The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-20 00:00:00

THE LATE EX E( ITTIONS.

After some conversation with tegiad to the pro-
dnet ion-of the Report of !IR:Committee respecting
the Lae Exeeot ions, it was prootteed anJ read, 'mid
inertly stated that the City .Coniptroller had
written ttt t he-. Sheriffs to ',literal-the Committee,
hot that these Gentlemen had dee:hied it. The
_io‘pCrtv 4-.10 the di*grkteefol.l•ood,tet •of the exeeo-
liniret not been gone i:O6, ilia Would be lattt
before the •next' Court. •

iskiilynosan \%T )1) `tlte'd, that as Air.
.;\ !Await' was. now .preicnt, !lie Cioirt protralo.7
Lear his explapation 4.f the delay wkieh
phirc. •
• Mr. Sheriff ALDPIIsoN' tleclarcti, that he now
v,•iTti the greatest pain: to ilddrel.:4. the Court
.on this toOst distressing, subjt•et, which. lota so
Mile) alt.racte;li the noticv,‘aud

that•tr2fe lie ,novv to. go into•all the nii,#
watia-of the caie,)l,%voittil.ottly tend the more to
irritate - the irtihitejrelitigs. Ile regTet.ted exceed-
ittigly that his co/league. ,-was-not 41tILV prt!tk4lll, on

tfcrottft• of what: he %vas ,tiow, to sn;wil io th,e

Coml. He felt4h a ptiblie charge ha►t been made
:against:. the Sheriffs,- a►Td Att.tlia-t .accottur.. he had
declined meetiug.-the Cotumittce, con•hitriug't hat
it- wash-is- duty to- !mdse. his statement ..puhlicly,
-that- the- Court..aud- Public ntigist he satiated, fict

Ay;as not ashamed t•o declare that. he:was actaate.d.

by.feelings.as alive to the ealls-of 'humanity. an 4
duty as those of any,.. Member in,: that Court,
and it) discharging his duty on the, late melancholy
oceasion,,he trusted he bad properly exercised thosa
feelings, by doing evrty.l-iling in his power
alleviate the condition of the unhappy delin=
queut.,, 0,1 the 64111(1,1F. prior to the .exec-utioil
be visited thcnif fnroished.4llrm-ivit.b -
the mean; of sopidying their wants, but gave lino-,
Ile,/ Inc the purvow;oltheir bodies being decently
laid 0,11, and also for the fees being paid, in order
&hat they night he Olivet ed up to their friends.
It was distressing to but in the extreme to enter
into the case, and he therefore merely obse.tv.ed,
that at the moment of approaching the fatal thaw,
the-unfoNturate WOUlen were in such a.statey that
had-they been hrooght forward, they must have
expired without beitig sensible. they were entering •
into the immediate presence of ,God---(Hear !)--%
Besides, the Coma ghoul& recollect, that when.
thcy elected Sheriffs, OR y entrusted them With,
discretionary powerS, and .olfght, therefore, to
hare confidence in thcto. The drop tell at.2o or
25 minutes after eight, the signal being. given, ra-,
ther in a sudden utanaer by the Ordinary. This
'might have occasioned -411 e ropes being badly ad—
justed, and as one of the women asked natelti""a
to salute her, ti is also-might have cattst:f the robe
in 'her case being. wrong. tiv could however, ott
his • conscience,' tied-.re, that: he did not see. any
struggle take.place till the drop fell,.and he hoped
3.te hill now satisfactorily explained the cause of
thede lay. •• • •

Jr.A Canon. defended-the motives• by•whch he
~cas actuated in brioging this before the .Court,
and confessed himself satisfied- with. the explana-
tion or the Sheriff. Ar the same time, lie. eon-
damned the conduct of the executioner, as shame-
ful anti abominable in the extreme,mnd .such -eon-
diiccileserving the minutest inquiry, on Acconot
of its horrid and diSraafill n•►t+crr, he -hoped• it
would nor be allowed to pass r without notice.
Ile would, in a. day ut ttro, Ile l►repared with cy/.-c
dense on the case, iv:Lich he considered the most
flagrant ever known in London. • • • ,

MT. ..Alderman 1-1
...,/tfcii Wag, 'yell'S;itM:j with
che.;oo,ithiCks .13.C.ti tr.
bad,setyed in that painful office could be unt oved.
by what had been stated. At the antal moment.
of taking. Offthe'ironi. no heart could be callow.:.
tie fii;,:;l4y.. appLoved of the. case b.,rittg becn
brought forward, and pressed on the Ci'y Lands
coinruittee .the imperious' necessity of eit,a-
mini.ng. those 's-eriops charges winch hadjustiieen
brought forward against the ext:utioner. It was
iudispensibly requisite that the public feeling
should.not be haled with, or any w.ay. insuked,
and he trusted there would, therefor.e, •he no de-
itEstitffliug'a stilet inquiry into the manner
in ,which that.. individual hid
,111r...-WlLL"iftms -felt confident; that every heart
wonld.gd-alinig •triilt the 'feelings, so huniatiOy
"exiit esSed by the 'SheVitr, iu Tespcet to the suffer-
ings- of the .unfortunate peisons, .but he must
wholly dissent from him in regard to die charge
‘against b.it colleagues. He concluded by ohj,et-
ing to the • present - indecent- iuode of conveyin4
the bodies into the prison after been cut
down.

Mr. DAvif, after a deSul:ory conversatron,
great length, moved a Resolution, in effect, thgt
it was the opinitm-ot the Court, that when any
Committee should requirethe attendance of. tbe
Sheriffs, tliey mot, by so attending, act be-
neath the dignity of their high Office.
h Mr. Sheriff DESANGES said. the reason he had
not felt himself: bound to .attend the Committee.
was', that 'ile•hall not .been properly addressed. 1L
Htie.COurrnittee Were entitled to call on 'the Sue-
' riffs for their atiendaitcc, they might require:it
141 lienever they pleas-ed, The order for the exe-
eittion did out spc;cily any hour.; it there tore
rested with the Sheriffs ; and surely Geoaemen
would not -wish (,) have, on unfortunate heiii
dragged to execution when they were Oiging
their last hymn. It, on this occasion, they were
'und fault with, for suffering them to live half
an hour longer,. why, in the name of goodness,
they would, on thenext.octvioni hang them half

.611 nonr sooner. . .
A..vote• of thanks was subsefpfently moved tor
ar: Sheriff Alderson, but, %%itlidrav‘n, on the
,
'l,Prourni that it ►votila iuiplya CLllhttre othur
Gentleman,

The motion of •;‘ll.. DAvis, respecting the at -
terWance of the Was-th.en Rut aid
WAITI-IMAN said th.e !ht riti.,.. teemed to be
(miler a tnistake,.•for th,y ihrm.gitt there was a.
charge against themovbett, ifr fact; w 4s ~nt

and disciailmd, as (lid the other Gentlernan,who
larought.forward the nw ion, all jutention of east.-
auy imputation co

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS COUPLIS ACT.',

IVAITHMAN then brought forward his Mo.
tion for petitions to both liousei-( t Farliatnc;nta
for All, Inquiry into the:Cond:nci•ot rdioist-ers, q.nit
pra)inizthattto Bill of indemnity'. iitighst
Mit 11511141:111d trite ohserviitio,ns,
lit. c;o'ocitul..:(i by making his iiitui,•w,
seconded, lit'e qnestion ryas pot utid c.n red, lil4.
.Gentlemen I.v hose political principles
..eire‘
position to the Alover and Seccittler not
ltelnitl advanced worthy of Eti/.3146%Tcr.---,..-Id.
kiter;wd; . -

PARLIAMENT.

110UE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, FEB• 19•

The Malt Mit 1,4 Bill passed through a Com-
Mit Ice, and was it:putted without amendment.

FINANCE.

The !louse havin; resolved itself into a Com•
mittee on the 30,000,0001. Exchequer Bills Bill,
Earl GRoSYFINfort thought it a fit opportunity to
sav-a feur words upon the Financial State of the
Country. lie regretted that tconomy hail not
been rerommended in the Speech delivered by the
L!Prds Gnitmissioners at the opening of the Session,
and slid more that economy had not been practi-
cally carried into etiect. It was indeed a lamentable
consideration, that at the present moment, atter
three years of peace, the revenue of the country
was Many Milli Ons short of the expenditure, and
there St emedno prospect of making those economi-
cal rednctionk'ethich such a stare of „affairs impe-
riously called titr. I instead of this, we had an.army
on toot of neat lyloo,ooo men, for what purpOse he
kneivN not .; and we bad to Maintain a force in
France,.for the purpose of keeping the Bourbons
on tine throne.- He trusted, that but a short time
would elapse before the troops in Fr a tic e would
be withdrawn, it being in vain to think of s,•is-,
t any GovernMent by slid., means. What...,
ever might be the state of parties in France, wire-
liter Ultras or lutras, or whatever they might

choose to ,call their pArties—whatever squabbk%

migh# arise amongst themselves, he mlintained
•thaf we -ot►ght to leave them to settle their own
disputes, anti not burden ourselves with any ex-
petibe on account of them. Above all things it
se a.t most essential that the strictest economy
should be practised in every deprtment of the
Giverumeilt, anti he could not learn that the
dictates of economy wete at all attended to, or at
least in any way that could have the desired
effect.

The Earl of LtvEnroot. did not think it neces-
sary to follow the Noble Lord in the topics he
had introduced, or to discuss now any question
regaiding the Bourbons. The proper time for a
discussion would be when the papers up-
on the subject were all before the House, and he
should then be ready to enter into the invest4,,a-
tion. Where the Noble Earl got the information
that the expenditure of the country was many
millions beyond the revenue, he (Lora Liverpool)
was at a hos to guess, certain he was, that there
was no paper or document bofore the House that
could bear out the Noble Earl in any such con-
clusion. With regard to economy, the Noble
Earl was equally mistaken, the•tact being, that all
the suggestions for reductions in the public expen-
diture wade by the Committee ot Finance had
been adopted and acted upon, or that where they
hail not, he was fully prepared, when the discus-
sion came on, to assign sufficient reasons for any
exception in which tliey had been departed front.
The iutormation of the. Noble Earl with respeCt
to our army in France -was of an equally strange
character Witt) other it,formation which lie appear-
ed to have-oht?jned ;
,the- fact was, that 'if our
troops in Fiance were ordered borne, and actually
iii,batided, it would make no difference whatever
in our ex;•eutihne.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished to know, with refer-
ence to what the Noble Earl bad just-stated, whether th&Ex-
penditure of the country did nut, very-considerably exceed the
actual Revenue
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that depended Nom the
-view which was taken of the subject. Taking the whole. Re-
venue of the country, including the Sii:kiog Fund, it Would
undoubtedly exceed all tbe-Expenditme.-
Lord KING maintained, that, in that, case, the Sinking
run d was merely nominal, and that no part of the debt was
actually discharged by it, there being no excess of Revenue
o'er the Espeartiture.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL denied this conclusion, con-
tending, that, including the Sinking, fund, there was an
actual eXcess of Revenue over Expenditure, and that to 'the
amaunt of that excess' upwards of 44000,0001. there was an
actual diminution of the aggregate amount of debt.
The Earl (:ItOWENOR. said, he had conceived that the
Army in France caused an increase of expenditure to this
country, and that Os being withdraws would he a material
.sating [the Earl of Liccroool said across the Table, Not a
shilling].—He had, however, considered it his duty to bring
the subject under the consideration of the I-louse.
The Bill then passed through the Committee, and was re-
ported without Amendment.