The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-29 00:00:00

CADMAN.

The following is the copy of a Letter written
by the unfortunate Cath.quit to the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England, on the 28th
October, 1821, and previous to the Recorder
making his report :

GENTLEMEW—The awful situation in which I am placed
has induced me once more to address you, and the knowledge
that my fate is in your hands encourages the hope that mercy
may yet be extended to me.

When I learnt that it was not-consistent with that resolution
which you had taken with respect to such offenders as myself,
to suffer the plea of Guilty to the minor offence to be made,
1 preferred acknowledging my crime to vainly contradicting

it, and undergoing the form of a trial, which could not have
made my guilt more apparent or more hateful to me. I
have in consequence received the appalling sentence of death,
and now standing on the brink of eternity, I make once
more an appeal for mercy to you, upon whose breath depends
my existence ; coupled as my fate is with that of a confiding
heart-broken wife, I have every inducement to beseech that
you will spare our lives, to give us an opportunity of
amending them. That I have the strongest desire to do so,
the confession I have made to one of your officers, and my
conduct since my apprehension, I humbly submit, are suf-
ficient evidences. lam moreover willing to do every thing in
my power to detect and bring to justice the hidden contrivers
of the nefarious system which has been perfected by the blood
of so many victims, to whose number, unless your clemency
shall avert my impending fate, I may soon be added. There is
nothing which can be suggested that I will not essay, no enter.
prise, however dangerous, that I will not gladly undertake, to
accomplish this object. I have no pledge to give for this, but
the solemn assurance of a wretched man, in too perilous a case
to be insincere in word or thought.
The only ground (beyond those I have before-mentioned)
upon which I can lay any claim to your indulgence is, that my
case, guilty as I am, is not worse than any, not a tithe so bad
as some of those who have received the mercyi now implore ;
none of them, I believe, had to bear the pangs of famine, and
the agony of seeing a wife perishing for want of the necessaries
of life. Those only who have felt such misery can tell how
hard it is to suffer. Upon this subject I hardly dare-touch
but I beg humbly to remind you that the long-continued prac-
tice of suffering offenders to plead to the minor offence, and the
recent cases of Ross, Beresford, Smith, and many others, con-
vince me that you ha've been merciful, and induce me to believe
that you will be no less so to me.
I know that upon your representation to the Government de-
pends my life or death.

Gentlemen, I implore you by that forbearance you have so
often displayed to other criminals, and the recollection of which
stands now, like the angel of hope, between me and the grave,
which is open at my feet—by those charitable feelings to which
the discharge of your public duty does violence—by your domes-
tic happiness—by the rew-Al promised to those who emulate
the first attribute of Heaven, mercy !—by that great and good
GOD on whose clemency all men rely, and " who desireth not the
death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wicked-
ness and live," to weigh the awful condition in which I stand,
and when you consider the temptations to which I hare been
exposed, and the miseries I have borne, to. let the balance of
pity incline in my favour. Recollect, I beseech you, that lam
not hackneyed in the practices for which I stand condemned, that
the papers I annex prove • that at no very distant period, I en-
joyed the approbation of gentlemen, whose praise could only be
obtained by deserving it, and believe the solemn assurance,
which, perhaps, may be uttered with my dying breath, that if
your. mercy should be extended to me, -all that may s be spared
to the of existence, shall be devoted to such worthy purposes,
as may evince my gratitude for your interposition.
I am, Gentlemen, in the deepest affliction,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) JOSEPH CA DM AN.
Condemned Cells, Newgate, Oct. 26, 1821.
To the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
The following letter was written on the morning of execu-
tion, and sent pr. the post :

Half-past 5 A.M. Nov. 21, 1821.
My dear -, accept my kind acknowledgments for your
very great exertions in my favour; they have been crowned with
success. The mercy denied me here, I find ready to be given
in another and a better world. GOD bless you and your's (don't
forget my wife). So prays the .

Unfortunate—not unhappy
(Signed)

CADMAN.

PRS'CEDENT.--S 1M t;EL LOVELL, a Welch
Judge, and maternal grandfather to the late Mr.
EDGEWORTH, travelling over the sands near
Beaumaris, as he was going his circuit, was over-
taken by the night and by the tide ; his coach
was set fast in the quicksand : the water soon
rose into the coach, and his registrar and some
other attendants crept out of the windows,
and mounted on the roof and on the coach-box.
The Judge let the water rise to his very lips,
and with becoming gravity replied, to all the
earnest entreaties of his attendants, " I will fol-
low your counsel, if you can quote any precedent
for a Judge's mounting a coach-box."
The Opera will open on the 12th of January
next. The arrangements are of the most splen-
did description : the Ballet will rival any exhi-
bition in Europe. The patronage for the en-
suing year is both numerous and of the very first
distinction.

Another of Carlile's victims (his shop-boy) has
been sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, for one
of the most infamous libels on his Majesty which
ever disgraced the Radical Press : yet it is gravely
maintained that, because the offender is only a
shop-boy, he ought not to have been punished.
The necessity of dealing according to law with
the wretched tools of this hardened libeller is al-
ready apparent; for the shop is open, a new .assist-
ant is found, and the sale of libels, branded as
such by successive Juries, continues as before—
a fact which is tolerably illustrative of the re-
spect which these Radicals entertain for the Trial
by Jury, an institution which they affect to
praise, and of the deference which they are dis-
, posed to pay to the laws of the country in
which they live. We should suppose that no
person, however distressed, will in future hire
himself to Carlile or his fellow labourers,
without an express agreement that he shall be
guaranteed against loss by legal expences or fine,
and a sufficient allowance for comfortable main-
tenance in a priidn, to which he will assuredly
be consigned. If Mr. Carlile will run his ill-
gotten gains against the laws of the land, we
must see which will last the longest,—(Bristol
Observer.)

T II E ARMY.

20T11 REGIMENT.-On Tuesday RD ex-
press arrived in this city with a route for this dis--
tinoushed corps, stationed here, to proceed for

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Ireland, on the following morning,. Early on Wed-
nesday they marched for Liverpool,where they em-
barked the next day for their destination ; but the
transports weredriven backinto the portin the after-
noon of that day. This occurrence immediately sug-
gests an additional important advantage from the
Da w pool e.stablishment ; for wheneverit commences
operc.tion, the transit of troops to Ireland, from
parts of the country south-west of :the Mersey,
will be materially facilitated, in point of time,
and lessened in respect of danger. In the in-
stance of the above regiment, had their route
lain by Dawpool, only about fourteen miles
hence, they might have embarked the same day,
and that port allowing vessel.; to sail in any state
of the tides, or course of the wind, their arrival
in Dublin might reasonably have been expected
on the following day. • We hope never to see
that day return, when, as in 1798, the quick
transport of troops to the sister kingdom was
deemed so essential to the safety of the Empire.;
but it is the duty of a provident Government to
foresee and guard against contingencies which.
may involve danger and inconvenience. Let
the advantages which this infant project corn-

bin es, be represented to the Executive and to
Parliament ; in particular let this strong point be
urged Nvith a weight due to its importance ; and
we cannot doubt but the national purse will be
uns:rung, in aid of a scheme which unites with
local benefits the most obvious general utility.—
( Chester Courant, Nov. 27.)
The 49th and 55th Regiments will embark
shortly at Gravesend, for the Cape of Good
Hope, on hoard the following ships, viz. William
Fairlie, Thomas Coutts, Sir David Scott, and
Earl Balcarras.

Major WARBURTON, commanding the county
of Clare Police, has moved his head-quarters to
Ennis, from Kilrush, where his departure is most
sincerely and deeply regretted by the inhabitants.
It is stated that the county of Clare Militia
will be forthwith embodied.