The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-07 00:00:00

THE FINAL CONFESSION

On Saturday the prisoner wrote a very long confession, and
delivered it to Mr. Carver, the Ordinary, and Mr. Baud, the
minister of the French Protestant chapel, in Threadneedle-
street, who afterwards read it over to him, and asked him whe-
ther it was all correct, to which he replied that it was. They
then asked him if there was any thing he wished to add to it,
and he replied nothing whatever, The confession is writ-
ten in the French language, with a slight admixture of Swiss,
which made it somewhat difficult to translate. We, howe-
ver, have seen a translation of it, and which has been also
read to the prisoner, and acknowledged by him to be correct.
We'were not'allowed to take a copy of it, it being thought
that it ought not to go forth to the public until after the ex-
ecution. The confession does not contain any fact with
which the public are not already acquainted. It commences
by stating, that he had planned the robbery several days be-
fore it was committed. It does not state (as in the first
confession) that Lord William Russell came down stairs and
caught him in the act of hiding some of his lordship's plate.
This part is altogethei omitted. After stating that he had
resolved on the robbery, it says that he went up stairs to
his lordship's bed-room, and finding him asleep, he went
down arid got a large carving knife, with which he returned,
and having tucked up the sleeve of his coat, cut his throat.
It then gives a very long account of his having hid the diffe-
rent articles be had stolen, and persists in the statement that
he hid some of them while the police were present. It re-
peats the story of his having hid the ten sovereigns in the cell
at Bow-street, and concludes by thanking the clergymen for
the kind attention they had shown him. It is written in a
firm hand, all except the signature, and is attested by the or-
dinary and the Rev. Mr. Baud.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST NIGHT,
IRISH REGISTRATION BILL.

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Lord STANLEf..
said perhaps he was not exactly in order,
hut he wished before public business commenced to state
(under the circumstances of the case) the course he intended
to pursue relative to the Irish Corporation Bill. (Hear.)
He had introduced that bill in the month of March. Several
circumstances occurred to postpone the consideration of it
from time to time. Ten divisions had taken place, in five
of which the whole power of her Majesty's govern-
ment was arrayed against the bill, but they had only
lartially succeeded in but one instance. (Hear.) In
he other nine cases the bill had stood the test of discussion,
ut on well considering the opposition (which would be con-
tnued) he saw no reason to expect that it would be carried
into a law during the present session. (Hear.) Enough had
been done to establish the principle, of the 'measure, but as
government did not think that being repeatedly beaten on
such a bill, sufficient to induce them to give up their offices
(hear, hear); and as it would be impossible, without inter-
ruption to other public business, to carry it through the house
this session, he wished now to state that he should withdraw
the bill for the present, but at the earliest possible moment
next year, he should move for leave to introduce a similar
measure. (Hear.) The noble lord then moved that the order
of the day be read, for the purpose of discharging it. (Hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said his opposition to the bill had not
been vexatious, but bona fide (laughter). He should. be
ready to meet the noble lord in discussion on any similar
measure he might introduce next session, as he considered it
was an attempt virtually to repeal the reform act.
The order of the day was then discharged. The bill is
consequently postponed until next session.
[Left sitting.]