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London, England, 1820-09-12 00:00:00

this tedrld to make them forget the concerns of their
precious souls. He then en:rea,ed them to love and
venerate the Bible, and when they trok it up to con,
rider that it was not o:.e of the pro! hare or pet ishirg
productions of n.an, btu the I.les.ed ord f Goo
He Concluded with stating, that they kticoa not how
soon they might e called to a:Tear !wrote their
CnitaTon: and he enti eated them to retire and pray
that they mizlit be enabled to avoid the workers of
iniquity. Hardie then stepped forward, and in a less
addible voice dent over neatly the same topics. Ho
reAuested the crowd not to go to public.houses to
drink to the memo's. of Baird and Hardie ; hut to
go !rime and think of Goo, and mend their lives.—
He then jai 1. " I die a martyr to the cause of truth
and kis ce 1" The cloud save a fa lit cheer, an.i
immediately, as if in a panic, they fled towards the.
cross streets and closbsi.

While the executioner was busy in putting the cap
over Baird's face, and the rope found his neck, Har-
die knelt down beside his ccffin, and again sting the
first verse of the fifth hymn, and said a short prayer.
He then stood up, and when the cap was dra►. n over
his face; and the ripe put round his neck. Mr. Bared
came close behind them, and pronounced a L cry im-
pressive prayer. As soon as he had concluded, the
prisoners caught etch other's hands, and prayed for
a moment. Hardie dropped the signal, and they
were immediately thrown off, and died without a
struggle. Baird kept his copy If the Nev.. Testatrert
in his hand, and it afterwards fell on the street. At-
ter hanging fully half an hour, the bodies were cet
down by the Sheriff's officers, and placed on their
respective coffins with the faces don nwards.
When the necks were bared, the man in the mask
came forward, and was assailed by the crowd with
hisses, yells, and some faint cries of •' Murder." He
appeared to he the same pet son who officiated at
Glasgow, but he completely lost his former firmness
and dexterity. He felt the neck of Hardie's corpse
with his right hand, raised his ondemus hatchet,
hesitated, low•e►ed it, adjusted the crape on his face,
and raised it again, and after two powerful strokes,
a third slight touch was still necessary to sever some
of the adhering fibres and skin. He then held up the
gory head in his right hand to the shuddering spec-
tators. and exclaimed, " This is the head'of a traitor r
He next turned round to the corpse of Baird, and took
his aim apparently with less trepidation: the first
stroke of the axe cut the neck sl.ghtly, and stuck in the
wood, but the second severed ►he head from the body.
He then held it up also, streaming with blood, and
made the same proclamatiiin,'" This is the head of a
traitor !" and recited. The mangled bodies were
then taken inside of the Gaol, and the crowd instantly
dispersed. Though the day was very• fine, the crow
of spectators was very small, few of the windows in
the opposite side of the street were occupied. Wo-
men and children were walking fr•.ely within sir
yards of the cavalry, and the aggregate, exclusive of
the guard, did not perhaps amount to 2,000.

Hardie, though born at Auchinaiin, was educated
in Glasgow. He was bred a weaver. He served in
the Berwick Militia upwards of five years, and was
discharged inimediately after the battle of Waterloo.
He came home to his loom, and became a member
of the " Castle-street Union Society," but never bore
any office. The Society was given up before the
end of December. Upon the 4th of April he was
informed that there was to be a great Meeting that
night at Germiston; he went to the place, but found
only thirty or forty men. They never separated af-
terwards till they were seized at Bonnymuir. He
was, twenty-seven years of age, and has left two
younger lorothers, a sister, and an aged mother.
Baird was born in the parish of Cumbernauld,
and bred a weaver. He enlisted into the 95th Regi-
ment, and belonged to it more than seven years. He
was in Spain with Sir Joint Moons. When he was
discharged, he settled at Condorrat, and worked as
his trade till the beginning of April, when he was
taken in arms at Bonnymuir. He was thirty-one
years of age, and unmarried. He has left two brothers
and an aged father to lament his death.

OUTRAGE ON, ONE OF THE WITNESsES AGAINST
HARDIE.--Friday afternoon a violent and grass out-
rage was committed on Mr. JOHN STIRLING, who is
District Surgeon for the Northern Division of the
City of Glasgow. After having visited a poor wo-
man in the Rotten-row, he went into a house in Kirk-
street, which was instantly surrounded by a number
of women, boys, and some grown-up men. having in
their hands stones, &c. who urged the people in the
house to turn out the Doctor. He, however, so con-
cealed himself in the house, that the crowd, after the
doors and windows were opened, could not find him.
Captain MITCHELL, the Master of the Police, with
several officers, came to his rescue, which was accom-
plished with considerable difficulty, and he was taken
to the Police Office; all the way stones" ere thrown at
him, and the officers and several persons were consi-
derably hurt. Four or five panes of glass were
broken ift his shop-window and house. The cause
of this violence against Mr. STIRLING is au ing to
his having accidentally been an evidence on the trial
of Hardie, whose execution is mentiuned above.

Tuesday last, Michael Stephens, who was convicted
of sheep-stealing at the last Assizes for the County of
Cornwall, was executed at Bodmin. pursuant to his
sentence. The unfortunate man was informed that
mercy would not be extended to him as he was about
to attend the Sermon preached on the morning of
the execution of Sarah Polgrean, who suffered the
dreadful sentence of the law, for poisoning her bus--
band, on the 12th of last month. From. that period
he attended to the exhortations of the Rev. MK
FATlttitt the Chaplain, with becoming seriousness,
and became truly penitent; he acknowledged the Jae.
tice of his sentence, and attributed his dreadful fate
to the loss of his character. on having, on a former
conviction, been imprisoned for a year; the effect oh
which was, his being hardened in guilt, and fitted
for the perpetration of farther offences. He walked
with much firmness to the fatal drop, accompanied
by the Chaplain, and, after exhorting the.spectators
to take warning by his melancholy tate, he spent. a
few moments in prayer with the Chaplain, and con-
cluded by putting up some petitions suggested by
his feelings on the awful occasion. He was much
affected on praying for his wife and children; and,
after repeating some verses of a hymn; he said. “tars.
well—l am ready ;" and was quickly launched into

eternity.

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