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

the p►;ud bas 'teen twice thorou6ly Search,d,)
hammer only, and not a mallet, were the blows and fractures
upon the heads of both the murdered persons inflicted. There
was no mirk whatever of a mallet hating been in my way
used in this horrible work of death.

With relation to his alleged companions in the rohhiry,
Hussey appears to.have evinced feelings of considerable in-
dulgence; for, although he planned the robbery, yet he re-
ceived the smallest share of the plunder, and took upon him-
se! f all the. risk of the discovery; for he undertook to di:pose
of the instruments of death, and kept in his possession the
bloody clothes, which most, when discovered, add to the other
presumptions against him ; and, while he lurks about the
scene of the assaisination_, his associates, the actual murder-
ers, (whose names, tie it known, are,, by accident no doubt,
the most common to he found in the Navy List) escape, with-
out a trace to lead to their detection, or even t heir destina-
tion.

Bat, to convince any reasonable inquirer of the falsehood
of Hussey's declaration, it is 'only requisite t,t, compare a short
computation of the tune he gives, with the data furnished by
the testimony of accurate witnesses.
The declaration alleges, that the house was entered between
eight and nine; some space of time intervened between A
linoe king at the door, and B (overcooling the ditticeities be
found in getting into the house. Another all wance of time
must be made for the commission of the murder, Mr. Bird
baring struggled a good deal. Hussey was 20 minntes uo the
watch, before he went. to the door to theie associates. Hr
was in the house for 5 minutes, and then waited 10 minutes
for them. They went to the Park to divide the plunder;
probably we should allow 10 minutes for this. part of the
transaction ; the division of the booty might take 5 minutes.
Fluseey's return front thence to dress, and the act of changing
his clothes, cannot be computed at less than a quarter (Ilan
Dour. His then going to the pond at Vansittatt terrace, to
conceal the hammer and mallet, anti his returning to the
Tiger's Head, must have consumed at least lu minutes or te
quarter of an hour more.
By his account, therein e, of the transaction, front the com—
.of the murder to his joining his companions tat the
Tiger's Head, .it would v,:quire, upon the must moderate
computation, an hunt and a half, and probably a much louger
time than this calenlation amounts to. . _

Compare this wiih the proofs upon the trial. Mr Bird and
his housekeeper were seen alive at 20 minutes et half-past
right; and all the witnesses agreed that about 211 minutes
atter nine (one witness said 10 minutes past nine) Hussey
was at the Tiger's Head; so that all these different circum-
stances must, if they took place at all, have occupied only 40
minutes—a thing quite incredible ta those who know the re-
lative situation of Mr. Bird's and Letton's houses and Green•
such Park. _

Upon these grounds, strengthened by other minor circum-
stances of corrohoratinn, is my conviction founded, that
Charles Hussey's own hand infl.cted the mortal biases upon
Mr. Bird and his house-hreper ; that he bad preciously se-
creted the hammer for the express purpose; that he knocked
at the door at half-past eight o'clock, and, while speaking to
the maid, felled her to the ground with his right hand, and
thrust•to the street-door with his left; that 'upon Mr. Bird's
advancing to the door, he was in like manner struck down by
the listninet ; that he made a hasty search ttiroiLls the house,
and having moved the house-keeper front the front door (as
her body had fallen so as to prevent the door lions opening),
be gut his jacket and gaiters bloody, and the latter marked
with rumit ; that he took the brindle of things he stole to the
dark cellar at ',Won's, and threw the hammer into the
pond; that he then changed his clothes, ar.d immediaiely re-
turned to the Cluh, where he spent the evening, unaffected
by the foul atrocity in which he had been engaged; and
that he depended mainly for his acquittal upan the early
h‘itir in the evening at which he mixed amongst the members
of his club.

It may be felt, and, indeed, has been urged, that Hussey
made his confession after joining in the solemn office of re-
ceiving the sacrament. and that he could have no expectation
then of escaping punishment. Whatever weight these tonsi-
derations might hare in the case of an ordinary offender, in
the present they have no weight with me. He received the
sacrament denying his implication in the offence ; and in his.
last letter to his brother before the trial, he exults, that,
however the general opinion was against him, still while
there is life there's hope." J. L. ItICKNELL.
Cireenw•ich, Sept. 1.

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