The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-31 00:00:00

BIRTHS

Last Thursday, at Ely-place, Dublin, the Lady of Sir N.l
Colthurrt, Bart,, of a daughter.
On the 27th inst. the Lady of Sir George Clerk, Bare 1-1.:
of a son.

On the 2861 inst., at Wa'worth, Mrs. Stephen Child, of
son.

MARRIED.

Saturday se'nnight, at St. Paul's, Cork, the Rev. Thom
Wagged, to Miss Belinda Sanders, youngest daughter of f
late Robt. Sanders, Esq.
On the 26th inst., at Kingston, Mr. Tilly, of Cornhill,
Anne, only daughter of Mr. Kinston,
of Portsea.
On the 27th inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. Wln. Ree 5,3.1..
of Pembroke College, Oxford, to Caroline Ann, yoang,
daughter of the late John Lenthal, Esq., of the Priory, lit
ford, Oxfordshire. •

' • DIED.
, On the 13th of December, aged 16 months, Anne Sophi
youngest child of W. Rickerby, Esq. of. Chelsea.
On the Gth inst. at the Earl of Aldborough's, in /relan
Emily, wife of Charles Tyrwhitt Jones, Esq. and daughter
Admiral and Lady Elizabeth Tollemache.
On the 31st of August, at Sierra Leone, in the prime of HI
of the fever, 11. V. Haskins, Esq. surgeon of the 2d ‘t. mind
regiment.‘
On the 11th of October, at New Orleans, after a few dad
illness, aged..2B, Major ohn Dewitt, of the Mexican Inc
pendent army, eldest son of the late Richard Hewitt, Esq.
uswell.hill.

On Monday, the 24th inst., at his seat at Daly's Tow
the night Hon. Denis BoA,es Daly, after a fortnight's dine
For upwards of 40 years, Mr. Daly represented the County
Galway in successive Parliaments, and during that long pai
cal career he preserved undiminished the favour andrespt
of his constituents. In principles he was a Whig; his oppo
tion to the Government was like the whole tenor of his conau,
open, honourable, high minded. In private life, a more finish
Gentleman, a warmer friend, a better landlord, a more indt
gent master, was not to be found in the whole round of the
vated and extensive circle of society in which he moved. It
heart, was peculiarly susceptible of all the finest and kinds
feelings of our nature. He becalm a widower at a very ear
priod of hislife, and so deep and romantic was his attachme
to the memory ot his lady, that no temptations of youth, beaus
wealth, rank, or connections, could ever influence him to em
again into matrimony.—Mr. Bowes Daly had no immedi:
fitmily. Mr. James Daly, of ,Dunsdale, one of the press.
.liembers :or Galway, is h's nepllew.—:(C9rk Mercantile CM
nicle.)

TliE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MOIINING PAPE
December 31.

ET 1U TIMES.]
The effort whiclewas made in the last-Session
of Parliament for the purpose of mitigating the
severity of punishment " in certain cases Of for-
" gery, and the crimes connected therewith,'s
will not be forgotten by those who pay the
slightest attention to these subjects; and may
even still be attended with ,benelicial results.
It will be observed, that the motion was for
abating the severity in one particular class of
offences only—a slats upon which there is in the
psiblic mind a rooted aversion to act with the
extreniest degree of rigour: so that the precise
object of the motion, which was made by Sir
James Mackintosh, was dexterously chosen ; and
the motion itself can hardly be said to have wholly
failed of success. Mr. Buxton, the Member for
-Weymouth, has published his speech in this de-
bate : the publication cannot, perhaps, strengthen,.
LF-t. May serve to perpetuate and diffuse, the
ef.e. t which the speech produced at the time
:.'.en it was spoken. It supplies a text-
Of facts to reasoners on this important sub-
ect, and will also generally guide them to sound
conclusions. Though the motion, as above stat-
to.,• had reference to only one class of offences
visited with capital punishment, it is well known
to be.the object of this Gentleman and others
Who act with hiM to abate the rigour of our whole
system of .criminal laws. There is, however; a
measured propriety in the
,course they pursue
which should entitle them to confidence. They
do not attempt to legislate " by the great ;" they
;take the evil, if evil it be, in the detail. They
do tot administer an alterative to the Constitu-
tion; they only apply a specific remedy to a
specific wound. The public—the mob, if more
supercilious readers will so entitle them—are in-
variably sincere, though they sometimes want dis-
crimination; and they really at present seem to
class all public executions under the head of lega-
lized murders,—such is the general conviction that
capital punishments are too lavishly inflicted in
this country ; and condemned men seem rather
to be viewed as the martyrs to a bad system, than
as the victims of insulted justice. Now, if-those
gentlemen who wish to remedy so great an evil,
simply proceeded to the repeal of the existing
laws, without proposing to substitute any others!
in their stead, their projects might justly be
viewed with affright;
.but whereas in all cases
they propose measures severely penal, _though
short of death,—in some, a mere recurrence to
those punishments which the wisdom of our an-
cestors had thought sufficiently severe to correct
any specified of is certain that the
honest subject would never be left in an unpro-
tected state ; and the experiment of an humane
instead of a cruel system of penal laws might be
made without-danger.