Star.
London, England, 1821-11-29 00:00:00

THE LATE EXECUTIONS.

The following is the copy of a letter written by
the unfortunate Cadman to the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England, on the 28th of Octo-
ber, 1821, and previous to the RECORDER making his
Report :

" Condemned Cells, Newrate, Oct. 26, 1821.
" Ors-num—The awful situation in which I am placed has
induced me once more to address you, and the knowledge that
my fate is in your hands encourages the hope that mercy may yet
be extended to me.
" When I learnt that it was not consistent with the resolu-
tion which you had taken with respect to such offenders as my-
self, to suffer the plea of Guilty to the minor offence to be made,
I preferred acknowledging my crime to vainly contradicting it,
and undergoing the form of a trial, which could not have made
my guilt more apparent or more hateful to me. I have, in con-
sequence, received the appalling sentence of death, and now,
standing on the brink of eternity, I make once more an appeal
fur mercy to you, upon whose breath depends my existence,
coupled as my fate is with that of a confiding heart-broken wife,
I have every inducement to beseech that you will spare our
lives, to give us an opportunity of amending them. That I have
the strongest desire to do so, the confession I have made to one
of your officers, and my conduct since my apprehension, I humbly
submit, are sufficient evidences. I am, moreover, willing to do
everything in my power to detect and bring to justice the hidden
contrivers of the nefarious system which has been perfected by
the blood of so many victims, to whose number, unless your cle-
mency shall avert my impending fate, I may soon be added,—
There is nothing which can be suggested that I will not essay.
no enterprise, however dangerous, that I will not gladly under-
take, to accomplish this object. I have no pledge to give fur tiara
but the solemn assurance of a wretched man, iu too perilous a
Case to be insincere in word or thought.
" The only ground (beyond those I have before mentioned)
upon which I can lay any claim to your indulgence is, that my
Me, guilty as 1 am, is not worse than any, not a tithe so bad as
sense of those who have received the mercy I now implore—
hone of them, I believe, had to bear the pangs of famine, and
the agony of seeing a wife perishing for want of the necessaries
of life. Those only who have felt such misery can tell how hard
it is to suffer. Upon this subject I hardly dare touch: but I beg
humbly to remind you, that the long-continued practice of suf-
fering offenders to plead to the minor offence, and the recent
cases of Itoss, Beresford, Smith, and many others, convince me
that you have been merciful, and induce me to believe that you
will be no less so to use.
" I know that upon your representation to the Government
depends my life or death.
" Gentlemen, I implore you by that forbearance you have so
often displayed to other criminals, and the recollection of which
stands now, like the Angel of hope, between me and the grave,
which is open at my feet—by those charitable feelings to which
the discharge of your public duty does violence—by your do-
mestic happiness—by the reward promised to those who emulate
the first attribute of Ilitavett, mercy !—by that great and good
Gon, on whose clemency all men rely, and who desireth not
the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wick-
edness and live,' to weigh the awful condition in which I stand,
and when you consider the temptations to which I have been
exposed, and the miseries I have borne, to let the balance of
pity incline in my favour. Recollect, I beseech you, that lam
not hackneyed in the practices fur which I stand condemned,
that the papers I annex prove that at no very distant period I
enjoyed the approbation of Gentlemen, whose praise could only
he obtained by deserving it ; and believe the solemn assurance,
which, perhaps, may be uttered with my dying breath, that if
your mercy should be extended to me, all that may he spared to
me of existence. shall be devoted to such worthy purposes as may
evince my grititude for your interposition.
" I am, Gentlemen, in the deepest affliction, your obedient
servant, (Signed) " JOSEPH CAD2dAN.
" To the Governor and Company of the Bank of England."
The following letter was written on the morning
of execution, and sent by the post :
" Half-past five, A. M. Nov. 21, 1821.
" My dear —, accept my kind acknowledgments for your
very great exertions in my favour—they have not been crowned
with success ; but the mercy de.tird me here, I find ready to be
Oren in another and a better world. Gon bless you and yout's
(don't forget my pour wife). So prays the " unfortunate—not
unhappy CA DM A
HAYWARD, EXECUTED ON TUESDAY.—The follow.'
ing is a biographical notice of some of the last years
of this unfortunate young man. There were inci-
dents in the life of the unfortunate Hayward which
dese!ve to be recorded, as affording not only a view
of his own character, but a powerful lesson to youth,
impressed as it has been by the tremendous sanction
of a death at once terrific and disgraceful. He was
the son of a journeyman currier in the Borough. At
the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a tailor by
his father, who wished, but could not afford to give
him a liberal education, suitable to the talents he
evinced in early life. He remained at that trade two
years; but his spirits were so buoyant, his im.agina-
don so sanguine, and his hopes so aspiring, that the
humble pursuit selected by his industrious father
grew distasteful by degrees, until, at the expiration

though still far beneath the station which his talents
were capable of fulfilling, it afforded him opportu-
nities of recommending himself by his address, which
he could not hope to have attained in his former si-
tuation. The hope that influenced his choice was
soon realized in the new sphere to which he had trans.
ferred his eo; rts. lie Remained at the coffee-house
about six months, when he was noticed by Dr. Pugh
Gueston, then residing at Furnival's Inn, and occa-
sionally frequenting the Yolk Coffee-house. The
Doctor was at the time engap,ed in compiling his
History of London; and being struck with the ad-
dress, appearance, and intelligence of Hayward, he
took him to his own house, Where he employed him
in collecting materials for the work in which he was
engaged. While living under the roof of his patron,
Hayward was so industrious as not only to acquit
himself reputably in his engagement, but to make
himself master of the French and Italian languages,
which he is said to have spoken with great fluency.
He became also a proficient in music, dancing, and,
in fact, every accotnplishment of polite society. He
remained with the Doctor about five or six years, and
then entered into an engagement with Captain
Blanchard, with whom he continued for nine months,
the greater part of which was.spent in travelling.
Hitherto, every step he had taken was towards im-
provement and the cultivation of his mind ; tnit, un-
fortunately, on leaving Captain Blanchard's service,
his fortune changed—his put suits took another direc-
tion—and though his advancement, considering his
original humility, had been rapid and extraordinary,
his decline was still more rapid and extraordinary.—
On separating from the Ca?tain it was his misfor-
tune to be introduced to some of the principal gam-
bling-houses at the west end of the town. There
his ruin began. With a fatality not unusual in the
case of initiate gamblers, his first adventures were
successful ; hence he was encouraged to bolder ex-
periments, and confirmed in the habit of play. He
also became acquainted with some notorious courte-
zans. But as if Fortune or PROVIDENCE had not yet
abandoned him altogether, the elements of hispros-
perity were still at work. Ile made acquaintance
with some of the most respectable families in Russell
and Bedford-squares—becameintimate at their houses
—tiequented their parties—and was the delight of
circles in every way qualified to admire and en-
courage the promise of an individual distinguished
by all the exterior graces of an accomplished Gen-
Airman. Front this period his history is short, and
coloured by the sameness of adversity. His whole
time was occupied between the gambling-house and
I the brothel, and the temptation to commit a robbery
which presented great profits, was too great to be re-
siAed in the state of distress to which he was reduced
by the habits to which he had abandoned 'himself.
He had lodgings at Somers' Town, and became ac-
quainted with the circumstances of the family who
resided in the house in which he afterwards commit-
ted the offence for which he was executed. It was
stated by soale who visited the unfortunate man,
that he was paying his addresses to a young Lady
who lived in the very neighbotnhood in which he
effected the robbery. Between thirty and forty Gen•
tlemen visited Ilayward on Monday in prison. He
had been in the habit of visiting at the houses of
most of them ; and such efforts were made to pro-
cure a commutation of punishment, that up to a late
hour on Sunday night, he entertained the most san-
guine hopes of a reprieve. On Monday morning he
evinced tile strongest evidences of a resigned spirit,
and had frequent conversations with Mr. Brown, the
Governor, to whose humanity he declared, in the
press-room, he was greatly indebted.—The family of
the wretched man had not, it scents, for a long time
heard any intelligence of his unfortunate career until
it was nearly terminated; but be spoke of them with
great affection.

A private letter from Paris, dated Nov. 25, says,
" Captain DELAMOTTE, sentenced to five years' im-
prisonment for the affair of the 19J1 of August, 1820,
was taken in a hackney-coach from the Chamber of
Peers, where he had been brought up to give evidence
in Mazian's matter. On arriving at the gates of the
prison, be got out first, and seeing the man who
served him his dinner every day, he shut the door of
the coach, and ordered his dinner, and then took to
his heels. The Gendarmes and Police-officer, not seeing
the prison-door open, got cut to run after him,
the Officer first, who, having neither jack-boots nor a
heavy sabre, ran fastest. The Gendarmes asked a
woman at a stall if she had not seen a man in black
running away ? She said " Yes," and pointed out the
direction ; but it happened to be the Officer she had
seen, and whom they ran after, while Decastorra
got off quietly in another direction."
JERSEY ENGLISIL—The following Advertisement •
for a Dog that had been lust, is copied from a dera.
sey Paper :
" Loss.—Dere ave bin lose von doge, dat vill reaply to de
appel of Outre, be is bet win du couleur of de wite and de bruin,
dere is belif be vas delay by some personne on propos, as be Vas
vont by de oher on munday nest for to come to de chase as ts•
vas kno vere vas de hairs.—Aphe of de otter at de I'rinture."
ANECDOTE ow liNciaGe Ill.—ln a conversation be-
tween his late MAJESTY and Dr. 3ollNsoN, in the
library at the Queen's llouse, his MAJESTY talked of
the controversy between Warburton and Lowth,
and asked JOHNSON what he thought of it ? JoHNsost
answered, " Warburton has most general and scho-
lactic learning; but Lowth is the mo t correct scko-
lar : I do not know which of them calls names best."
The KING said that he was of the same opinion; ad-
ding, " You do nut think, then, Dr. JonssoN, that
there was much argument in the case l'''' The Doctor
replied, hi did not think there was. " Why, truly (said
the KING) when once it comes to calling nanlCS, argue
meat la pretty well at an end."

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LONDON.

EVENING WAR.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1821.
THE FUNDS. • •

STOCK EtCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The inevitable consequences of carrying specula-
tion beyond the limits to which discretion and pru-
dent forethought would restrain it, were yesterday
most strikingly exhibited in the distress and per-
plexity that so generally prevailed among the Bulls,
and which were but in a very slight degree alleviated
even by the increased continuation which they eagerly
gave. The market could not sustain the immense weight
which they had injudiciously allowed to remain upon
it until this most i.uportant day; and, by neglecting
to make a timely provision for carrying forward their
accounts, many, who obstinsitely held out to the last,
were compelled either to give a most enormous inte-
rest, or to close them with a very serious sacrifice.
Our views of an ultimate and gradual rise to a price
considerably beyond that which the Funds have al-
ready reached, have undergone no change by the
depression of yesterday ; indeed, we are rather
disposed to regard it as a circumstance which, by
relieving the Market of a great quantity of Stock with
which the machinery of speculation has long been
clogged, will facilitate those operations by which this
desirable object must be attained.—Current Prices :
Bank Stock 239-3 per Cent. Reduced 76% y 8
S per Cent. Cons. 77% % VI per Cent. 87%
4 per Cent. 961/2 % 3/4 lift
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 110% th % 3/4
ludia Stock 241 240—India Bonds 665. 6Ss. pre.
Exclicq. Bills £lOOO, Is. pre. par, ts. pre.
Ditto (Small) 2s. Is. 3s. pre.
Cons. lin Account 78% tilt Vt.

Every arrival from Ireland brings the details of
some new outrage committed in that unhappy coun-
try. The cool, deliberate, and indiscriminate mas-
sacre of a whole family, is only one of the dreadful
scenes which are every day occurring, though in
atrocity it is almost without a parallel. The neigh-
bourhood in which this murder was committed is
very populous ; and it is observed, as a proof of the
demoralization of the peasantry, that they do not
appear to feel any horror at this frightful act, nor to
express the least sympathy for the wretched victims
of their crime. So determined, indeed, were the sa-
vages who committed this deed of death, that they
fired at some of the neighbours who came to the
place to render assistance.
The additional details on this melancholy event,
given in another part of this Journal, will be read
with deep interest; and although the crime was one
which nothing can palliate, yet it is necessary for the
cause of truth, as well as in order to form a correct
opinion on the pre,ent disturbed state of Ireland, to
ascertain the motives for such an act of sanguinary
revenge. It appears that o"Goetwax, the tenant of
a brother of the Mr. SPINA who was murdered, was
not ejected for the non-payment of his rent, but for a
defective title to the lands which he occupied. On
the alleged written promise of a lease, he had built
-some cottages, and made several other improvements,
when a writ of ejectment was served upon him ; he
defended himself on the ground of this written pro-
mise, which was produced in Court, when the unfor-
tunate EDMoND UNA was called to identify the hand-
writing of his brother, and gave his evidence against

0.(10101AN.
Such is supposed to have been the cause of this act I,
of signal revenge: but it is not to acts of mere per-
sonal malignity that the present outrages in Ireland
are confined; the evil is of much wider extent. The
object of the peasantry is evidently to abolish rents
and tythes ; which, in too many cases ate, through
the avaricious agency of whit are called " Middle-
men," rendered dreadfully oppressive. Nor is the
evil spirit confined to one district, for disaffection to
existing usages, contempt of the laws, and a dispo-
sition to revolt, manifest themselves everywhere.—
The city of Dublin itself is not free from alarm. Sir
WILLIAM STAMM in his address to the Innkeepers
on Friday last, said—" We do not mean to excite un-
necessary alarm in the minds cf the citizens of Dub-
lin c it is true, we have not detected conspiracy in
this city, but when we perceive the extremities of the
body to be convulsed, there are strong grounds for
presuming that the vital parts are deeply affected."
Various plans are said to be in contemplation for
`suppressing these disturbances ; and though the most
prompt and decisive measures should be taken for
that purpose, yet we fear the evil is too deep-rooted
to admit of a remedy but by a more extensive ame-
lioration of the condition of the Irish peasantry than
will be readily adopted. The Insurrection Act hav-
ing expired, two other plans are said to be in cun-
templation—martial law, and a system of general
police. Should the former be adopted, it will be
carried into effect by the Yeomanry of Ireland, be-
tween whom and the Catholic peasantry the breach
is already so wide that we should dread to see them
arrayed against each other. The Editor of the Dublin
Journal, after stating that regular troops are not the
species of force best suited to reduce the disturbed
districts to order) has the following judicious remarks
on the advantages of the police system :
" The peaceable part of the community cannot be protected
by any plan but s general measure equally affecting all, and on
tlsu principle the Peace Preservation Act was ihtroduced, and

carried through Parliament jsy Pen. When tame pro.
duces such powerful effects, that the relatives of a murdered
man dare sot wise.' his body, that hundreds will quietly behold
a set of rulllans, in broad day, beat or kill a single individual
without, in the least, iliterfering to save him from their mur-
derous hands, when none will come forward to give inlbs►
salon, or in any way attempt to cheek outrage, eau It
be said tote expediese, were it practicable, to form a separation
in such a society that would include the guilty only? If those
who are really innocent and passive, found the means they pos-
sessed were made responsible for the conduct of their turbulent
neighbours, they would anon devise measures for preventing out-
rages. They would unite to counteract the banditti, that they
might be relieved from the expense of the Police Eitablishment,
which, the more heavily it pressed, would induce proportional
activity in removing the cause."

New York Papers to the 3d inst. arrived this day.

—A Proclamation from General JACKSON, in Pensa-
cola, dated the 29th September, orders the Spanish
Officers to withdraw themselves, as they ought here•
tofore to have done, from the Floridas, agreeable to
the 7th Article, on or before the 3d day of October
nest, after which day, if they, or any of them, shall
be found within the Floridan, all. Officers, civil and
military, are requived to arrest and secure them, so
that they may be brought before him, to be dealt
with according to law.