The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-31 00:00:00

EXECUIIION.O EARNGII PRISONZAS.

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On Saturday lennight Jailers Dubois and GA-
: ileum Beury were taken from the gaol at Potts-
j mouth to: the usual place of execution, and afteril,
some time spent itt prayer, were launched into eter-
nity. After condemnation, their conduct was be-';
coming their unhappy situation ; and they deroutly
joined Mr. White, the Catholic Priest, in daisy
prayer. On the morning of the execution, the of&
cers of the prison went to their cells soon after fire
o'clock, and found the prisoners in a lifeless state,
and the ticroecovered with blood. The surgeon of
the prison was immediately sent for, the effusion of
blood stopped, and themselves sufficiently recovered
to attend the exhortation of the Priest, who repre-
sented to them the great sin they had committed in
attempting their own lives, and they expressed their
.contrition for it. They• effected their purpose by
means of a short piece of glass, with which they
made an incision in their arms, and enlarged the ori-
fice with an old rusty nail, sharpened, which they
had concealed about their wooden shoes. They had
expressed a wish to be shot, instead of hanged, as a
death more agreeable to a soldier; but being in-
formed that could not be done, they, appeared resign.
ed. Beury, considering that he should effectually
destroy himself, had left a written paper in his room,
stating, that when a valiant Frenchman was sen-
tenced to die by the comfit)* executioner, rather
than disgrace himself, his family, and Ms country
by such an ignominious end, he preferred dying by
his own hands. At the place of execution,- and on
receiving sentence of death, Beury exclaimed Vice
l'Emperor ! After their bodies had hung the usual
time, they were taken down and hurled in 4he Ca-
tholic bririal-ground, near this city. They were
twenty-eight years of age, and remarkably free
young ipen. We hope their example will have a
proprsintluence on their fellow prisoners, and deter
them from placing themselves in a similar situation.

MADRAS, OCT. 17; 1811.—The fall of Java hav-
ing successfully terminated, every part of India
is now in a profound state of peace. I- am sorry to•
inform you, that a fever, or pestilence, has pre-
'railed in the Madura and I'alamcottat districts to the
southward' which has destroyed almost all the inba.
bitants. • A friend of mine recently returned from
thence says, that he passed throUgh nearly 20 vil-
lages without seeing a living soul ; the houses, streets,
[and fields being.covered with the skeletons and bones
of the inhabitants. • About 80,000 persons are sup.
posed to have perished : and yet it has hardly been
noticed, or evea furnished a paragraph for the News.
Pipers.
A melaocholy event took place at Monmouth on
Thursday evening.: Adjutant D—, of the Local
Militia, put a period to his existence, by shooting
himself through the head. •
At a repeat meeting of the principal ":otton-manu-1
tacturerkef•Stockport, they resolved to advance the
wages of, the weavers twenty per cent. We sincerely
Atm that this lendable, public-spirited, and well-
limed measure, will is ally adopted in dila
.AVI the kingdom.
Are* night since an temate it the Blue Posts Inn,
-in Portsmouth, entered the sitting-room of the Hon. j
*.'9uslow, and took from thence a writing desk,
wrenched it open, and stole eat alkont 801. In notes,'
a valneble Mae of" the Order st the Bath, set withl
brilliants, and unmet doubloons. • The lock of tlel
desk was found in the rennin; at the top of th'e
bousetand the desk la it' place where lumber is usuel.--",
ly kept. •
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To-mgvrow the General Quarter Sessions of the
peace
Pea for the City-and Gibetties of Westminster will
commence at the. ttem Guildhall there, before Win.
hlainwartag, Esq. and the Magistrates of that goy,
*hen the Court will meted to the trials of Tra..-•
mien., • •
• Gil Tharsday time/mend prisoners will be removed
iron' the minor 'gaols of the Metropolis to Neirgate,
preparatory to theComerlisiiii of oYer and Termi-
ner Creneiret 'deb will be held at
the Basile+ l Aprit.
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POLICE.
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Yesterday Win. .feakinsott and Gorge Winia,nB
*ere brought to the Office, c ta-ged with felonion,ty
stealing about eight hundred wei4ht of sheet lead
the proper), of some person or persons
it appeared from the evidence of two watr.hrnett
etn!)l6yo at Old Bromptott, that about two o'cock
yesterday moroing they observed a h-rse and tart
moving towards Kensington, and it being a very gn.,
seasonable bout, they went towards It and fou.id the
Prisoners in the cart, whom they took into cw;toelyi
and found the tart was loaded with_four sacks filial
with sheet lead, which were concealed.
The Prisoners wcrecommitted for further exami.
nation nest Thursday.
Jame M'Coul, alias more, a well khown charac•
ter, who had been apprehended in the tteighblur.
hood of Brunswick-square by virtue of a warrant
from a hi:title rate at Glasgow, charging him with being
concerned with ti man of he name of French, in break.
ing open the Paisley Ultion Bank in Glasgow, SOMA
months since, and stealing Bank notes t 6 the moll- t
of between twenty and thirty thousand p,unds, was
committed for further examination, till some person
arrives from Glasgow to identify him as the man
named in the war, ant.

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