The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-03 00:00:00

-the'tiont what! 11, at the bat;lc Al the
'house, was tfo.ne that which miist have imme-
Iliately vim) Ann to lir. Bite, and the bottle.
'herr, r, at an when the letott Marti wonid
ila‘e been followed by discovery.
'lire declaration goes on to' state " that B.
after some d.tEenly, ent in, when A immediately
twicked down and killed the servant with a midlet
Ire had put,itled himself with, and 8 rushed
Ihrongli the passage and strttgled with Mr.
13irii, whom lie soon dirt for with the hammer
which Hon,sev had given Isla.; that while tlik
''n, thissev was 'landing cloir to the
and wan to whis le it he saw any
tme %VHS eillnint,!, wh;cli he did twice, at there
were two persons that rAsseil ; hitt , as the night
was very tog y, and it %v.'s a little before eight in
the evening, they scenic., to tale tin notice of the
1;011 of the rindle which the servant had in her
band at Mr. Bud's dottr."

it is tiecessary to pose again Imre, to notice
Anwlicr of the inconsistencies of this very impro-
bable slot y.

Hussey states, that his post was dilse to the Tiger's Head,
rind that this transaction took place between 8 and 9 o'clock.
is'to be recollected, that the evening of the murder was the
c•bild night of the Odd Fellows at the Tiger's Bead, and that
Hussey, being a member, would stand a Chance of being seen
by some of the members as they passed hint, while he stood
ef,se to the Tiger's Head. The night was very foggy, and
might hare shielded him from observation ; hut this would
equally have. prevented him from knowing when his signal of
whistling would he proper; indeed, the signal seems to have
been useless, for it was, according to his statement, twice re-

pealed without being noticed.
The declaration proceeds, " that Hassey kept watch for
about-twenty toinntrs, and thinking them a long time, and
that they might be discovered, he crossed the street and
quietly tapped at the dour; no one answered, nor did he hear
any noise. Thinking this strange, he went to the side door,
and tried to get in there, pot foond it quite fast; he then re-
turned to the front door, but could nut open it. lie knocked
again, and was at last let in ; he forgot by which of the two,
but he kalif, We were at the top of the house looking over
what we had found, and you alarmed us.' "
'This part of the story is irreconiilealile with the former.—
If B had either got over the side door, or broken it open, and
bad forced au entrance into the back part of the house, the
saline passage was open to Hussey; but he tried that way, and
viol,' not get ia, all was fast. If these supposed accomplices
were alarnsed by Hussey's- knocking, they would hardly have
opened the door without some signal being previously given,
sqich they could hear while inside the house; this, at so
tarty an hour in the evening, would be rather a dangerous
experiment. The knock at the door was loud enough to be
beard by them while at the top of the house ; and when they
opened the dour to Hussey, they risked discovery Irma any
person who might he passing, as there was a lamp inimedi-
eddy over the front door of the house, which might have
shown the liCerlC of blood.

He further states, •' that he went in, and in going up
stairs stumbled over the body of the servant, which they then
removed out of their way. He was shucked to learn from
them the fate of Mr. Bird and the maid servant, hut. B. said
it could not he helped, as they found them, and particularly
the el.! man, so resahtte. After being in the house five mi-
nutes, it was agreed that he should go nut, and in ten mi-
nutes after they both came to him. He was then in the mid-
die of the street, nearly opposite to Mr. Bird's house, and it
was so dark hat nobody could see him. They then went
into the pia. and by the light from n dark lantern, which A.
had brought with him, they ocean dividing the property,
which was tied np in a sheet. There were a great many ar•
ticks, hut the smallest part fell to his lot. They said, that
in the bureau, a great many guinea§ were found, which it was
agreed they should have, sad Hussey the Bank-notes and
watches, &r. They then separated, and he went and changed
himself. When he had dune this, he came down privately,
and ‘, err to a pond near Vansittart-terrace, where he threw
in the mallet and hammer, us had been tied up in his
bundle, and which the other two men requested him to take
with him."

If my construction of the term " confession" is a correct
one, and that it means " an avowal of the truth," the few
last sentences of this man's declaration destroy the possibility
of the statement be made in the cell, or noon the scaffold,
being adMittul as a confession. Ite affirms that he was shocked
at the fate of Mr. Bird and his housekeeper, and yet, shocked
as he was, within one hoor of the commission of this barbarous
assassination, of which he was the sole mover, he could go to
a crstb-roort, end sing two songs with his usual cheerfulness,
drink, smoke, and sleep, and within a few days follow to the
grate, as an idle spectator, the bodies of the two victims of
his crimes.

And can we for a moment credit that Mr, Bird's resolute-
ness was 'he motive fur the murder; a poor infirm man, 83
years old, who might have been tied to his chair with a

packth•rad ?

In Eimssey's possession, at the distance of a month after
the murders. were f•iond the following articles, which would
alone make a tolerable large 'intne, viz —47 large sheets. a
pike of new cloth, a large cotton shawl, a silver soup ladle,
iilrer wine-strainer, an old cotton handkerchief, 2 shirts,
ciwatche;, and five 11. Lank of England notes, and two 11.
3znit of England woes: ❑nd yet.ke states, that the smallest
Stare fell to his lot. Besides these, rings of some value, one
of great apparent ra:ae, and a watch, were found on his
person.

If they sv,nt to the Park to divide this plunder, they must
'have passed unnoticed thron4h the streets With their large
bnndle, or through the Circe:, to have got to the Park ; and
as the gates are in the month of February locked at 9 o'cluL:ii,
when they had finished their partition, they would, upon
their return, have to set over the Park.v..all with their
bundles.

if Mr. Bird.had by him the guineas which Hussey speaks of
sis haring been found in the bureau, they would probably hare
b,•cn in the secret drawer, which was nevertheless undisco-
Tered ; and when he affirmed that his share consisted of the
sank-notes and the watches, while the gold was retained by
the others hr was not aware that it bad been clearly ascer-
tained, that he had himself been disposing of gold-coin at a
shop in Newegate-street a few days after the murder.
What the valuable share of these supposed accomplices
could consist of it is difficult to imagine; for, with the ex-
ception of some lace and two or three articles of silver, all
that was lost on the night of the murder was found in the
Possession of Charles Hussey.
If, as he states, he had thrown the hammer and mallet into
the pond at Van,dttart-terrace, there would they both have
been tottud; but a hammer cooly is found there, (although