The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-11 00:00:00

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your retn►n to you♦ several coontiei, you will neo
pier utmost endertoonrs in co•operallun •ith the
Magietrece to digest thensechinations of those ohne*
Projects, if sereeasf•l, could only eogreeete ebonite.
which it is professed to remedy, and •ho, ender the
pretence of Ikeform, hive really no other object bet
the sobveriioo of our hoppo C•ingtitelion."
Whirh might bey. been turned tbs.:—

44Y..e may therefo►e rein on my firm determine.
lion, to employ the pow►r I am eiiiroslinl with by
law to Mgt effect, and doubt not, Chit on your re-
tern to your a I counties, you will ose your ut-
most on-talons, jointly with the M.gistroey, to de-
feat the aschinations of those, whose proj.cts, if suc-
cessful, would only 'maw, the evils they profess
to remedy; and who, ender the preten,• of !Worm,
have really for object. the subversion of the Borough-
mongers' salutary influence in oar happy Constito-
dun."

[ We have to ream., the *what's receive for delaying to rob-
li.h the above emoosesti. or etitiebon no the Royal %peerh be
fore. Thee would certainty ha... hers more in sensors at the
date of his leiter. though the odium' be ;lowest ow of It vow.
e Mare b:ea us rrp..wrred Ivy the favours afoot friend,.— KO.]

Ti ens XDIVOK or r:s STATESMeIN.

es sorry to say that the publication
of the Latter I sent you respecting Watkins,
ob metal's!, came to the gallows tbroegit the
infleeoce of K 4ten B..rt.ngh Iniquity, has not
produced the effect I espectiol, though I am
not without the hope that motility some re-
formation may route from it. I did hope that on
the appearance of this came, Correption would be
abashed, and hide its hideous hew] ; end that moral
men would combine togethei In check hi pernicious
influence. Whet (abject can he mete 'worthy to en-
gage the shove teal of that Society, purposely iiisti•
toted for the Suppression of Vice, than to put the
law, in force spinet the Bribery and Perjury so
prevalent in Rotten Boroughs? When (nett become
inditTerent to the sanctity of an oath, they are peste
to society, the very foondations of which they sub-
veil by 11,41'04 the 'weans whereby justice can slime
be administered. Surely, these Cienttemen need not
be told this —surely they know that when oar an-
cestors could not obtain true testimony, they appeal-
ed
le (leaven; and they cannot bet be ewers that
true lestiosoxy is not to be vspecteil, where men are
is the habit of taking bribes, and of forseretriog
themselves. lot me entreat these eterilly persons
thou to direct their efforts again 4 those monstrous
vices so prevalent in Rotten Boroughs; and that
they say be induced so do this, I have again takes
ep the pen to correct some milrepeemil-stione
vetting Watkins, and to place the mute, of fact
respecting that case, which is indeed a caw of the
utmost iwipoitattee to the well-befog of society, on
each indisputable alithoiity, as nn sign, vitutever
may be his political lea ll i ll g, sill aunts,' to reject it.
the upholders of Coiropuon, she, I am Hairy to
say, ate not only a numerous body of once, bat also
a superior class .a respect, at heist, In rook opu•
loner, wish to eigneitler IVrfkior as a bitclenod
. wets h, falsely 'moil,* his • c•-tice of a crime
which had been full; pr yet against him, in a nay
" almost beyond exampk," and coneequeoily they
say, th it as lie died silk a liejti his mouth, with re-
spoor t.. rho guild point, he ooeht not to be beliet•
ed on any other. The stet. meat s the Sahebs'',
Paper, es h eh I shall copy in part, has given to
this error : it says, " that w!.ich was not seen in the
priaoorr was evident in most of the spectators—a
fearful and breathless mimicry, a solemn stillness,
and a limp espriseion of melancholy thought.—
There was in him a comp3sure and sesignaiiun
worthy of a better cause; and sere not the proof; of
his guilt stoiki,ig almost beyond 'sample, I is firmness
of soul mast have owned coo passion in all, and a
roneictiou of his innocence. lie • as earnestly and
feelingly intuited to disburden his 'out of put of its
guilt by confession; but he was decisive in :sit de-
nials of any pattisipation in the deed, and only al-
located that lie was close to the spot alien the murder
Wei Committed. In every other ;wised but that of
coafession, his behaviour was proper acid becoming.
At the scoff 41 he joined its eeriest prayer With the
same unsubdoed
.firmness; and at Ws own desim,
read aloud the lOtith Psalm : e 0 God, my heart is
ready," sic —Now I beg !Payette 24k she y
Journalist, if the account which he has here given is
at all consistent with a man going oat of the world
•itb a lie in his mouth; end I ask those who have
commented on this account of his, aid concluded
from it that Watkins was e hardened en-I obdurate
wretch, if such conclusions are warianted from the
pumices ? When men have committed greet cameo,
an 4 are called on to wake I'Po-tome:it for them, the
one or the other of two things generally happen,.
Either they are penitent, and seek comfort from le-
ligion ; or they become callous and obdurate, and
turn more daring, profane snit wicked than before;
either 111 these resul's take ;clue, but both are in.
compatible. What, then, is my colielesion ? It is
this, that fratkins was innocent of the murder, hot
not of the robbery. I do not !selloue the words that
are here pet into his mouth ; because 'bey ere in eau.
tradirtion with those which he uttered et Martha-
rough, to the 'Magistrate, who went there to meet
him. On that occiotion h• never said that he *.s in.
maven, ; he never ',wended to have had " Ito per.
iicipution in the deed ;" he neves reptesettiod
as a casual spectator, that happened to be near the
spot !mite the earn* see committed ; on the coo.
scary, be allowed the justice of the *entente— and
rent mid, that had he been one of the Jery, he
would have given Ike came epithet. Ile admitted,
that what he said in the Judge was improper ; that it
, arose from sudden feeling, and that he hail sent an
•pidegy tioth•Judge for hit conduct on that occasions.
i His aeseition was, that be 'lid not fire the pistol—btu
!on being strongly conjured by the Magistrate to es,
who fired it, he eluded an explicit reply—bet said,
as be had before done to the Judge, " that he was
willing to die for it." lle slippers In hate been per-
fectly conscious that the law requited an IllOtielefielet,
land he was reedy to stake it. Ile considered the ex-
piatory sacrifice of his ors life as sufficient, without
betraying his friend, perhaps his brother (for his boo-
then was arraigned es en arcomplite, but acquitted
for want of sufficient testimony ), and perhaps, also,
h. was conscious that the mats that fired the deist
(wkaelre; he was) had done it at his instigation; a
if so, his concealment may, pettily', be reierded as
a point of homier. There are at least mans men in a
higher rank of life, who would have he'd it 115 such.
Watkins nears desired to taro King's a. ideates. Ile had
no wish to sale hie owe life; can the contrary, he de.
elated, that if his brother and he had been tried
gs.thrt, be would have tautened himself guilty, in
eider to save him. Ile solemnly dechoid, thief all
She crimes he bed committed arose from the h, riible
things practised et Elections; he sod, that his wick-
mtness had been eery weal, but he trusted that Goo's
mercy well frill iteeter—that he did tint wish In live;
and that he went to IA 'location • ills as witch joy
es it be went to a wedding. Finally, Le sect, ihu
so great was the wickedness of the •orlif, that his
only wonder was, that Coo ALMIGHTY did not de-
stroy it. This speech has been ridiculed by the
Borougbesongers ; they have said, that some Slell"•
dist bad pot it into his head, hat, by what I m4Olll
bitrepeetatme was M T Jet iced. Is Jail he rest trite.

Bible constantly. 114 cent till 41 teals gull', berets
his crimes nese great ; sod bit (06..ot*isco of them
bore every mad' of sincerity. N.thing, iikrittil, bat
such a sitorete tern,ance, ea.) the 1...pe that it in.
spired, tomtit enable him In me through ohm did
rah ibis placid contionsmir ahirh is etterstly ad-
mitted. Nor„ merit a mtti, •ii rirrow:tenerd, dom.
6.lturg in the divisor pisihibe•, most have telieveti sta
those promises —L. reis!il n •t take one and reject
son her. It was itromitel that Jerusalem sh..ald bit
d.atropul, and it was 4•41,..ym h.s
promised that " God Melt des, oy Mr tab,rn”rle of
bribery." This is m• much a pi, I el R if
111., promise •f infinite ~. 1,1• • cOOl4lO, Wale
kin: believe in She 11110 I,e!letinl II" in the
ore ? Neoll se be •utnrised, then, is lils ssyingi
hit only *nutter sass. the; Gott A t.stictitv did not
destroy ibis wicked world; fur he knew it to be
*irked: kill oleo practices of 'flitter, And romp.
Simi, iv! i. h tritest to Inc Noma kneeler nu Lis iftiod
than the minder, et which Ihe •ar mot rerhapethie Ise
▪ perpotratnrosild him that it ass in ty
world, one ripe for destredinn* ; MI. •• 1•• apt
he the natural rnostgeratce of hit rpm* rellmrtieilii
But I will suppose that Ine had remicelood •ithi
W 11.64161 Clow man, and tot., him all she black
metope of • nick tas had cernesisted, ohms
offici.tints as s Borustch 4:11111, eloold I Mgt bdiro
improper u. that C ”mtit if M 14 ietolteded
th•t G.4t will dearest the Inbern4ck
which, it sorb a iolsetotrle 111.1.• it I h., 'enlist,
must mean nit hand ; sad well would it be, if 'Arty
11,./..,xt•monmer hod such a mooslot st hi• e.h. e, to
p.-ash In him tech 'slowy do,ttioe, me• to. owt,•slly
et not niaihndittiretly. Tie eteeth,.d has nethine to
d.. • ills Ire case—she nnly 4141.410 a he.ng. ot.rther
the tlenuisriatints is or h 11-1 a 10411 of Iteve.sio-n.
hive promised to plan the 'ostler 4Go inn them it
; in short. I has. per.
so-a
-ion Item the lits‘i-trate to mention hi. tiarne,
,irh is Et.ft.w sit Ca tfltrl. E.(' Cl,ollon. near
ll ,Itertfnrel, s.. Its. Ihe G.oglomin i. • telatosts
of Lord Cuss's's, and by infirrimEo 11 5117 related to
the CIWICELLOIt of this Esc* Walt.

I reassio, C.

Rockingli. Ant. 3. T. T.
•Ir to..t r-p and al tow lion, all RenWAY Irma owl Ina
on irteui.d so he orsol.hrd. bat corr. lug moats,
I . pot, Ilse 11.41r0i • r ib. 0„,.01.., p.n.. If s.o, it •.is otal)
dlf-
fcrt oit)t of Ivilowilig .be wow proore,,ios.

noL EAT S FORA

A dorm of ',sender and lightning, econs:
pulled by torrents of hail end rein, wee risiiniiei sI
it Toristock. Landolph,!lash, end St. G-ronsina,
f.Ne►dsy sentright. The hail, or rather dikes of
ler, which fell, were estraordirsarily Low, a iil did
cons.dnable damage to the `less is hot-houses, &c.
At Liskeard, the ground floors of the busses ia
the levier put of the town were consplotely
and the torrents which rushed through some of the
um°, streets were SulfiCiPill to boar down a man.—
During this time the peals of thunder 11161, Iremend.
(roily loud, and the dashes of lightning eery visit!.
At metal other pliers the fetes of the storm was
equally felt ; but it did not reach much farther wen
than Traro, where the fall of rale, though heavy,
wee not uncommon. The storm geminated 'bout an
hoer, and was preceded by a most oppressive degree
of beat.

A sintalot phenomenon was obterteil bet wee*
Chattiest., and Redraft' on Stlnregy 1191 :—An
appearance like a waterspout was ob.etr►tl in rise
from some old Till,/ in the neighbool howl, end con•
t need for 'noir time, but without any noise or apps.
rent cootalsion in the•aarri.undint wm,,ip'iere. It
disappeared alter hosing prnro•ed.d ler Soler way
across the country, tarty log up eerry light subatancr
its its passage.

A TTTMPTED larr: flrrafil
'" Th• vinfortonate Crown Juror,' alluded to last
work still lists. di./ not attemot suirid• with a
razor, as then stated lot the teal cirrumarances
were and are Si follow : if an enuarterisol Gen.
tleman of aril 'once in the Elm Roding, sheer 45 or
50, remork•trtir about, and weeinusly of a cheerfel
disposition. An .nrlictureos for so artsrialt had llama
pr.fourd Basins, him on acrount of hls hieing i111001`•
fere,' r.n account of some oyhto two,. r this, it is
gif moose.% hal so drsepis alfArred his 1.1114, that h•
r:l,r, hi, ion in yo,k, very early, and repaired sn
grid behind llnun.gtnn, where, with a pentode, he
!Cai 010* of his wrists, and afterwards hit 'tiros,, in a
!most die-I.lrolllll4llof*. kJ% This Condition he lay eget•
tering in his blood till evening. when a mower, in a
neighbouring sat attracted to the spat by his
groans. The anfottu,sete man was soon takes to sit
ion, and a surgeon, of this city, being sent fiat, he
aewed,top the wounds, amt. adeutstioered the props!
remedies. For three or four days he was unable to
6..11(04 even liquids, as till invariably rettariod
Wealth the *mend ; we are glad to learn that hit
now presents every appesiance of 'a speedy sod per.
feet recovery."
UtWittuu our op Pelson.—Alunday morning,
about tbriers'eloal, tbej oiler of the Burbugh Complier
was alarmed by • Licoiltiog at the gate of that pri•
son,upoit opening •hich he was told by a neighbour,
that a Prisoner heavily ironed had failmi Go. lima
top of the prison and broken both his legs. Upon'
;going to the spot *ht.', the •11(0111111:11* 1)1011nn ley,
the jailer found that he was no ether thin Ifillieute,
ntros' desperate ai.empt to get away .ben plumed
Ifor re:sherry, was frustrated by the spirit and sags-
city of a Newfoundland d.'g that leaped into theater
after him. The greatest suiprise s-ized all the per.
i tow connected sills site the seuarrity of which,
particularly in she place when Williams was con-
fined, was co.:islet...l the levy shorigest. Nillianta
was carried in agony so Get'! !Intuits!. Alderman
intim s J 01.47111 fa 5311T11,01.01 01100 riaTitolitelh•
P1140..•1 /WI .he j tilers. that the Prisoner hail him
!twitted up at the reseal boor the night before; that
the Peisoner had contrived in irmove the iron bar
which was (*.wood across the hole through which
l
r:to 1811 Si and
hneth e
tas,,iiiurr:.P.ol,P7.l4Pheadea
prison end tied a rope hnv to he imp.ssahte to srby ii:::bi animal
had made of the matting CM which his used to sleep,
round the chimney, end was let,ing binned, down,
when the fore broke, end be was &abed to tbe grooods

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