The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-02 00:00:00

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whose pions seal prompted him to visit the gaol in the
dead of the night.
From the manner in which the last part of the exe-
cution WWI performed, very little blood was seen on
the scaffold. The bodies being placed almost in a sit-
ting attitude in their coffins, the blood could not flow
copiously from them at the moment their heads were
taken off. It was not till they were laid in an hori-
zontal position that the vital stream could escape freely
front the heart.

The person who wore the mask. and who performed
the decollations, is the same person who beheaded
Despard and his associates. In performing his dread-
ful duty, the edge of the first knife was turned by the
sertebne of Thistlewood, and two others became ne-
cessary to enable him to finish his heart-appalling task.

The following are copies of three letters sent by
Ings. They will, we have no doubt, be highly ac-
ceptable to our Headers

TO III! WIFt.

"My dear Celia—l hardly know how to begin, or what to
say, for the laws of tyrants have parted ns for eve... My
dear, this is the last time you 1% ill ever hear from me. I
hope yon will perform your duty without delay, which Is for'
the benefit of yourself and children, which I have explained
to you before. My dear, of the anxiety a 4.1 recard I have
for you and the children, I know not bow to explain myself;
hut I must die according to law, and leave you in a land full
of cot ntption. where justice and liberty bas taken thesrlight
from, to other distant shores. My dear, I have heard men
remark that they would not marry a widow, not without ber
husband was hanged. Now, my dear, I hope you will bear
in mind that the cause of my being consigned to the scaffold
was a pure motive.

•• I thought I should hare rendered my starving fellow-
men. women, and ehildren, a service; and my Mist Is. when
you make another choice, that this question yeti will put
before yogi tie the fatal knot. My dear, It Is of no use for
me to make remarks resimeting my children. I am eon-
s laced yon will do your duty as far 24 lies In your power.
My dear. lon, leaving me but a few hours before I wrote
these few lines. I have nothing more to say. Varewel,
Weisel, my dear wife and children for ever. Wee my love
to your te liner and Elizsbeth. I conclude a constant
lover to you and your children, end all friends. I die toe
same, but an enemy to all tyrants.

"JAMES INOR."

" P. S. My dear wife. give my I've to my father and iwo-
ther. brother and Maters. and aunt Mary•. and beg of theta to
think nothiog about my unfortunate fate, for I am gone out
of a very troublesome world. and I hope you will let it pass
Ilke a summer eiouti over the earth.

Nowirate, 4 o'clock. klundsy anernooa. April SO, ISO."
TO NIS DACONTERS.

" To my dear Daughters—My dear little girls, reesdie my
kind lose and affection, once 1110 re, for user, and adhere to
these my sincere wishes, and rerolieet, though in n short
time, you will have nothing more of your father. Let me
entreat you bi be losing, kind, and oltedient to your poor
mother, and strive all in your powers to comfort her, and
assist her whilst you si•tist in this transitory world, and let
your conduct throughout life be that of virtne, honesty, aad
industry ; and endeavour to avoid all temptation, and at the
mew time put )4.ur trust in Und. I hope unity, peace, and
concord y. iii remain amongst yowl. all. Farewel—farewel,
el dear children, your unfortunate forme,
" J 111E4 INDS."
" To Wm. Stone logs and Ms Sisters."

TO 11191 goN.
" My little dear boy, Wm. Stone legs. I hope re will,
live to read these few lines when the remains of yr. poori
father Is mouldered to .dust. My dr. boy. I hope you Wl*
bear in mind the litiate. end of your father, and not rdtee
any confidence in any person or persons whatever; Sir the
deception. the corruption, sod the Ingenuity in man, I am
at a loss to comprehend—it is beyond all calculation. My
dear boy, I hope you will make a bright RAD in society ; and
it appear; to me the road you ought to pursue is.to he honest,
sober, industrial's, and upright in all your dealings ; and to
do unto all men as you' would wish they should do unto you.
My dear boy, put your trust in one led ; Ind Le cautious
of every shrewd. designing, flattering t:ingue. My deer boy.
be a gond, kind, and obedient child to your poor mother,
and comfort her, and be a losing brother to your sisters.
My deer hey. I sincerely here and trust you wiJi reird
these, my last lestruetions.—Yr. loving and unions.. father,
- JAMES INDS.
" Newgate, Sunday Wed. S o'clock. April SD, IS--cO."
LOTTER PROM DtTIDSON TO LOUD HARDOWDY.
Sunday Davidson w rote the following letter, which was
delivered to Lord Ilarrowhy :
"Mr !goats: Loan—lt k with the greatest pleami I
i
write to Inform your Lordship of my innocence of the e rge
wherein I nun shortly about to suffer death. My Lord, r-
oil' me to Inform your Lordship, from the personal know ge
I have of your Lordship's family. it is impossibiti I cog be
guilty of the slightest intention to harm your Lordship in any
way. MY Lord. I have had the honour of working at your
Lordship's seat in Hendon Hail. Staffordshire. wherein I
worked for Mr. Bullock, of Rugeby, and would at any time
lose my life in your defence than to be an accomplice to harm
you, or say other man, be his conditiou ever so po-r, much
more so many illustrious persons, and among them one I had
so great a respect for, from personal knowledge, as your
Lordship. I declare now to yeti. Lordship, as I hope So be
saved, that Mr. Edwards was the man who gave me the mo-
ney to redeem the blunderbuss, which Adams carried away to
Coto-street ; I gave it to him not knowing of any plot i and
as I related to the Privy Council. Mr. ilouldworihy met me
in John-street, Portland-road; lie gave me a sword t 4 take
to eAto-street, and a bundle, which contained belts. When
I found I was entrapped I naturally attempted to a
• ever fired. I tosser had ally pistols in my possesi
in truth, my Lord, Mr. Edwards must know that
that man of colour that was in their party, If he
the justice to say so."
in-.1

ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER.
The anniversary festival of the Royal Academy
was celebrated at 4,iiierset-house, on Satanlay last,
Thomas Law the new President, in the

Sir .4 rence,
Chair. Among the company assembled on this
interesting occasion, were, Prince CasteLicata. mall
most of the f. reign Ambassadors and Ministers. Ili
Duke of Sussex and the Archbishop of York supported
the Chair. Besides the Lord Chancellor and the
principal officer* of State, there were also present, tbe
Bishops of Chester, Oxford, and Salisbury, die dirge
Chief Judges, the Attorney-General and the Solicitot•
General; the Dukes of Bedford and Argyle; Marquises
Camden, Stafford, and Lansdowne ; Earls lie,.
Yarmouth, Grosvenor, and Lonsdale ; Viscount }AI.
aterston, Sir W. Grant, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen
Wood and Birch, and Slessrs. Huskisson, Wilberforce,
Arbuthnot, Lister, Parker, and General Phipps. The
health of his Majesty was the first toast, and was
area k with enthusiasm, in r.eollection of his attachment
se this Institution ; after which the President gave
the health of the Duke of Similes, and the test of the
Royal Family, when his Royal Highness returned
thasha, and assured the Society, that their present
Sovereign wont,' continue that patronage with which
they had been. honoured by the late King. Upon the
health of the new liresitient being drank, he muted