The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-12 00:00:00

cellent spirit of the departed, that the deep regret for this vic-
tim of anarchy, and the sympathy for his bereaved connexions,
which pervade every clasS throughout the country—that ex-
cepted which perpetrated the crime—are uutningled with cries
of vengeanCe. It is not that the tnoto eff,ctual means have not
been, and will not be, atioilted to .vindiCate the outraged
On the contrary', this murder has produced a shock deep and
Universal as when Mr. Baker or Mr, ‘Vhitty 'fed, and has
awakened the county to a..-sense- of its real condition. His
funeral was I &owed by a large meeting of magistrates and
ventry, who, it is to be hoped, will themselves assume, as far as
constitutionally as may be, the reins of government; which,
from factious motives, have for some time been suffered to drop
into the hands of the vilest and mist turbulent class of its po-
pulation ; but what 1 mean is 010, that the deep and universal
feeling, on this occasion, • seems to repose in tender regrets
upon the victim rather limo to rise in ebutitions of vengeance
against the murderers. It is as though the mantle of charity
which clothed his meek spirit had, in his translation, dropped
upon his mourners; and though
"—Grief will have way. yet the fast falling tear
Is not mingled with deep execrations on those"
who, at the impulse of cold-blooded revenge and filthy lucre,
could heartlessly rob a wife of an affectionate husband, tour in-
fant babes of a tender parent, society of one of its brightest or-
naments, and the church below of one of her most faithful sons.
This meekness and tenderness of sorrow I view as a reflection
of the spirit of the departed, just as the soft glow of autumn's
evening landscape but reflects the mild lustre of a brightly
setting sun. Man's immortal principle, which "startles at de-
struction," instinctively looks hack to its last personal inter-
course with any individual who has been suddenly cut down—
thus forced to his eternal destiny: and, in the instance before
us, all the recollections thus revived, peaceful as their object;
and every glance which follows him.beyond the veil, bright and
glorious as that destiny, repel every datl and discordant feeling.
Among many interesting anecdotes of this character, which
may more properly be tecorded in the hearts of friends, and
in the book of God's remembrance, than in the pages of a peri-
odical, the following is stated to have been, his last act :—As he
stepped into his gig, on the fatal morning., a woman applied to
him for medicine, which he was in the constant habit, amid the
multiplicity of his engagements, of himself distributing to the
poor. Though in •haste, he immediately returned to his office,
and supplied her want ; and before she, could have left his
grounds was himself in eternity. That woman was a spy !
And shortly before he started, two men were observed to pro-
ceed at a rapid pare, and under suspicions circumstances, in the
direction of his mudreri, from the vicinity of his house. Thus
some recal solid benefits conferred on them; others, the affec-
tionate look, or kind expression, with which he last parted from
them. The perfect freedom, too, of his death, under such cir-
cutnstances, from every thing painful and terrific, (the medical
attendant's opinion is, that he probably never evea heard the
shut which emaciated his spirit,) and the well-grounded confi-
dence of his friends that their loss is his unspeakable gain—all
these cause them to " sorrow not as those who have nu hope."
These elevating and soothing recollections embalm his memory
and shroud from shocking and irritating view his mangled
corpse.
In a former number of the Chiistian Observer for this year,
I related an interesting anecdote of Mr.• \Vhitty, a few
evenings previous to his murder; mentioned to nie, as I there
stated, at the scene of its occurrence, a happy Christian fire-
side. It can be no breach of delicacy to say, that scene was
the house of Mr. Austin Cooper's father. and that 1 have every
reason to believe that Mr. Austin Cooper himself was present
on the occasion alluded to. And it may present Ireland to your
readers in a striking point of view to remark, that of the three
gentletnen who joined the drawing,-room circle, two, wholly
onconnected by family or business, at different times, for
different causes, by different persons, and those, probably, per-
sons who never before had any contact, collision with, or even
knowledge of them, have been murdered ! It is truly an aw-
ful link by which any present is connected with my former
paper. . . _ .

Let me add one fact more. I could name a truly pious lady
in this county, whose father was murdered! whose brother-iii-
law was murdered ! whose cousin-german, by marriage, was
murdered! the pastor Id the parish adjoining to whose lesidence
was murdered! two other pastors of parishes adjoining to
whose residence were fired at, and in Intention murdered!
whose husband was fired at, and in intention murdered! whose
brother, because an upright and spirited magistrate, was fired
at, and in intention murdered ! Now observe, that this was not
an entertainment provideit fur some popular family party.
These five actual murders, though thus connected with a single
individual, were of parties perfectly distinct; at different times,
and for different causes. So many murders, actual and at•
tempted, accumulated round the home and heart of a single
individual, must present this "peculiar county" in an awfully
striking point of view to English "gently, who hold fine plates,
and can live comfortably and happily in thOseplares." And as
I now review this "peculiar county," I do not think I ,hood
speak rashly were I to assert, that there is not in it a single res-
pectable family, which has not had a relative, a friend, a neigh-
bour, or some person connected with it in business, murdered.

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