The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.

WRIT FOR THE EXECUTION OF EARL
FERRERS FOR MURDER.
A correspondent bas forwardl/4d to us a copy of the
writ commanding the execution of this noble criminal:—
" George the Second, by the grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith,
and so forth, to the Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Mid-
dlesex, greeting. Whereas, Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vis-
count Tamworth, bath been indicted of felony and murder
by bins done and committed, which said indictment
bath been certified before us in our present Parliament;
and the said Lawrence Earl Ferrers,Viscount Tamworth,
bath been thereupon arraigned, and upon such arraign-
ment. bath pleaded not guilty; and the said Lawrence Earl
Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth, bath before us in our said
Parliament been tried, and in due forte of law con►icted
thereof; and whereas judgment hath been given in our
said Parliament that the said Lawrence Earl Ferrero,
Viscount Tamworth, shall behanged by the neck till he is
dead, and that bis body be dissected and anatomized, the
execution of which judgment yet remaineth to be done:
we require, and by these presents strictly command you
that upon Monday, the sth day of May instant, between
the hours of nine in the morning and one in the afternoon
of the same day, him the said Lawrence 'Earl Ferrers,
Viscount Temworth, without the gate of our Tower of
London (to. you then and there to be delivered, as by
another writ to the lieutenant of our Tower of London, or
to his deputy directed, we have commanded) into your cus-
tody you then and there receive • and him, in your custody
so-being, you forthwith convey to the accustomed place of
execution at Tyburn; and that you do cause execution
too be-done upon the said Lawrence Earl Ferrero; Via-
_lint
.Tamworth,, in your custody so being, in all things
°""9*1114 to the said judgment. And this you , are by
aligns to omit at 1 Witness ourself If
,your pert
the
ourse -at
ofW e:utTirinesigtrt. the 2d day of May, in the thirty-third year
" YORKV AND YORtE."
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gratified and surpriZfd
—IERAL _____ •
the ancient burgh of Tain were
The inhabitants SPRING- AT TAIN.
a corner of the highly-
cultivateddiscovery of a mineral a few days since with the reported
farm of Moraalnieg,
otlelfeesptoretraisencldoosue: iwnithin half a mile of the
seashore, and almost at
the foot
obothuel
absent countrymen will remembeder, which many of our
mark. Old and young, high
LLT a conspicuous Lind.
seen repairing to the spot, wish drinking
were instantly
sizes and shapes, and utensils for ca Ing
vessels of all
to a ,distance. Even the medical and
the wt.,er
and chemical
burghers yielded to the report, and satisfied them-
selves that there was in this case truth in the rumour.
There wants a tract of dry weather to have
the
spa properly analysed, but it is evidently a strop
sulpbureous and chalybeate spring, equal to thg_
far-famed Strathpeffer. The first thing to be dune was
to get a road forme d along the shore to render the spring
()silly accessible, and instantly some of the young men of
the town, by tuck of drum, assembled to wield the mat tuck
and spade. They elected a director of the works, and pro-
ceeded under his orders to commence road-making at five
o'clock in the morning. This voluntary labour was con-
tinued for several mornings from daybreak until the time
for o • pening places of business, and already a considerable
extent of road has been blocked out and reclaimed, by
great exertions f
on the north. , rom a bog on the south and from the sea
Some small bridges or conduits have been
constructed, and noted
entitled them to na
- after the persons whose labours
Urquhart, the that Sutherland,
; so that we hear of the
may the etruetn and the Ross bridges, and long
res hani down the names of the worthy

On Thursday last 11r. William Powell, a respectable
innkeeper, also farming his own land at Tavarney-
garreg, in Ystradgyalais, was brought up in custody at
the Petty Sessions Court, Brecon, charged with burgle-
riously breaking into the house of David Williams, at
Trecastle, in the county of Brecon. The peculiar and
mysterious circumstances of the case excited great inte-
rest, especially as one T. Williams, a blacksmith, had been
tried and convicted at the last assizes as the perpetrator of
the burglary, and had been removed to Woolwich, under
sentence of transportation for seven years. The principal
witness was a tinker named William Morris, who stated
that the prisoner, on the night of the burglary, brought
him to the premises of David Williams, on the pretence
of getting him to drive some pigs to market. Prisoner
broke into the house, and witness at once ran away.
Subsequently Williams, the blacksmith, was charged
with the burglary, and witness received from the prisoner
5/. in money and a note for 101. as hush money, the pri-
soner undertaking, by influencing some of the jury, to
procure the acquittal of Williams, who, however, was
convicted of the offdnce. Witness then communicated
with the police, as he was anxious to procure the libera-
tion of Williams, whom he knew to be innocent. Several
witnesses deposed to having seen the prisoner and Morris
together on the night of the burglary, and on several oc-
casions previously and subsequently to it. It was also
shown that Morris had receive-d the note for 101., and
other sums of money from the prisoner. David Wil-
liams, of Trecastle, repeated the evidence he had given
at the last assize relating to his house being broken
open, his being awoke from sleep, and seeing a man
caving a light coming upstairs. He swore positively
now, as he did then, that the man was Tom the smith,
and that he knew him well. On cross-ex.mieation he
said he held a mortgage on the prisoner's land tor 8001.,
and that the deeds were with Mr. Morgan, s.lioitor,
of Li.indovery. The m,,rtg,,ge had been originall)
tor 6001, but he bad advanced 2001. more than
months since, and on that occasion the
prisoner was present when the deeds were deposited
with Mr. Morotn, and it was then understood that he
was to keep them until the prisoner should make ar-
rangement as to adjudKnient. At the time of the bur-
glary he had an action of ejectment pending, which the
prisoner settled by giving a judgment two or three days
beto•e the Brecon as,iz-s. On re exsmivation witness
said that prisoner had been several times in his house on
business, but he never let him or any one see where he
kept his papers; some papers had been taken out of a
drawer on the night of the burglary, and were found in
a sieve in the back kitchen. The prisoner, who stated
that he would reserve his defence, was committed for