The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-19 00:00:00

STATtsmAii.

BELLINGHAM.
Mowing s a more pimiento. accoadt or the beta/lour
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,Juloi k.riday eveoiot, ca the boar of kb
execution, than what was in our last:—
Saturday inhroing, ntmine 6'elock, Bellingham was in hod,
and seemed perfectly. composed' about a quarter before tea,
there was a loaf of bread brought him, with two quarts °lli ring
aai fir : he was still in.h r. Neittniau caused the cell door
to be left open, thatlll6lll/4ht *alit in the adjdittlett images
which he did tisicelbeti rie of the day, attended by MO
two persons appoi tat purpose. He ate some of the
bread,
drank oft aftnt Heise:id he felt mach obliged'
tbr the lenity slieleb hint In permitting him to walk in the cell
passage. He asked one 'a the persons with him to reads,
chapter (rain the New Testament, which was immtdiately 1
complied with. lie seemed perfectly entombed, and resigned
to his sayingfute, that he should suou be with his Heavenly Fa-
ther, and released from all trouble, :tad svished for the time of ,1
his final exit to come. }l asked one of tne persons with him,''
Whether be could be arctunmodated with a jelly, as he felt vuy
? but tbe r suest was not inadeaieund iii - Dr. Ford,

minute or bred, Itellinfiam observed that be MU not fastened
tight enough, umi begged the Executioner to draw the cords
tighter, Observing, " 1 ;OSA not to haVe the power of offring
auv residanee."—The Esecutiumer then Illitseurd his cravat it
Mile. to eitpedite the final remmal of it when -ha stionttl reach
the scatfold, the cause of which being etiplained,. be said; " Cer-
tainly do so, it is perfectly right."
• The procession, watch moved quickly along, wits followed
1t) :Mont two dozen Noblemen and Gentlemen. Toe Sheriffs .1
Sad some of the Officers first went out of the Debtors' door
*poll a pan of the scalrald, between the door add the place of ,
*venetian, a little lower in situaiiou, covered over from the
rain. Here they stood with only their awn Officers, the Lord
Mayor, and about six Getttleinen, the others baing left inside ;
the dour in the prison. Beilinghnnt aseaulcd the scalfald ac- '
eorttpanied by 1)r. Ford. the Ordinary, the Electstiener, and
one or two Officers, who kept rather nack, the Ordinary and
Executioner alone going farwarsl wit i him.
He ascended the scailold with ruder a light step, a cheerful
countenance, and a confident, a caw, but not at all an exul,ing
air; he looked a out him a little lightly and rapidly, which
seems to have li-s usual el2,nacr and gesture; but I. had uo
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4.Y.VASSIN4II'IO N.

The very recent instance Which ha's occurred in
this country, in the case of Mr. Peacavat, and the
symptoms which have appeared in some of our pro-
aiucial towns, of the existence of individuals who
do not entertain a just abhorrence of this, almost hi-
therto, unheattl of Crime, has rendered the consi-
dmearantlioso
dOeepf thlyisinsvuobijveecdt: iben
hwilidcshi -tutuhteiolinf
and o everankry
what it may, of the most serious linportance. We
recollect the period when the' Word Assassination
could not be uttered without exciting fee:iligs of the
utmost horrorin all who heard it; and the idea of
any individual, living in Great _Britain, who could
be thought capable of so unnatural and Monstrous a
crime, was as distant float the minds of it/ inhabi-
tants, as the customs and habits of those who people
the shoo',, co. who dwell on a part .of the earth as
yet undiscovered. in those tithes "eA!.:lssiti; if
his existence was really believed, was understood to
be a being far removed from this quarter of the
globe; insensible of the blessings of society—a mi-
santhrope, who, nithout any accountable motive,
entertained a deadly hate against all mankind,. and
who was feared and avoided by all the human race
besides. This, at the period to which we allude,
was the idea the unlettered entertained of the advo-
cates and perpetrators of those deeds of darkness,
while the better-informed were well aware that they
existed is Europe, at no great distance from these
comparatively happy Isles. in Itaty, once so famed
for its civilization, its encouragement of the arts,
and the purity of its laws ;, so pure that we, who
boast of being possessed of the best judicial code in
the universe, borrowed our legal maxims from her.
It, Italy, we say, which, at one period, was considered
the source of every thing great and honourable, As-
sassination was not only practised for centuries, but
. had actually, for many years, been followed as a
lawful profession, by which numbers of infatuated
beings contrived to gain a subsistence. Wile has not
heard of the Bravos of Venice—of those men who,
on all occasions, and at a feW minutes' notice, might
be procured in almost every State of Italy, even in
Rome itself, when the, Sovereign Pontiff was. in
the plenitude of his power, that were ssady
to gratify •the revenge of auy man able to re-
ward them, by plunging a poniard into the heart of
those he considered obnoxious to him, or who stood
it. the way of the accomplishment of his views ?—This
iexecrable practice might have remained confined to
' the [(alien territories, and Great Britain might, at
this hour, have had' no occasion to mourn either the
loss of her Statesmen or her citizens, had we not, by
a most infatuated policy, connected ourselves with
the Continental Powers, who attempted, at the be-
ginning of the. French Revolution, to counteract the
endeavours of the Gallic nation to rescue themselves
. from aa- arbitrary despotism. Bet .no -those who
guided the helm of our State were too much enrap-
tured with the." Divine Rights of Kings," to per-
mit any people whatever to assert their legitimate
privileges. Coalitions with other Cabinets of Eu-
rope, that entertained similar views, created an inter-
course, which has ever since entailed on this. coon-
try all the vices, and all the 7 crimes of these Courts.
From Italy, in particular,
.the Ministers of Great
Britain, and the other States whose alliance she
i courted, seem to have imbibed the fatal propensity of
getting rid of their adversaries by other means than
those hitherto regarded as lakul and honourable
among nations ; and though this disgraceful
change in the state of our political system, has
beet. industriously 'attempted to be concealed
and favourable constructions endeavoured to be put
on certain transactious not very creditable to our na-
tional fame, yet circumstances have transpired, in
the course of the warfare against France, to place
this fact beyond all doubt. That what the Allies
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could not accomplish in the field, they calculated on
effecting by the dagger of the Assassin. A remark-
!
able instance of this occurred it. the year Ina,
shortly after the battle of Aboukir,' in which the
; gallant NELSON destroyed nearly the whole of the
French navy. At that time a new coalition was
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forming against France. BONAPARTE was in Egypt,
whither he bad been sent by the Directory, after his
''first conquest of Italy. To induce the subjects of
his gamete!' MAJESTY to' oin this league against
the Repilbß63 FADER PIGNATELLt addressed a letter
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from ISepJes, on the 2d of October, to the Sardi-
nian Mioister, in which he represented that the hour
was come when the Cause of Kings should no longer
be blighted by the rude hand of capricious fortune;
that the energies of Europe ought to be awakened
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We understand that a . abscription is about to be; by
the 'signal naval victory obtained over the corn-
commenced for the laid of the widow. and the three ;
' mon enemy ; and that, by employing prudence and
children of the uttfortunate Baeuxonass•
I courage,." the dowufal of that ,Regicide Govern-
The following .fact may afford much subject mat-
merit the scourge of Kings, and, the oppressor of
ter for spectsletieu. A few years age, the most gal-
taut Admiral .of a nation, long farau„, for nautical NationsP Might be effected. If prudence and cou-
heroes, gained imatortallaurels, by fighting iu the ; rage, as they are rightly understood, had been ens-
cause of his country. -against Spain; by a Spanish ployed• by the coalesced powers on this occasion,
shot he lost his c;m ; by a Spanish shot,. the boast, ! there cannot remain a doubt that their exeriotts
the glory 9f it'd", fell I—in the very acit of saint- i would have cbunteracted those of France. But
hilating the Sp.:niih Beat, our Nelson trued l And
a capons. cf a .very %different kited were recom-
yet, ore. that war itewhich we were /Ilea curced fix i'w
closed--are teoulr,e3s_uay., thousands or our 4ravii mended. This ..scepolttan Prince, after stating that
countrymen,' in the cause; the 64 eowet-f‘il Empire' cf. Russia, the Ottoman
of Split the cause of that rely coeptry whiclq.Porte, 'and all AA: strength tiff Great Breain," might
robbed us of our here, the high price Raicrfor the moss, be reli*lse, lees on to recommend the Piedmon-
decisive. victory which. the annals of the' ocean hevlatt tese
cOntirrue to dig in silence the grave of the
recorded.
• • Freasah, ." Lest, however, these expressions might
pn Wednesday.,last, Mr. lliene Weer'Beres '
appeared ratite Liverpool Theatre, for the first one; be* lonsiderfl dubious, he remarks, 44 We know
these seven years, in his faroerite. part of, 'kernel its I here, that the Members of his SARDINIAN MAJLS.
Da:tarps*. ,3 ti T Y'S Couffcil, who, are cirfumspect even to timidity,

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