The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-14 00:00:00

'T11: TRAITORS:

St rzpi the execution of Dertard and the six, other
Traitors, some, of our Cotemporaries have fre.
quently' held theM forth to the public eye as" Mar.
tyrs in the cause of Rcfortn—as men, of whose in.,
miccnce they had no doubt—while the specch.ohhe
Colonel has been held forth as the test of his zeal
for the People, and his sacrifice for their interests.
Meanwhile the Demons of Infidelity have-again be.
gun - to, lift their hydra-heads, taking a their.
standard the behaviour' of the'Culp.rits at the place
of qecution. •

• We have mentioned,
.that previous to the Sen.
tence of the Law being carried -into 'etfet:i, they)
had made a 'full confession of their enormous ..Con.
spiraq,- and acknowledged, the justice of their
doom„: We shell now proceed to state some payti.
culars, to shew they neither died Martyrs, or inno.
'cent men, and that five out of the seven owned the
Sentence to'be.ju'it, and died penitents to that God
whose laws and precepts they, had been led to ,brave
fur a long course of. time.

On thi Sunday night previous to their suffering,
a Mr. Becttrr, a Preacher of the Methodist coo.
nedion, and an inhabitant of Southwark, attended
by, four friends, went to the prison, and were
humanely introduced to the Prisoners by Mr. Ives
the Keeper : they informed them
.of the Hature of
their visit, and asked if their 'topping to pray
with them would be agreeable.. Deipard politely
declined; Macnamara (being a Catholic}' Said he
had a Priest of his own persuasion ; the ether live
readily embraced the offer, and invited NI r. BECKET
and friends to stop till morning-. After a suitable
admonitio-L on the awful change they vu re alio= to
undergo, they knelt down to pray, and prayed
with much -.fervour, acknowledging themselves
guilty •before God, and gebels to their emmtry.
After some time spent yin this matter, they ro4e
up and joined in singing an Hymn ; 'they then re.
quested Mr. BE.CKET to preach to their, with which
Ire complied. He took a text from the 16th of St.
Matthew, " What shall a 'man give in exchange
for his soul ;" after he.hati concluded a solemn dis-
course from theie words, they were more fervent,
if Possible, than before, each saying, that the titer.
'nal existence of • the soul was, what limy had never
till then heard of, but were at that moment fully
convinced of, and again kneeled (1011 to pray ;
',thus was the night fpc Early in tie morning;
.while in prayer, one of them exclaimed, I have
found pardon in Jesus,. and am now rkady to die
without fear I" Shortly after the othetrs expressed
themselves in nearly the sage terms, arid continued
praying and singing till Mr. WusscvloaTtt, the
Ordinary of the Prison, arrived to adMinister the
sacrament. •

We have already given an account of their
havout on the scaffold, and leave the, Public to
judge, whether the decent deportment they evinced
at The awful moment, was owing to conscious inno,.
cence, or -to their hope in :1 party) front that Su.
Preme, whom they and their wretched partizans
had affeeled to despise.

:IhtP NEII.

eItAVZSE.ND, NIAlte11.1•

Sailed--tite Aurora;'Ansel I, for B:irhactoes ; A !,voonr.,.
for BarCelona ; i Mint and lotto, WoodUousc, foi 4inia ;
Esperanec, --. for Calais; Iris, Kemp,
Friendship, Denham, tot A'resterdain.
Dthxdu t . by—the Prince of Wales, Cl illing-
ham, from Boulogne ; and VTOW Nlargrtta, 11latlis, frorn
Dort

Sailed—tholunus, Atlihorn, for St. Kitts; and Granary,
Manara, for St—Sebastian's.

111ARIZIED.

Onthe Eth inst. af•Edinhurgli, the I-lon.. Colonel Murray,
eldest son of Lord Elibanki to Miss Oliphant,' of liechilien.
OA Tuesday, Thomi s•Rutscini ,Esq. Mid..,
dlesex..to Miss. I sabol lit Stable, • 1.