The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-12 00:00:00

ExutprioN car• cAsi.i:l'L

This morning thii unhappy pail the
forfeit of flit life to the offended taws of hit
Country, a lamentable example to all those who
stiffer thekselyes to be Made' the initrumelits of

,
seditions and trisitoroUS'''in'tn-,in their aiterliiat to
destroy the
,British Constitution, and subvert the
foundations of society in these realini. That thii
wretched being has the cirMiniseratiosn of every
humane Mind is Scarcely to be iptestioneJ. Cam-
pared avith his deluders, his conduct was inno-
cency itself, and at is only from refie';:tiag on the
'dreadful uecessrty of eXainpre at this a wfal crisis
•
that his death can be viewed: without deep regret.
It is for the safely Of:the,l;gfrOle that the sacrifice
was demanded front the'rliapenaers of justice ; and
though it-may be lamentetrth:o the tool has. been
broken instead of theharld that orred it, it must at
the satnet lute be granted that the crime was of that
heinous nature as to call for the severest measure of
punishment. 'Yesterday evening the workmen corn-
metwed.•the preparations for the exception in front
Of Mr, "Beckwith's shoO, in Skinner-street
Brits Were sunk and connected with iron chains,
intercepting the passage„ and !forming art rirei
within ri-hich the platform Was,ercetcd. There
was also shave within for a .strong civil force,
separated trorn- the crowd, A great 11,11111).A. of
people were assenthled round the workmen, an4l
a Morning Paper states, that they assailed theta
with hisses and groans.
Every thing hting prepared for this Melancholy
scene, this morning, at an early hour, persons ot-
both sexes were seen hastening in all directions
towards the place of t!AeCtition. Long before
the appointed hour the asSeMblage was immense.
Never was 'there a greater imiLitode to witness a
similar scene, and the prudence of the precautions
taken to maintain order were soon manifest
Every place adjoining the
.litre through which the
appalling procession had to pass was barricadcied.
There was no inlet for the crowd, ifoto Newgate
to the wire of the temporary platform opposite
Mr. Beckwith's house, Every thing was condtiets
ed with the utunrst solemnity; and uo interrup-
tion of any kind happened, From the Saracen's
Head to the opposite side o? the street, a railing
was tun across, and the whole space Wit!; in Wel
lined with constables, who kept the populace so,
completely at a distance, drat scarcely any person
but those in attendance were permitted to approarlt
he scaffold. At tell minutes before 8 o'clock,
the irons haviirg,' as is tisnal, been previously
knocked off, and other necessary ceremooies at-
tended to, the melancholy proceSsimp began to
issue from the Debtors'-door, Old Bailey. Cash-
man wilt 'theca in a cart between the Exectiiioner
and his Assistant, WWI their baelss to the
horses. He was dressed in a blue jacket
and white trowsers, with a black handker-
chief tied loosely about his neck in the sailor
iashiou. His appearance was altogether that of a
seminar, about '25 years of age. Ile looked pale,
and had rather an expression of sulkiness than of
contrition npnn hie, countCHAliCe. The est'ort
the cart was formed of !liars:44nel) and City
Officers,'untler the direction of the two shetilis,
one of whom'preceded it in his carriage, while
the other followed in the rear of the procesa
sion. During the whole' of
,the time occupied
in advancing to the place of execution. Cashman
seemed calm and occasionally smiled faintly. On
arriving at the fatal spot, he alighted with con-
siderable aitacriiy, and ascended the platform with
a firm and (pick step. He almost immediately
turned round towards that port ion of the
crowd which occupied Cow-cross and SnoW-bill,
and exclaimed with a load " I am a mu-
,

&red Mna ! I ani a murdered Min !"—l'his pro-
(limed no observable effect?' aatl we trio the mi-
serable Ctilprit did not entertain a hope that it
would lie the watch •vr orit for an attempt at resent,.
lie was attended by .Mr. Devercux, a Ruffian i:;s1-
tholic Priest, to whose religious admonitions he did
not devote much time while in view of the public.
When the Extent inner, proceeding with his dread.
tul duty, came to pull the cap over Cashman's face,
the hitter would not permit hint to do that office,
saying—" 1 am a Man, and will die like a Bri•

tis-b -Seataini.'' The rope was consequendy
fastened round his neck without his countenance
being concealed by the cap: The multiunit
upon ob-erving this gate several short cheers---
the last sounds which broke upon his living ear,
for every thing being -now ready, the drop gave
.way and the victim of Revolutitwary Demagogues
was launched into eternity: The cap veasnlmott
instantaneously drawn down oYer his face, and he
appeared to die wit hoot it struggle Of emotion. The
body was su.pended till 9o'elock, when it cut
down; put into a shell, and carried to Newgdte,
to be given up to the• friends of the criminal this
afternoon. At the, moment the drop. gave way,
there was a considerable degree of motion 111110110 C
the crowd, but,it was not tHmillt, but thy agita-
tion which nature undergoes at witne,siog
the final issue of so horrid a spectacle. Had
there been any disposition to tut buience the
precautions taken both byti,e Civil and Military
Powers were amply sufficient to secure the proper
and 'Ondisturbed execut ion oft he La ws. heex t rfl.•
attendanct of Magistrates and Constables was
very. great, and a number of Horse nod Foot

soldiers wire stationed round in readiness to ail
the Civil Authorities in ease ,their stl-viees
were resnisite. :We • rejnice to say they were
tint. After lingering About for some time the >ztul-
lituete
disperstd ni the only semblance
of indecent, contempt of the W was 10 be found
in seve-ral chnik inscriptions on thti wails, the
most prounioent of which wq, " Hang an honest
Man, anti screen a Thief."

BOROTidH OF COLCHESTER,--..,Sir WitLIAM
it ja said, is gooe to Colchester to cats.
VHSS that plate in consequence of the varaney or,.
vasioned by the retirentent ut itopeur TuoRNTON,
whoakas accepted the Cl:them IlunOetts.---.
It is expected he will he opposed by Air. 11A,RvEv,
who is an itilitibitant Of that pkce, and who was
a candidate at the last election, The gad ut
CtIAIIIANI ii the high steward or that lioriigb,
And Air. Serjeunt RUUNINGTOS the Reioracr.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

[Continued from our Second l'age,]

COURTS OF' JUSTICE.

Sit JonN NEWPORT, in calling the attention of
the House to the proposition he meant to subunit
to their consideration, thought it right to state
tvliat bad already taken place on this impoftant
subject. It would be in the recollection of the
House, that nearly three years since .he had, re-
commended that that sort of inquiry inta,the fees
paid in Courts of Justice which had been in use
from the earliest and best times, should be re-
vived, in order to,provide for the restoration of
that which had fallen into decay, by directing the
vigilant attention of Parliament to the Administra-
tion of Justice.' Ministers bad been opposed to
Wm when he brought this subject forward, but
the House had been with him, as lie had the good
fortune to carry the motion he had made by a ma-
jority of .one. He did not think the'House, after
coming to this vote, had been dealt fairly within

the appointment of the ,Commissioners. Consi-
derable delay took' place, and at last, of the five
persons named on, the Commission, two were
Masters in Chancery, who were thus employed to
inquire into the abuses of their own Cd*tot. •• The
result of their labours had however proved
• great abuses to exist, and these had been recog,
raised by the Order of the Lord Chancellor, dated
April 13, 1815. The. alterations made by that
order with respect to fees and holidays, proved the
system acted upon for the preceding nine years to

. . . .
have been erroneous, and the benefit of this change

the public owed to the success of that motion.:-
It was his intention to submit to the Hons.': two
propositions involving the general principles on
which he thought the inquiry ought to be regu-,
latt.d, and a third for submitting the reports which
had hcen made on this subject to the Committees
up stairs. It was right under any circumstances
that the aggregate amount of fees paid in Courts
of Justice should be brought under the view of
'that ,House. An Honourable Gentleman (the
IVlember for Norwich) had on a former occasion
'complained of the abuse which prevailed with
e4pect to what were called " expedition fees."—
Thrhe were fees paid to execute the intsine,ss before
tl.e Court. When this was stated, an Honourable
Member had risen and denied that any thiug of
the kind had ever existed. 'Another Hon. Gent.
howeyee had expresied foirprize at bearing this
statement, as to his knowledge " expedition
fees" were pttid, Which had the effect of causing
great inegnalities in the administration of justice.
ThrSl' fees had aftermrds been ,alluded to in the
Itt;portmade to the House, and,admitted to have
at'owedly ex teed from the year 1758. In this

)ieiu t-hese'fees were in part jnstified, ..and the
propriety of abolishing them was dOubted:. lie
lirowever contended they, ought not, to exist, as
they had the effect of 'enabling the rich to Obtain
jUstice where'the poor could nay, and thus made a
diitinction between persous which it bad long been
our boast was unknown in England. In the
.fitateinent he had formerly made, he had been in-.
formed lie had.not- contemplated. a tenth part ta
the extortions illegally practised on the public In
the lrislt Courts. He sheaved the benefits to be
dprivPd horn the intiniry he had. wished to take
place greatly surpassed the accompanying expellee,
nod concluded by triovingthree Resolutions.,The
first and Second declared that the fees paid on
proceedings were to
.be. considered a direct
• tax levied on suitors to defray the charges of the
Jegal es'tablishinent ; that
.these ought to. be fixed
at 4moderate rate, proportionateto the services
performed, and.earried over as far a.s,pos.stble to
ti comi:ton fund to Meet the charges of the whole
VSiiiblishinienti and' that the augmented taxes on
till 13W vroeeetlings made it the ditty of the house
sit' commons. not to stiffer any additional charges
unnecessarily to full on the subject. The. third
Ilpolution went to refer the Reports of the se-
veral Commissions to a Select. Committee,of 21
Members of that ki9iise, Who were to report their
opinions' on the best mode of carrying any new
regldatinns into effect.:
Lofil CASTLEIIRAG# thought the Hon. Baronet

(night' to nave stated, when'he noticed the oppo-
t ion his former Motion had niet with from. Mi.
tii,ders, that it wig objected tn, because the

rounds he had kid
,%vere not sufficiently. broad to
the inquiry railed fur into the state of the
Courts v)1 Justice in England. It was admitted
that so:licicnt grounds been shewn ta. justify
no inquiry into the state cif the Courts of Ireland,

and trt this if his Anemory did not fail hint, uo
olieel ion was made. Though such inquiries of-
ten I.rought,out important facts affecting 'depart-
ments against which no charge was preferred in
the first instance,, yet he did not think, when the
es pence attendant tot t hem. was conskiered (one of
them had cost the public 147,0001.) it was well to
enter upon them for the chance of fishing nut
;,-itilerliing worth knowing, without a sufficient
guun'd being laid in the first instance. The in-
ylity formerly called for by the lion, Baronet,
was cxf ended to England and was now in progress,
twit ill the Wheel's charged veitiAlt were found
wanting in their duty, he slid not think the
Cites tt iinght to interfere, kse set forth the
iwonvettienCe3 would result froin their
r:ll'.'ngling themselves in ',such 4. difficult ail&
compllented inytiry. This tQu be contended was
(Hte unnecessary', as:the reports were now under
the Lord Chancellor's eye, and intended. to be
acted upon. ',the Lord Chancellor hand lost not
a monomt in looking at the fees which had been
ta'ot ice 4 in then), and had resolved, without giving
the subject any.very, nice consitierption, aLonce
ilo'awity those
roil the. PropriOfy of .vylijel) any,
e,iald be entehained. Ile had firo !poked
.to the tees of office; and next proceeded to;the
more if flititt inquiry into those ul tine prOresikiti.
Ile justified the course which htea pursued
former tie`.tiort itr* pawing two Masters of
A•tCet'v to be, aft : the Commission. Had this.
been (1,,,w, he 'feared 'a very imperfect report
IW.ht have exrweted. Others, could not nava
111'y111''tftotS it 40 Fur: his own part he could
I.:rd'y have made tjad or 1,1;1 of it. With reined
to whet was called " Expedition Fees,'' though
90.41 it gr.w Out of the practice
with titt,tet, y e connected, be thought
noghi tff be 1;1)01;3:hc:il,. 44, ti ter,ocd to. bring
.practice of Our (auct*, nano jistruit.

ite I! to sespeed their jtelgrnent
on the matters hi-might osoler their consideration
by the Hon, Beeonet ; to leave those who were
now responsible for the inquiry to act in the first
initanee, and afterwards to interfere if they shoeld
prove negligent, as eireemstances might require.
He expressed a hope that the Hon.'Baronet would
be content to withdraw his' motion ; and eon-
, cluded by moving We previous question.
Mr. WEBBFA opposed the motion of the Hon.
Baronet" as unnecessary.
Mr. Poesoeer said, time memory of the Noble
Len al hail failed him, or he had: been much misin-
formed on the subject of the reception formerly
given to the motioti of the lion. Baronet. It had
been opposed by the. Government in every part.—
Mr. Stephen, then a Member of the House, hid
said, it any Alves could be proved in his oflice,
be would vote for the motion. The proof was
given ; Mr. Stephen honourably kept his word,
voted against the l.linisters, and, by his single
vote, the motion had been carried. The expenee
of such inquiries might be made small or great, as
beg suited the views of time Government for the
time hying. The Noble Lord thought it would
be pret»ature to refer the Reports which had al-
ready been made to a Committee, .and wished -to
wait till the whole subject could be. referred to
them at once. He thought it might be
better to send them to a Committee as they
were made, than to keep them till they could
be disposed of altogether, ashen they would have
to wait a long time for the Report. He doubted
the soundness of the Noifle Lerd's. argument on
this point. If time Noble Lord *mild state a red...
sonable time, he would recommend to his Hon.
Fs lend to withdraw his'motion till that particular.
time. But to put it .off to an 'indefinite period,
would be only a device to get rid of the question
altogether.
Ell-. ',Hsu FOSTSR defended the conduct of the
Commissioners who had been a ppoitited to inquire
into the subject, 'and contended that more time
was necessary to enable them to make their Re-
port. He stated that since" Lord Herdwick's case.
there had been no increase in the fees of the
Masters in Chancery, and' that in all the other
branches of Chancery no increase or very little
had taken place. He was of opinion, that if the
Commissioners were to sit every day, they would
not be able to finish their report before the end of,
the'present Session: He maintaieed;' that all the.
fees received ,by the Lora Chancellor were
.just
and moderate, 'though it was impossible to com-
pare them with those of former times, as the Re-
port of 1743 had not stated their amount. He
also stated that Lard Eldon had voluntarily given
up fees to the amount of 10001. a .year, which
other Chancellors had received, to the persons to
whom they were ostensibly paid.'
Sir 3. Nr wrour would not have objected to put
off his motion to a particular time, but could not
consent to indefinite delay, which would entirely
defeat his object. lie went .over his former
grounds, and contended that the Lord Chaucelloe
had'only given up the 10001. alluded to, after the
Commission bud been appoieted, He complained.
of the largenesis of stamp ditties. lie thought
they formed, it most unjost tax,. and tended, in
many cases, to deprive seitoes oaf .their rights,
merely because they were poor.
~He shomdd per-
sist hehis motior, toeless the Noble Lord should
ft's particular time for the' Preduction of the
Report.
Lord CAStLEIMAGII could not accede to the re
quest of the lion. Baronet, who
,would always
have it in his power to call, the attention of the
Home to the subject when he pleased.

Honse theti di Wed—
For the Motion
Againstit 63
Islajority against it —47
The other Resolutions were them negatived.
• DUTIES ON TIMBER.

Mr. V. l'lrzoiß.►LD.uudel'stood a .Right lion.
Gentleman opposite (Mir.• Ponsonby) to have
stated. on a lot mer occasion, that the duties .on
the importation of timber into Ireland were higher
than 'those on the importation of the same article
into. England. Fle wished to know in what re-
tweets that difference existed, for he thought that
if any thing the balance was in favour of Ireland.

Mr. PoNSoNBY bad not said that the duties were
higher, but that they operated more severely oh
Ireland than in England, through the. tnotle in
which they were levied. Boards paid the saint
importation. deity as timber, and 'the freight 'of
foreign .vessels was • charged higher for Ireland
than England.

Mr. V, FtTZO,F,UALP said, that if the duties ope-
rate& in such a manner, it wits eotitrari to the in-
tent ions of the Lord-Lieu,tena»t.‘ •

Mr. Aasv•ruNoT presented Papers relative to
the Pees of Officers in Courts of Law and Equity.
Ordered to lie on table.

lIARSIT IMPRISONMENT.

Sir S. ROMILLY presented a petition from
Michael l3ayly, who,had been confined more than-
two years in the Canongate gaol, at Etlinhargh,
as a Common malefactor, in a dungeon, without
any adequate Min for Lis detentiun.—Tbe peti-
tion, was teall,'enti ,o.rciered to lie on the table.

Mr. BRNNIIin complained that several per-
sons in a state of lunacy were confined in the
Cold Bethfields priion, though they lipid been
found lunatic by juries, and were improper objects
for n common prison there ought, be said, to be
a place of reception for criminal lunatics.%