The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

MR. FAUNTLERO Y.

AFFECTING INTERVIEW WITH HIS WIFE, &c.
Mrs. FAUNTLEROY having learnpd that her
husband was determined to shut himself up from. all further
communication with his relations and friends after Saturday,
sent to him on Friday night a message by her son, tellinghim
that she would be with him, if god would give her strength,
next morning. He prepared for the meeting, which he had
hoped he could have avoided, and at eleven o'clock on Sa-
turday morning she arrived at Newgate, in a hackney-coach,
accompanied by her son. • Upon going inside the first door
of the prison there was necessarily some delay, the turnkey
being obliged to communicate to 31r. Wontner the appli-
cation of any person to visit a prisoner. Nes.' Fauntleroy
concluded that she was to be refused, and wildly said,
" Oh, for God's sake, will you keep me from him?' One
of the principal officers of the prison went to her, told her
that she certainly should be admitted, and begged her to be
calm. She promised to be quite calm ; but it was apprehended,
from the woful condition in which her health and feelings ap-
peared to be, that the unfortunate convict would have to un-
dergo a scene of affliction' exceeding any which he had yet
endured. The officer went up to inform Mr. Fauntleroy that
she was in the prison. " Yes," said he, " I expected her,
God help her; bring her to me." The officer then conducted,
or rather. carried, 3lrs. Fauntleroy into the apartment of her
husband. She dropped into his arms, and was unable to
utter a word for some time. The two turnkeys who attend
the prisoner retired to the farthest corner of the room. The
scene was one, which, even those amongst whose ordinary
avocations was that of witnessing the eternal parting of
wives front husbands, and fathers from children, were deeply
affected at. The officer who led hei to the presence of her
husbanil went over to her, and again entreated that she
would be calm, and say nothing calculated to draw away
her husband's mind ,from his religious contemplations.—
She seemed to derive strength from . this hint of, the ne-
cessity of checking her feelings, and she talked to him
for a considerable time without interruption front sobs and
tweharos:
thle`heuinr
rporritnucniaptael croft!:
I%;eerrsandoopnedh aadmrei t'bereelniezdto, twhociurldsobne,
brought up with the fear of (Joel constantly before his eyes, and
the terror of his parent's fate ever present to his imagination,—
The son occasionally Spoke a few words of consolation to both,
assuring them of the love he had for them, and his determina-
tion to live free frpm reproach. At the expiration of a full
hour spent in this manner, the officer entered, and taking Mrs.
Fauntleroy by the hand, quietly led her away from her bus-
band, without waiting for the ceremony of farewell, and before
she thought she was from his side,the door was closed for ever
between them. For this sudden sepitratiOn which the officer had
contrived to accomplish with such humane ingenuity, Mrs. F.
was not prepared. She screkned, and supplicated to be re.
admitted; but when the officer told her that her poor husband
would not be able to bear it, she acquiesced, and after hay.'
ing been relieved by a•proluae flood of tears, returned with her
son, and the Rev. Mr. Springett, who was waiting outside the
room, and who, we understand, suggested the mode of separat-
ing them. Soon after the departure of Mrs. F. and her son,
Mr. Fauntleroy 's brother and sister 'came to pay their last visit.
This scene was also exceedingly heart-rending; but the pre-
sence of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, tulip entered and spoke in a cheer-
ful. tone to them, in'a great measure dissipated the horrors of the
interview. Mr. Fauntleroy requested that the Ordinary would
administer the Sacrament to them all: This was done in the
most solemn and impressive manner. After which the Ordinary
left the room. This interview occupied nearlv two hours, and
after it closed, Mr. F. expressed that he was content.; that
God had enabled him to go through the worst part of his
earthly sufferings, and that the moment Of execution-would be
as nothing to him.

CONDEMNED SERMON.
Yesterday, nearly two hours before the eommene?,ment of '
.service in the chapel of New ate numbers of persons assembled
at the entrance. The Sheriffs had issued tickets, but we be-
lieve that in their anxiety to give as much accommodation as
possible on the occasion to the multitudes who wished to be
present, they were rather too liberal. Whether this was the
case or not, thete were, when the chapel was quite full, great
numbers of resjpectable persons on the outside. A very general
report wag in circulation during the last two or three days, that
Mr. Fauntleroy had made up his mind to absent himself from
the chapel ; but although he certainly; soon after the Recorder's
report was communicated to him, expressed an objection to ap-
pear in the chapel, he soon yielded to the Ordinary's request
that he would attend divine service. At a quarter after ten
o'clock, the public were admitted to the gallery attic chapel (the
whole of the lower part being now appropnateci to the prisoners.)
There were no more than three or four ladies present. Imme-
diately afterwards the turnkeys and other officers of the prison
entered the body of the chapel 'with the crowds of prisoners,
condemnedentere
the
tried and untried. Those who were condemned to die and were
respited, sat immediately opposite to the publie gallery ; those
who have not been tried sat under the gallery to the left of the
pulpit. Harris, the convict whose case was not repented, and
lwahrgeo of
pewin course
thee middletillremainsn trint
(litere cla called
sentencet o
death,tlle
pew, and opposite to him sat the convict who was the great
objeFt of the public curiosity and astonishment. Mr, Faun,.
leroy was accompanied by the Reverend Mr. Springett, who

sat on his right, and Mre Baker,' who eat on his left hand.
—There were also in the same pew, Mr. Forbes, one of his
solicitors; Mr. Wadd, his medical attendant; and a gentle.
man who has testified his friendship ter Mr. Fauntleroy in
the most unequivocal manner in the whole progritiB of his case.
Mr. Fauntleroy betrayed no emotion upon entering the chapel.
lie sat without raising his eyes to those around him. In
'fact,
he presented the same appearance which he maintained
in the Old, Bailey Dock upon his trial, and iteton the day on
which sent
morning pu of death eves passed upon Il When the
rs Commenced, he put on his q+ectaclo, and
seemed to fix his attention upon the book which he held in he
k.
hand in conjunction with Mr. Springett. He was dressed in A
new suit of black. The whole be the arrangements were cake•
laced to strike those who had `Dever wimessed such a scene be-
fore most awfully. In the psalms, lessons, and prayers, there
were passages which were applicable to the case, and those he
seemed to mark by a solemn motion of the head. He joined in
the responses with great apparent fervour,and when theOrdhere
came to the words ." Oh!, Lord, make haste to help us !" he
raised up his eyes, and repeated the supplication in a most earnest
manner. He leaned lus head upon his hands, which vete
clasped toether, where tberayers of the congreyation 'verge:: •
quested "for him who awaited the awful execution of the lair
and when the .collect in the Communion service imploring
the
,favour of the Divine Being to be shed upon the King'
was' read, he manifested an extraordinary degree of earneatnese
The Ordinary
havin finished the litur , which he read im-
pressively, he proce -Wed to the pulpit, where, after &prayer In
which there was no peculiarity,_ he delivered a Lemon upon
g
the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, chap. 10, verse 12,
in whieb'are the words —" Let him that thinketh he stsneeth,
take heed lest he fall."—The Ordinary, in his openin t
g, old,
that it sometimes happened that offences were brought to ligh
sa peculiar in their nature, and so alarming in their extent, es
inflict. Discoveries of such a nature hid beer: rezen tly' melte in ,
reference to the unhappy perien to whom he should more in''
effect. It had been long since en/ after tee Y'Tly,•
to require the moat 'severe chastisement which the lew could
mediately address himself, and upon whom,
eat , investigation, and the most unpereal trial, and tithe
an unbiassed and conscientious jury lied returned a vereee ,
of gulitY, the legal consequences were so returned to take,
was eorenaiable in inaptitude of which created such unr.r.re.:
interest in the public ...mind. 'lt often happened that civil
resulted from the temptations to which youth wa"ut
scantly exposed, from ignorance or from poverty .bute
in the present instance the -unhappy object of his ruth"some
had always maintained' the character of a gentleman, and _
of the most respectable and honourable nien in the land c.. 7...
forward on the day of trial to depose to the excellent:lqt anw,
): h ale-
which had appeared ever to adorn it. Every effort w ic_
been
clic had occurred
~whien
lity, and ingenuity, and Christian charity could make, had
tle
law, and petition had followed petition with
called into action, in order to avert the dreadful
objectsentenceef
but the magnitude of the crime proved to be such as to present
an insurmountable impediment to the mitigation of the 7
penalty. In making these observations the preacher Littmean
mean to undervalue the voice of the public. Ile did not nor.
to set at nought the sympathies of the people, whic"Yerofthe
respond with the best feelings of our nature. The opipion
were
people of England was entitled to the highest respect- f heYmiy,
the same
enerally right when they. pronounced their op,ns
tees, dust
the public voice was not in the present me unenimous 'acting
and were not. artfully excited ; but it was to be rectelec
.d ttitt
only had expressed their wishes—the great maieritY' one•
with prudence, and according to their duty, "VII where
life and death were the questions at issue ;
dently on the well.known mercy of the Crown in casts _ the
bia es
attP(Tetei
one part feelings of a nature, too favourable were
ztt....muP„,o
to be excited, so there were others too eager to er;o"__,,,eeee
a fallen brother, as if they were exempt from that _ fell, if
he was liable—.as if it was impossible for thew toeme not
they were placed in similar circumsusnees. ho!e eneecie
scrupled, with their unfounded statements, aril e_e_eee.
ing assertions, to aggravate the severity •of he "
'Cite offence was of no ordinary magnitude,
offence of the convict in his eye, the preacher obsee'ee:atieno
and sharpen the bitterness of death. In referring tooth;
and
it was his painful, but necessary duty to use oese; _He
and allusions which'would ill become him in any ahe
eieree,
of numbers of innocent victims of their own credal yri'd
have been consequent upon it, were it not for the exe
ens ill
the wonted humanity of the most wealthy este!) .mheer,
the world, who had reimbursed, or promised to rei ,„hile
the money of which they would have been defrauded'
_r, our
on the one hand we ought to detest the crime,
ennwlstrlietr,
duty to put Christian charity into exercise,
and the ettt t 17.1.1;:t
an coneieeg
ate the offender, instead of censaring and 0.306
him. The great Author of our salvation nat set
une, ee the
upon earth ; for while he censured the vices and f si
age, mercy even flowed from his lips. He persuadeVneirrreo34.,
ed, and expostulated with makind : he forgave In li is eed
but never condemned those who had fallen into them., death
fallen to the lot of numbers to suffer the punishment warity of
forS sineber offence, distinguished only by lerodiet
the sums. He therefore hoped that while his erre% Teel
expiated his offence by his death, an indelible hervti','elidoriesev,,edini
be made upon all present, tinsels) whatever spittle
it was certain that "the wages of sin is death. ' ,4 „reeler
himself immediately to the ebject.of his address, we r bee on
observed, that lie had been often admonished in privetelieraill
that occasion he was admonished in public, to testify the e..ent of
of his repentance by an acknowledgment and developeee „b•
any transactions connected with his past life, wherein
wteee ee
lic were in any manner concerned. He hoped that,,aetee, le
Gospel of Christ, and be surPorted
withdrew from the solemn service in which he vi eonearnt Ice.
would devote himself to self-examinstion, and look tnii weevil
ciful Being who had prorreeed to administer help no
~
__ iee
in the hour of need ;• that he would derive conik)latti Ireeee'llei
through the dark valley of the shadow of death ; ano,i eligee
would be finally conducted to the haven of eternal bleb. s
and reign with the Saviour for ever and ever. and his
bv him when, Fe'm he
The service having concluded, Mr. Fauntleroy
_en, er.
friends left the chapel immediately beft,re the ineleee of
moved from their seam. Mr. Fauntleroy grasped the ik with
Mr:Baker, and appeared as if he could inarceli S, of die
out assistance ; he also took hold of one of the Indl. Aooloy
Reverend Mr. Springett, and they led him
to 114 see
apartment. He was followed by Mr. Wadd an`.{ trod,
caws. On entering his room he exclahned— e e,e threw
this is over," and burst into a flood of tears, n.' se 10,
himself int a sat. He begged his Mende w elFt,iee fr
his feelingso e were so agitated that he could not. retr'tx,i, tie
slwi,leooepkinhg.a,nbdttist
withh. esh.hoiunlid,
astooldn,helmpcti,,)
shecemwomreaegoa_minytio:onee;
appeared gry relieved
promisedwards, and 3003, soon.
time, and then took leave. The Rev. 1:11rT Sprig
hint rest of his friends remained with I ' in reonve'' 41 ll OP°
ngett C C
in the evening, and read and prayed with hint'

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