Mr. Francis Alacnalley stated that or
was an intimate friend of the deceased, and on Saturday la' '.
at one o'clock, went to the Star and Garter. Mr. Nacho°,
was sitting in the bar, and appeared very unwell. Wrire:f
asked him wilat was the matter. He replied it was ast of
the ague. His hands were shaking very much, and witness
'gested he should take some brandy and water, but h:
sup, ,d, saying it would make him sick. A short walk ria.
"ils' -vested, and the deceased said he could go as far
then su.
15, (pointlng to those which led to the Richmond roa,'"
those steps , ' then rose, and said, in a jocular manner, '' I°u
The deceasert °log
' I would trust my wife with, for we arc g ~ci
are the only rm. 1 fete at Chiswick." The deceased scera"
to the horticulturas
all at once recover.ng, Ity
and rubbed hip hands, while at the sale
time the colour returnees &or°
ousemaids, 'vim had just come fie
to his face. The shaking had entire
ceased, and upon one of h. he ., Much better.'' P
said, .)I,
when he fellsenseless 00 '
,:i 1 a ion o: God.
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„d
stairs, asking him how he N. a_sds'
had scarcely uttered these svsl
oved his neck. kerchief, L'"
''C'''' ached heavily twice, and t'''--
table. Witness instantly
whilst doing so, the deceased 1:',., .1 t.
expired.—Verdict—Died by the
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FLAT
GOLD wATCHSs,
Ten Guineas each. Highly-finished i: Gold Dil
OkIZONTAL GOLD
WATCHES, with engraved or engioe-tufned Gold die
jewelled in four holes, and wither cog
one-thyned or e 0
graved cases are offered, price Ten Guineas each. These ee"
gant little Watches will be found to perfoCrn very oorroetli, .
and a printed warranty is given with fixed terms, on which IVY'
will always receive any attention refired.
T. COX SzIN ORY,
Watchmaker, Jeweller, Sce., 47, Cornhill (Seven Doers froo'
Gracechurch- street), London.
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13 1 R
On the 3d inst., at Brighton, tlw lady of the Hon. Charles
Banbury Tracy of a son.
On the 4th inst., at the Vicarage,. Epsom, the lady of th°
Rev. B. Bradney Bockett, Vicar of
of a son.
On the sth inst., in Frith-street, Soh a-square, Mrs. T. •
Methley, of a d
nst. aughter.
On the 4th i, at Nisbet, BerwickshirC, the Hon. Mrs. St'
ClaiOnr, of a daughter.
the 3d inst., in Lansdowne-crescent, Cheltenham, Mre.
Edward Satway, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., at Ilinstock, Shropshire, the. lady of Henri
Justice, Esq., of a son and heir.

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&ARMED.
The Hon. Charles Napier, brother of the late Lord I%:aPier'
to Annabella, daughter of Colonel Gatacre, of Gatacre,
shire.
James Nevill Heard, Esq., to the Lady Charlotte Turner'
sister of the Earl of Winterton.
On the Ist inst , at Stepney, Mr. Edward Ledger, of Chesr
side, to Ann, daughter of Captain Hood, of Limehouse.
On the 3d inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, John Walter',
son of W. Woods, of Peckham Rye, to Mary Ann, elder, %'
daughter of the late Gregory Jarman, of Graceehurch-street,
and East Dulwich.

DIED.
On the Bth inst., at Fawkes-buildings, after a short a
severe illness, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of John Day, Es
of Water-lane, Tower-street.
On the 16th ult., at Plymouth, Meriel Eliza, wife of
Cary, Esq., and fifth (laughter of the lete Major Sl,arrow,
Lezmitia;!cii, Z',';;. v;

Lendou: Printed anti Pubiishett (TIM() ;.
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No. I Strand, at 'l'h e Sup. Oleg, IN 112 ,trand,
the county of Alititilesex.—Wecinesday, July $, le4o.