The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-17 00:00:00

NEIVCASTLE, JULY 14'

TotlttsDAY the Duke and Dutchess of No RTHUNt.
aittz,nmo, with the four ladies PERCY, arrived
here from LOndon, On Friday they all set off fur
Tynemouth; this day they mean to visit Wylatn;'
and. on Sunday the seat of Sir J. E. SWINBURNII,
Barr. at Capheaton ;
,each of which places, the .
Duke .intends reviewing tEe respe6iive Corps of
Percy Tenantry, and then to ;proceed to Alnwick
Castle, where the family are e)lpeEted to remain for-
.
considerable time.,

On Monday morning the ad Staffordshire
commanded by Colonel ELL OTT, marched fruErs this
town to Whitley, a little North of Tynemouth,
where they immediately pitched camp.

BILPLAM.--Statement of the number of Patients
admitted into Bethlem Hospital, from 1784. tu
t79+, distinguishing 'those discharged cured and
trilcured, &c.
Age Number Discharged Discharged
between admitted. cured. uncured.
So and so 113 78
to and 30 -- 488 200 .. 268
3" and' qo 347
40 and so ---362 57 27
o and bb t 2s, •
ii
be and 70 31 4 27

Admitted - 1664

574 - 1090

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f1,1..1..114,
.14 .1 %El

(EXTRACT OF L'ETTIR.)

ABOUT the beginning of last winter, the public
attention was much engaged by one of the most
atrocious murders I ever heard of—A whole family
was found massacred in their steep, 'in the suburbs of
PetersbUrgh ; a man and his wife lay in bed with
their heads nearly cut off ; an under officer lay
stretched on the floor in the same state ; near the
door was a boy, about twelve, who probably having
attempted to' escape, was beheaded, and cruelly
mangled ; in a cradle was found a child nearly
frozen to death; and upon a table in the room were
seen a pack of cards, an empty brandy bottle, and a
few pieces of copper. •
It was about four days after the murderbefore
this discovery was made, when His Imperial Ma.
jetty attended in person, and saw the horrid spec.
table, frolen into one mass of ice he threatened the
Police with severe consequences if the assassins were
not apprehended in 44 hours, gave too roubles for
the relief of the infant, and promised tOOO for the
discovery of the offenders.

By the day following 14.7 persons were taken up,
among whom Was the villain who had been guilty of
the crime. It appeared he was a carpenter who
had worked in the neighbourhood, and having heard
that the people possessed a trifle of money, went
one evening to beg a lodging, when, after having
regaled them with brandy, he took an opportunity,
when they were all asleep, to treat them as I have
related, robbed the house of about too roubles, fas.
tened the windows, having fixed a padlock on the
door, and walked off unnoticed. I was determined
to see the countenance of arman who could be guilty
of such deliberate villany, and resolved, however
uncomfortable I might feel myself,to see him punish.
ed, On the Saturday morning following, about,ten
o'clock,:l was informed he was on his way to the
place of execution. I overtook the procession about
a mile on this aide—first came the Police.master,
then a posse of Police Officers on horseback, two
and two ; tour ranks of Foot Soldiers, twelve deep ;
behind the last rank was 'the murderer; on each
side of him marched a Soldier with a drawn sabre ;
on his right and left, twelve with fixed bayonets.
He was a tall handsome young man, about 26
years of age, about six feet high, dressed in a blue
coat, like a blue.cuat boy ; he was accompanied by
two others, who were to suffer for forgery, with
the executioner carrying the knoots tied up in can.
vats, and about six ranks of Foot Soldiers closed the
rear. I walked by his side neatly half a mile, and
examined his physiognomy well. If LAVATER
had seen him, I think it would have staggered him
a little : his countenance was open and honest, nor
had he the least appearance of wearing so bad a heart.
As I found myself overcome by the pressure of. the
crowd, and the heat of the skins in which I was
wrapped up, and .the melancholy preparations before
me, I pushed through the rabble, and got into a ta.
vern, where, after tossing off two glasses of brandy
and a crust of bread, I made the best of my way to
the place of execution : they had entered the ring,•
which was now surrounded by a very great throng,
and I should certainly have returned as wise as I
came, but for meeting a young. Officer, whose bro.
Cher was present with his Regiment.—" Do you
think (says lit) you can support such a sight ?"
I told him I had resolved I would—so taking me by
the atm, we passed through the crowd, one rank of
horse, and two tst: foot, and stouilvery near the stake
'which was prepared for the murderer: the two
others were by my side.
The stake was a. strong block of wood fixed in
the ground, with, three grooves at the top, and two
rings near the bottom ; the middle groove was for
the neck, and the two toilets for the arm pits,
,the
rings below to lock round the ancles. About the slake.
were laid C(I4CSO skins, especially where the knoot.
master trod, upon which lay his whips, marking.
irons, pineers, &c. An Officer then read a paper
to the people, signifying that forgery upon the 1(n.
perial Bank, being a opital crime, and two of the
prisoners being convieted of it, were condemned to
receive eleven blows of the knoot, to have their
nostrils pulled out, and be banished forlife to 'Si.
heria ; the murderer of so 'many persons to' receive
399 blows, to be branded three times in the face
have his nostrils pulled out, and (if then alive) to-
'be banished for life to the Mines of Siberia.

The executioner and his assistants then stripped
hini„ tied his hands.across, and led him to the spot.
After fixing his ancles, they ,bent his neck ancl
arms over' it, 'and drew' -the 'rope with which his
hands were tied through a ring on the-opposite side,
which.seemed to stretch all the muscles ut the back ;
he then retired al»ut four or five yards from him,
and taking. up one of the knoots, worked it with his
hand to give it a,proper elasticity : the blow is then
given as I have' seen an awkward boy try to smack
J whip ; be walks to the part 'with four or. five steady_
steps, then taking a spring, strikes a perpendicular
stroke with a heavy, loud crack. They first cut him
from the right side of the bottom of the neek,to 'the
left area-pit ; the etre& was visible in a,mornent, and
by:the violence of his screams, I suppme the pain
Was very great ; the second was about half-an inch
below the fist, and so on till as,:, when changing
the whip, he erased the former wounds, st riking from
the lett side to the right, afterwards, quite. peren.
diculat ; they were given with the greatest regu.
larity, between each one might deliberately count
eight, the executioner always walking to and from
the stake.