Star.
London, England, 1824-01-09 00:00:00

PROBERTS DISCHARGE.

Frobert might have taken his departure on Wednes-
day night, but he preferred. going to the jail, as there
swere man/ of 'Lumen's friends in town whom he had
no desire to encounter. He was yesterday morning
quitting the prison. without paying some small debt
which he ossed Mr. Wilson; upon which that Gentle-
man stopped him, and insisted upon being paid before
he went. Probert, re!uctantly, put
.his hand into his
pocket, and dischargq the debt. On going forth, he
turned towards the town, but got out of the main sweet
into back-street as soon as possible, manifestly wishing
to escape the observation of any person he might meet.
.defore Ps obert had proceeded far he met his wire, Miss
Noyes, and Thomas Noyes. Their recognition of each
other was cold ; and after conversing for a fesi minutes,
I rebert left the party, and proceeded in an opposite di-
:ecrion to that which they took. He was afterwards
--..;en walking round the town with a man of respectable
4?pearance. lie himself was well dressel, and walked
with a swag.geri% air. Ile afterwards proceeded to the
hart Inn, where his stile has been residing. A
c'awd followed him; and in the first moments of his
nrerty, he heard audibly the moral judgment passed
't son him by the tribunal of public opinion, from which
f!)ere is no evasion, by any treachery he can practise to-
:4;:rds his confederates. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd felt such
?dignation at the appearance in public of Probert and
-11% wife, that he hired a chaise at his own expense,
4.1 d sent then) to London at four o'clock this day.
i':-obert's manner, on leaving the jail, was,offensive and
`vagisering ; he passed through the streets, nodding
-4calliarly to several persons whom he accidentally knew
/repenters of the jail i his indecent behaviour created

a genez al feeling of indignation and disgust ; he was
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advised, just before his liberatiin;to quit the country;
'be replied that he had no mean,, and thetefore could
not if he was inclined ; which, from the harmer of em•
phasising his words, he seemed to intimate he was not.
The rebukes he afterwards met with induced him to
hide himself at the inn, and when. heleft town in the
post-chaise furnished by the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the blinds
were drawn up.
Where can this unhappy wretch hide his head ? The
grave is his only refuge. Ai the waters receded when
the Lama approached them, so must society recede
when he. attempts to mingle with it. In the midst of
mankind, Itewoill find himself worse thin in solitude.—
Ig the latter he would, indeed,'be inflicted by the pangs
of conscience, by the gnawings of " the worm that
never dies(' but, should he appear in society, he will,
in addition, hare to encounter " the slow and moving
finger" of public scorn, which will point 'him out at
every step and turn. •

EXECUTION OF THURTELL,
THIS DAY.

HERTFORD, FRIDAY, NINE o'CLocx. I
The influx of persons from all parts to witness the
execution of Thurtell is even greater than on the occa-
sion of the trial. Every road leading into the town is
pouring iii its swarms ; and among the strangers not a

few of the Fancy and 1 and Jerry schools are i emarked.
Morten has ceased to protest his innocence, but yet
makes no acknowledgment of his guilt. When told by
.the Reverend Chaplain that his sins need only to be
.repented of to be forgiven, lie pertinently remarked,
Well, Sir, if I repent them, which from the bottom of

my soul I do, is it necessary that I should also confess
them, when no good is to be done by the disclosure?'
Drurtell seems to be actuated in his silence, •by the
delusive expectation so common to malefactors, of les-
sening the ignominy of their fate by withholding to the
last their own concurrence in the justice of their sentence.

HERTFORD, 11 u'CLocz.

The county of Hertford seems to have emptied its
whole population into this town, the streets of which
resemble those of the metropolis during au election, or
a public procession ; the number of countrymen whose
innocent and anxious gaze look at everything and -
everybody, is thickly intermingled with Londoners,
whose knowing looks form a singular contrast, and give
no very favourable specimen of the inhabitants of the
great city. It is not, however, to the lower classes that
the curiosity to ir itness one of the most awful scenes that
human nature 'can behold, is confined; every minute
sonic coach, private carriage, postchaise, or other vehid
cle, is seen forcing itself through the dense population
which fills the strvets ; and I learn Korn several persons,
who have arrived from town this rum ning, that the whole
wad is one continued throng of eauestrians, pedestrians,
' and vehicular travellers. Broken down carriages and
broken down horses, are met ss ith in all. parts of
the road ; nor is it on the London side of Hert-
ford alone that this bustle prevails—every avenue
to Hertford presents a similar scene; and even now,
country people are arriving every moment, eagerly en-
quiring when and is hei e the execution is to take• place.
So eager is the anxiety to behold the appal.ing spectacle,
that I much doubt a greater number of persons were
assembled to witness the execution of Holloway and
Haggerty, when such calamitous consequences marked
the event; or when Thistlewood and his* associates
paid the forfeit of a traitor's life. The plate where the
gallows is erected is by no means favourable for afford-
ing a view to a great crowd, and it is much to be feared
that curiosity may get the better of piiidence, and that
sever al accidents may arise from the pressure.

BY EXPRESS.
HERTFORD, HALF-PAST ONE.

Every spot which.conimalided the most distant view
of the melancholy scene was occupied by spectators.—
There must have been at least 80,000 'persons present,
About eleven o'clock a cow house on the side• of the
road opposite to the jail, the roof of which was covered
with people, suddenly gave way, with a great crash.—
Happily Mr. Wilson, the gaoler, anticipating the
possibility of such an accident, had providently stuffed