The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-03 00:00:00

listencil to as an excuse for the offence of which T have 'been'
found guilty ; but I trust it may he considered as some pallia-
tion in a moral point of view, that a desire to preserve myself
and others from bankruptcy, and not personal aggrandize-
ment or selfish gratification alone, urged and impelled me to
the acts I have committed ; and when I first deviated from rec.'
titude, it was owing to art acute, although I admit mistaken feel-
ing, to obtain temporary relief; and not from any deliberate in-
tention to defraud. God knows my heart, and the truth of
my present declaration, that I hoped, and fully intended to
make restitution immediately the expected prosperity of the
house would have enabled tne. This must, I think, my Lord;
appear evident, from my having frequently replaced the money
withdrawn; and the bank books will prove, that many of the
sums mentioned in the document written in 11116, have been
since re-invested by me to the credit of the parties. That do-
cument, my Lord, has been supposed to have been prepared
in contemplation of flight: this idea is, howeVer, erroneous,
and. is sufficiently refuted by my continuance at my residence
and business for years subsequently. The only object and in.
• tention of that paper was in the event of .sudden death, before
the whole of the money should be reinvested, to absolve everyone
besides myself even. from suspicion. Unfortunately for me, a
succession of adverse events, which I could neither avert nor
controul (and part of which I detailed at length on my trial), led
on from one false step to another,.until the. affairs of the house
became eo involved that extrication was impossible. In those
difficulties,, I offered myself as the only .sacrifice; and it• is my
duty, as a.man and as a Christian, to resign myself to my
fate. For me, my Lord, fallen and degraded as -I am, lite
Inn no allurements; and a momentary pang will at once put
an end to my mental agonies and to my earthly existence.—.
But, m Lord, I have numerous relations—amongst them my
dear and venerable mother—whose feelings I reverence;. and
for their sakes more • than my own, I venture to supplicate
that I may not be doomed to minim a violent andignominious
death. If crime, my Lord, can be atoned for by suffering,
my offences, heavy as they-are, have long been expiated, not
merely by the overwhelming embarrassments of the concern
in which I was engaged but by years of anxious terror
and agonizing apprehension ; and if, my Lord, the anguish of
mind I have endured for the last sixteen years of my life, and
the peculiar circumstances in which I have been placed ever
since 1 arrived at.man's estate, could be made known to my
most Gracious Sovereign, I venture to hope that his:Majesty's
benevolent and feeling heart would he touched with compassion
for my situation, and that I should not be considered an object
• wholly undeserving of the Royal cleMency. May I therefore,
my bard, presume to solicit your Lordship's humane interpo-
lation, to communicate for his Majesty's merciful considera-
tion, the- circumstances, to. which I have alludedl and on be-
half of my, dearest relations,.l. supplicate that the punishment
of death tiny be remitted."
The unhappy man read, audibly and distinctly, except at
that part of die address which alluded to his mother; there his
voice fiultered, and he struck his hand forcibly on the bar.—
" When he sonclnded, he resumed the calm demeanour which
bad previously.characterized him.
The following prisoners were then placed at the bar to receive
sentence of death, together with Mr. Fauntleroy :—John Cook
alias Jackson) for burglary; Wm. Oliver, for highway robbery;
Writ. Moore for. the same offimce; Wm. Dalton, for house-
breaking; Henry Harris, for burglary ; Henry Ley, for steal-
ing ins dwelling-house.; John Passenger, for the same oflimee ;
Henry John Wills, for the same offence ; Edward Harris, for
robbing in an.open place near the King's highway ; Evan Wil-
. hams, James Mama, Ann IVilliituison, and Bridget Pallet,
for stealing in a dwelling-house.
Silence having been proclaimed,
The RICCORDER then proceeded to address the prisoners.
. Among them, he observed, there were none who had arrived
at an age nearly approuching to the termination of their natural
lives. Had they conducted themselves agreeably to the com-
mands. of God and the laws of their country, they might at
,that moment, instead of standing in their awful situation, have
been living in the esteem of mankind,' and possibly in ie en-
joyment of the distinctions which wealth and rank could. be-
stow. They furnialrod a dreadful example that a life of crime
must very speedily terminate in a violent and untimely death
The crimes of some -of those whom he was addressing were of
a very aggravated character. The forger, whose crime might.
involve even the richest In irretrievable ruin—the midnight
burglar, who carried away the property, perhaps the little all,
of the inhabitant .whose house he mitered—and the robber,
who not only took away the property of the persons whom he
assaulted, but left them with little evidence of remaining life,
were persons who would do well to make the best use of the
time which wits allotted to them, for their's were cases to which,
in all human probability, no mercy would be extended. After
again exhorting sell the prisoners to make their peace with God
by sincere repentance, the learned Judge in the usual farm,
passed upon them the sentence of death.-4 The pristine:* were
then removed.
Tim mei:owl:ma directed Mr. Wontner to inform Mr.
Friuntleroy, • that the paper which he had read, might, if he
wished it, be laid before the King's Council.
. The Seseions were then tuljournedby proclamation.

OLD COURT.
Yesterday:the Coststox SEALY RANT proceeded to pass sen.
tenCe on. Robert Mulley and James..Elnew, (the latter of whom
UM tried at the sitting. of the Court, and found guilty under
. similar circumstances to the former); the two young men, who
had been prosecuted for perjury on the repTesentations they had
given at Doctors' Commons when applying for a licence to
arry two females who had eloped, with them from Silt%lk.
The
Learned Judge, after commenting on the highly cal-
, pable nature of the offence of which they were guilty,. said
that though the character of • the offence might warrant
the utmost severity of the law being carried into execution, yet
the Court was, in this instance willing to deal leniently with
the prisoners in the hope that by, kindness and. attention to
their wives, they would make atonement for their miseonduct.
gamy acted wlth propriety in future, they would not be called
j for udgment ; they were now required to enter into recog-
Outitees, themselves m:1001. and two sureties of M. each.—
The two younginen bowed- and seemed very grateful for the
indulgence they experienced.—Thi*case closed the proceedings
in the 014 Court.

, .
Ma. FAUNTIARP ir.-4The account so:positively
given in some of the Morning Papers of the conduct of, and the
Immures pursued with regard to, this unfortunate Gentleman
stole his conviction,, was, as we , knew at the time, wholly
Without. foundation. -.We, therefore, did not copy them.—
Those accounts are, in fact, in almost every particular,
untrue. No-irons have been put on his legs, nor has he
boon passed to 'the 'Condemned Cell. The account, there-
fore, of his entrance 'to it, and his conduct there, are
of course, untrue. WC have not heard .0f Dr. nudge
- having been with him since the trial ; but we have heard that
since his trial, his Wan:dons 'situation, has been soothed by
some friends who testified in Court to his character; by letters
from Others ; by the-Holy Scriptures and the Book of Common
Prayer, it is also within our knowledge to say, that the de.

pariment Qr this arifortunate Gentleman is, and has been,

perfectly consistent with his awful expectations. That
he deems it a mercy that he has been—and has expres-
sed thankfulness; that he- is allowed time for reflection and
penitence, Instead of having been, as by many an acci-
dent ho might have been, hurried into eternity suddenly, and
without a moment for preparation. lie attended service in the
prison. chapel .twice on Sunday. He has, indeed, grievously
sinned, and he is about to pay the dreadful debt demanded by
the offended. justice of the country; but, in a Christian land,
let the voice of prayer be urged by commiseration, and by con-
fidence In him whose mercy eudureth for ever; and, " let him
who thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall I"—" Lead us
not into temptation, but 'deliver us from evil," should be the
humble Christian's daily prayer.—(Public Ledger. )

NAPOLEON'S HOUSE AT ST. HELENA.---A cor.,
respondent, who subscribes 46 A -Sailor," has 'fa-
moored us with a letter, in which he informs us,
that he has recently arrived in this country from
St. Helena ; that the house in which the gx-
Emperor of France was imprisoned has been con-
verted into a barn ; and that in the room in which
`lie breathed his last there is now a machine erect-
ed for thra4lking corn.--(Livetpool Mercury.)
The following is a melancholy and singular
instance of the bad effects produced by chest's-
jog children too severely few days ago, a
.girl who had been severely beaten by her mother,
,tbreatened to put a period to her existence, that
jor mother might never have an opportunity of
beetiM her in $0 cruet a manner, which threat
she too-fatally accomplished. in the absence of
bar father from his workshop, she went in unob.
-served, and hanged herself with a hank a yarn,
(410,11orald.) .1