Star.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

gave thanks to Gob, and' ejaculated aloud various
other incoherent expressions of the most fervent gra-
titude. In this manifestation of their feelings they
presented a marked contrast to Harriscn and Wilson,
who continued still silent and indifferent, looking
with an expression of surprise at their companions,
now lost in joy.

Mr. BitowN now stated more particularly, that
Strange, Cooper, Bradburn, Harrison, and Wilson,
were to be transported for life, and that Gilchrist
was respited during his Majesty's pleasure. "As to
your other unfortunate associates in crime," he con-
tinued, " I mean Thistlewood and the others, they
are ordered for execution on Monday morning."
Wilson, who before had appeared perfectly cal-
lous, now exclaimed, " !Lb! our poor friends ; I am
indeed sorry 'for them." Harrison said nothing ; the
others were too much occupied with the joy of their.
own escape to bestow a thought upon those who were
to forfeit their lives.

Mr. 11RowN said, " One most remarkable circum-
stance attending your case I cannot help mentioning,
and, if you have any feeling, it must make a deep
and indelible impression upon you. Those very pelt-
sons against whose lives your hands were about to
be raised, arc the men by whose intercession your
lives have been saved."

The prisoners, with the exceptions already men-
tioned, expressed their due sense of the obligations
they %re; e under.

The Sheriffs immediately set about making the
necessary arrangements for the execution of the five
unfortunate men condemned to die. From an early
hour yesterday morning the Old Bailey resounded
with the " dreadful note of preparation." Carpen-
ters were employed in erecting an addition to the
usual scaffolding in front of the Debtors door of
the prison, which became necessary to the carrying
into effect the decapitating part of the sentence;
and, to prevent the possibility of a recurrence of
the dreadful scenes that took place at the execution
of Holloway and Haggerty, some years ago, strong
wooden barriers were directed to he raised at short
distances around the scaffold, and across the differ-
ent streets and lanes leading to the Old Bailey.
Great prai,e is due to the Sheriffs for the latter
part of these arrangements, calculated most effec-
tually to prevent any rush of the crowd, or any in-
terruption of the awful business which was about to
be transacted.

The Old Bailey and neighbourhood were crowded
with people during these operations, to whom, when
night came on, the scene assumed a particularly
heart. sickening aspect. The knocking of the ham-
mers, the grating of the saws, the glare of the torch-
lights, the moving to and fro of the workmen em-
ployed on the scaffold, the hollow murmurings of
the many groups occupied in descanting in various
ways on the mei its of the unhappy men, to whose
disgraceful end these preparations were designed 'to
give the due solemnity of public example, all tended
to awaken feelings of the most subduing description.
At day-break this morning, we found the scaffold-
ing and barriers all completed, and numbers of per-
sons, some of whom had taken their stations since
midnight, already assembled to be witnesses elf the
execution. The Sheriffs had very properly reserved
the space within the barrier next to the scaffold for
the reception of a large body of Special Constables,
and other persons necessarily present on the occa-
sion, so that the populace generally were kept at a
distance of from fifty to sixty yards from the scaffold.
As the morning advanced, the multitude increased
rapidly ; and before seven o'clock every spot, win-
dow, or house-top, 'which could cOmmand.a view of
the execution, was crowded to excess. The persons
accommodated at the windows of the houses in front
of Newgate paid for their places, some of them as
high as a guinea, and none less than five or seven
shillings. A more numerous assemblage of persons
was never perhaps witnessed on any similar occasion;
thousands, who could not get within sight of the
scaffold, remained anxiously ,waiting in the avenues
leading to it.
In addition to the whole Civil Force of the City, a
large body of Military was drawn around the place
of execution. A troop of the Horse Guards was sta-
tioned on Ludgate-bill, at the end of the Old Bailey,
another in Skinner-street, a third in Newgate-street,
and a fourth ,in Bridge-street, which moved into
the Old Bailey just as the execution was about to
commence. .

A battalion of the Foot Guards, and a number of
piecesof artillery were also stationed in Great Surrey-
street, Bbckfriars-road ; one of the latter was ad-
vanced to Ludgate-hill, shortly after the criminals were
thrown off. The firemen of all the different Offices
were likewise in attendance at their respective esta,
blishments, to act as Special Constables.
Detachments of Guards had for several days oc•
cupicd the interior of Newgate Prison, and every
precaution had been taken by the Governor (Mr.
Brown) to secure safety and tranquillity amongst its
wretched inmates. The unhappy culprits were con-
fined in separate cells.

The six prisoners who had received the Royal cle-
mency, had been previously removed to another part
of the prison, under the care and superintendance o:
a turnkey. The four before mentioned, viz. Strange,
Cooper, Bradhurn, and Gilchrist, continued to ex-
press themselves in the most grateful and enthusias-
tic terms, that their lives had been saved through the
kind and benevolent interposition of those illustrious

personages Whose lives were intended to fall sacri-
fices to their diabolical project; but Wilson and Har-
rison persisted in the most obstinate indifference to
the mercy which had been so graciously extended
towards them. Daring the night and morning, they
became all excessively uneasy, acrd while they wept
for the ignominious fate of their companions, they
expressed a wish that they might have been partici-
pators in its consequences, horrible as they are.
Thistlewood, Ingt, Brunt, and Tidd, refused to be
assisted by any religious Gentleman of any sect
whatever; but Davidson, whose condemnation seemed
to have produced an extraordinary change in •his
sentiments, yielded to everything suggested to him by
the Rev. Mr. COTTON, who has been constant in his
attendance upon him. Early in the morning he was
visited in his cell by that worthy Divine, who, at
Davidson's particular request, administered to him
the Sacrament. After this ceremony, so grateful to
departing souls, had been performed, he appeared in
a comparative state of happiness, and was perfectly
resigned to the awful fate that awaited him.
" In the course of Sunday, the unfortunate delin-
quents :•ere visited by several members of their re-
spective families : Brunt, by his wife; Davidson,
by his wife and children; and Tidd, by his daughter.
Their separation was, as must be naturally supposed,
of the most trying and heart-rending description.—
Mrs. Thistlewood and her son took their long, and
List farewell, at about half-past seven o'clock
on Sunday evening. They were accompanied by
Mr. Griffin, the zealous friend of the convicts—she
was deeply affected, and was scarcely able to sustain
herself. No one, except the families of the prisoners,
were allowed to see them. Alderman WOOD ap-
plied for admission, but Mr. Bnowx felt it to be
his duty to refuse, having been instructed to admit
none who had not received a special order from the
Privy Council.
All the deluded maleflictors slept during the night,
and some of them soundly : they were attended by
the City Constables. Ings, whose mind it seems im-
possible to divert from the original object by which
he was actuated, often made declarations of the most
:errific nature : amongst these, he wished that his
body might be' conveyed to the King, and that his
Majesty, or his cooks, might make turtle soup of it!

Mr Sheriff 'tont wEto, and his Sub-Sheriff, Mr.
TURNER, together with the Junior Sheriff, and his
Sub-Sheriff, arrived at the Court-House early in the
morning. The LORD Mayon, Mr. Alderman WOOD,
M.P. Alderman FtowEß, Lord ALVANLEY, Lord
CHETWYND, and many persons of rank and distinc-
tion, arrived shortly after, and proceeded to the Go-
vernor's house. A number of persons were a,:ovitteel
to the top of the prison.
After the Rev. Mr. CorroN had administered the.,
Sacrament to Davidson, he proceeded to the cells of
the others, to ascertain if they were anxious to receive
any of his reliiiotts instruction or assistance, but they
peremptorily refused the kind offer. Thistlewood
was invited to take a glass of wine, but he refused.
The same offer was made to Davidson, and he readily
accepted it ; having previously said—" The KING,
and GOD bless him !" with a firm voice, he drank
the contents of his glass.
At half-past seven o'clock the Sheriffs and atten-
dants, forming a melancholy procession, proceeded
from the Governor's house to the room attached to
the cells in which the prisoners had hen confined ;
and in a few minutes the prisoners Were ushered into
their presence, to be disencumbered of their mana-
cles, which were of a very podderous description.
, Upon the introduction of Thistlewood, Mr. Alder-
man' WOOD went up to him, for the purpose, we un-
derstood, of proposing some questions to him re-
lative to Edwards, the spy, and accomplice. Thistle-
wood appeared desirous to make some communica-
tion regarding that contaminated individual, but Mr.
Sheriff RornwELL interposed, and objected to the
propriety of such conduct. Mr. PA RK ss thought the
conduct of the worthy Alderman highly consistent,
and an altercation ensued, but as the subject, we un-
derstand, is likely to undergo a Parliamentary dis-
cussion, it is unnecessary 1:r us to say any thing further
upon the matter„ unpleasaht as it must have been to
all parties upon so momentous and awful an occasion
We may, however, observe, 'that Thistlewood him-
self appeared a little disappointed at the interposition.
At a quarter before eight o'clock, every interior
preparation having beeps completed, the tolling of '
the melancholy-toned bell of Newgate announced
the approach of the delinquents, fully prepared to
meet that fate to which the outraged laws of their
country had doomed them. The cavalcade was
headed by the Sheriffs ;.every eye was riveted on the
culprits ; and, in a few minutes, a slow but solemn
step brou
.ht them- to the foot of the scAfold, pre-
pared to expiate their offences.
Thistlswood was dressed in a black coat and waist-
coat, blue pantaloons, and list shoes. Tidd came
next, he wore a blue coat, a striped waistcoat, breeches,
and boots with the tops cut from them. Ings had on
a butcher's jacket and cap, with trowsers. Davidson
was dressed in a blue coat, coloured waistcoat,
breeches, and high gaiters. Brunt wore a cap, a
coloured coat and trowsers. Thiitle%iood appeared
sullen while the preparations were making for him
upon the platform. Ings, who stood at the bottom,
in the lobby or hail, said, " Well, I care not for all
you can do to me; I have been a good man all my,
life—that's all I can say; and now I am going to be
Ranged ;—‘44 Aerer mind r He then immediately,