The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

TUESDAY, JAN. 8.--High water a minutes pasf;
two o'clock.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Curwen,
Geddes, from Carlisle, with sundries—New York, Bennet,
from New York, has a pilot on board—Etna, Emerson,
from Dubliu, with the mail.
CLEARED Ourwartus.--The Birmingham, Harris, for
New York—Montezuma, West, for Philadelphiu--Tagos,
Wharton, for Lisbon—Liverpool, Main, for Lisbon—
Bootie, Bothwell, for Leghorn—Deunett, Lacey, fur Tam-
pico—Eleanor, Dickinson, for Gibraltar—St. Lucia, --,
for St. Lucia—Margaret,, Pollock, fur New Brunswick—
Gratitude, Bell, for Bahia.

Telegraph Office, Jan. .5.
No. 370, Henry Tuke, A.S, rassed Holyhead yister(lay
at nine o'clock a.m., homeward-bound, wind East), light
breeze.

EXECUTION OF EIGHT CRIMINALS AT

VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

(From the Hobart Ti,wn Gazette, July 7.)

At the appointed hour on Tuesday morilino•.,,
Mr. Hayes, the under Sheriff, summoned. Se
eight unhappy men condemned to die from the
cell to the fatal scaffold. He found them in most
earnest preparation, attended by the Itev, Mr.
Bedford, whose exertions in their behalf have
been unceasing since- their sentences were passed;,
the Rev. Mr. Macarthur and the Rev. Mr. Ca-
Vass() also kindly lent their aid to administer the
comforts of the Gospel at the trying moment.—
They were altogether in one of the upper room„
and having had their irons taken off; were brought
down one by one, that their arms might be pin-
ioned. \Ve have never before seen men so peni-
tent, so resigned, and apparently so contented
to die.

John Wright was the first man that mounted
the scaffold. He was ,a little dark man, 41
years of age. He had.been free 'about twelve
months, and had lived chiefly at Launceston,
where he was heard to declare that lie was tired

of his life. Besides the robbery at Mr. Ca&-
sidy's, there was an iniietnient against him for
stealing 22 sheep from Mr. Bryant, at Jericho.
On Saturday night, his mind being in a dread-
ILA state of agony and distress, he took Mr. Bed-
ford aside, and confessed to him that there were
three things which he could not rest until he had
disclosed. The first was, that his cruel and up.-
dutiful conduct to his mother had driven her to
such a state of desperation as to make her drown
herself: The crime of matricide was therefore
on his head, and he had her death to answer for.,

The second was perpetrated on the coast of
France, in 1810, when being in a British ship
of war, (the • Boyne, 08), which captured a
French gun brig, he was among the number
sent on board to navigate the prize. During the
midnight watch he seized an opportunity to com-
mit a most appalling murder. He split the
master's head open with an axe, threw the body
overboard, and, with the rest of the crew, who
had mutincd, ran the vessel on shore on the
enemy's coast. The third, which oppressed him
the most heavily of all, was, that be had made
three several desperate attempts upon his own life.
Thomas Bidwell Child, aged 26, was the
next. He alone of all the miserable men main-
tained throughout a fixed and resolute silence as
to the crime of which he stood convicted. He

joinedout
with,pa resignation
ai
lheldtehxi rbcouo7
of his o
n
with Mr. Bedford. When the rope was adjust
ing, he seemed already to have entered on the
journey, exclaiming, " I am sure I shall go to
heaven ; I can see heaven." Child was re-
spectably connected, and the soli of a re:Tectable
solicitor.

He was followed by George Dunning, or
Dunhill, aged 24 years, a handsome young man,
about six feet three inches high, with a fine re-
gular countenance, and had lately become free.
His father, Snowden Dunhill, is now in the pri-
soners' barracks, a prisoner for life, for returning
from transportation. Dunhill's family and con-
nections were very numerous, and most of them
have been either executed or transported, ha% in
been long the dread of Yorkshire—noted a;;
Snowden Dunhill's gang.
He was followed by John Clayton, the com-
panion of'Dunning-, aged 43. He had also
become free, and long lived the lire or idleness
in the neighbourhood of Bagdad, without an
ostensible mode of obtaining ;livelihood.
fervent, and
Daniel Macpherson, a boy aged 19, next
Ralph's Bay, and dated his
great loud-
ness formerly a
n
declared had been his ruin, and
siasletseireis:es.g_
aniaclzltitet(illoi.ysal
strength
-Itlgtoelte7lrNo%at- aitise„
orsi e,c,aieift7lkt ;I.
lelvyiltNial
such a sink of crime had not long
crimes from the time of his entering the Peniten
tiary, which lie
slikioicteidbereeetnl
stta,atllowed
up.
Martin Higgins, a short thick man, aged 26,
his companion, had the rope next put round his
neck. This man had also been a servant about
pitwater. On the night previous to his execu-
he sent for a little boy in the Penitentiary,
named Riley, purposely that he might take
warning by his miserable end. He implored the
youth to amend his life.

the most open
Is~rlieayt,n.v,L.aosntghlenitlresxt,t. agedHe 2b3ac,i from Morden,
in
countenance of any, and a rine forehead. The
crime of sheep-stealing, for which he suffered,
was the only one with which he had been charged
since his arrival in the country.

received scarcely a glimpse of
Henry Oakley, aged 24, wax the last. He
lamentably insensible to the
awfulness of his situation.
education, appeared
taoi a‘11: acs

The ceremonies being completed, the
ropes adpiauisiedl,
and the caps drawn over their
faces, the Clergyman and Sheriff descended the
ladder, the executioner withdrew the bolt, the
platform fell, and these eight miserable men, in
full possession of their faculties, were almost in a
painful

moment suspended lifeless corpses from the beam.