The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-10 00:00:00

THE ACCOMPLICE HARE.

On Monday, and probably within half an hour of
the time when this wretch would have been liberated
in consequence of the judgment of the High Court of
Justiciary, on his bill of advocation, suspension, and
liberation, a detainer was lodged against him at the
instance of the mother and sister of Daft Jamie,
proceeding upon a petition setting forth that the
petitioners had a claim of assythment against flare
on account of the murder of their near lelatire ; that
the sum of five hundred pounds, or such other sum
as might be modified, was due to them by Hare on
that head, and that, as the said William Hare, a
foreigner, was inmeditatione fugae, and about to
withdraw himself forth of the kingdom with a view
to disappoint their just claim ; wherefore a warrant
was prayed for to take him into custody, to bring
him before the Sheriff for examination, and to take
him bound in caution judicio sisti et :indication sari.
The petitioners having taken the usual oath, Hare
was consequently detained, and eight o'clock the
seine evening-was fixed for. -his examination. Ac-
cordingly, a little after the brink-appointed he was
brought into an apartment of the gaol for examina-
tion, and a number of interrogatories were put to
him ; but he preserved an obstinate silence in re-
gard to till of them, except the first, we believe,
which related in some way to the murder of .ramie,
and in reference to which he growled out that he
would say no more about it. Several Witnesses to
whom he had communicated his intention, :after
getting ont of gaol, to quit this country and
return to Ireland, were then called and ex-
amined. Among these was a prisoner of the
name of Lindsay, a brisk fellow, with a black
scratch wig on the top of his head, who proved
distinctly that Hare meant to leave Scotland and
withdraw to some part of Ireland ; and having
finished his deposition, volunteered his unqualified
testimony in favour not only of Hare but also of
Burke. This fellow, whose misfortune as well as
fault it is to be alimented and housed at the public
expense, and who is not yet a man of tried charac-
ter, although it will soon, we understand, be put to
the test, observed that he knew both Burke and
Hare well ; that in particular he had slept for a con-
siderable time with the former before his trial ; and
that he was decidedly of opinion they were the b,est
Irishmen he ever knew : from which we woui:d cha-
ritably infer that his acquaintance has bs:en rather
limited and somewhat select. Several turnkeys gave
evidence to the same effect with this youth as to
the expressed intentions of Hare; anal ultimately
the Sheriff granted warrant for the incarceration of
the latter, until he should give caution judicio
When Hare discovered the turn things were taking,
he recovered the use of his speech, and said twice or
three times, " Ye're no giving me justice ; I'm sure,
gentleman, ye're no giving me justice." Observing
him getting the better of the caution he had pre-
viously observed, several questions were put to him,
without, however, eliciting any satisfactory answers.
" What would you do, if von were to get out of
gaol ?" "I do not know ; I must do somethirs;
have no motley." "Do von consider yourself in
danger from the mob ?" He gave no audible answer
to this question, though lie seemed to be muttering
something. " Would you consider yourself safe in
Edinburgh ?" " No, I would not consider myself
safe in Edinburgh." " Would you consider your-
self safe in any other part of this country ?" "My
mind and heart tell me that I ought to be safe ?"
The appearance of Hare upon this occasion, was
more than usually hideous and forbidding.—
The " squalid wretch" of the witness-box will rot
soon be forgotten by those who happened to see him
there ; but on Monday night he was incomparably
more gruesome and goulish ; for in order to facilitate
the operations of some Phrenologists, who had jest
finished taking a csst of his head, his hair had been
mown down to the very sconce, with the exception
of a fringe bordering the scalp all routuls thus blend-
ing in his appearance the ludicrous with the horrid
in a way and manner that defies all description. His
behaviour, however, was rather dogged and cautious
than impudent or forward. When he first entered
the apartment, he seemed very much at his ease ;
but when he came to understand, after repeated ex-
planations, the object of his proceedings, lie grew
exceedingly restless and fidgetty, neither his " mind
nor heart telling him" that further imprisonment was
likely to prove either convenient or salutary. Upon
the whole, however, be is certainly one of the coolest
and most collected villains that ever lived ; and we
are convinced that the only consideration which
gives him a moment's uneasiness, is an accidental
vision of the gallows flitting across his imagination.
To this favour, indeed, we have little doubt that lie
will ultimately come.—Edinburgls Paper.

A stall in 'Poayborough Ctithedral has become
vacant by the death orilie Rev, J. Parsons,

TIIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HirSE OF-LORDS.—(LAST NIGHT.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the Houee at a
few minutes before four o'clock.

The new Bishop of Chester (Dr. Sumner) was intro-
duced by the Bishops of London and Winchester, with the
usual formalities, after which he took the oaths and his
seat.—The House then adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
Wools.ick at five minutes pest five o'clock.
I lie Earl of SHAFTESBURY read his Majesty's An-
swer., to the Address, expressive of his Majesty's firm re-
liance on his Parliament in doing every thing that would
lead to the happiness of his people.
The Bishop of EXETER presented petitions from the
inhabitants of the city of Exeter, from Stanton in De-
vonshire, and from a parish in Cornwall, against further
concessions to the Roman Catholics.

The Earl of WINCHELSEA gave notice, that on Fri-
day he should present a petition from the inhabitants of
the county of Kent ageint further concessions to the Ro-
man Catholics. In giving this notice he begged to ask
the Noble Duke opposite (Wellington), when it was his
intention to present a petition in his hands, signed by
10,000 inhaintants in the neighbourhood of Bolton-le-
Moor. Perhaps, as it was not now consistent with his pre-
sent views, he would feel some delicacy in presenting it.
The Duke of WELLINGTON begged to state to their
Lordships, in answer to questions put to him, that he
should now present that petition. His Grace then pre-
sented it, together with others from the Presbytery of
Lanark, and the inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, pray-
ing for no concession to the Roman Catholics. He also
presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of the City
of Edinburgh, praying a repeal of the laws affecting them.
The Earl of ELDON presented petitions from the in-
habitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, the town and neigh-
bourhood of Newry, from a parish in 'Warwickshire, from
:Newark, from the hundred of Stratton, from Cardiean-
shire, Brecknockshire, }lintellire, and Denbigh, two from
parishes in Yorkshire, from the Dean and Chapter of the
Holy Trinity Church in Gloucester, from Ripon in York-
shire, from Newport Pagnell, from the Corporation of Wal-
lingford, from the Archdeaconry of Sudbury and by 110
clergymen, all against Catholic Emancipation.
Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from certain Pro-
testant Dissenters in South Shields, praying for a repeal of
all laws imposing political disabilities for religions tenets.
The petitioners were all Protestants, and belonged chiefly to
that body known by the name of Protestant Dissenters—
to that loyal and enlightened body, in whose favour their
Lordships had, last session, performed an act of well-me-
rited, though tardy justice. It must be satisfactory to their
Lordships, who had done so much good towards the peti-
tioners, to hear that good gratefully acknowledged ; and it
!inlet be gratifying to the advocates of the Dissenters to
learn, that their clients did not stop at the redress of their
own grievances, but were zealous in the endeavour to par-
ticipate their own political advantages with all classes of
the community, without any religious distinctions. But in
praying for the extension of the blessings of civil and reli-
gious liberty to their fellow-subjects of every persuasion, he
thought he did not gio too far in saying, that they pointed
particularly at their Roman Catholic brethren as most fit
objects fur their Lordships' liberality and justice. And,
considering the nature of the petition, and the instructions
he received with it, he was certain lie did not depart from
the course of their Lordships' proceedings, nor fall under
the admonition of the Noble and Learned Lord (Eldon)
who had just presented so many petitions of an opposite
tendency to their Lordship, by expressing his own satin •
faction with the conduct and sentiments of the petitioners,
old his own conviction that such were the sentiments of
the Protestant Dissenters as a body. He was happy that
ineasuren which he had had the honour some 25 or 30 years
ago to recommend in the other House of Parliament, were
at length stoma to be brought forward by those whom he
considered the most fitting instruments of their suc-
repo Shire that time he had contended, year after year,
in favour of the era: principles of civil and religious liberty;
but the day has at ;engtb COKaft when their Lordships have
conformed with his vieW, try taking the great question of
Catholic Emancipatiod into ter seisiotie consideration. He
was sure that the glad intellicr,":lt`e was a source of the
greatest satisfaction to every cumou:dde and enlightened
mind in the empire, as the measure its.'44 he was sure,
would be a sourced tranquillity and prosperitytd the empire,
The Earl of ELDON was perfectly satisfied that Noble
Lords were not aware of what they were doing last ses-
sion. Some thought that the Protestant Dissenters, if
they got the relief they prayed for, would net interferio at
all in respect to others, but the Committee which managed
their affairs, had actually advertised in the roost of the
public papers, that they were willing to join any persons in
petitioning for the removal of all Religious and Civil dis-
abilities. This was whit never would have been expected.
It was absolutely necessary that there should be ail Eccle-
siastical Establishment connected with every State. That
fact had 'lever been thought of till the moment the Go- I
vernment was likely to have it. Let those with whom the
Noble Lord had been labouring all his life advocate the
measure, but till the moment of his death would lie sop-
port it.
Lord HOLLAND felt it necessary to say that the Dis-
senters whom he represented on this ass;eaLon had been
uniform in their conduct and views. He knew nothing of
the advertisement alluded to by the Noble and Learned
Lord, but he thought it due to the Protestant Dieseotess
to state that their wide advocacy of the great principles of
civil and religious liberty was perfectly consistent with
their conduct and opinions before and after the repeal of
the Test and Corporation Act. The Noble Lord tiatn pre-
sented petitions in favour of the Catholic Claims, from
the Unitarian Dissenters of the town and neighbourhood of
Great Yarmouth, the Unitarians of a parish in the county
of Lancaster, and from the inhabitants of Wymerley.
The Bishop of BRISTOL presented a petition from the
persons assembling in the Church of All Saints, Bristol,
and Branstown, Somersetshire, against further eone,ezeions
to the Catholics.
The Bishop of BATH and WELLS was decidedly of
opinion that no further degree of political power could be
granted to the Roman Catholics without endangering the
State and the Protestant Establishment of this country.
The petitions he had to present were very numerous,
and very respectfully worded, therefore he hoped the House
would hear them with ail the respect lie conehlered due to
them. The petitions were against further concessions, and
from the inhabitants of Bath, and various parishes in
Romertaetsh i re.
Ti,,e Duke of BEAUFORT presented petitions against
the Cath elk Claims from parishes in Glonesestershire.
The BistOrt of DURHAM said, he would take advantage
of the occasion of presenting a similar petition fennt a
parish in Durhasn, to state that his opinions on the policy
of opposing the ados;ssion of the Unman Catholics to a full
share of the benefits 0:: the Constitution were unchanged ;
and that he was convince:, after the ntatiareat deliberation,
that the Catholic religion, by its very tratitp, precluded
its professors from affording'a satisfactory sectir:ity in a
Protestant state. He was anxious to give this public is-
pression of his deliberate opinions, for it had been lately in-
silliouely rumoured that he had become an advocate of con-
cession to the Roman Catholics.—(Hear, hear.;
The Duke of RICHMOND in presenting a petition
against concessions to the Catholics, declared that the won-
derful disclosures of the past week had in no way altered
his opinions, and therefore he had great satisfaction in pre-
senting his petition.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE understood the Noble
Duke opposite (Wellington) to have stated, that he ad-
vised hi. Majesty to make the the communication he last
week did, on the ground of its being the wish of the coun-
try at large, the measure proposed should be intended ; but
he believed it would now be very speedily ascertained, that
not wily was it not the sense of the country at large,
but that there would he triumphantly shown a power
decidedly hostile to the adoption of any such step.
The Noble Duke then presented:petitions against further
conteselons from. numerous parishes in the county of Not-
tingham.
In presenting a petition to the same effect from the in-
habitants of a parish, the name of whic:i we did not collect,
the Noble Duke adverted to the circumstieraee of the peti-
tioner* conceiving, acrd perhaps not unjustly, that their
sentinsente with respect to the Roman Catholic eta sots
were in unison with thaw enteetained by the majority set
the people of England upon that subject.
Lord HOLLAND could not admit dist the inkibitante
of the parish of expressed the opiolooa of the people
of England relative to Catholic emancipation. were
certainly very far from coiatiling with the eentimesiSis of
the majority of the representatives of the people in Parlia-
ment. He was old enough to remenelser the existence of
an opinion once very prevalent, that the aeosval of a dif-
ference of sentiment between the people and the House of
Commons was little short of treason on the part of ant
former. He had never been of that opiu:ssn himself ; on
the contrary, he had always stood up tor, and should ever
defend, the right of the subject to petition the Legislature
stai ,a sacred anti inalienable privilege. But when told
that this parish, or that village, represented the sensesof
flee eountry in their petitions, lie must refuse his assent
to the pa-oposition. Considering the mode in whicli some
petitions to Parliament were gotten up, the assumption
Miss rather ludicrous. When he heard of petitioners repLe-
tiessting the sense ad the country in this way, he wait forced
to recollect a saying pf Nr. Wilkes'e-.." Do you take the

liaise of the country; I will be content with the nonsense,
and have no doubt 1 shall beat you." (A laugh.) tie had
no hesitation in saying, that the inhabitants of any village
or town thus undertaking to represent the sense of the
people of England, though perhaps not exactly guilty of
a misdemeanour, as some persons might have once wished
or attempted to render them, did, notwithstanding, assume
what they had no right to assume. The sentiments con-
tained in the petition he was ready to take as those of the
petitioners themselves, who had no authority whatever for
crating that they were those of others, much less of the
people of England. It was quite right that the petitioners
should approach Parliament with a temperate and becsm-
ing expression of their own opinions, but utterly absurd
for them to arrogate to themselves the privilege of repre-
senting to the Legislature the notions of their fellow-sub-
jects upon this or any ether question.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE explained.

Lord HOLLAND observed, that if the Noble Duke
merely spoke his own sentiments on the subject in reference
to the number of petitions of a similar nature already pre-
sented, lie was undoubtedly justified in so doing ; hut if
it were to be said that the inhabitants of the parish of
represented the sense of the people of England on
this or any other subject, he (Lord Holland) must object
to the assertion as unparliamentary, if not unconstitu-
tional.

Earl HOWE presented petitions from Ashburn, Great
Linford, and several other places and parishes in Buck-
inghamshire, against further concessions to the Roman
Catholics.

A Noble Lord, whose name we did not learn, presented
a petition from the Roman Catholic inhabitants of a place
in Devonshire, in favour of Catholic Emancipation.
Lord BEXLEY rose to present a petition from the bo-
rough of Harwich, against any farther concessions to the
Roman Catholics ; and observed, that be could not lay a
petition upon this subject, coming from his former consti-
tuents, on their Lordships' table,without saying that he still
adhered to his old opinions, and those of his old constitu-
ents, with regard to the Catholic question. No alteration
hail taken place in his sentiments; and, surrounded by an
atmosphere charged with political conversions, he remained
wholly unaffected.
The petition, and a second to the same effect from a
place in Wales, was laid upon the table.
Lord LORTON presented petitions from the bishop and
clergy of the diocess of Killala, and from the inhabitants of
Killala and Castle Corner, i❑ the county of Sligo, against
further concessions to the Roman Catholics. He would
only say, that concurring (as he did) most heartily in the
sentiments contained in these petitions, he felt great plea-
sure in presenting them.
The Earl of \TRIM AM presented petitions from North-
church, Berkhampstead, and Tring, in Hertfordshire,
praying that the Protestant Constitution be preserved
inviolate," and against further concessions to the Roman
Catholics.—Laid on the table.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition
from the corporation of Oxford against the Roman Catho-
lic claims. Two petitions (we believe) to the same effect
were presented by Earl Brownlow from places in the coun-
ty of Lincoln.—Laid on the table.
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