The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-29 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF CAPT. lra CODLING 4

SATURDAY motning, about ten minutes 1.).7f0re
nine, Captain William Codling,' late of Brig..
Adventure, condemned` to: death for the' 'ci.infe of.
atterupting to defraud. the I;nd,N•writers, by scut- '
thing and •endeavoucing to silk that vessel; was"
coriduaed.out of,'the.Gaol of Ne‘:vgate,' to proceed
to undergO the fast ex,freMity of 'his Sentence at.
Exectition•Dock.

He Wast onduCled from Newgate, by Ludgate_hili
and St.- Paul's, into Cheapside.. 'A number of the
Peace Officers on horseback were at the head. of the
melancholy pro-cession,. Some Officers belonging to
the Court of Admi ratty , w i'th the City: Marshals, fol.,
lowed next. The Sheriff's were in a coach, as was
also thi Ordinary of'Newgate, the Rev.. Dr. Foit'
The unfortunate Criminal was in a cart, With a rope
fastened round his neck and shoulders. He sat'be.
oyeen the Executioner and his Assistant.
He wore a bioe, coat, a white waistcoat, huff
coloured velvet
.breeches, 4ind white, cotton stock-
ings. He Seemed a Well built, figure, rising some-
what above the middle size, in the very prime of his
strength, and peihaps about i 5 or 36 years of age.
As he paSseddoWn Cheapside, Cornhill, Leadenhall-
stree-t, and onward 'through Bishopsgate and Rat-
cliffe Highway, he continUed to re:l4"the accustomed
Prayers with great devotion ; in which he was join-
ed by those who sat wick him in the cart. His
liehaviour was, in the most striking devree,•decent
and Manly. TheolisirOipns. by the different turn-,
ings in, the Way, and 1)),, the ConcOurse- of people
fillingevery pissage, did" not seem to disturb the
settled firmness of:his mind. As the procession
drew near to the scene 'of execntion-,-the difficulties
o'ithe paSiage became continually greater, so that it'
washardly possible for the Peace Officers co clear-
the way. At the entntrice towards the Dock, k
became necessary that the Criminal should be re-
moved out,of the east to walk to the to.if;fold, which
was yet at some
,distance. He descended from .the
cart with' the assistance of those who were beside
him. After Coming down he stood as erect" as the
Confinement of his shOulders awl arms would
His looks wore still an air of tnnc
He walked on with a steady step, and 'ascended
the ladder to the icaffOld, without betraying. any
new emotions of .terror, On the scaffold he joined
in prayers with the Clergyman who 'was there in
attendance, for two or three minutes.-. He shook
the. Ctergyman's hand in taking If-11.64,0, • with
Somewhat of
,a convnlsive grasp. A cap was put
on his head. He drew it With his own hands Over
his eyes.
.The board upon a signal from the Sheriff;
who sat in
,an opposile:window; was soon
.after
dropped from under his feet. In two Or three.
minutes he appeared to expire without a struggle.
His body, after hanging for the-due rength of
was cutdown, and carried away in 'a boat by hiS
friends. .

The solemnity.
.of:the occaSion, seemed to make
a due impression. on the mob, aiiiagst whorn them
was very little confusion 'and riot.

CORN EXCH./INGE, Nov. 29.

• THE supply of Wheat to-day is abundantly large,
and high prices Were asked, but it experienced a
reduCtion of full 4s. per quarter, and closed with
heavy sale ; there is also great quantity of )3arley,
which declined 2s. and 35. per quarter
,Malt Sells
cheaper ; Tease in plenty, and., at lower-prices; in
Beans but little variation ; there are not many
Oats at market; and this article keeps'its ipricet.
Flour at something less.

Tick Ve-ans - 3os a 32s 61
Oats - his a. 'tBs •24s
Poland ditto 25s a 2.5 s
Rape Seed - - 32,1 a 351
Fine Floui - 443 a 48s
SeCond do. -40 s a .44s

LAW/ REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, Nov. 27.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. GARROW moved for leave to file a criminal
Information against Mr. James Ridgway, a
Bookseller, in this town, for publishing what Mr.
GAR kow said was the most dangerous ,and scanda-
lous libel, on which the Court had, for a long time,
been called upon to animadvert. He moved this at
the • desire of most respedable persons, the Magi_
strafes of the County of Gloucester, who felt it
their deity to bring this most infamous calumny be..
fore the Court. It was a pamphlet called "An
Address to the People of Great Britain and Ireland,
.occasioned by the alarming System of murderous
Imprisonment adopted in Middlesex, Essex, Salop,
Nottingham, York, Dorset, Gloucester, &c." Mr.
Ridgway had, in this Case, made himself, not the
cold-blooded Printer, as emphatically said the other
day by my Lord Chief Justice, but he had made
himself the cold-blooded Publisher, and, for the
present purpose, the Author of this pamphlet, for,
on application to Mr. Ridgway to learn who the
author was?--be answered, " That the author did
not chase to be known." He•would not go through
,thi's pamphlet, but, seed certain passages of it,
which he did.; by which it appeared that the prac-
tices of the County Gaol of Gloucester were remark-
able for inhumanity, which, Mr. GARRO'W said,
was an- entire, calumny, for that the condud o f that
Gaol was most exemplary ; so tender was it, that no
priSoner was there brought to the Bar in irons, nor
any one at all fettered within the prison, except
where, by his own violence, he had made it neces-
sary for the general safety of the prison. He said
also, that Mr. Cunningham, who was the keeper of
this prison, was a perfett -pattern of humanity, and
yet the whole condud of the prison under his care,
had been treated as if it had been the most inhu.
man. The pamphlet referred to some of the. pro-
ceedings of the Me 'Middlesex Eledion, and of the
merits and demerits, of the respeElive Candidates,
hut as that was a subjea about to be discussed in
another place, he should not say any more upon it
now, the more especially as the Court was likely to
have hereafter some portion of its time painfully oc.
cupied with some topics arising out of that transac-
tion. He then read some eXtrafts out of the pam-
phlet in question, which we shall notquote after
which, he said that he did not move this on behalf
of the Public at large, but only on the instrudion of
the Magistrates of the County of Gloucester, who
thought it their duty not to let this publication pass
over in silence.—Rule to chew cause granted.

Mr. Serjeant BEST moved for-leave to file a cri-
minal Information'againkt James Fraser and William
Spencer, Esquires, two Justices of the Peace for, the
County of Middlesex, and Mr. W. Punier,, an Apo.
thecary in London, upon an affidavit which charged
these two Magistrates with having corruptly ap-
pointql this gentleman
.to the office Of a Surveyor of
the -highway of the parish of Heston, near iloun.
slow, and of loWering the rate of one person from
Sol: to 401. for- the purpose of- converting a
private road into a public one, and to throw the
burden of keeping it in repair On the county at
large, instead of its being repaired by Mr. Fraser,
for the convenience of the occupation of 'whose
,dwelling, the road was made. Charging also, that
these Gentlemen improperly sat on the Bench, while
an appeal, upon this sublet took place at' the Ses-
sion ; the particulars Of which we do not enter into
in the present stage of
,the proceeding, which is ex
park.--Rule to shew cause granted.

SMUGGLERS.

THE KING V. GEO. GOODING.