The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

'IIIE STATESMAN.

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SOIE J 1.../ AND P. 0..: .:a aoPies JANDON Na.

Maid I t.) myvri.4 !dent in the same r /MP
with muelf, " and et lime to set out on our e.ii-
tuns to *Le cowers et s t livrtiar.t." 1 o this doctrine
he was unaril ins toasaent, and I therefore den i
elone. I had previously made every ne did intivisy I
as to distance, tit.. ; and found it to it t upw was 0.1
t4isty wilts from Meet!gay, the essis a wild AR.I :stage
country, accessiVe wily to mule, 23.1 pet!eitti.aztv. but
sutficiently teaselled not to r•vaire a gssidr. }r .vieiei
the weather continued 5n... This, will all the San-
game expect:alum of yeteh, I would not :43.w mr.s.ll
t e doubt, and, accs•Hingly, drained the guidance of
peasant. I could no., hakeever. emit Varlie"
sett pleasing to frast my •eyes en a view seh;s at ell
este:muting, derived at that moment ad littolial
lot..rest. frees the beisignant ineuence of a g uriJus!
autnsiosal to wain!. In froet, atm closely henttneti in
by parallel chains of the Alps, wended the Valais am I
tar as Sion ; its many hamlets and villaeos pe• ping
from amidst the thickly scattered groves, and the wide
ahoste rolling its waves through its fertile.and well
✓eltivated lands. tin my right the eye followed the
narrow wiudiugs of the defil4 that led to the rand
St. Bernard; the white foasn'of the Dranse oernisiots-
ally contresting itself with the dark and mianeholy
Lae of the pines and exits, that formed the only ar-
compateinsents. "Ise my left the view enebreeed an mu-
le ereotes vale, diversified with numerous cascades and
mountain streams, it.terseert by time Khisne, en I gra-
dually contracting its width until the town of St. Anne/
rice filled up the aka .e between the encroaching how
riesind me ro-e a long rider of mountains, wliese
s.!-ad rapt stinan'.;is "sent back our tan's to the ages
at old, and the da;s of other years."
But I could not long remain here, and my steps
we e soon turned towards the ...elven: of St. Bernard.
'She narrow and reeky Or, thruugh which lay the
read, and rolled the impetuous Draw, was tnickiy
hatred with lire and pines. Some, eederolleed by
• and menacing a speed: fall, bent their !dark :end
p):ausidic heads over the tashin4 wales of th.. river ;
others rose in lalWerittl majesty amongst the reeks.
seertsin7 to dispute the pre-essiltietwe in altitsmt. Oc-
▪ ssionally the road ass cut thee.' 4.11 the vast and un-
diseolved remains of the la.t winter's avelaisches;
whilst frequent heaps of wreck. and deep cutrities in
the narrow path, attester! the destructive tioleuee of
IL.: swollen torrent. At rt. Branrhicr I emerged from
t'sas romantic pass, and eteced the valley of l'hiessra.
There, changing in a moment, the scenery beanie as
smiling as it had previously be•-n gloomy. The moon-
tilos retired on each side, threw oil the severe forms by
wr:iels they were before characterised, because sprinkled
with huts, meadows, and cern fields, and, gently slop_
In, lost thiusselves in the plain thtteigh which the
brans:• still punnet its users'. These striking con-
tracts, and sudden transitions from the terrific to the
Lerely, are among -the most• lively enjoyments that
await the Alpine traveller. At St. Branchier I staid
to lireakfast. A lc 0:1 old winners, who resembled
Bau:-ix, but without her Philemon, received use in her
I•eueble ahode. She could only uffer a morsel of coarse
briad aesi milk, but these she effered with a good
ile:4 it, and they were her ail. At the villsge of
Lis Ides.abont a league from St. Braachier, ti.e ;alley
atain begins to contract, and reassumes its sonsbm
ue. Hence to St. Pierre Hy country is rensaskable
ter the deep glens, and rocky nay ems into At Lich the
Braise throws itself. 'llse v;etv of this. as it has been
• " Niagara of the Alps," augments in a great
ei:zree the wild be.taties that prevail ars au& I shined
at t e small tewto. of St. Pit still three lei:gues
instint from the conrent. By the time 1 rose to
depart, the day was fast declining, thick clouds
heel overspread the. atinesphere, the wind occa-
sionally rose in loud gusts, :t''l every thing be-
tokened the probability of a -.norm, which in these
mountainous nietrirts is indeed a terrible visitation.
Hoping, howev..r, far the best, I without detly set out
towards the convent, in the expeetarion of reaching it
before the close of slay. The environs of St. Pierre
are wild and austere, and sersibly mark the approach
t.l the abode of eternal desolation At first the road
skirted deep forests of pines, bet sows, rising beyond
the region of trees, pe-sesi user }ferrets rocks and sandy
plains, whilst di.ectly in front tewered the snow-
curvetted sumntit of Mont Velan, de-nettled from mor-
tal approach by its dase,eretti trier. A poor pea-
sant, Fusels, the same wild road as here
joined .oe, an I our conversatian n^.titrally 'striae! tars
the hoer. rs of the surronteliag scenery. 1t ith all the
loquacity of bee class, she told me inau eerabie stories
t " bloody ninritere," " dreadful accidents," and
• hair-lire adth esciper,' whi h had occurred on the
various rpots that we. were reeling, with so tem+
fume:: and energy,' that, apt doubting the authenticity
of her narrative, t MK berm iwaimeipac some per-
sonal adventure ere I could reach the wished-for haven.
A sentiment of Madam ab Steel's happening., h•sw-
over, to strike me. whilst li-tenim; to these wild taler,
2.y ai,prehensions were at once changed into a smite.
" Les hummer du pimple tronvent nne torte de satis-
faction a grossir le danger ; eve lent genre d'insags-
Ilstion its en plaisent' duns l'effet quilt proilMsent
ainsi surples perionnrs (runs! afttre dust, dont its se
aunt ecouter en lee effrayout."
(To be iGistilated.)

From a peculiar source of int:rine:ion, we are ena-
-I.led to state, that her Majesty I.ar expressed her in-
tention of ceertaimly arriving in London in the first
week in May.— -(Kentish Gazette.)

Saturday Prince Leopold left town for Claremont.
The French parrs contain an article Gum Yrun,
Iluteil the 211th ult. stating, on the authority of insect-
iers who had arrived from Panipetuna, that appreher.-
sions w.•re entertained of a commotion in Navarre. It
is said that the enthwsiasm of the Navarrois for Mina
ha I diminished, and that they appeared inclined to
oppose a projet of his fox wising a corps of 3,000
volunteers, and sending away the troops of the line.
It is added, that on the 16th, to provide against in
expected disturbance, all 'the patrols were doubled.
The article goes oh to state, that at Saragossa and
Tarragona, notbing'but anarchy prevailed, in et'lnie-
'locum of its sot being 'knows what anthority was tut
be obeyed.

tr. tit Y OUT:M4,7 OLDII.IX.

tr:t tr TAR Onittl VIA Or SATUUDAV.I

• 'I ke town of Oldham has, during the pretwast a -ilk,
been th, own be', 4 :fart: of alarm and ronfu-i ex-;
ceening any Cming ever remembered by the oldest in-1
issiiitant. him Monday, the day appn'ated for the
eeleheation of th.: King's iOnhday, the first synsptows
olf ::.•ri.feetst.: themselves, I.y the violent cuts-
sta..! wt a party of sol.iiers, at the. II Lite Horse, in the
mliarket-place, oat of whirls lose.+ they turned nil the
iser•rons w!,.. yere si.ti ig in timir company. Nu 4.lTeueir
ha: been o *red to them ; abets maddenly, with the'
na It salt in fury, they assailed the persons present,
.end wit% threats and menaces. arrompattied in sense
eases watt blows, dross them into the street. is- t
Tueeday morning it was generally apprehended, frent
ti a behaviour aced arpearam e I.f tt a so'aliery, that some
trio: nee sionA ensue; and to.s fatally were ap-
prehension- jit•titiol by the events of that 'tering!
Alarat a spa ,r er atler . ix, as some privates of the riAtls,
vier:cr.-al at the Pull's Head, isa George-street, were sit-
ting with 4 party of the town's people in the tap-ruons, a
yonnar man, named 'I has. Whitak;r, began a son dur-
ing which a soldier natued Hoff seised his hat and threw
it on the ti re. No resistance was made to the seizure, a an-
I
tun and inilevent as it was, our was any attempt made to
fescue the hat from the dames ; wherein it remained
till it was e msnmed. Indeed the fom bearenee of the
townsmen t'sruttgliout the dreadful affray ilia; (allotted
altnost !nosed the limits of pruj.riety. it'e are not
worms, t • i.e trampled upon, or sported with hy evrty
ruffian " in authority." who dares to gage the depth of
our pstience. Terribly one day niil rain dui the
revenge of the people on their oppressurri Soma one
exelainsed that "it we c s ehmhe sreA a thin;;
(floe." 111iI was sja: smokily by arta et re.
itionstranee. It was asetwere :by a Lbw infiict.ed with
a Lira-;his el on the forehead of a young man who had
taken nu part whatever, and on whom the attack was
the most purely wanton we ever heard of. From his
arpearance„ width is dreadful, a severe wound being
suede over his I. ft eye, e c si.ould judge him to he
of piseid manners, an inartemtion which wan cult-
firmed by his neighbours and atninaintauce. The out-
rage now begun, was carried on in a +spirit of malig-
nant fury. whirls we could set hare reedited had nut
the £di!ur itt rerson investiltated the details on the
spot. 'I he following partieulnrs are Bathefed from the
sulTerere, and from time inhabitants of the street where
the horrible scene too!: place. We teat •nu fact of
whirl we slid no• receive concurrent testimony from
several respeetabk persons. Every thing which could
he made to serve the purrwes of a bludgeon, was '
seised by the infuriated wretches ; the legs were polled
out of the taldes at whirim they hail been sitting, and
the townsnwn were beaten with the utmost fury. One
ruman !murk a lad over the face 'several times arra •
Rairri.r POKES! he landlord, James Holt, was absent ;
his wi'e was knocked m:own, and suffered severely
daring the outrage. While this was going forward,
souther party of soldiers indiscriminately mix,* ca-
vslry anal infantry, marched .town to tieorge-street, to
assist their comrades in the work of slaughter. litotes '
within the after Klutting their malice, Aired out
their victims at the window, whew their Ices wearied
auxiliaries renewed the vholenre. Two fwt soldiers of
th • last party brort!•ht their iiitretkets with the,,,, and the
test had their bayonets, with which they cut anal stab-
bed every passenger. No our dared mien to venture
into the street to resets • the tytitc!mpy men whom they
were malt reiting. he its ..thitanis in the nei4ltbour-
ing hem-rs were af•aid to enrounter the armed ruffians
by wlomme they were tatem.yed. It wf.t.1.1 swell this
-narrative to a length itmeempatible t.it6 stir sere
we to detail half time rircuusstanees of :mut tzin ferocity
which were related to us. A 114) .r mmiii mean,natimpd
Armstrong, returning from hi'. khour, had his
LAX CUT OCr Another, •havine been must ilreadtitlly
ill-used, was left- when he fell sens:-!ess ; sine of the
ruffians coolly remarking, lie was "

A man named James 11 iltl, with his two sons. wet?
!LT:ticked ,lown, beaten, and 'roundel, in a shocking
wanner: one of the sun. i• rut in do arm so severely
that it is nut expected he will ever be able to use it
again. The wite of a eurporal nirt heard what was
int; on, made her way to the spo•,and threw her-elf

on her knees berme one of the boldiees, begging him
to desist. The ‘iliaiti Mere! al hese with his sa4re,
and in ord:.r to save her life she teas Obliged to make
her t sea;ie ! The Dq.uty Constable and some statist-
ant,, who came to to .e the u:tentlers into custody were
heater and driven away. At length, Mane military
otti.ers arrived, and ordered the sol:liers to their bar-
raekr., whither they very reluctantly srPut. he out-
rage la.ted altogether about an hour. It is said
thA a quarter-Master woe observed urging the
men on, and telling them in the latigna.;e of his solo-
riot 0, to " glee the Ritdirftle a sowed fd.nlie4.•"l his
fact, however, rested on 'h..• assertion of one person,
and ws do not therefore give it with the same mai-
dence as the eitttilM:itted.rtattoetter• -

Amon; other sr.tetnatic encroachment. on the an-
cient civil institution. of the country, is the establish-
-1111.11: of military patrol, s in those districts which it
may please the wisdom of such men as Mr. Holton, or
the Vicar of Rochdale to declare " disturbed." For
some time pa.st, there ha• been a military petiole: after
dusk through the streets of Oldham. It has often
been complained of, and objected to, but the " authori-
ties" deem it necessary ; therefore, how, vie 'disliked
by the inhabitants, it is confirmed, and perhaps for
that very reason alone.. At eight o'clock, according
to custom, this patrols. was sent forth. 'these " guar-
dian. of socia: order" immediately began to break the
windows and insult the people, who were assembled in
groups about the town. It is impossible to conjec-
ture what atrocities would have crowned the night,
had the outrage re-commenced, as the inhabitants
were now prepared to resent and punish any aggres-
/cisme on their person.. The commanding Officer,
who bad been reveling at Manchester, arrived,
very fortunately for all parties, in time to prevent
any fresh disturbance. We never witnessed such agi-
tation as was produced by this shocking instance of
the. feraeity cf a drunken and unlicensed soldiery.
bThis scene of horror has sunk deeply into the inha-
bitants of Oldham. It affords another
.argument
agaiust the danger and mischief of a Standing Iraq—
an swig* which in ne ease can't,* of service ii. the
preservation of the public peace in a free conistryi and

wl.;c4 t.. • I say where bat to shingh..e.
.he people. when the iourdes of Oespotissa beeiasts is-
t..3!er:h!e.

tiluliam is r9syr in a state of trilortillity. None di
the Offelvder4 li.nt• been secered, tio,ugh their thirst
of the innocent blood with whit!. they went home on
cyersing literally rorer4e. ptoroptei them thel
next n:orninz to pe,t themselves in a meratirg attl-!
toile Ono? Vthe very house where the outragei
bad been peretratail. Yet we lice under a Cover u-. 1
meat " we Lyre ttglaitnilinl by " 1 ..11 w E
NErAzi.isuar," and this is the leeito'nowe mode of of
fording pfoterti...l to the iiPa of his " Majesty's sub-,
Jetts. • Our property is pretecled by the tax-ga:l:erer,l
our lil,erties by tire Parliament, and our lives by the!
military in ab,et an equal degree of perf.etiun.
' deed of al..ath hut i.e suffered to pass into
oblivion. A Petition to the IlLuse of Commons
ioquiry and redress it alre.aly very nonor..usly signed,
aid it it be propetly suppored on •i.s pres. ntaiou, an
impression will be made through the nst:un, by whiLli
jetsti..o still not he alt,.getherso completely heated as
bet enemies seem to calculate. '1 Le following is a
copy of the Petitius:—

TO ?CC NINNINVRAINLE TN? COMMONS 01Ir Tat! I:NITIrD ZINN-
NON CIP OO •ITAIN LCD 111111LAt.1. rAiILIANENT
AsSP.IIIII.6.N.
The Petition of the undcr:;xned Itthahitsntrof Oldham.
is the mime of I.nnesider, humbly sheweth.
That your 1-ctitioners tippet! to your Honourable liaise.;
for fir rr,lrrqs of a series of taisitary outrages, to which. fur
mute limb vs .% ttwy hare been ioeessantly exposed from the
soldiery cow quartered attiong..l
Twit %cm. Petitieners, •Iws” reluctant to intrude epos
the gnomic'!" of your 11.onnitrotble Eioase, %ould not now ap-
peal to yonr birth jurisdiction. if the ordiuttry visit authori-
ties were sulflefilit to slurd them that sure safeguard of their
persons against tittl'eetised violenee; on the free and perfect
enjo meat of which rests their allegiance.
'Pant on Afonday,the 44th of April. the day eppuintes! fcr
the celebration of the King's birth-shy, a party of soldiers,
applirently bidamesi with intoxication. without* provocation.
attacked sr% erai of the tow °mien of p)..tr Petitioners, whilst
statism with them et a public-house in the Nlarket-place. and.
with throats, force, and blows. compelled them to leave the
house.

That. on tlie day following, *boon six o'clock in the even-
ing.
another parts of soldiers, who were quartered at the
Roll's-head, n rink-horse is George-street, in this town.
commenced a desperate awl sanguinary affray with some of
the in!.abit•unts then prwent, by thrusting the hat of a young
man into tin, tire. wherein one of the military held it until it
was e•nlireiy consumed; at which wanton act of mischief
souse surprise hating beau expressed. another soldier seised
thus gre.shoeel, suit. with hi. utmost t Mience. struck a young
man named Junst'snn Buckley over his lilt eye, thereby in-
tik-tint a desp woonst, by which he is sow disabled from
following his ordinary occupction.
That Immediately following this most savage sossult, the
rest of the soldiery present began, a every weapon they
could And or mike, to brat the remainder of the townsmen ;
the furniture of the house wits palled to pieces to prot We in-
struments of offence. and Utld lad, your Petitioners hate
ascertained, his received two wimp& on his fare from the
blows as large Welles poker Inca heated red with the tire,
from which ft had been ;list drawn for that horrible purpose.
That whilst the party who hid commenced the stray were
thins enured, soother body came down from the barracks.
Iwo of whom h. re their muskets, and began to ill-treat sod
assault every passenger; not one bring allowed to pass
without either heiu.r rut by their sabres or bayonuts, sir
beittep with their btudgeons. In one instance, an old man
named Armstrong. returning from his labour, had one of his
ears cut oi: and surf. was t:te stalignsnt fury by which the
'soldiery were netnnted, that they a ere obeersed by the
neighbouring inhabitants, ale, dared not, for their them, to
sentare fords to reseue tole imhsppy in:6t-rem to revise their
violence only when their t ictints seemed bereft of sense and

That thr I)eputy-Constable of the town. and some assist-
ant. i 3 vein (41.1C111.•Urvdi to quell the tunuolt. from which
they were driven by the nallltcry, after enduring seem per-
sou-1 at. sesdti.

That the soldiery, thronaltont the outrage. refused to ac-
knowledge any subjeetims to tiitt civil power, and were et
last only induced to return to Omir barracks, covered with
blood, fl• the command of their wirers.
That, later is the evening, warn the military patrole..l
which. to the great terror, annoyance, and Indignation of
your Pctilionert, has beer recently employel iu this town.
was grid out, the soldiers renewed their excesses by wan-
foul% breaking. the wiudows and attacking the persons of
the inhattiositts : and your Petitioners have et ert reason to
apprehend a night of horror would have ensuel, bad not
the(*mamaniting °Meer fortnnately arrive) from Manchester,
and ordered tae troops back to their quarters.
That your Petitioners have aseerttined that upwards of
eighteen persons have been wounded: some so dangerously,
that death is expected speedily to ensue.
Your Petitioners, ther, fore. most earnestly pray your
Honourable limes., to 'militate en investigation into this
most apitslling lissome* of stilling ferocity. they bring fulls
coneinced that no personal safety can be hereafter enjoyed
In this town. unless signal and exempiary, puniphment be
indicted on the perpetrators of this drentt.ul ,ot trap ; ant
your Prtittoners %ether pray. that yonr lioncershle lionse
will intercede with his Majesty. to procure a diminuti, n of
that immense standing arm). by which the !lies of his Ma-
jelly's stAljecis are endaneere I. and the peace of the com-
munity distorts-1 sittile the enormous expense for ha main-
t eines. adds, unnecessarily, and most grievously, to the
latolerablo burden of taxatien %fader which your Petitioners,
In common with their fellow atthjects. grotto with impatience.
And your Petitioners, as iu ditty te.

The following are the names of some of the persons
sr.:net:led ; the while number is upwards of twenty ,
John Sedd4m, baronet blow on the head.
Jonathan Will, severe cut in the arm, expected ut-
terly to lose the me of it.
James Wild, wounded on the head.
James Will, father to the two furmer, dreadfully

John Wiuterb,t otn, two deep euttou the
Joseph Stott, a pensioner, very dangerously eat ow
the forehra.l.

James laylor, also a pensioner, severe blow on the
head.
Mark Whittaker, wounded in the leg.
Joseph Bott, much beaten 1,11 the back.
James Needham, an aged wan, cut in the head.
Julian Marsden, a deep and dangerous wound as the
back of the head.
Thomas Wild, severely in the head and face.
Jonathan Buckley, tut over the left eye.
- Armstrong, an old man, wounded on the head,
and one of his can cut off.

Of the foregoing, Scott and another man are not
expected to survive.

CoRPI EXCIIANOT, MAT a large supply
of Wheat to-day front Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, the
trade as exceedingly, heavy, as the demand was very
limited, and only a few fine runs front the fernier
county were sold early in the morning, and those at
a redaction of Is. per quarter; but a considerable
quantity remained on hand at the close of the market.
whicti was offered fell Ys. per quarter under last Mon-
day's prises, without being able to effect. Wes et that
ibatetemEL—Pine fresh Malting Barley is
.18. per
quarter dearer, such •quility being seines • Mere
so amesdnient in the rim of the ialariereamplasi •

I:AR(:11110N OF THE CONSPIR4" J''
I . r
HIGH Tit kahS(l.N.
The ex,:eution of Thitt:ewass! an! •
associates 'oak piece this morning is frtr,t of
Bail, y, amid A; an amenthlage oi peesons wiser ••
same, we abelieve, than say preceding exocotiet
drew together. We did flat ripest to witness sa
great a crowd, because. as the il.ty for tier execs..;
MY Only fixed on Sattirday las% one day, anti tha
!,Smaslay, alone inter:reed, and it *neared prol-ot,'
that in sts abort a time the intehigenee would not
very widely eirzulakel. 'the cad. however. warLa;.
ferent. Ereiy window which cone:ended a view
the scene was eagerly bought ap, every nalghbasuin
raof. and even the steeple of st. Sepalchre, wle r:
s Art.ll to, awl the streets i• every direction, as fir It
the eye could reads. were abaci's:el/ impl‘satie, f••
the crowds of persons who were wedged 9f ftat t • •
f
onetime and im; to etrabie
The 'ontennes Serjeaat, on Saturday last, merle li,
report to roe !Sing in lunneil, Of the eleven Men
victed under the late special Cusunshaiea.
At
Coli.icil, all the Judges who had assisted .0 the ttlus,i4
attends!d, and, after a deliberation of two Isoen.
execution of Anin. l'isistless inel, Jame: Inas. ?shoats
Brant, Richard 'l'hid, anti Baridess, was ea.
dewed to take place this wonting is Nat or ..he Oil
Balky. Ti.. remaining six, Ilarrisaa,itilsor
" "7"4
Strange, Bradbura, itthi tiilchrist, a ere rereittel -1-Irin •
his Majesty's pleasure. The tire file sari noun: acs
to he tratuiparted fur life, but in the tapite of
elitist au m: ration has been made of eininateat:oa
pattioluneest, and it is probable ilsat in his ra:s.. reed
favourable circumstances ismy have trancpir.ll
nsay claiat a greater dreree of chancery tans di • •
Thistlewaial, and th•ne destined to setTered.with
hint, receis ad the ilia !Bence with that cal
which throughout the whale of the trials has 5.1 eatt•
newly rl.ei thew. The only reply they made was
expres•ise of a wi-li to die as soon a, possible.
a he necessary preparations f.ir this last aefel Cite
tritely were itumedia•efy commenced. 'I braughest the
whole of Sunday a number of carpenters w: re eMpleve,t,
in preparing an enderged drip, aid is estatAssyki
strung wooden harriers in tits st.ects, iutcude.l to pre-
vent the irruption of the populace. Al thersrance
of the Old Bailey, irons laudgate-hill, three bars at
30 or 40 yards distance were erected, each sapper:es;
by strung posts. One the side of Stassr-kilkia Firer-
lane, in Newgate-strect, au•i aspetratrec, similar pre-
cautions had been tat:en, and by this mesas the oppo-
site space, from one end of Newgate to the ether, was
kept perfectly epaked none were allowed heater
during the exeentioireicept the police, and :htme Sts-
dies of military which it was judged experliemt **halt
In at teutia nee. 'I hese preparations were not nemple• r..:
Until a late hour yesterday.
The sun had scarcely risen this mernieg, bet' re the
top of the street leading past the Old Bailer, the top
of Skinner-street. and those streets which tr,m, the'a
si :nation afforded a sieve of We spot. were crag della ith
curious speetatot s. The Brace reserved la front of the
(lid Bailey was by about 700 constables. In
addition to these a number fir. nem were in aimed-
awe. A peat nullifier of were stationed at
different places in the neighbourhoini. A double rcw
of Horse Guards extended from aitu:st
far as the Old Bailey, and a single row was I:mimic-I
on Ludgate-biil. A detachment of the lit netitecat
of foot was, we believe, admitted within the walls of
the Old Bailey. About a quarter past ' deloek, live
plain wooden coffins were brought f rwzril and placed
on the srsffold. Is addition to the ordinary scaffeki
a large platform had been erected fir this oressisse,
sad joined to that which held the i'aNip. 'fhe whale
was an rounded by a strong :ran chain. On the ad-
ditional pluif•rm the five coffins were placed in a row.
A block was laid at the bead oldie culhn which was is-
tended for '1 histlee.otal ; a great quantity of saw-dest
was strewed around. An axe was also ei:dble, hut we
know not for what pnrpnee it was brought ferv:.rd,
it was not used. '1 he whole ap; crates was erectai :im-
mediately opposite the Delour's•-'our.
At half-past seven, the Sherdi's and Uritier Flierirrs.
accompanied by several gentlemen, mewl,: whoa ae
notic .1 Aide -man Wood, Sir A. Macdonald, Sir Charles
Flower, Sir G. Alderson, and Mr. Brown, the Keeper
of the prison. f•ro..eeded to il•e Inner-yard in Seagate,
coatignous to the candentnid cells in which the sr-
fortunate moo have been conEned zln:e their eoudrts-
nation. Here the prianiers were broeg :1 forward
one In one. l'histh wood carne first, Tidd foliosed
hint ; • Inge, in a jamping wanner, ran:e next, srd
Brunt and Davidson canoe last. 'lle appeirauceei
the prisoners was in no wise change.i 1411 c tri....1;
nor was their fortitede leas striking raid sorprhini.
Their iron were now struck off, wal their bands
fastemd; and during this ceremony, which rec.: have
told them ;ha their existence must in a Inc minutes
terminate, we could not observe a trevddier limb, or
an exeressic in the comitenaoce ri.ich denoted fearer
citement despair atoms-proem
.d.isitsay. )27 were evidently suppo...red by that that
their anus were pinioned, 1 hid ant Thistle-no:al
shook hands. Benches weir brought into the rail,
upon which they sat down. Orattgi a were given to
theta all, which they 'reined to accept with glasla.ess.
The Rev. Mr. Cotton was presen! with them ao
whole of the time. TLS. ge.itfeman's exertions to
bring these unhappy men ta a arose of their condition,
have been unceasing. We regret Ti say that he Las
not been as successfel as could have been desired
With the exception of Davidson alone, the whole of
the prisoners have constantly refused those eensela•
lions which, at such a moment, religion can alone af-
ford, and have preserved a roll and stoical indifference.
(hi the mind of Davidson, however, a different result
has been produced. lie, whose education had bees re-
ligions, and whose recollections mast conwqmstly
haveheen the more severe, availed himself of the can
and instruction of lir. Cotton, and sedulously strum
to prepare
takehpiulseiLf°. . w
r the
e lucreati been l chape istoud that
which es:
shortly
yesterday received the sacrament.
IYhen the irons had been struck
sowers, and their anus had been
party moved through the several
the drop in the front of theprison.
were demised fora moment in the
Thipitlowood first ascended the platform.
dreamt is as old black coat anti

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piaioeed, thr Whet*
paosaget 1.16ar to
I/carp:ll'r r rileeen
locking-room.elailot
platferto. Ile •st
1 dark blue troroets.