The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

[FARTHER PARTICULARS.]

Two Jew Rabbis sat up the whole of the'night
with Cashman, who continued in prayer with them
the whole of the time. Driscoll was also attended
throughout the night by a Catholic Clergyman.
Weller slept for about five hours, and Williams
but for about half an hour. Driscoll, it seems,
was an Irishman, ,and has left a wife and five
children ; he was a plasterer's labourer, could
neither read nor write, acknowledged the just-
ness of his sentence, and said he was led into the
act for which he was now to suffer by other per-
sons, but to the very last would not declare who
were his confederates. He was convicted in Sep-
tember last, for uttering forged notes, several of
which were found at his lodgings in a rolling
pin. The Sacrament was this morning adminis-
tered to him by the Rev, Mr. Deverenx.—Cash-
man, whose real !tame was Emanuel, was a JekV,
and died stedfast in that persuasion : he was a bad
character, and only about 10 months ago was
discharged from the hulks ; he was convicted with
Weller in September Sessions last.—Weller was a
young man of decent parents, and had been tried
at the Old Bailey in June last, and had been a
most abandoned character, though only twenty
years of age. Williams was a native of %Vales,
and had had a good education : he was convicted
on two separate indictments, for having broke
into several houses in the neighbourhood of
Enfield, and was the head of a desperate
gang of house-breakers, who bad long in-
fested that part •of the County.—He also
acknowledged the justness of his sentence.—
The body of Cashman, after hanging the usual
time, was cut down by the Priests, who
had attended him during the night. They took
both the body and the rope away with theta in a
hackney-coach they had in waiting. Soon after
this a number of Irish people repaired to New-
gate, and requested of Mr. Browne to give up the
body of Driscoll, which he did. They took it off,
followed by an immense number of persons, and
continued howling in the usual manner they do at
funerals. The other two, Williams and Weller,
remained in Newgate, for the purpose of being
given to their friends in the course of the day. -
Yesterday morning an interesting female, be-
longing to the Society of Friends, applied to be
admitted into the presence of these unfortunate
men, which application was granted without de-
lay by Browne, for the purpose of administer-
ing to them religious consolation, which she did
in a very superior manner. The map kit highly
gratified, and acknowledged the comfort they felt
from what she had said to them. On her leaving
them they requested her to 'tall' again, which she
did this morning so early as six o'clock, when. she
again, in the presence of those then presen!, ad-
dressed them for a short time, and then bid them
all farewell, and left them. Her name, we under-
stand, is RIPLEY.

This morning a number of soldiers were sta-
tioned around the *Bank, in consequence of a
dread of an attack from the rabble that were at-
tending the execution of the unfortunate men
who suffered this morning for forgeries at New-
gate, but we are happy to add that all was per-
fectly tranquil, and every person departed from
the execution peaceably.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—An universal alarm was,
excited in the City this morning, by the Bank
doors in Bartholomew-lane not being open for
business at the regular hour, nine o'clock ; a
number• of soldiers parading the inner Courts, and
Sentinels placed at the front entrance, Bank-
buildings. It was afterwards ascertained that
some fears were excited of an unpleasant nature,
owing to the execution of the unfortunate men
this morning for forgery ; but we are happy to
state, that at half•past ten the doors were opened,
business commenced, and not the slightest appear-
ance of disorder appeared.

NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

The discovery of a New Colony on the Northern
Shores of Baffin's Bay has given rise to a variety
of speculative opinions.
The. information we shall obtain from tbeWork
which is promised us from the pen of Captain
Ross will he most ithportant. in the mean time,
a few observations, founded upon a conversation
with several of ,the persons who accompanied the
Expedition, may not be uninteresting.
It is quite clear that upon a part of the Northern Coast of
the Bay, which there was no previous reason to suppose was
inhabited, seven or. eight persons were seen and.conversed
with. The intercourse was carried on through the medium
of John Sackheouse, an Esqui►naux, who accompanied the
ships through the whole of their voyage.
This John Sackheouse is described, by all the persons on
board, to have proved himself, during the voyage, an enter-
prising and intelligent man.
His own history is eventful, having been found far at Sea,
in his canoe, driven out by the wind, and unless he had pro-
videntially been picked up by one of our ships he must have
perished.

We hare seen some of the pictures drawn by Sackheouse, as
a representation of his first interview with these newly disco-
vered inhabitants of the Northern Regions, and they de-
scribed, perhaps better than he could do in words, the meet
ing as it took place.
The Natives are shewn in their sledges, drawn by four
dogs. Sackheouse himself is depicted on the ice, setting up a
pole with a flag upon it, to which were attached some beads
and other trifles, intended as conciliatory presents.
The dress of the Natives consists of a skin, covering the
body as far as the loins, and breeches of the same material,
fastened so as to meet the body covering. A small space

through which the flesh is seen) is obseived in all the

figures at this part, where the upper and lower coverings
meet, arising from their imperfect mode of attaching them to

each other.

In these drawings the astonishment of the Notice:, upon
'examining the different parts of the vessel, is very characteris-
tically depicted. One of them is viewing the anchor, another
the masts, and the countenances very faithfully describe the
surprise occasioned by these new objects of vision.
In questioning Sackheouse upon some points of the inter-
view, he states the Natives to have appeared docile, and
ready to give such information as he was desirous of obtain-
ing from them.
His language was sufficiently analogous to theirs, to allow
of keeping up a conversation with them; he inquired, amongst
other matters, as to the number of their nation, but they
seem either to have no idea of numbers, or, what is more
probable, no corresponding term, by which they could reply
to the inquiry.
Their general conduct gave reason to suppose that they
had, like their more fortunate discoverers, fixed principles of
social conduct. When chips were thrown over the vessels'
side upon the ice, each collected as much as he could, but no
one appeared to infringe upon the bundle of another. He
who had gathered any little stock, seemed to he recognised
as the proprietor, although be left it to proceed in his fur-
ther collection. -

-it is not very astonishing that they endeavoured to appro-
priate some of the objects of wonder which they saw about
the vessels, but their very mode of attempting to pilfer was
a proof that they had not acquired dexterity by practice.
In a few instances, they took articles from the ship, with
a view to purloining them, hut they were necessarily unsuc-
cessful, for they did not understand concealment ; some part
of the pilfeied property being always left uncovered, and in
sight. . .

The circumstance which excited the most attention on the
part of the Discoverers, was the finding in the possession of
the Natives, knives, the blade part of which was of iron.
They had already ascertained, that wood was unknown to
these newly-found beings, and that the only fuel which they
had, if fuel it could he called, was a species of moss—and
the use made of this moss, seemed to be confined to the dip-
ping it in oil, and burning it as a torch or candle.
Through the medium of Sackheouse, however, it was dis-
covered, that two blocks of iron in its pure state, situated at
no great distance from the shore, were 'MUM' to the Natives,
and that, for making their knives, they hammered off pieces
of it by means of heavy stones.
ghe of these knives we have seen. It is formed of a
piece of bone, about ti or 7 inches long; the upper parr., to
which the iron is attached, being grooved. In this groove,
several irregular-shaped pieces of iron are inserted.
These appear to have been beaten fiat with stones, and as
they present an irregular serrated edge, it should rather be
called a saw than a knife.

The bone handle smells insufferably strong of rancid oil,
from the saturated state in which it has been used, and every
common means to discharge this taint has been unsuccsstully
attempted.
We have likewise seen one of their spears. It consists of
several pieces of the horn of the sea unicorn tied together
with thongs of about one-third from the end is a stop
for the thumb to press against in throwing it. This, like the
knife, is •if most rude contrivance. It is not oven straight
in its form, but is curvilinear. This partakes of the same
offensive smell as the knife handle.

Their principal food consists of birds, of which it appears
the number is astonishing. These'they eat raw. The flesh
of seals and of the sea unicorn is also a part of their nourish-
n►ent.

Unlike the Esqui►naux of the coast of America, they have
no canoes, nor did they seem to know the use of vessas of
any description and if they do form a distinct separate na-
tion from the rest of the world; they are probably the most
uncivilized of the earth's inhabitants.

On board the discovery vessels were several dogs, appa-
rently of the Danish breed; rough wiry hair, fox face, and
brushy tail, being the principal characteristics. They do out
bark, nor in common make any particular noise.,
The only dog which Captain Ross obtained from the
natives is stated to have been lost overboard, in a gale of
wind, off Cape Farewell ; but from the description given of
it, it was not unlike (although larger in size) time dogs which
were brought from the coast of a wore southern latitude.
, In one of the drawings before mentioned, John Saekheouse
the Esquituanx, is represented with his arm in a sling, and
upon asking the cause, he stated that it was done by the con-
cussion of a fowling-piece, which he had loaded upon the
principle of " the more filler more shouter;" by the blow his
collar hone was broken.

He had never learnt to draw when he put to paper the sub-
jects he has depicted, but his Representation has probably a
more faithful resemblahce to the scene he describes, from
its very rudeness, than the 'more finished drawings of our
Officers would possess.

The Expedition under Capt. Ross has, as it
appears to us, at least answered the object to
which it was destined ; and altholigh no very im-
portant new discoveries in a geographical point of
view have been made, yet the account of Baffin's
Bay, which we already possessed, and which had
become'of late years of doubtful authority, is now
confirmed. We are still desirous that Hudson's
Bay should be explored with equal minuteness
by a similar experimental voyage—far we do not
conceive it impossible that the object so anxiously
looked for in the last, may still be met with. At
present txe consider Hudson's Bay to have been
but imperfectly examined ; for the Company which
has the best opportunity for ti►e investigation, is
too much employed in finding the most productive
country for obtaining their furs and skins to un-
dertake so important a service.
We believe the Admiralty is very anxious to
give effect to the spirit of enterptize which has
been excited relative to discoveries in the North-
ern Latitudes, and we trust that the worthy Secre-
tary, Mr. BARROW, will live to see realized those
hopes, which, it is evident from his excellent
writings, he very strongly entertains of ultimate
SUCCe99.

RHADANIANTHUS.

FOR THE (47N.

INIURI)Ell AT DEAL.

I I Ma. EDITOR,--Through the medium of your
impartial Paper, allow me to submit a few obser-
vations, and to state some circumstances relative
to, and arising out of, the barbarous murder com-
mitted in the town of Deal, on the 19th of Octo-
ber last, on a brave seaman of the Severn frigate,
who was shot dead by a Dual Boatman named
Dowers, in cold blood, while standing outside the
door of a public-house.
1 am the more anxious that these particulars should
he known in -London, from attempts olpersons resi-
dent at Deal, not only to palliate the murder, but
to excite public prejudice against the very efficient
measures adopted by Government to check the
Contraband Trade on this coast, and evidently
with an intention to injure the character of Cap-
tain M'Culloch, who so ably directs the large
force entrusted to his command for that purpose.
Referring to Letters in the Canterbury Gazette
of the 20th ult. front tin Old Correspondent, and
of the 4th instant, signed H. W. in the same ex•
cellent Print, I shall only at present shortly state
a few observations in reply, as these Letters will
be swallowed greedily by the Smugglers of Deal
and its neighbourhood, who may be induced
;'thereby to persist in their late lawless conduct.—
I am bound to say, that the whole tenor of the
former Letter tends to encourage smuggling, and,
indirectly, murderous resistance to the Authorities
appointed to suppress it ; and the Author of it
would. do no more than justice to his country, if
he would acquaint the Government whose Com-
mission he holds, and whose pay he receives,—how
knows '° that the fatal ball which sent the mur-
dered individual to an untimely grave was NO
DOUBT intended for an Officer on duty." How could
he know this, except he held communication with
the mordtrer or his friends ?—I would ask this
Gentleman, also, why he does not inform his em-
ployers who are the persons (1 quote his own
words) " carrying on the contraband Trade in
other places, who, from their situation in life,
are beyond suspicion, and who are now embark-
ing in it with the greatest zeal and success ?" He

is bound to afford this informal ion to his ein-

players fotthwith ; and if he will Eisten to good
advice, he had better do so before it is required of
hint. Fur the present only I shall take leave of
this Writer, reserving another opportunity of an-
. madverting on the pernicious tendency of his so-
phistical compositions.
H. W. (in his Letter of the 4th instant), has
endeavoured to defend the Publican at whose door
the murder took place. It appears that this matt was
in company with the perpetrator but a short time
before, in his own house ; and it was proved by
the oath of his own sister, that this •' honest "
person had spent the afternoon with the murderer
and another smuggler; and by other witnesses,
that both came out of the house, neither having
arms tit that time; that seeing Nelson outside the
door, they returned, and in less than two minutes,
Dowers, accompanied by another man, came out,
and when a few paces iron) the door, one of them
turned round, and shot Nelson dead on the spot.—
This poor fell'ow was neither resisting nor inter-
rupting them, the writs sent front London being
in the hands of the Custom-house Offitlers and

Constables, to be served by them, and not by the
Naval thficers. The Writer of that Letter well

knew this, as well as that any attempts to,appre-
hend Deal Boatmen in the day-time arc tmavail-
ing. lie well knows that warrants against four-
teen Deal Boatmen, signed by the Lord Chief
Justice, and renewed tour different terms,. were
never executed, although they were for a consi-
_ _

derable period in the hands of Mr. Edward Ig-
gulden, the late Mayor of Deal. The Author of
this Letter, H. IV., has ironically alluded to the
" Banks of the Severn," evidently aiming at Cap.
tam M'Culloch and his proceedings ; but every
man resident on this coast, who possesses firmness
and honour enough to declare the t nab, must ac-.

knowledge that the country is indebted greatly to
his zealous and active exertions. I just here hint
to this Gent,letnan, that he would perhaps be the

instrument of preventing future violence to the

King's 01beets, by prescribing to his hiernis the
Smugglers, when they next visit the Banks of the
Thames, after passing the hulks at Woolwich, to

keep a good lo,;k-onton the laiboard hand, -and

ere they reach to Blackwall, to contemplate cer-
tain objects exhibited to public view, whereby
they may probably be purged from forme mur-
derous dispositions.

I shall conclude this long Letter by an extract
froth a late Kentish Paper, on the present sub-
ject, which states—

" Now, Gentlemen, I am at a loss to know how it was
possible to ascertain the intention of the assassin from any

other source than personal intercourse with him or his col-
leagues; these must hare been numerous indeett, or his

escape could not so easily hare been effected; and the villain
was too close to its object to hare erred.

" The deed was su applauded in the place, that I am most
credibly informed of two furies in fema'le dress having stamp,

ed their feet triumphantly in the blood then streaming from
!he vicinity, exulting in the act." ,
I am, Mr. Editor,
Your obedient bumble servant, -
AN OLD OFFICER.

Dover, Dcc. 9.

A beautiful cast, in brass, of the much-celebrat-
ed colossal figure, by PHIDAs, upon Mon. e Ca-
vallo, will shortly become the distinguished or.
uarnent of Waterloo-place. This superb bronze
statue is a votive tribute of Ladies, in htinour of
the Duke of IVELLINGTON.

SUICIDR.—At 8 o'clock on Saturday night, an
Inquest was held on the body of Mr. Charles Per-
regeaux (the melancholy circumstances of whose
death we mentioned in Saturday's Paper), at Sr.
Bartholomew's Hospital.--The Jury returned
s verdict of Insanity.