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M_AS _----SEREAUX AND NICHOLSOIt.- EXECUTIONS •
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LEEDS, AUGUST 11.1. • - • •COunts. '
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ay morning the gallows intended . .
On Thursday last, at tee o'clock, the Court-Mar, Hier* you any reason' to suppose that an offer was. .'
tial convened on the trial of Lieutenant-Colonel made by Mr. Maxwell to liquidate the balantels-11 execution of Jileuureaux, who was convicted op Fri.
Mamiztt, the Paymaster of the Leeds District, as. have understood•from Mr. hie:vigil that he had made Jay last at the Maidstone Assizes of murderink a
sembled in the large room of the White Horse Ta-; Mt nfferto liquidate part.of the balances. • Marine on board the Sampson prison ship, as early
Teen at this place. • • ' To what amount i—l do not know, as_ three o'clock, was conveyed to Gillinghant, of
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Peeezpvwx, Meler-GmerslCasear, Vint Toot Chords. A copy of a letter from Colonel Catephell (now. which place the. prison ships are stationed. It was
DirOTT.JUDGt ADIFOCAT% : •. denial Campbell) to the Secrttaky at Win' dated erected on the hanks of the river, in the Lull view/ of
Major Gunter Dassiusox, Royal Retintent, 404111ary.
• the 12th June ISIS, and suiting that upwards •of all the inisdhere-
The Members being sworn, the g charge, " • • At seven o'clock, Missereanz was taken from the'
•••• e • 4410 had. been paid taco his bands by Lieutenant-,
was read : . jail heavily ironed; and, together with the execnti9ner
for =welled= in his office otperhoocont.coet..e Leads ffie. ' Colonel Maxwell, op account of the public, was then'
trailing District, In laving telbesaleder osisamplistate sent of, inn ill. allid lead. • . • and his assistants, and a clergyman, look his seat in
seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-el& pallikis 4131.1hii^ • The next questions were proposed by the pewees. a post carriage and four, and was driven to the spot
ling., or thereabouts, of the public mosey. ~ , tar; siadrtlated teethe twolids paid by the Paymas. ' where he was to pay the forfeit of his life for the crime
Colonel SALM, to whom, by the appointment of and it. he had committed. After sentence of death was
r which were sot entered is "the
blivernmenip the conduct of the prosecution was appeared t........a.. passed upon him, he. lost all. that.firratioss which he
confided.. submitted the different items in the Sc- trot... the lettsversvttatit this transaction took e
"Jame while.** Assistant Paymaster was on duty display on his trial. and seemed to be absorbed in
count,. from which it appeared that the following with the Laval Militia, and that not having been despair. On. his arrival at the gallows he joined
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bdances were due from Lieutenant-Colonel Max- placed on the office She; they were overlooked. Cap., prayer with a Catholic chaplain, arid after a short
WELL to the Public: lain jseitisit further stated, that, on a final strange.' interval was launched into eteroity. An immense
From June et, tato, to Dec. 24, to . ets77 14 4 21„,„, .1.. —7
. larowd attended on the occasion, and the river was
Front Dec. 25, laic, w Dec. at,. let 4 . toss.. . a.... ni .....-secounts, he did not think the balances, • . ,
' Prom Dee. its, 1811,tti-Des. es. mini,'" ; - 170 ,as• a ; 'would b* Materially different to the statement that covered with boats, filled with spectators..
From Dec. 25,181 w, to Dec. ilk tette...: . - 714 OIP . iled-iiireedy been made out of the accounts, not. This awful ceremony over, the executioner atid.
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Deficient in the• Clothing Amount .. . % 111111 •%.14 I, psoirciii the owns balance either way than £lOO. the other officers of the law returned to Maidstone, '
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Property Tax Account not made up. - .• - Ificlusive of the bills of £lOO and £l5O which had toettend the execution of Nicholson, who rose at an
Against these deficiencies a nediber of items in i been • . •• • • early hour in the morning, and seemed to regard hit
admitted, and which went to diminish the be-' 1
favour of '.ihe Paymaster .were to be placed, wl ch '
I: once againet• Mr. blame:lL
.•, ii approaching fate with calmness and fortitude.
reduced the balance to. the iguana; stated sir 'din' . -
,he was ce visited by . i • Darin Sunday, tau • Mr. &oar,
4.. lied you any wens of knowing any thing respee.., 1,... s
charge.
• • th .prior to the time you and General : It' stio entertained a suspicion that the wretched •
- The only wheelie. .44,44101! the irtleccetleellette we'Sti be ex . fled the setenuts?--yes, i had. ei i might have_
_somethieg to communicate. To
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General CHARLES CAatPlial‘ late nspectingteield • .
laP your' from the office on- duty, .who ~ e
%if the bung ess of 'dent question4'whieb, weK put to him, howeier,
011icer of this District, and CAPtain Jae.irauti„ the .: tea
y I—l suppose, the n solemnly declared this he had alreatly diselosed
Assistant Paymaster, who deposed, that they -had, - . all that he had ft make known. - 1
Pa master.
by the direction of Government, examined the Pay.i . • Yesterday inoetiag Mr. Bonar paid him a last visite
t Lieutenant-Col l Bennett, Of the Std regiment,
master's. accounts, and that the balance, as stated . and, in compliance with his earnest entreaties, told
sibittaptain Priesdey, late of the same regiment, de.
above, was, to the best of their knowledge, cotreet.., him repeatedly that he freely forgave him for all the
posed, that they had known Lieutenant-colonel hdaz.
This sins the case of the prosecutor, and at the well intimatelyi both when he was a injuries he had sustained at his hands.
or many years,
request" Of Lietttenant-Colonel MA xwri,L, the C. le tAt twelve o'clock Mr. Dudlow, the Under Sheriff,
Field Officer in the 52.1 regiment, and since he be-
. adjourned sit one o'clock on Thursday, to lY i 'clock returned from Gillingham, and, on reaching the gaol,
came Paymaster of the Leeds District, and that they
.on the following day, at which hour the. Colonel said --- - - - ' possible , desired that Nichol. ' ;lit hold himself in readi-

he should be prepared to enter upon his defence.
Pit WAY, AUGUST 20.
The Court having assembled, at twelve o'clock,
Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwzt.L, after a tew introduc-
tory observations to the effect, that the deficiency
which had arisen was rather to be• imputed to the
embarrassment of the accounts than to guy intention
on his part to " embezzle or misapply" the public
money, proceeded to call his witnesses.
General CANIPWALL, his first witness,, stated, that
Cohiinel Maxwell had represented to him, that owing
to the inadequate assistance in the Paymaster's Office,
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the accounts had got' const4 bly into arrears, and
that it was within his own knowledge, that the finan-
cial department of the depots created so much busi-
ness in that office as to lead to much embarrassment',
and delay in the accounts ; and that he, Genernl
Campbell, had repeatedly, at the instance of the
Paymaster, submitted representations to the War-
Office to this effect.
in confirmation of these facts, two series of letters,
the first from Lieutenant-Colonel MAXWELL, and. the'
.second from General CAMPBELL, to the Secretary at
War, were put in and read, in one of which it was
stated, that the Paymast is tooks were seven quar-
ters in arrears, for want of sufficient clerka in the
office to make up the accounts.' .
General CAMPBELL proceeded to state, in answer
to questions prt,posed to him by Lieutenant-C(4onel
Maxwell, that he had at all times had lull access to

bad. ever held his character in the highest
estimation, both as an officer and a gentleman.
The evidence on the part of the defence having
closed; •
•,-.Lieutenant.Colonel MAXWELL, in order to ishew
that he had no intention to embeZzle the public mo.
pry, appealed to the whole body of evidence to prove
that he had not in any single instance kept back any
voucher .or document that could furnish a shadow of
suspicion against him ; end that the only omission
that had appeared, was in his-favour. That he had
been guilty of misapplication of the public money, he
did not deny but he hoped the Court would not
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visit the indiscreet anticipation of resources which had
unexpectedly. failed him, with the penalties and dis-
grace of an abandoned swindler. He admitted, that
he had found himself incompetent to the intricate de-
tails of official affairs, and that the accumulated load
of unsettled balances quite overpowered him. He
was aware that the ruin of his fortunes must be the'
result; but he implored the honourable tribunal be-
fore which he siood to save his honour; and, if his
character was not destroyed, all would not be lost :
he begged this for his own sake, but more especially
on Isoki.df of his unconscious wife and unoffending
children. He then proceeded to offer some observa-
tions on the evidence on which the charge rested, and
said that nothing but the clearest proof should be ad-
mitted to substantiate such serious balances. He de-
clared solemnly, that he was never till very recently
aware of the - Ide of the balances as> inst him •

his accounts. and that he had reason to believe that
the Paymaster had not practised any fraud or kept
back any vouchers, 46 and that he had . always the
highest opinion of him as an Otlicer and as a
Gentleman."

of _ magnituL
and he said it must be manifest, trom an examination
of the accounts, that all the deficiencies must have
arisen before the 23d of March last, when the Mu-
tiny Act, which made the offence with which he stood
charged so highly penal, received the royal assent.

By the CoonT.—As you have had constant access
to the prisoner's public papers, have you any suppo-
sition how so large a sum as that stated in the charge
became deficient ?;---By an unfortunate indiscretion.
Did Mr. Maxwell exert himself as much as possi.
ble, as far as came under your observation, to for-
ward the business of the office ?—1 did not think
Mr. Maxwell a man of business.
By the COM KT, to Lieutenant-Colonel MAXWE4I.-••••
Is Mr. Maxwell in. posssesion of any document that
can in any way account for the large deficiency that
remains due from bins to the public ?—ln my pecu-
liar situation I must decline to answer that question.
Captain JacasoN, the next witness called fur the
accused, stated, that on his entrance into that office
at-t4\April, 1811, he found the accounts very much in
ears ; that there were then six depots in the
district, and that the requisite attention to their finan-
cial affairs introduced great confusion into the pay.
master's accounts. He further stated that two bills,
one of them for 4€loo and the other for £l5O, bad
been paid by Colonel Maxwell, on account of the
public service, without having been passed to .his
credit, and he thought it probable, that on a final
examination of the accounts, other sums might be
found in the same situation. During the time he had
been in the office he never discovered the least Wien.
don of fraud or dishonesty on the part of Mr. Max-
well, who, he knows, has paid money out of his own ,
pocket to clerks employed in the duties of the office,
to facilitate the progress of the accounts.
By Lieutenant• Colonel MAXWELL.—Conversant ad
you are in the accounts of the cffice, had you any
reason to suppose, till very lately; that the balances
against me were so considerable ?—No ; I had not:
By the Couttr.—Can you give any reason why
the accounts of Mr. Maxwell have not been made
out since his suspension as Paymaster ?—They have
been made out for one quarter, and tendered to the
Superintendent of Accounts; and there is another
quarter in as great forwardness as the means of the
office will allow.

ness. The sledge which had been prepared for his
conveyance, was then drawn up t..) the door, and
shortly before one, he was conducted forth, still
heavily ironed, and confined in the same manner as
dining his trial. A halter was placed around his
neck, and which was tied to the front 2f the sledge.
He looked extremely pale, but still preserved a de-
gree of fortitude perfectly consistent with the resig.
nation which he evinced throughout the whole of his
unhappy situation.
Every thing being in readiness, the melancholy
procession advanced at a slow pace towards

Penning. ,
don Heath, where a temporary' platform and gal-
lows had been erected. It was preceded by a coasi-
derable number of public officers and constables to
clear the way. The sledge went first, and was fol.
lowed by the carriage containing the executioner arid
his assistants, and a chaise, in which was Mr. Dud.
*low and the Catholic Priest. These were followed
by other Police Officers, and an immense concourse
of spectators, who had been collected from MU parts
of the country, closed the exhibition. It was nearly
two o'clock before the procession reached the Heath,
where the multitude assembled exceeded any thing
we evir before witnessed on a similar occasion.:
The unfortunate wretch, now the object of such
general acteation„seenied to be deeply meat on the
drzulf4Lscene, in which he was so prominent a cha-
racter. He looked around him with confusion and
slame marked in his countenance, and seemed anxi-

nighly _1
After a number of other observations, he concluded by
saying-44 If then the evidence which has been laid.
before you establishes beyond a question the charge of
misapplication, I ask you not to screen me from the
consequences which await my extravagance ; but I.
conjure you, by the sympathy which honourable,
minds feel in the wounds of an injured reputation, to
protect me by your sentence from the accusation, or
even the suspicion, of dishonest motives."
Lieutenant-Colonel Maxweu.'s defence being gone
through, tht Court adjourned till Monday, on which
day the deliberations will close, but the sentence can-
net be promulgated till it has received the sanction
of the PRINCE REGENT.
Lieutenant J. Joys, of the 24th Regiment, serving
in the Peninsula, has been sentenced by a Cyurt Mar-
tial to be dismissed the service, for defrauding a ser-
jeant and several privates-of some balances due to
them ; and also tor defrauding one Latour, an hotel-
keeper at Lisbon, of the amount of a bill which he
had run up at his house.

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ous to bury, in a speedy dissolution, the rev:inaction
Of his crimes. Mr. Branum, the Catholic Clergy.
man, now approached bins, and joined with bim in.
fervent prayer. He ascended the plattirm with
some difficulty, by the assistance of the executioner,

who soon made the necessary arrangements of his
office, and in a few molds the wretched man WAS
no more !
Among others who IWO 'present was Mr: Boner.
who having thus witnessed the last struggle of ouo
who had' heaped upon him miseries so arnisings•
took his departure for London, having previously
made arrangements, by engaging horses on the roads'
for his speedy conveyance..
The body of -Nicholson, after hanging the usual
time, was cut down, and conveyed, we understands
to a surgeon at Bromley, for dissection.

HATTON GAND2N--YOSSOCIST Cask:riser Leery
the wife of James Leary, was brought up from the
House of Correction, Coldbath•fields, in order to un-.
dergo an examination relative to the murder of Ed.—
ward Clifford. The two eldest daughters of the sup.
posed widow of the, deceased were also brought
from the workhouse, and several fresh witnesses at-
tended, whose testimonies might throw some more
light on this mysterious murder. The two children
of Mrs. Clifford, by Burke, sat with their uncle, Mr.
Thomas Lyons, in the parlour of the Bleeding Hart •
public house, and Mrs. Leary, with her infant in her
Arms, sat above stairs in the same house, in the cus.
tody of Cooke and Thisleton, who, at their own ex.
pence, ordered her both meat and drink, and pro.
mised her to represent her situation to the Magis-
trate, in order to let her have a little more allowance
whilst in prison, she having a child seven months old
to support, and lost her breast of milk. She was also
promised that she should see her unfortunate husband
that evening for a quarter of an hour, in the presence
of the officers, on condition that she should not speak
a word of Irish. • Colonel O'Kw.tx sat along with
the Magistrates, who commenced the business of the
day by hearing summonses and night charges, &c.
in order to have the Office clear, wheat a difference
between some builders took -up the time till nearly
three o'clock, an hour too late to commence the inten-
ded examination, and in consequence of which it was
postponed.
Bow-srazrr.—Yesterday several Lascars attended
to make a complaint against a person for the sup-
posed Murder of one of their countrymen, soon after
they sailed from India.
On Sunday night a party of the horse patrole ap.
prehended three young men on Finchley Common, on
suspicion of being footpads, and yesterday they un.
derwent an examination before Mr. READ. On being
pressed so give an account of themselves they atknol.
ledged that they were sailors, and had ruu away from
their ship at Deptford, to which they were appren-
tices. This statement was corroborated by scvgral
circumstances, and the Magistrate ordered the pa-
trole to carry them on board the ship which they de-
scribed themselves to have deserted from, and if their
account was correct, to deliver them up.

NAVAL COURTS MARTIAL.—Friday se'nnight, a
court Martial was held on board his Majesty's ship
tGLADIATOR, Rear-Admiral FOOTE President, otr
nomai Mahal, seaman, belonging to his Majesty's
ship GARLAND, for desertion, and for being afterwards
found serving on board-the American brig of war
Vixen. The Court was of opinion that the charge
was proved ; but, in consideration of circumstances,
did adjudge him to receive SOO lashes through the
fleet, to forfeit all his wages, and to solitary confine-
ment in the Marshalsea for twelve calendar months.
The Court Martial which has been so long em-
ployed in the trial of Dr. Hume, terminated last Wed-
nesday at Plymouth. The decision of the Court awaits
the approbation of the PitiNce REGENT.
Tuesday last, a Court-Martial was held on board
the GLADIATOR, Rear-Admiral FOOTE President, on
George Brooks alias Alexander' Lovendale, and James
roung alias Samuel Butler, seamen belonging to his
Majesty's ship PORCUTINR, for mutiny when on board
an Ameritan brig detained by his Majesty's brig
FERRET, in the year 1807 ; the Lieutenant and two
seamen being put into a boat that was stove at ten
p. m. it then blowing fresh, the Lieutenant reaching
Jamaica two day' after.—The charge not being
proved, they were acquitted.
The Court then proceeded to try Lieutenant John
Baldish, of his Majesty's sloop HAZARD, for a breach
of the 27th article of war, preferred by Mr. —,
Purser of the said sloop : the Court were of opinion
that the charge was frivolous and unfounded, and
highly.injurious to his Majesty's service. The Court
then proceeded to try Lieutenant R. Carter, 2d of the
HAZARD, on nearly the same charges, brought for-
ward by the same person, and gave the same opinion
, wt the merits of the case.

Inform the Court, if you believe that time and as- i
sistance only are requisite to remove the embarass-
ments in Mr. Maxwell's accounts do.
Another question was handed to the Deputy Judge
Advocate to transcribe into the Minutes; but before
it was put, the public clock struck three, after which
hour the Articles of War do not allow Courts Mar-
tial
to sit ; and they, in consequence, adjourned to
half-past nine in the morning.
SATURDAY—Auourr 21.
The Court being resumed, Captain Jacicsort's exa-
ruination was proceeded in ; and the first question
proposed was— •
Do you think That time and assistance would have
liquidated the balances due from the prisoner to the
public, or any cousiderable part of them ?—I do apt.
Inform the Court, if it is your belief that time and