Star.
London, England, 1829-10-19 00:00:00

EXECUTION THIS MORNING.

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This morning the dreadful ser.y.llet, of dmt!, nay
curied,ioso effect, at the front of Newgate, upon Richard Gifford,
aged 26, for forgery, Richard Chick, to. for a burglar,, in Sun-
street, ilishopsgate, and Josiah Nathan, allac Josiah Latham. alias
Jones, for a burglary at Mile-end.
The unhappy men were all convicted at the last OW Bailey
Sessions; and since that time, although the nature of their
crimes precluded all hopes of respite, every effort b.s been
made to procure for them a commutation of their sentence
of death. Gifford was respectably connected, and his father
now bolds a highly influendal situation. Latham was a noted
housebreaker, and his companion in the same burgl.ry, named
King, was ezecuted for the offence in the month of August.
Chick was also a well-known (Met, and since his confiNement
in Newgate, planned a desperate plan of escape, which was
detected and he was put in irons.
This morning the Sheriffs, Messrs. Ward and Richardson, with
the Under Sheriffs, arrived at Newgate, and proceeded to the
press-room. Chick was immediately brought from the cells; be
was in double irons; hot walked as quickly as the chtins would
allow him, with a firm step, and a earelsesindifferent air. He being
disencumbered of his chains, took hold of Mr. Wontiter's hand, and
said, ss I am much obliged to you, Sir, for your ksudnrss to me ; its
more than I deserved." He was then pinioned, cpnke iw more, and
never lost the reckless beating which marked his conduct through-
out the appalling preparations for his death. Latham was the second
conducted into the room; he neither spoke or uttered a murmur.
and seemed really to regard the preparations with the apathetic in-
difference of one who had framed his mind for the worst conse-
quences, ',carless of the world's law." Gifford, was the third
introduced ; he wa totally unnerved, and glanced about
hint with a hurried and fearful look ; when the officer.
pinioned his arms and hands be uttered a groan of agonized
sorrow, that affee-ed even the most indifferent spectator of his
then most lamentable condition. In a few minutes after they
were lei to the sc.dfold, they ascended the plarcirm In the same
order described; the two tir,t maintained their fortitude to the
last. Such courage was worthy a better fate, and it nisy he truly
said, " Nothing in lite t•ecante them hut the leaving on't:" Cif.
ford was dreadfully sfnicted anti dismayed. Thl preparations
were soon completed mid they were I .unched into uteri ity, with
the word of entreaty to the Most High for oleic), upon thrtr

We learn frim Ver a Crux that Dan na1:m.670 dei'da .as,
formerly of Phil.tde.phia, and a citizen of the United
States, was convicted of holding a tveacherouscarrespon-
dence with tha Sp•inish General, and shot by the Mexican
t:o Is on the dey they erac'.inted Tampico.
We have Sydney Gazettes to the Gat Jen•: inciusive..
The crops were an abundant appearance. Tho rate of
interest had been reduced at Svainey I2i to 1.5
per cent. The imports front Launcesto.a autounted to
46,1741. 3s. 6,1. in 63 ships of 4,4.53 tons, and the ex-.
ports to 23,20.5/. 15s. in 62 ships of 4,621 tons. Toe
following were the prices of the Sydney markets, as re-
garJs grain :—Wheat, 11 s. per bushel ; maize, ss. 9d.
and barley, ss. The new settlement at Manning River
was proceeding very favourably: the crops yielded, in
respect to wheat, near 100 bushels to the acre. An Aus-
tralian Steam Navigation Company was about to be t+eta•
blis;:ed.

Papers from the Cape of Good Hope of the Bth Aug.
state, that the Burhmon were again disturbing the peace
of the frontier inhabitants, and had committed several
robberies. The Field Commandant, Itedlitgliniion, hud
pursued the fugitives with a considerable detachment, but
the result was not known.

Gerard Callaghan, Esq. M. P. presided at a Meeting of
the Proprietors of the Royal Cork Institution on Wed-
nesdly last, when Dr. Bulleg strongly recommended the
establishment of a general College for Munster, in Cork,
with which the present Institution might be incorporated.
After some desultory discussion, a Committee was finally
appointed to confer with Dr. Bullen, and report to another
meeting.
From New Orleans it is stated that accounts had been
received there from Havarinah of the 23d Aug. stating,
that the squadron and transports were actively engaged
in shipping six or seven thousand troops, and ammunition
of war, to assist the troops landed at Tampico. There
were twenty-five thousand regular troops at the Havanna,
and upwards that number of organized militia. Nearly
every vessel which had arrived from the ports of Spain,
brought from two to five hundred troops.

JosATIIAN'S L.tsT JOKE.—A recent American paper
announces the design to establish an anti-talk-about-your-neigh-
bour's-business society.
MARCH or INTELLECT.—At the Bristol Infant
&bow. the children conclude the labours of the day by singing
the rules of de ached to the tune of the " Evening Hymn '
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE R1VER......1F0r two or
. three hours yesterday afternoon a small boat, with five young men
on board, was observed sailing up and down the river between the
Red-house and Battersea-bridge, to the imminent danger of their
lives, from their total ignorance in managing the boat. Between
four and live o'clock, as the boat was near Battersea-bridge, chow
on board tried to turn her head against the tide down the river,
when, as was to be expected from their previous conduct, the boat
upset, and the whole party was turned into the stream. Three of
them had the good fortune to get hold of the vessel's keel, by which
they held fast until relieved from their perilous situation by a
Waterman who happened to be passing near the spot at the time ;
but the other two young men were not so fortunate, for before any
assistance could he rendered to them they sunk to rise no more.—
Boats were immediately out to look for the bodies, but they were
not discovered at six o'clock We understood that the unfortunate
sufferer. were the suns of respectable tradesmen residing at Pad-
dington, but we could not ascertain their names. Prom its being
flood tide at the time, the boat was carried against one of the aout-
meots of the bridge, and completely destroyed.

TO SIR THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, BART.

BATH—YOU Noun, Om 15, 1829.

St u,—You should not be surprised to see the present
letter addressed to you by me :—I should indeed ill perform the duty
which every Irishman owes to his country if I did not endeavour,
as far as in me lay, to counteract the effect of the extraordinary
and lamentable declaration made by you at the dinner given on
Thursday last by the Mayor of Bath ; but before I proceed to tell
you and the people of Sornersetabire and Bath my mind, with re-
?and to your conduct on this important occasion, give me leave to
congratulate the liberal portion of the enlightened people of this
country (who I believe to be the great majority) on the marked
d 'splay of good feeling which characterised the conduct and pro-
gress of this dinner. For the first time, I believe, the Catholic
Clergy and Gentry of Bath were invited to a Mayor's dinner
—fcr the first time was there a cessation of unkind and un-
t feeling towards mdenomination or their fellow-country-
noa committed no offence but that of professing a religion
which was followed by the entire of England for hundreds of years
—the religion of four-fifths of Europe at the present moment, and
which was conscientiously followed by Pascal and Fenelon, Boor-
&Jour and 31assillion, and has been as conscientiously libelled by
some of the hem of the age. This contemptible sectarian fire has
almost ceased--the last spark of intollerance is almost. ex-
tinguished—the fuel which fed that fire, Sir Thomas, no
longer exists—the disabling code which prevented the Catholics
from enjoying the good things of the Constitution is repealed ; and
the statesmen (among whom Sir Thomas Lethbridge will shine con-
spicuously) who contributed by their votes to raise the Catholic of
the British empire to the summit level of the Protestant, will
merit and receive the gratitude of future ages. You, Sir Thomas,
have been one of those fortunate public men Who, by their votes
in the House of Commons, bare rendered the labours of certain
political priests unnecessary for the future. They laboured long
and ardently to perpetuate the monopoly of the Established Church
and her followers—true to the average feelings of our common na-
ture they would have all to themselves ;—to them Christianity was
only au object of admiration in proportion to the exclusiveness
with which its blessings were dispensed. They assailed the exclu-
sive monopoly of the Catholic Church, and they outstripped their
rival in the race. They considered the Constitution as destroyed
al its basis were enlarged, and that the Catholic would cease to be
loyal the moment the latter began to share in the sweets and the
blessings of freedom ; but you, my good Sir, have taught those
holy men a lesson—you would no longer be their dupe. You joined
the sound and rational band who determined that the civil war of
political and religious controversy should no longer exist—that Ire-
land should be free—the agitators put down by concession, and
the empire secured by the comprehensive principle of equal and
impartial privilege. How then comes it to pass that you and I seem
so much to differ at the present moment ? How comes it to pass
that you, whom I considered a second Paul, when on your road
to the House of Commons at the beginning of the last Session of
Parliament, seemed to be struck with a supernatural light, the
Angel of Toleration meeting you, and imploring you, in angel ac-
cents, no longer to persecute your Catholic countrymen—l repeat,
I looked upon you as a second Paul, and was quite willing to give
ou full credit fur the sincerity of your conversion ; but I find I
have been mistaken—and I am undeceived by Sir Thomas Leth-
bridge himself at the late dinner ; for he there declared that he
voted for the emancipation of his Catholic countrymen—not for
the substantial benefit they would eeeive, but the diminution of
political power they would suffer—not for the freedom they would
enjoy, but the additional number of links which would be added
to their chain—l confess after this Ino longer thought you were a
Saint NW, and that any angel but an angel of toleration held con-
stant converse with you.
Now, Sir 'Thomas, I write this letter to convince you and the
people of Somersetshire, that you have done me and my country-
men much more good than you intended ; and that even political
im.incerity (I will give it no border name) has contributed to
render the cause of civil and religious liberty no trifling service ;
but I am aware you put on the mask of the political hypocrite only
for the moment, to minister to the prejudices of a few intolerant,
who were much inclined to groan and hiss, and put down their
old Representative, because he had, in a lucid interval, determined
on making some atonement to the Irish nation for ail the illibe-
rality by which he had hitherto been distinguished. You have told
your audience that you would not have voted for the emancipation
of the Catholics were you not certain that in Ireland the political
power of the Irish people would be completely destroyed by such
a concession—the Catholic Nobility and Gentry silenced, and the
storm of agitation effectually put down. It is quite true, Sir
Thomas, that the disfranchisement of 500,000 Irishmen, for no
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other cause but that they had exercised their right of the elective
franchise with a spirit and integrity unparalleled even in the
annals of England, was an act of the most unequivocal cruelty and
injustice ; but as a great good could not be obtained without so
humiliating a condition, that condition was subscribed to by the
best friends Ireland had in either House. Now, Sir Thomas, what
is that great good I allude to ?—A perfect equality of political
privilege—for you must not forget that in your anxiety (pretended,
I believe,) to disfranchise the Catholic, and destroy his poli-
tical power, you have also disfranchised one hundred thousand
Dissenters and Protestants, and thus have been impartial in your
hostility to all denominations of forty-shilling freeholders; but do
not imagine that you can conceal from the keen eye of a Somerset-
shire man the immense political power you have been the instru-
ment of conferring on the Catholic by making him eligible to all
situations of power, of trust, and emolument in the State. You,
Sir Thomas, have done your best to make the Catholic a High
Sheriff of a county or a city—a Judge of any of our four courts—
an Attorney or Solicitor General. You have with your strong
arm ,and stronger voice, assisted in breaking down the barrierswhich
surrounded every Corporation in the empire—you have by your
vote, which you would endeavour to undervalue in the hearing of the
Somenetshire men, purified the jury box of Ireland—secured the
impartial administration of the laws—set an example to the Exe-
cutive to follow up the spirit of generous legislation—and lastly,
Sir Thomas, you have given an opportunity to the talent and learn-
ing, and spirit of the Irish Catholic, to enter into the honourable
field of political competition, where the Lethbridges of future
times must be more distinguished by their talents and their ac-
quirements and their liberality, than those of the past. Pray, Sir
Thomas, are not these great services? and should we not be grate-
ful to the man who contributed to procure them? But it seems
you were apprehensive you did too much for Ireland, and at the
Mayor's dinner you felt it your duty to read your recantation.
Depend upon it the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel will give
you no credit for your vote in support of them ; nor the inhabi-
tants of Somersetshire any credit for your profession of hostility
to the liberty of Ireland. The spirit of the law you were a party
to is already acted upon by the Duke of Northumberland, and his
accomplished Secretary, Lord Leveson Gower. The spirit of
monopoly has been put down at the lam dinner given by the Lord
Mayer of Dublin—the Irish people hue been' protected against
the Insurrection Act in the. county of Tipperary. The latter will
respond to the feelings of the Government by the loyalty of their
conduct, their respect for the constituted authorities, and
their anxiety to strike to the wishes of a benevolent
Government. The old Agitators will join in this good
cause—they will co-operate with the Duke of Northum-
berland, and demonstrate the justice of his Administration by the
sincerity of their allegiance. This is a bright and glorious pros-
pect for a country so long abused and insulted; and to this pros-
pect you, Sir Thomas, have much contributed, though you now
assert that your vote was given with a wish to destroy, and not to
save.' Your most sublime and eloquent countryman, Milton, who
lived in a troubled sea, and contributed by his wisdom and elo-
quence to advance the cause of human freedom, has anticipated the
state tie Irish nation is destined to enjoy when surrounded by
such men as Sir Thomas Lethbridge. He exclaimed, with an the
tervour of an enthusiastic mind, '• Methinks I see a great and
puissant nation rising like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her
invincible locks. Methinks I see het mulct her mighty youth,
and kindling her uodassled eye at the full, midadAy beam—
purging and unsealing her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly
radiante, while the whole flock of bulimia* birds fly around her,
amazed at what they see, and prognosticating years of wart..and:,
bauble, the misery and ;he buntag
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