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London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

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The Ist battalion 60th Regiment, 690 men, frond
the Cape of Gond Hopi, landed on Thursday at Ports-
mouth, and marched to Port Cumb?rland, to be dish
banded. The detention of these men on beard the
transports, sti long after their arritral, has arisen pat
bf the peculiar character of their case. They are prin-
cipally military offenders, who, under transmuted
sentences, were sent abroad to serve there Miring the
period of their natural life; but their battallort coming
within the scale of reduction to the peace estabkh-
ment, now they have returned home for that puttitise.,
it has become a queitien how they ought to he &malty
disposed of. About 70 of them, we undebstand. have
heretofore fbrfeited their lives to the laws of their
cooritry. It has been determined, that all the mea of
the battalion destined to serve for lift, shall be turned
over to the 2d and Sd battalions of the regiment.

EXECUTIONS.
Wednesday Alexander Robertsan was executed at
Glasgow, conformably to his sentence at the High
Court of Justiciary, for robbing the warehou'se df
Mr. JOON LOVE. At five minutes before two o'clock

the Magistrates entered the Town Hall, which was
crowded to excess, and Raillie ALSTON, Acting Chief
' Magistrate, ordered the criminal to be produced.—
He was attended by Mr. Mitcorteoort, the Jailor,
and the Assistants, and walked with considerable
firmness. The Rev. Dr. LOCKIIMIT, who had paid
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great attention to him during his confinement, was
seated at the head of the table, and read from the

sth verse of the 32d Psalm, and the greater part
joined in the singing. The wretched man paid great
attention, and the Doctor then offered up a very ap-
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propriate prayer, during which the prisoner seemed
very much affected, and tee person sitting next him
wiped his face with a handkerchief. Psalms were
again sung, in which the prkoncr joined with firm-
ness, but without using any gesticulation, and tha
service was finished by an affecting prayer from the
Rev. Mr. EWING, whose feelings were much moved.
Dr. Loom/tar ;hen stated to the Magistrates the
prisoner's gratitude for their kind attention ; and ex-
pressed his conviction that such a change had limn
effected on the prisoner as was likely, had he been
spared, to make his conduct very different. At a
quarter before three o'clock the Hall was cleared.—
The unhappy prisoner Robertson mounted the scaf-
fold with a firm step and a calm countenance. The
drop was very considerable, and the crash excited a
strong sensation throughout the surrounding multi-
tude, not less it is supposed than 50,000; but it was
his own request, as, from his being a light man, he
was afraid of struggling. He had been in business
on his own account, and had made a voyage to
America as a merchant ; but won after his return
home, he got acquainted with loose company, and
was twice tried before the perpetration of the crime
for which he suffered. Some time after his return

from Edinburgh, where he was convicted, he was ra-
ther indifferent to his fate, but when. all hopes of a
reprieve had vanished be became all that his Clirrleal
attendants could wish, and they seemed very inte-
rested about him. He was genteel looking, and was
only 24 years of age. After hanging 45 minutes, the
body was cut down, and the crowd quietly dispersed.
Monday, O'Hara and Brennan, who were eapi-
tally convicted at the last Assizes of Roscommon,
underwent the awful sentence of the htw at that place.
On Sunday night, the 20th March, about six o clock
in the evening, immediately after the Clergyman left
them, the under jailer who was most humanely kind
to them, went as usual to lock thent up. He sat a few
minutes with them, when they sent him for some
turf; and on his return to the cell, they mocked him
down and mtirdered him in a cruel manner, by stran-
gulation. He his left aft unfortunate widow and ten
children to deplore his loss. After they murdered
him, they took from him the keys, by which means
they got to the top of the pr.ison to effect their escape,
when, fortunately,' one of the 15th Regiment, who
was sentinel, perceived them on'the top; by the noise
'of their bolts, and gave the alarni, When they were
immediately secured. They.solemnly deelarecf‘their
iennocence of the murder, and when brought out
to see the dead body, called on GOD to witness
their innocence, but at one o'clock in the morning
.they confessed their guilt of the murder, as well
as the robbery, for which they were to suffer.—
Those men's relations in Roscommon are respectable
farmers, far above the lower orders, but they leave
always been men of had'character. They seemed
unconcerned at the awful fate which awaited them,
until the day before their execution, oa the morning
of which they seemed penitent, and ascended the
fatal platform with much steadiness. They spoke at
some length. to the populace, which exceeded in
number any thing ever witne=sed on a former ccce-
sion, and warned them against illegal meetings and
bad company, which btought them to the gallows.
At hall-past twelve they were launched into eternity.
They did not suffer much. Their bodies wpre then,
by the directions igGovernment to the Sheriff, bOried
in the geld yaid; which • seemed to have an equal
effect with the execution on the populace.. Previous
to their execution; the Sheriff, who received' an order
from Ciovernment to remove all the convicts under
sentence of transportation, on that day to Cork,
caused the convicts all to be put on cars, chained to-
gether, in front of the prison, to witness the execution,
wnere their friends attended to take leave of them.
The. moment the execution was over, they were
marched off, Under.a strong escort.
Saturday seunnight, about half-past two, Nicho-
las K,el,(3onul Thomas Carra4l, were executed in front
Of the Watcrfiir4 eounty jail, pursuant to their sen-
tence at tile lute Assizes foe that County ; the former
for stealing, on the sth of December last, at Kilmac-
thomas, a mare, ,bridle, end saddle, the property of
Edmund Cantwell; 9f carrick.on-Spir, Esq and the
latter for stealing a cow, the property of Patrick
Loneegae, neitec,ab,er, on the Ist of January. They
both acknowledged theirluseing participated, in, che
offences for,,which they. ,suffered, and eveuC.ed,
their last Memento, she .etsoes'est ePpeeranc4 at ro
aitence azd.reSignatiOn to don unhappy fv4 „.,
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• ~.At tbeititeiAssiass loantaster, a Tory.old
an. Irishman, was lamest •gaikye:cle an Alifeligs M
which le :eras sentenced to fint Out, ye '
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till your Lordship told me

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OE CHANCERY, APRIL 8.
IDVILI OF MARLBOROUGH V. THE EARL OF SHAFFER-

BURY, LORD Re SPENCER, AND OTHERS.
This case occupie&Lhe attention of the Court for
two days, and eight Counsel were engaged in it.
The motion before the LORD CHANCELLOR was,
that the receive!, who had lately been appointed on
the estates, be discharged. On the one side it was
argued, that the appointment of a receiver was im-
proper, because, by the Act of Parliament which con-
ferred the estates on the Great Duke for his achieve-
ments abroad, it was stipulated that no successor of
the Duke should at any time, or under any circum-1
.Einces, be allowed to let the estate and mansion-
house, as Parliament had determined that such man-
sion.house and estate should in perpetuum be occu-
pied by the noble family to which they were granted.
It was obvious, therefore, if the Duke coull no: let
the property; that the proceeds of the estates should
be paid to him personally; and no creditor had a
right to ask for a receiver. The creditors Might on
the same grounds as well come at once and turn the
Duke out of the hose, as debar him from being paid:

the rents. Oa the other hand *!iwas said, tiai the
receiver was very properly appe inted,. and that 'the'
Court, in such appointments, had acted on the gene-
ral .principles which always governed it. The Duke
was, no doubt, entitled to the estates; but the ques-
tion was, whether the language of the Act of Parlia-
ment would bear that legaimeaning which was stamd
by the opposite side? The Court had, in a variety
of former cases, appointed a receiver in similar cir-
cumstances: The Learned Couniel then, at great
length, went over the Acts of Parliament of the 3d
anci sth of Anne, and the 2d of George Ist, and con-
tended, that from Mese Acts there was nothing shewn
by the,Counsel for the Duke to justify them in mov-
ing for the discharge of the receiver.
The Loup CIIANCLI.LOR was of opinion that the
point now before him was one of importance, on
more accounts than one. it was important, first, as
it related to the julidiction of the Court; and, se-
condly, as it ins-dyed the meaning (idle two Acts of
n! A,e, and t:te Act of the Ist c'Gwrge l; As to the
legal me::niag of the Acts, he had lostothver, ex4e.-
c;9, to determine that ; and -it would, therefore, be
proper for him to take the opinion of the. Court of
King's Bench oa that subject. Whether there was an
equitable meaning, was, at present, a different ques-
tion ; and on the legal meaning he would take the
ei;::;ion of the Conn he had just mentioned. He un-
ci:,:stood that a very important case had been decided
elsewhere. in which the Att, rney-General and the
Marquis cf. Blan.i:ord Vere relators, and the Duke of
tiarlborou!lli was defendant, wilere the question of
riwnership turd been fully gone into, and the right of
Cm Duke diseased as to cutting down trees. He
should _finally decide this case after the recess.

VICE-CHANCELLOR:6 COURT, APRIL 10,
Ix THE MAT ?SS 07 SENNICT'S CUARITY.

This was an application to the Court to grant a
proposed union between two Charities. In 1672, a
Gentleman, living in Northampton, bequeathed a
large property to trustees, fair educating poor chil-
dren. Afterwards Mr. Bennet bequeathed some es—
tates:for putting the boys, educated in that school,
oat'apprenticesi each-boy to have an apprentice fee,
of kW, and I:20 on finishing his time. The funds of
the school did not yield name than £5O now, while'
the other charity was quiteallient, and had a large
surplus on hand. - The object of the Fraier was to
have that surplus applied to the educating funds.
Is The Vice-Ctioxcat.tott—., This is a most com-
•mendable application, and I do with much pleasure
say; it Meets my approbation. You will, pro forma,
serve the Attorney-General with a copy of the peti-
tion; and, as he is the e.;lfficio guardian of charities,
he will agree to it, I am sure it is a very pr.oper•
case for the Court. Public charities are a subject'
which cannot be too much looked lute