The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-17 00:00:00

ADIVIIRAT,T Y SURVEYS.

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In the navy estimates for the next financial year a
new page is introduced, showing the surveys in pro-
gress under the Admiralty Board.

HOME SURVEYS.

PORTSMOUTH.—The Owers, Shoal, St. Helen's, Spit-
heafl, and Portsmouth Harbour, haying been completed
this party is now proceeding with the Southampton
Water, the Solent, and the Needles.—Commander Sher-
ringham, in the earless steam•vessel .

• THE DOWNS.—The :urvey of the river Thames
having been completed, from London-bridge-to Rams-
gate, this party is now employed in examining the Brake
and ther sandi in the Downs, which have very consi-
derably changed their positions.—Captain Bullock, jn
the Porcupine steam-vessel.
NORTH SEA.—This party is now employed in survey-
ing the Stour, Orwell, Deben, and other navigable rivers
on the east coast of England, and in proceeding gradu-
ally with the banks which occupy the North Sea, G,COO
square miles of which have been already accurately ex-
am►ned and sounded.—Captain Washington, in the Bla-
zer steam-vessel.

SCOTLAND (NORTH Coasr).—These officers having
partly comFletEd the north coast of Great Britain, are
continuing their operations round Cape Wrath.—Com-
mander Otter, in the Sparrow.
ORKNEYS.—This party is still engaged in the difficult
and laborious survey of this boisterous group of islands.
—Master George Thomas, in the Mastiff.
SCOTLAND (WEST COAST). - This party having
finished the survey of the Firth of Clyde, will now un-
dertake the remainder of the coast, to the Mull of Can-
tire.—Commander Robinson, in the Shearwater steam-
vessel.

IRISH CHANNEL—The northern part of this important
survey has la:Tn already executed, and is in the en-
graver's hands; the souther* half will now occupy this
party.—Captain Beeehey, in the Firefly steam-vessel.
IRELAND (EAST COAST.)—The coast from Dublin Bay
to Wexford, with the shoals off Wicklow, having been
already surveyed, this party is now at work on the
Arkiow Shoals and the shore towards Waterford.—Cap-
tain Wolfe in the Tartarus steam-vessel.
IRELAND (WEST COAST).—This party, in hired ves-
sels and boats, is employed in surveying Galway Bay.
IRELAND (SOUTH- WEST COAST.—This party having
completed the survey of the Shannon, as far up as Lime-
rick, is now engaged in the examination of Bantry Bay.
—Commander Frazer, in the Lucifer steam-vessel.
LOUGH CORRIB.—.I his party is employed in the
navigable lakes of Corrib and Mask, in the county of
Galway.

FOREIGN SURVEYS.
MEDITERRANEAN.—The opposite shores of the Archi.
pelage having been nearly completed, these parties are
now about the intermediate islands :--Commander
Graves, in the Beacon ; Comman ler Brock, in the
Bonetta.

ST. LAWRENCE.—This party, having completed the
survey of the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, from
Montreal to the island of Anticosti, as well as the Strait
of Belle Isle, is now employed on the southern shores of
the Gulf, and round Prince Edward's Island.—Lieutenant
Short!and, in the Columbia steam-vessel.
GULF OF FUNDY.—The survey of places on the shores
of this large and dangerous arm of the sea has been exe-
cuted, as v ell as upwards of 100 miles of the River St.
John; and this party is now uniting these partial surveys
in a general chart, as well as endeavouring to determine
the set of the prodigious tides there, which rise upwards
of 60 feet.—Lieutenant G. B. Lawrence, in the Lark.
WEST INDIES.—Thee parties having nearly finished
the Mosquito and Honduras Gulfs, as well as the intri-
cate channel across the Bahama Banks, have now under- '
taken the Gulf of Campeche, and the shores of the Gulf
of Mexico.—Commander E. Barnett, in the Thunder.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.—The survey of these islands,
which contain some of the finest harbours in the world,
is now nearly completed.
CHlNA.—These parties are employed iu determining
positions of the various dangers on the coast of China,
and in examining the approaches to the several commer-
cial ports, access to which was conceded by the late
treaty. —Captain Sir E. Belcher, K.C.8., in the Same-
rang, and Captain Collinson, C. 8., in the Plover.
AUSTRALIA.—These parties are engaged in an exten-
sive survey of the long line of reefs lying to the east-
ward of Australia, and intervening between the Pacific
Ocean and Torres Strait, which is the only direct cora-
-1 munication with India.—Captain H. P. Blackwood in
the Fly, and Lieut. Yule in the Bramble.
WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA.—These parties will
take up the survey at Guayaquil (to which place it had
been extended from Cape Horn, and published in 16
sheets); and they will continue it to the northward,
along the coasts of Granada, Guatemala, Mexico, and
California, of which long interval there is but little accu-
rately known.—Captain Kellett, C. 8., in the Herald, and
Lieut. Wood in the Pandora.

F
THE BISHOP OF 4XETER AGAIN !—lt appears that
as soon as his Lordship learnt that the curate of Falmouth
had relinquished the popish forms and ceremonies which
had been so long performed at the church, he wrote both
to Mr. Symonds and to the churchwardens, stating, that
while he readily consented, for the sake of peace, to the
discontinuance of any practices not ordered by the Church
(such as chartings, &c.) he could not permit, in any of the
churches of the diocese, the discontinuance of any part of the
Liturgy (as ordered by the Rubric) which was used there at
the date of his last letter to the clergy, the Bth of January of
the present year. He must, therefore, require that the reading
of a sentence at the Offertory, and of the praxer for the Church
Militant after the morning sermon, be continued at Falmouth
as before.— West Briton.
BURY.—A PRIEST OF TIIE ORDER OF MELCHP
sEDEc.—The Rev. W. H. Ileuslowe, of Tottenhill, who has
been proceeded against in the Court of Arches, in conse-
quence of his refusal to bury the child of a dissenter, has
published a letter of thanks to those clergymen who have
assisted or protected " him through the proceedings ; in
which he says—" The number of those friends I now find
was very small: the cause for which I personally
stood the trial does not prosper ; a repetitition of such
trial I may still be called to suffer any future day ; and, but
for one or two most kind supporters, I had been victimised
already and entirely to our anomalous Church laws 1 My
sense of all these things is, therefore, such as shakes my
churchmanship itself to the foundation. An Anglo-Catholic
in Holy Orders I shall be for ever; but, of the Church Esta-
blishment of England I foresee that I, and every other faith-
ful priest er Bishop of the order of Melchisedec, must one
day cease to be. "—Norfolk Neu's.
•

TRIAL OF JOHN TAWELL.
CONVICTION AND SENTENCE.
AYLESBURY, FRIDAY.
We subjoin the summing up of Mr. Baron Parke, with
some additional particulars respecting the convict.
The Court was opened at eighto'clock, shortly after which
hour Mr. Baron Parke took his seat on the bench, and, after
the commencement of his summing up, the crowd came
singly and slowly in, making so great a noise, that, although
the reporters were directly over the jury-box, and his Lord •
ship spoke in his customary clear and audible manner, a con-
siderable portion of his preliminary observations were entirely
lost, broken and disjointed portions of his sentences only
being audible.
His Lotinsine said, the prisoner was chargsd with the
commission of a crime almost unparalleled in the history of
human wickedness. The question was one of fact, and it was
the duty of the jury t i consider it, they being the judges of
the question of fact. He (Mr. Baron Parke) would offer
them such propositoins respecting the beating of the
law upon the case as he deemed necessary, and as
such they should receive them from him ; but the
jury alone should decide upon the questions of fact.
He should inform them that the law with regard to criminal
proceedings had been recently altered. Formerly, so far
back as the history of the law went, and during even a great
portion of his (Baron Parke's) own professional career, the
practice had been for the counsel for the prosecution simply
to state the case lie was about to prove, without commenting
on it. The witnessses were called, and the prisoner's counsel
cross-examined them. Nothing but the merits of the case
itself was submitted to the jury, and the consequence was
that there was nothing to influence their minds in coming to
a conclusion. But it had pleased the Legislature to alter this
mode of conducting proceedings in criminal cases, and he
(Baron Parke) thought the alteration a wise one. Counsel
for the prisoner were now permitted to address such
observations as they pleased to the jury ; but one result
had been, that additional duty had been thrown upon the
judge, and he was now obliged to assume a line to dissi-
pate the effects of appeals to the feelings upon the minds of
the jury. It, therefore, became his (Baron l'arke's) duty to
dissipate the effects of some of the observations of the
Learned Counsel for the prisoner. The case was to be
proved, as they had been told, by circumstantial evidence.
It was the only sort of evidence that could be obtained in
most cases of a similar nature. The most atrocious crimes
were committed in secret, but Providence had so ordered it
that some traces were frequently left, which were sufficient
to lead to the discovery of the perpetrators. The law had,
therefore, wisely provided that direct proof of crime was not
absolutely necessary ; but, on the other hand, it was equally
true that by circumstantial evidence the case should be so
fully made out as to leave no rational doubt of its com-
mittal. He should, therefore, advise them to lay
down the rule, that they should first consider what
had been proved to their satisfaction, and then to consider
whether all those facts were consistent with the guilt of
the prisoner. If they thought that they were consistent
with his guilt, and that there was nothing inconsistent with
it, and he could suggest nothing inconsistent in the evidence
except the prisoner's previous character, then they should
consider whether they were inconsistent with his innocence,
and they should remember that the existence of the crime
alleged was not inconsistent with the other facts of the case.
Whilst on that part of the question he should observe that
the Counsel for the prisoner had admitted all those facts, but
had asserted that the law required not only that those facts
should be proved, but that it should also be shown directly
that the deceased had died by poison, and that a sufficient
quantity of poison to produce death had been found in her
stomach. That was not true of the law. It was not neces-
sary to give direct and positive evidence in every step of
the case. There was no difference between direct and cir-
cumstantial evidence, if the evidence was sufficient to
satisfy their minds that death had ensued from poison.
It was not necessary to prove what quantity of that poi-
son was necessary to produce death by the testimony of
any person who had actually seen human life de,troyed by
it, nor was it necessary to prove that such a quantity as
would destroy life had been actually found in the body.
The only positive fact which the law requires to be proved
was the finding of the body, where such was possible. He
said " possible," because in such. a case as a person being cast
overboard at sea, for instance, the body could not be pro-
duced, and the jury should be contented with positive evi-
dence of the wilful casting overboard. But where possible
the body should be proved to have been found. This was
necessary, because formerly persons had been found guilty of
the murder of persons who were afterwards found alive.
The body of the deceased having been found, it was
to be considered whether the prisoner had adminis-
tered poison to her. The quantity was not necessary to be
proved. He (Baron Parke) agreed with the Learned Counsel
for the prisoner that it was necessary to prove that poison
had been administered, and that, if it had been, that the
question woulg ,be—whether it had been administered to the
dedeased by the prisoner, or by herself. The only allega-
tion
that shelhad done so was that of the prisoner himself;
and if the jury thought the extraordinary story told by him
.was worthy of credit, it would agree with the latter mode of
accounting for her death. But if they did not belieVe it,
they had no other conclusion left than that he had committed
the crime imputed to him. The Learned Judge then pro-
ceeded to comment upon the evidence of Mrs. Ashley and
others, who deposed to the perfect health and good spirits of
the deceased up to a few minutes previously to the discovery
of her lifeless body, and to the medical evidence of her state of
perfect internal bodily vigour, leaving no doubt that she had
not died from natural causes. He then went to the evidence
of Messrs. Champnevs and Pickering, the surgeons, who, on
opening the body of the deceased on the day following her
death, at once smelt the odour of prussic acid. There, then.
was evidence at once of the presence of prussic acid in the
stomach on the day following a sudden death, accompanied
by appearances such as would be symptomatic of sudden
death from that powerful poison. Mr. Cooper, the
chemist, had analysed the contents of the stomach sub-
sequently, and found a quantity of pure prussic acid in it.
With regard to the quantity of prussic acid requisite to kill
a human being, it had been proved that less than a grain
would kill in some cases, as appeared by the melancholy in-
stance so frequntly referred to of the seven epileptic patients
in Paris; and Mr. Cooper had proved that more than a grain
existed in the stomach of the deceased. His Lordship then
went to the consideration of the conduct of the prisoner, and
observed that it would be necessary for the jury to couple
that conduct with all the other evidence, in order to judge
how far it bore out or contradicted the inferences which
might be derived from it. It appeared that on the day in
question the prisoner had gone to the Paddington station of
the Great 'Western Railway, and had taken his place for
Slough. It was proved that he left his coat at the
Jerusalem Coffee-houselbefore going down, and he told
the waiter that he was going to dine at the west end of
the town. That was untrue, and he must have made
that false statement for some purpose or another. Ile went
down to Slough at five o'clock, and between six and
seven Mrs. Ashley went round to the deceased's house, in
consequence of the noise she heard of stifled screaming. She
met the prisoner in the garden in a state of agitation so great
that he could not undo the latch of the gate. She opened it
for him. As to the observations she had made about,fearing
that her neighbour was ill, he could not say that the priso-
ner must have heard it, and therefore it went for nothing.
Let it pass. However, after she had got in at the door of
the deceased's house, she turned round and saw the prisoner
looking at her ; and such was the effect upon her, that she
felt alarmed, and closed and fastened the door. At seven
o'clock the prisoner was seen by a post-boy, and he was then
running towards the station. At ten minutes after seven he
was at the railway station. He was next seen gettin_g into
an omnibus, and desiring to be set down at Herschell House.
'What his intention was in going to Herschell House did not
appear. He was traced back again to the station, and an
alarm having been given, a signal was made by the electric
telegraph, and he was seen to alightfrom the railway carriage
at Paddington, and was thence traced home. When he
was taken up next morning, and told what he 'was taken
for, his answer was that he knew no one at Slough. It had
been suggested by the Learned Counsel that that was lite-
rally true, because the deceased did not live exactly at
Slough, but a little distance from it. It had also been sug-
gested that he wished to prevent his wife from hearing of his
improper connexion. It would be for the jury to say
what degree of weight would be given to those explana-
tions. ' He had told several falsehoods respecting this trans-
action, and it was for the jury to say why he wished to keep
secret his having been to the house of the deceased.
It appeared that, when the nature of the transaction, and
the reason why he was taken into custody, had been ex-
plained to him, that it would have been the part of any
reasonable man, if innocent, at once to have disclosed the
entire that he knew about it, and what had taken place.
There was abundant evidence to show that the prisoner was
at the house at the very moment the deceased had died.
When informed of the nature of the charge against him,
he told those falsehoods already mentioned. His Lordship
read over the conversations of the prisoner with the con-
stables when taken into custody, and then went on.
On the Friday, about one o'clock, the prisoner had an in-
terview with his legal adviser (Mr. Williams), and after that
interview, and not until after it, did he make any attempt at
explanation, or give any account of what had taken place,
and the account he then gave was that extraordinary state-
ment which he (Baron Parke) should read at full length for
them. (His Lordship read the statement made by Tawell
to the two constables, in which he said the poor unfortu-
nate woman had once lived in his service; and gave the
account of her putting something out of the phial about the
size of a thimble into her glass, and then drinking it off,
&c.) Here, then, the prisoner had represented himself as
present when the poison was administered, and, as it was
found in her stomach, it was for the jury to say whether
the question did not amount to the simple one, of whether
she had destroyed herself, or the prisoner had adminis-
tered it. If he thought that she had been threatening
to poison herself, he certainly should at least have stayed
to see what the effect would really be upon her. The jury
should next observe, keeping that story of the prisoner's
in mind, that no Such phial as that described by him was
found in the house. The fact was proved by Mr. Thomas,
who had sold him the poison in the morning, that the pri-
soner had prussic acid in his possession on that day. Ile
(Mr. Baron Parke) did not give much weight to the obser-
vation of prisoner's Counsel that he would not have been
likely to go back next day to the same shop for more if he
were conscious of guilt, because in cases of murder, espe-
cially in cases of murder by poison, it was found that great
precaution was not always used. The next question was
that of motive ; and for the purpose of coming
to an opinion on that point, his Lordship thought it neces-
sary to give a brief history of' the connexion between the
prisoner and the deceased. Having gone through that
portion of the evidence which detailed the commencement
of that connexion, his Lordship came to the scene be-
tween the prisoner and the deceased in his house, which
Baron Parke commented on as showing the extraordinary
affection and devotion of the deceased for the prisoner. With
striking self-devotion she said, that in order not to prevent
the union of the prisoner with the lady he was about to be
married to, she would go out of the world, and be dead to the
world, even to her own mother, from that day forth ; and the
jury had heard from that very mother, that from that time
she had never heard of her unfortunate daughter until after
her death. She kept that promise. She did go out of the
world, and went from place to place, until she went to reside
at Slough. It appeared that there she had received from the

prisoner an allowance for her maintenance of 11/. a quarter, or
52/. yearly • and on the day in question it would seem he was
to have taken her her quarterly allowance. When taken into
custody the sum of 121. 10s. was found in his pocket. From
that fact it might be inferred that he had gone down with a
sort of mixed feeling. either of paying her the money, or, if he
had the opportunity, of accomplishing his purpose of poison•
ing her. But as to his motive for destroying her, it had been
suggested that no man would commit such a dreadful crime for
the sake of getting rid of the expense. That be ( Mr. Baron
Parke) should say was not a matter to be easily judged of.
His Lordship then went into the evidence as to the alleged
attempt made by the prisoner to poison the deceased in Sep-
• tember last. There was no sufficient proof on that occasion
that he had administered prussic acid to her; but it was re-
markable that atter drinking porter with the prisoner on the
30th of September, she should have been so ill, and that after
drinking porter again with him on the Ist of January she
should be taken ill again and should have died. But no
direct and positive proof had been given that she had etc-
Wally taken poison in September. It was only supposition.
His Lordship having thus prepared the jury for thequestions
they would have to consider, read the evidence, and made
some brief comments on it, but without adding anything
material to his previous remarks. If the evidence ad-
duced (said he, in conclusion) left any rational doubt
upon their minds—a doubt which, as sensible men,
they thought had weight, but not a trivial doubt,
created by ingenuity, but a rational doubt—they were bound
to give the prisoner the benefit of it. They must have re-
spect to all the circumstances of the case, particularly to the
presence of the prisoner just before the death of the deceased,
and the fact of prussic acid being found in her stomach ; they
must consider the conduct of the prisoner both before and
after the death of the woman ; and if all that evidence left
any rational doubt upon their minds, God forbid that they
should not give the prisoner the benefit of it. It was their
duty to do so, for they were bound to convict no one on evi •
dence which left any rational doubt upon their minds. But
if they thought they could not explain all the eirMmstances
of the case—the presence of prussic acid, and the conduct of
the prisoner—if they believed his statements unworthy of
credit, and conscientiously thought he was guilty of the
offence with which he was charged, it would be their duty
for the sake of public justice, that the administration of that
justice might not be disparaged, and that the confidence in
the public in that administration might not be shaken by a
person not being convicted upon evidence which, upon due
deliberation, was calculated to produce an impression that he
was guilty. It was now their painful duty, after the advice
and assistance he had given them, to form their own delibe-
rate conclusion. He would add nothing more, but would
leave the issue entirely in their hands.
Mr. GUNNING begged to remind his Lordship that be had
not mentioned the evidence which bad been given with re-
spect to the prisoner's character.
The Learned JUDGE then said there was one circumstance li
which he wished also to remind the jury of, and to which he
had already adverted, but only in a general way—he meant
the good character which the prisoner had received from
several witnesses. Such evidence was admissible in cases of
this kind, because it went to show the general impression of
the habits and feelings of a person. The prisoner was re-
puted to be a kind-hearted and benevolent man. It was ad-
mitted by his Counsel that he had been transported for some
offence, the nature of which they had not been told ; but it
was said that it was not one which was calculated to affect
his character for kitidness of disposition. His Lordship then
read over the evidence alluded to, and left it for the jury to
decide in reference to its value to the prisoner in his present
position.
The Learned Judge concluded his summing up at 35
minutes after 11 o'clock, and the jury then retired to consider
their verdict. At five minutes after 12 o'clock the jury re-
turned into Court, and a passage was immediately cleared for
them, in order that they might face the prisoner whilst de-
livering their verdict. 1
The prisoner looked extremely pale, but advanced to the
front of the dock with a firm step.
The names of the jury having been called over,
The Clerk of the Crown said—Gentlemen, are you agreed
to your verdict?
Foreman—Yes.

The Clerk of the Crown—What say you, is the prisoner
guilty, or not guilty?
Foreman (in a loud and firm tone)—GUILTY.
The Clerk of the .Crown, addressing the prisoner, said—
You have been indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Hart,
and you have been found guilty of having committed that
murder. What have you now to say that the Court should
not give you judgment to die according to law?
The prisoner made no reply.
The usual proclamation for silence, whilst the Judge was
pronouncing sentence, having been made,
The Learned JUDGE put on the black cap, and addressed
the prisoner in the following terms : Prisoner at the bar, the
jury have just returned their unanimous and deliberate ver-
dict against you. They have performed their painful duty
under the solemn obligation of their oaths, and it now
remains for me to perform my duty, by telling you that for
that horrible, base, and cowardly crime, of which you have
been convicted, upon clear and satisfactory evidence, you
must, die an ‘ignominious and horrid death on the coninwn
• scaffold You thought to commit that crime, and 'you
...
thought no eye would see you, except that eye which sees
all things, and to which you probably paid no regard ; bu',
happily, circumstances were discovered, and numerous co-
gent and satisfactory reasons have been adduced which have
left no doubt on the minds of the jury, as they have none
upon mine, nor, I will venture to say, upon the minds of
any of that numerous auditory who have been listening
with painful attention to the trial, that you are guilty of one
of the most diabolical offences that ever man committed.
We now see, almost as it were with our own eyes, von mix-
ing the poisonous ingredients in the cup from which she was
to drink in a moment of unsuspecting confidence on her part,
supposing that you were her benefactor and protector. You
hurried her—you hurried her in a moment, without allowing
her an instant for the preparation of her thoughts, to give
that awful account for which you have now only a few days
left you to prepare. I will say nothing more of your
heinous offence, because I do not wish to aggravate those
feedings which I hope and believe are at this moment
tearing your mind. I wish it were so, that you may be
brought to repent of that grievous sin, and of that course of
' your life which has been marked by hypocrisy, during
which you wore the garb of a virtuous, peaceful, benevolent,
and religious body of persons. I say to you, repent of those
grievous indulgences of your passions, and the crimes of
which you have been guilty, when in a state of mind so
devoid of all feeling as to commit this wicked and cruel
murder. I will say no more. I hope you will profit by
the little time left you, which will not be longer than the
law allows, and endeavour to repent of your crimes. Pros-
trating yourself at the Throne of Mercy—seeking there,
through the grace of the Almighty, and the merits of the
Saviour, that mercy which you cannot obtain from men. It
remains for me to pass upon you now the sentence of the law
--that sentence is, for the murder whereof you have been
convicted, that you be taken from hence to the place from
whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution,
there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that
your body be taken down and buried within the precincts of
the goal wherein you shall be confined after the passing of
this sentence ; and may God have mercy upon your mi-
serable soul.

During the passing of the sentence the prisoner appeared
calm and unmoved, but when the last words of the Learned
Judge were uttered the muscles of his face became slightly
convulsed, and he walked back into the dock without the
assistance of any person.
Notwithstanding the calm demeanour of the unhappy
criminal throughout the trial, and even while sentence was
being passed upon him, his strength became exhausted when
he descended the ladder which leads from the dock to the
gaol-yard. He fell upon the ground in a fit, but he was
immediately raised by the gaolers who were conducting him
to his cell, and he recovered in a few minutes. His
spirits, which, during the time he was in prison pre-
vious to his trial, were unusually good, have now sunk
to the lowest possible ebb. Up to a late hour of the even-
ing
he continued to pace his cell, and cry "Oh dear, oh
dear, what will become of my poor wife and my children !"
Dinner was served to him at his usual hour for eating,
but he declined to partake of it. Later in the evening
he ate some beef-steak. 'Whether in seriousness or other-
`vise, his conduct gave evidence of a feeling of certainty that
he must be acquitted. He not only invited the person who
daily served him with his meals to visit him at his house, but
anticipating that his trial would terminate on Thursday
night, he actually had a carriage in readiness to convey him
to his home. His son, by the unfortunate woman Hart, was
in Court during the trial. He is a very fine lad, about five
years of age. When the verdict of Guilty was pronounced
by the foreman of the jury, a murmur of applause was heard
in Court, but it was at once suppressed. During his trial
the prisoner maintained a bearing approaching almost to
levity. Several gentlemen were permitted to stand in
the dock, which was a capacious one, during the pro-
ceedings. On Thursday, during a momentary absence of
the Judge, one of them being near-sighted, raised his
eye-glass to look at Tawell, who, when he observed it,
immediately went up to the gentleman, and asked—" What
does thee mean by looking at me more than at any body
else !" The gentleman was so taken by surprise at the
question that he could make no reply except to stammer
out, " I beg your pardon; I did not wish to hurt your
feelings."
During the temporary adjournment which took place each
day, the prisoner talked and laughed in a confident manner
with some persons who stood in the space between the dock
and the counsels' table, and who, as it afterwards appeared,
were his witnesses as to character, and persons connected
with his legal advisers. Another incident will also better
convey an idea of the man's character than a laboured at-
tempt at description. A prisoner who had been convicted
and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation came into a
room where Tawell was, and while he was crying and groan-
ing bitterly, Tawell began to comfort him by saying that lie
should not fret, that Sydney was a very nice place, and that
in a short time he should get on very well, and not be sorry
for the change.
The children of the deceased woman, Sarah Hart, of which
the prisoner is the reputed father, were is the neighbour-
hood of the Court throughout the trial.
It is stated that the prisoner's present wife wished to be
accommodated with a seat in the Court during the trial, but
that her friends dissuaded her from availing herself of a fa-
vour which would have been granted, but which could only
have augmented her sufferings.
On Thursday, while the Court adjourned for a quarter of
an hour, the prisoner wished to have a glass -of brandy-and-
water; the Governor would not accede to his request, but
he was allowed a sandwich and a glass of wine, which he
swallowed with avidity.