The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

HUSS h.PS CONFES'SION.

Mr. Rudge has published the following additions,
particulars respecting this malefactor's confession,
which, he says, witi • true and faithful account of
what Hussey stated to bins io his tell, Mr. R. then
proceeds thus
66 Whether his statement he entitled to implicit
credit, will be a matter of opinion. For my own
part, I have no hesitation in declaring my full con.
viclion of the sincerity of his mind, and the truth of
his confession. When he had concluded the detail,
thought it proper to desire him to rise from the
bed on which he had been sitting, and to get on his
knees, while he joined me in a prayer which I of-
fered up to the Almighty in his behalf, and which I
adapted to the declaration I had just heard. I after-
wards questioned him very particularly on the sub-
ject of the murder in all its details, and spoke my
mind to him with tenderness, but without any dis-
guise, as to his guilty participation in it, and that he
was to look upon himself, in cos sight of a just and
holy God, as having contracted the same degree of
guilt, aisil es deserving of the same measure of
punishment as his two companions, who had per-
pirated the murder ; and who, probably, but for
his instigation, would never have been eogaged
in that deed of death and iniquity, for which
he was now justly to suffer. Ilk answer was,
' I am guilty, and even more guilty than the
others ; let them not, therefore, be brought into trou-
ble, but let me be considered as alone deserving to
be thus punished for my guilty deeds,' To some re-
mark which I made, in allusion to his confession, he
said, that in opening his mind to me, he had got
rid of a load, which was more heavy and insupport.
able than the chains on his body." When on the
scaffold, to a question of the executioner, whether
he was ready to give the fatal signal for the drop to
fall P he answered, he wished first to say a few
words to Mr. Budge. I was then in Mr. Delmar's
carriage, close to the place of execution, and I imme-
diately went to him. His words were precisely
these : ' I have told you all about the murders, and
I wish now, with my dying breath, to confirm it.—
But one request I have to make to you. Let not the
names of those who were in it be revealed, lest they
should come into trouble ; but let me be considered
as alone guilty, and deserving of what I am to suf-
fer.' The cap was then pulled over his head, which
did at his request, and he was immediately launch-
ed into eternity, and appeared to die without a
struggle.
" Liuzebouse, Aug. 8.

JAMES RUDGE."

It is still reported that Lord M etvictz is to T...
plaeo the Marquis of HASTINGS as Governor-General
of lodic. It is said that Mr. CANNING exerted him-
self ineffectually to procure the nomination of the
Earl of MORLEY to the situation.
The Gazette of Saturday notifies the Patrice Br-
a-ENT% approval of Mr. EMANUEL SCHOW as Consul
at Plymouth for the King of Denmark and Norway.
The addition of the latter country has arisen, we
Suppose, from inadvertency.
A powder7mill, near Brussels, blew op on the
evening of the 1 Ith instant, with a terrible explosion,
by which accident 11 persons, including two children,
lost their lives.
It is stated in an, American Paper, that a ship of
shout 375 tons was ready to be launched from one of
their ship yards, which is actually to be fitted op
with a steam-engine and apparatus, es a steam packet
ship for crossing the Atlantic.

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