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London, England, 1828-07-04 00:00:00

er even EXECUTION.—(THIS MORNING.)

quently
se it so

" DEATH OF MONTGOMERY AT THE OLD

BAILEY.
struck Ti Inerning the usual number of the lower class, and did everal of ain •
not Bail., . ore tespeetable grade, assembled in the Old
tan wM br ta wittietts the last moments of John Montgomery,
R-4111g forged notes; Wm. Rice, for burglary at Tot-
of that Rnhata.
Geor e lforris and James Anderson, for
I.o`'"Perate assault andg robbery on a 111:111N1113 had been de-
:he ma. h:jedr
,jt'ta her lodgings by Mary Morris, a prostitute. On
a mere kaaaCiat they called this girl as a witness, and she de-
,that the prosecutor was quite drunk at the time of
'wode-
)A LUZ., I,e ' taw:, The prosecutor himself, and two watchmen,
iERRA',S deaf he was sober, and Mary Morris wagcommitted
p with vitae bur'` • AS she said that she would bring several'li
vanity liter Zeler trialnti what she had deposed, a respite tt
arrived at lc.
as they
—ewgate at three o'clock vester-
•'▪ Y
afternoon for Morris and Anderson. They received it
13EREs'ilpLpegraareaciauslY, they had made up their minds to die, and
efficient, Joh almost disappointed at the respite.
I 1•4110otgoluer was a man of getletnanly ex.terior,
eetl(43, and connyections. He had once borne Ins Ma-
:ngiand le•Ys eunimiasion, but by', irregularities he had dissipated
an, and ~,"and his mode of Halt* for some subsequent ears
as flu
? onahle. Owing either to the exhaustion did sealy
t next
.11:ource__, • •
out Ingenuity, or far more probably to the modern
.nor-""aestt of tradesmen, his name and stratagems became
ccountg ,
„ known and the latter frequently frustrated. His
passing ":1a af living, in consequence, being more precarious, he
severalßani had recourse to a more desperate game---that of
Was to aoah•ng forged notes. His gentlemanly address and inai•
n "'I
Ing plausibility had enabled him to mace mare trades-
than any other man upon record, and hardly a county
ay that iii gland was without one of his victims.
natural and acquired advantages had also made him
1 ,2'l dangerous man to society in circulating his forged
,-0-", and, in almost every case brought against hint, he
ieen re. 9t did without the slightest suspicion of his deception.
t 144, however, the iron hand o: the law fired him; his
onto do and
description became published, and numerous
e have it 'IN Were brought against him. Whin placed
1W bar of the Old Bailey, he pleaded " Guilty"
L Very one of them. He was admonished by the
,
,„ I,M Judge that no expectation of mercy amid
k Y.)
th held nut to hint bylais pursuing that course, but he an-
-1,1",'.ed firmly and resignaally, that lie perfectly understood
t'urtiship but he had formed his resolution after great
'liberation:and persisted in his plea. It is not known
,is tiltther he depended on the interest of his friends, or the
ay, was 41 he offered, for a commutation of punishment, but
ll' certain, that front that time Ire prepared himself for
'"e Worst. He conducied himself with the calm serious,
his re-
lof an unfortunate man, and paid every attention to
Lips 15 devoboes.
Rh friends were waiting till nine o'clock last night for
Counsel r'lPite, but the prison door closed without one, and they
her the ,aW him, for the last time, resigned and firm. After their
sdietion lellarture he procured materials, and commenced writing a
ly, that e.tt,r to one of his fellow-risoners as the turnkey locked,
of thisl44 1111 for the night. Atp that time the thunder rumbled
ordship " the prison vaults with a fearful vehemence, but
tett that as fteented alike Unshaken either by the noisy elements or
ipg the he own reclines. At 20 minutes before six this morning,
k single " turak4,
opened the cell, and saw hitn stretched dead
Ir. Pit-. 'it: big bed, He itnntediatelv alarmed Mr. Knox, jun.,
satisfa" 7_ Surgeon, and Mr. Woottier, the Governor of New-
' There Lei • They hastened to the cell, anti found him lying in
;curt of '*Ping positiou, with his eyes open, and the muscles of
her anti " countenance undisturbed. No symptom of suicide
to devil °'"d he discovered. His stomach was emptied, and no.
moving Pa earanee of his having taken poison presented itself; nor
appear, by external symptoms, to have died of apo-
;pc On the table lay the letter which he had finished,
1-e:etix.wtuhritickhe7usiaattilave occupied him for two hours after
- left him. It was looked to with
'arr
want tY, hut nothing appeared in it , which could
a suPposition of his having medidated self-
and it e4trne a"°a When he wrote it. An inquest will of
work_ aurse be held an the body. It. is known that there are
o eachera, kat preparations (Prussic acid for instance)
trill cause instautaaeous death by operating on the
roprie- "ye- Such might have been the case with yontgomery :
abbey, •e might have had some such poison secreted, but the Co,
art iu- H2er', Jury will decide that question.
~,
mine ; wretched young man William Rice was then at-
taitm t" ett by the Rev. Dr. Cotton, and the flev. Mr. Baker, and
stored the in at the usual time. His youth ex-
, press-room
ex-
stances "e<l considerable pity as he advauccd with a fearless, yet
Ito the ''sPectable demeanour, to be bound. He prayed inwardly
ha de- ritb his eyes raised, and front that moment never spoke.
k Walked to the scaffold with the Larne unconsciousness
r terror, and trembled not while the rope was adjusting
d that Ida handkerchief tying over his eyes. The drop fell,
remov- I Straggled violently for some seconds after which
-could raised hie handa gently, the executioner hung on the
Waage )4, and he moved no more.

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THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

EXCHANGE.
bThe supplies of most kinds of Grain Chia week are bat
rb Y good, and of Flour there is a fair quantity. The
eat trade remains very: heavy at Monday's prices.—
Beaus, and Pease are dull, but unaltered In value.
Meet a very indifferent sale, as so many parcels now
4" nut of condition. The Flour trade may again be
Ported extremely heavy.

rand

ARRIVALS.
!lOW,
.. Wheat. Barley.. o.tts. I Flour.
11:11, • ....... 4,200 qrs. 340 qrs. 2,30(1qr5.i 5,500 sacks.
orcl4
..... •••• 2,200

con-
ofEce

150

• '
cr L AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
f,thhe Week ended June 27, ISS, made up from the Returns
e Inspectors in the different Glues and Towns in England
and Wale.
Ihe,t • , per Imperial Quarter.
arie„----565. I 7d. Oats I 21s. 4d. Beans—....— SSA, 2d.
WA.' 4d. Rye 31s. I Id. Pease... 395. Bd.
7he4 .
Per Winchester Quarter.
Beans 475. O.
atleL"'"-^51,. 10d. Oats —..... 20s. Rd.
4d. Rye 30 Is. Ild. Pease —.:3Bs.

'less

T • SMITHFIELD MARKET.
. hie day's supply of Beasts was very limited, and that
°tiler kinds of fat stock (ly no means great, but the
miler _
being unfavourable for slaughtering-, and the trade
I, t,he carcass markets very dull, each kind of meat met
'lt' a very sluggish sale—Beef, Mutton, and Pork, at
.
,HelY Monday's prices; Lamb and Veal at an advance of
4. Per stone.
"ICES PER STONE OP BLES. TO SINK THE orrA LS.
iferi s. d. tom. d.. s. d. to s. d.
„,,,,, ,„ ,3' Beasts 2 8 3 0 Large Lambs 4 0 0 0
riiiVolAuality ditto :3 0 3 6 Prime small ditto... 0 0 56
I.,,,o*large Oxen 4 4 4 6 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0
'" Scots &e. 44 4 6 Prime small ditto... 310 5 2 Lniti Sheep
oar, quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers,...... 5 2 5 6
I
o,7t,'*-_,lvoolled ditto :3 8 4 0 Suckling Cakes 12,. to 325. each.
4403mM/ethers 4 2 4 6, Quarterold Pigs las. to2ls. each.
i, sUPPLY, AS PF.R. CLERK'S STATEMENT.
--*,stß. `Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pig
av s.
A <S7 I 10,620 414 , 1 120
,"e,d useful short hors; Milch Cow, that bad recently
-Was worth from 211. to 23/.

• •
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`,I.:ING ATE AND LEAI)FNHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
Iry a. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d.
1144", ................. 2 8 310 Teal 'l 4 410
2 8 310 Pork
."7
Lamb 4s. Ocl. to ss. 2d.

71, FISHZIARKE'f, 1111.1.INCisGATE.
but • o's market exhihita moderate supply of
,
• ' tlworn' quality was very fine. The stock was prin..
.1,,7111Y from the coasts of France and Holland.—The fol-
, p,lit were the prices :--
nititbe Turbot, each 2OA Od. to 245. Od.
kill 0 small, per do.
hot' buries, each 0 0 l5 0
2 0 10 6'
Sn Nthree i 1,. Per pa ra
8„. -”on per lb
at • •
10 7 0
lia„t• each
6 0 24. 0
tripocks, per dozen
Cut, each .... ....... • •••• :3 0 8 0
Livl,otts, each
. Liv Flounders, per quarter!)
1) ute„,Ee 6
,per alb.
1.14'.•.4 Plaice, tier 3 basket 0 0 .0 0
6 0 -if
I,,4,Lobgters, per score 4O 0 50 °
)Lustiltiitto
4q, per 120

Rev.

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SOUTHALL MARKET.—JuIy,2.
u Y'r,
Thi' day's tuarket was inoderateiy well supplied, but the
hoth from London and the surrounding neighbour-
:D°4 httving been pretty ntunerous, such kind of fat stock
let with a tolerably ready sale, at the following prices
er rette of 81b. to sink the otEllst—
ruttZ-----. '3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. I Veal 4.2 d. to ss. 2d.
3 6 4 6 Pork------ 44. 5 4
b 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.
con, ,
propmerableortion of the supply left the market unsold:

etT HAI LSII AM MARK El'.—July 2.
I u to 4s. 4d. I 4s. ntl. to 4s. 4d.
0 Land) 4ti 1 Pork .4 (1 0 0
t Supply. good, trade with Iluttun, Lamb, o and Veal, brisk; with
ett depressingly dull.

STEYNING ARKET.—June 39.
4tt. Ott. to Is. N. .I Veal 48.4 d. to 4s. &I.
Atm + 4 0 4 8 Pork— 0 0
Lamb

A. 45., 6d. to ss. 4d
moderately fair supply, arid a dull trade.
ARUNDEL 51AllkET.--July 1.
3s. ltkl. to 4s. 6d. 4s. Od. to 4s. 64.1.
Lamle ultton 4 0 4 6 -.I 0 0 0 W

4d. to 5; 4,1
A good'supply, and a dull trade.

RuMroici) 31 ARKET.—JuIy .
le, P. Si. to F, d.
.. d tos. d.
dig 1 'I 4 4 4 Veal ................ ..-:1 IU 5 0
~ .................. . 6
twin .3 4 4 Pork ... ............... 4 2 5 U
a:‘,. I.4nth
Plgsl6s. to 2Oti. each .
Supply good, and trade very dull..

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Housr, OF Lorto-;, Juty

The Criminal jastico Ireland Bill, the La.•ceny
Laws tl,e Stamps on Policies or I.isn-
ranee Bill, the Plate Glass Duties Bill, and the India
Prize Money Bill, were read a third time anal hasped..
Mr. R. Gonpos ant others from the Commons
brought up the County Lunatic Asylums Bill, to
which an amendment to their Lordships' amend-
ment had been added. ",

On the motion of the Earl of LIMERICK, cer-
tain returns connected with the Lish Butter Trade
were ordered. _ _ _

Lord CLH?DEN presented a petition from Dun-
dalk, against the Market Towns in Ireland
- Lord GWYDYR presented a. petition froM
Boston' Lincolnshire, against Slavery.
The Hotel Licensing
Bill went through a Com-
mittee.
Lord GWYDYR presented a petition. from
certain lead miners in Carnarvon, praying for ad-
ditional protection to British lead.
Lord GOSFORD presented a petition from the
Irish Mining Company, praying for protection to the
Mining interests in general.
- Lord 'KING said- that before their Lordships pro-
ceeded'to the question to be discussed this evening,
he felt it his duty to present to them. a petition
closely connected with the subject. It came from a
persou known to their Lordships, to whom he was sure
they would pay every attention. It was the petition
of Mr. Cobbett, and the petitioner's object was, that
their Lordships should not in any degree vary the
Act of 1826, by which the circulation of notes under
.5/. was to cease after next April. For his own part,
the -Noble lord thought that the ' worshippers
of paper-money were of the worst description of
heretics. He was an enemy to declarations of any
sort, but if he were to have a declaration, he cer-
tainly 'would prefer one, stating that the worship
of paper money was a superstitious and damnable
idolatry.—(A laugh.)—He thought that bY this
means he would exclude from Parliament persons
much more wicked tharr those against whom decla-
rationswere at present levelled. In fact this love of
paper was the most damnable of all heresies; lie
had called it the other day the Manichwan heresy,
because its votaries worshipped the very principle
of evil; for paper money was their god, and high
prices their heaven.—(A laugh.) The . petitioner.
stated that efforts were made by the representatives
of those who wished to extend their circulation, to
convince Parliament that they were the friends of
the poor. .Mr. Cobbett, on the other hand, stated
that—and in this the Noble Lord fully agreed
with him—none suffered so much from the . Small
Note currency as the Poor. Who, he would ask,
suffered most by the failure of Banks ? Those, who
coulti not afford to refuse a I!. note, or those who
were too ignorant to know its insecurity. it was,
therefore too absurd for any person to say that he
wished to assist the poorer classes by keeping up an
insecure and useless paper. money. The Noble Lord
well remembered when in 1826 one of those issuers of.
paper money became etnbarassed, he was examined
before a Committee, who were enquiring into his
affairs; when asked what quantity of his notes were
out, his answer was, I don't know. He was asked
what rule he went by in issuing his money, and his
answer was, none. He was then asked, what limit
there was as to quantity? he replied, we issue our notes
according to the wants of the public ; that is to say,
he issued all that he could send out, and this he
called attending to the wants of the public. The
Noble Lord, after alluding to the Earl of Stanhope's
eulogy on the Bank Restriction Act, said that the
petition characterised the power given to Bankers
of issuing notes as an invasion -of the King's pre-
rogative.—(A laugh.)—And very justly ; for
why should Parliament grant to unauthorised
persons the privilege of coining ? This prerogative
had bielittven to his Majesty for the purpose of se•
curing_ and 'regulating the currency. , If this power
were also extended to, these paper-shops, it could be
looked at,in no other light. than as an invasion of the
privilege:conferred on his Majesty for the security
of his people. If such a system were allowed, the
effect would be, that there would be no security from
panic. As;to payment in gold, being a complete
check on the issue of papers--it was in fact none.
There was an esprit du corps among these issuers of
paper, and. if a gentleman .were. to ask assistance
from them, the very first question would. be "is he
one of those who ever asked gold,from us, if so he
can have no assistance." ; • .

The Noble Lord then presented Om petition,
which was read at length by the Clerk.

ABUSES IN THE CONSTABULARY DEPART•

MENT IN IRELAND.

• The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had a petition
to present to their Lordships,upon which he wished to
say a few words. The petition, which came from
Landed Proprietors in the county of Wexford, related
to a subject which had. been already once adverted to
in their Lordships' House, and the object of the peti-
tion was to implore their Lot dahips' attention to
abuses, which the petitioners felt themselves justified
in saying had-attached, and, at. present did attach, to
the police system' in Ireland. - Hewas the more de-
sirous of attracting their Lordships' attention to this
consideration—if it were their duty to make an in-
quiry into this subject—from a knowledge that the
abuses of which the petitioners complained were not
confined to the county of Wexford, but also prevailed
to a considerable extent in the county of Kilkenny,and
might, for aught he knew, prevail in other counties.
It bad been proved that in Wexford, to which county
the present petitioners belonged, the chief constable
had been for a considerable period in the habit of
converting to his own use the money levied in the
county for public purposes, delaying and avoiding,
under various pretences, to pay the salaries of his
inferior officers, and unhappily—owing to the negli-
gence of the local government—he had been enabled
to sell his estate and leave the country, without
leaving behind hint any thing answerable for that
defalcation which it was now proved had taken place
in the funds intrusted to him, or any thing appl!-
cable to the relief of the petitioners, who were great
sufferers, though they had no share in the appoint-
ment of the chief constable. In the county of
Kilkenny, contrary to a rule--a rule, he knew
not why adopted—which prevailed there, prevent-
ing the publication of the accounts of the police,
at the repeated representations to the local govern-
ment, of the members of the county, and of the
gentlemen composing the grand jury of Kilkenny,
whose attention had been attracted to the enormous
sums entrusted to the Chief Constable, the inhabi-
tants of that county were enabled to procure a de-
tailed account, and they no sooner examined it, than
they
discovered that a large portion of those sum' •
had not reached their destination. There was also
in Wexford a Chief Constable unable to account for
the sums levied on the people of that county. lie
therefore had no difficulty in stating, upon the show-
ing of the petitioners, that a strong-: case for inquiry
was made out. Some papers relating to Wexford
be
on this subject bud cnin_oyeclfor in the other
Home of Parliament;
ii
move
offo rKt
Kilkenny, addressed
dour
6oLd tdh etioithe
also
report
proposed
localo Go of
theo‘ to
raritlic
Jury l
• tnent of Ireland. He 'shoulti not make that motion
to. night, but would do so to-morrow, lest there might
be any objection to it, b
t .101114... he anticipated Done.
Let it not be supposed that the evil was confined to
the mere pecuniary lost sustained by the petitiouers.
The evil went much further, for in those remoti!
Parts of the country, when those` individuals selected
on the part of Government, were guilty of flagrant
delinquencies, the effects of which in civil society,
and in transactions between man and man, would
not be tolerated, the immoral effect of that example
on a people situated as the Irish were, in disposing
them to commit acts of fraud and injustice, could not
be conceived but by *hose who had been on the spot.
It was the example of those superiors in the career
and practice of fraud which undermined all morality
in the country. It was vain to attempt to oelueate
the people, or
.to infuse the principles of sound re-
ligion among them if the effects of that instruction
were to be counteracted by exhibiting practical ex-

amples of grois immorality on the part of persons
supposed to be placed in their situations on account
of their respectability. He thought this a subject
well-worthy of the attention of Parliament and of
the Noble Duke at the bead of his Majesty's Go-
vernment, and he had no doubt it would meet with
attention from the Government in Ireland. Ilis
Lordship then presented the petition, and also gave
notice of moving for the production of the report of
the grand jury of Kilkenny to the local government
of the expenditure of the constabulary department.

Lord FARNHAM saw from the minutes of the
other House, that a Bill was now in progress for
the amending of the Constabulary Laws, and he
thought it would be very easy to introduce into that
Bill a cl,iuse, that all those officers entrusted with
the public money should be obliged to give, as was
the case with all other officets; ample security for
the money so entrusted to them. •
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought theing-
gestton of the Noble Lord respecting security of
great importane2.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that the
attention of Government had been already directed
to the subject, and It's Noble Friend might rely that
Government would attend to the hint he had thrown
out respecting security. It appeared to him, that
the best mode to secure the settlement of the ac-
counts Would be to have them settled at very short
periods.
The Marquis of, DOWNSHIRE bore testimony
to the anxiety of the Noble Lord at the head of the
Irish 'Government to inquire upon this subject, and
mentioned several abuses he had corrected. •

After a few words from the Marquis of LANs-
DoWNE the subject dropped.