The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-19 00:00:00

\VEST PORT MURDERS.

(From the Caledonian Mercury.)
We have before us a note, dated January 14th,
from Mr. George Munro, S. S. C. agent for the
nearest kindred Reel relativee of the late James NeVil-
son, commonly ca:led " thkft Jamie," to trite of his
_constituents, who has given us •permission to make
the following extract : Mir. Monro his just re-
turned from the consultation with Messrs. Jeffrey,
Miller, and Sandford. In point of strict law, it. is
the (Tinian of these gentlemen that the prosecution
of Hare can proceed; at all events, that the matter
may very proper !y be tried, They concur in think-
ing that Hare alone ought to be the party to be
tried : that applica,ion shohld be made thst to con-
tinue him in prison; and that the whole evidence
should then be got, and an indictment prepared."
We trust, therefore, that the statement of Mr.
Jeffrey being retained as counsel in this case, will no
longer be considered as " apocryphal" by the Scots-
mune-Who might easily have ascertained the correct-
ness of our information had he given himself the
trouble to inquire. It thus appears that our views
in regard to the liability of Hare to be tried, at the
instance of the private party have been adopted and
sanctioned by the eminent Counsel already named ;
and it is equally evident, from the above opinion,
that they consider the Lord Advocate, pa public
prosecutor, bound to grant his concurrence as a mat-
ter of course.

Burke, we undostand, has offered to make isn-
portant disclosures to an individiud he has named,-1
provided that indiddual be admitted to him in the
company of his Confessor. The gentleman pointed
out by him as the intended depositary of hiAproffered
revelations is -a respectable man of business, of the
Catholic persuasion, from whom we have ascertained
the correctness of*this information ; but, on applying
to the civic authorities here, it was refused, in virtue
of positive orders, which had boon issued from a
higher quarter to exclude every one except the Con-
fessor and other spiritual guides of the wretched cri-
minal. The gentleman- referred to then applied, by
letter, to the Lard Advocate for admission, offering,
at the same time, to communicate his notes of what
the wretched man might disclose, to his Lordship or
any other of the authorities whom he might choose
to point out ; hut to this application no answer was
returned. After waiting in rain several days for a
reply, the gentleman in question addressed Mr. Peel
on the subject, inclosing a copy of the letter trans-
mitted to his Majesty's Advocate, and earnestly so-
;citing an order from the Home Office for admission
to the criminal, which, it is expected, he will ob-
tain. We are quite satisfied, from what we have
heard, that Burke has several, we should rather,
perhaps, say many, circumstances of the utmost im-
portance to disclose; and it would be a suliject of
deep regret were any point of punctilio or etiquette
to prevent his shriving himself sod unpacking his
heart of the horrid secrets with which it is burthened.
A rumour is in circulation that another' slaughter-
house has been discovered ; and if we may credit the
statements which have been made to us, informa-
tion to that effect, hss been given to the proper
quarter.
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