The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-06 00:00:00

Thartelltdidkeillis iipe,'and converted with' teasing ease
pot pugilistic subjects. - Admit other anecdotes which he
res ate,/ e( himself. were4he two following :—" Ile was In the
iithbourhood of . some time ego with a noted
!loner, indarime.of t isitants sod Inhabitants made a match
•hetwein tire roes. sad considerable bets were pending.—
Thoth.li erode bets to the amount of 906/. upon one of the
colohatents, sod it was arranged that his hexing friend should
awes geeend to the other man, but do all he could to snake him
lose, while Theriot' was to hold the watch, end of course
keep time. as it suited their purpose. In spite of the efforts
of the boxer to make his man lose. he fought so well as to
oisable the other several times ; and had soy other men but
Thurtell held the watch.the battle woifld have been won bythe
men against whom bemired his money. As it eras. Theron
had it all his own way ; he made his man "come to thee,"
and he filially won it. He (Tburtell) was la the army, and
served is die Peninsula war. Ile was at the stervaleg of St.
debacles's, and Wben the British troops had effette4 their
entrasce into the town. to met with a Polish allow Le dielPreech
settle,. leaning against a wall ha a state of exhaustion from
wounds and Wiens. " I thought," said Thertell (to give It
in his own words), "by this look of him, that he was a man
of rank, and must have some Went about ;_ so 1 jest
stuck my sword into his ribs, and settled him, ant I found 110
doubloons intim h—'s pocket; a d—d good booty, was'nt
it Joe?" (turning to Hunt.) These stories were related with
self evideet rostisfection.
thattell, Probert, and Heat, ate still kept in IN irate
apartments in Hertford gaol: they are heavily ironed
bat not confined in tells. They have good apartments, the
*se of an airy space of the prison to move in, and each has
two attendants, one of whom never quits him. The pri-
soners are neither allowed to see or communicate with
each other: they have permission to write and receive
letters, subject, of course to examination. Probert heard
from his wife on Monday, and expressed great satisfaction
npon,the occasion : he was yesterday quite ignorant of her
haring been brought befiwe tbe usagistrilles. None of '
Thortell's friends have hitherto comasunicated with him,
directly or inditertly. 'fhe desneanour of these prisoners,
respectively, Is calcolete* if not to throw a light upon their
shore of guilt, at least to illustrate their tempers and

character. -
Hunt maintains his usual confidence, Which may he
calculated upon, which he expects to escape from pettish-
meat by being. admitted evidence for the Crown. Upon the
subject of Woods' statement, he at first denied all koo*-
ledge of inch a person; but with a subsequent conside.
ratios of the necessity of maintaining a character, In which
truth is so efsentially receseary,and to which detection of
falsehood would he so fatally destructive, be related the
following account :—The house in Manchester Buildings
Was uVuritished and unoccupied, except by Thurtell, who
conceiving Woods to have said something to Miss Noyes
tending to prejudice him in her opinion, requested Hunt
to get him into the house. The latter accordingly became
the ready pander f his vengeful and inhuman associate—
imposed upon Woods' credulity by a false tile; and per.
*smiled him to accompany him *hack to the house in Man-
cheater Buildings. The door was opened by Thorn.% no
other person being in the house, but he kept behind the
door. Woods, on perceiving the passage and staircase
rotirrly destitute of furniture, suspected Lull play, and rats.
Hunt immediately informed Thurtell of the circumstance,
and he pursued. hut could not overtake the intended victim.
Jinni adds, that no intention to murder existed, but that
Thurtell meant to call Woods to an account for the lan
)(nage he had used. Thurtell, when questioned on the
s one subject, admits a knowledge of Woods, but denies
every other port of Hunt's statement. Ile atys he took
toe house o• a speculation which did not answer, because
I:. was unable to furnish it.
Probert appears in the deepest and mat unaffected
distress at tl e ruin of his family, which he ascribes to his
unfortunate connexion with Thurtell ; but he emphatically
rersists in declaring his innocence of any previous know-
ledge or concurrence in the murder, or even the slightest
acquaintance with Mr. Weare. He admits that he bad
invited Thurtell to his cottage, but did not expect be
would have been accompanied by any other person. Hunt
is equally earnest in his asseveration of innocence of the
crime, and together with Probert denies any knowledge of
the dreadful occurrence until apprised of the murder by
Thurtell himself, when (as has been already stated) he
solicited permission to conceal the dead body in the pond
of the cottage. Probert is most anxious to talk upon the
sttbject• and repeats over and over again the statement he
has already disclosed with every entreaty to receive
credence for his asseveration; he admits the receipt of the.
61'. on the night of the murder, hat declares it to be in pay-
ment of a lore to John Thurtell, M. of which he borrowed
arthe tinte and for the pnrpose from the landlord of the
Coach and Horses. Probert's spirits are entirely bri.:zen,
arid yesterday they hail evidently affected his bodily health.
Thurtell, on the contrary, maintains in general unshaken
firmness ' • his health and appetite continue good ; his mo-
vers are decorous, and he eats, drinks, smokes his pipe, and
sleeps, with the apparent enjoyment of comfort. There is
r sthing in him tactile bravo. He talks of his situation like
a man n Its is perfectly sensible of the peril in which be
stands ; he has only once asserted his innocence, and that
was in a conversation three days ago with the cbaplaia of
the prison, who very properly checked him for the asser-
tion, and entreated him to weigh well the importance of
fete), declaration which he made in Isis present awful
situation, and its possible effect upon his future condition.
Tbe Chaplain is unwearied in his attendance upon the
prisoners: he has, we understand, furnished them with
hooks suited to their unhappy situation, and they have
expressed themselves grateful fur his attention. The
hook* which Thurtell possesses are the Bible, a Church of
England prayer book, and " Sherlock on Death." He
lass expressed a wish for some law books, which
he says he has in London, to prepare himself
fur his defence, as he is aware of his privilege to address the
Court. He reads the hooks which hare been presented to him
to compose his mind to a sense of his awful situation with
grave and decorous attention ; but the great difference be-
tween his manner and that of the two other prisoners, is,
• Olt he evinces the utmost repugnance to converse upon the
horrible nature of the crime kill to his charge. He declares
that in proper time he will establishes his innocence; hut
viten the particular conversation is introduced, be becomes
evidently dejected, his features assume an agitated expres-
sion, his eyes become half closed find sunk, be vainly en-
deavours to suppress a heaving sigh, and seizes the first in-
stant, still without coarse abruptness, of changing the sub-
ject; and then, as if a weight were removed from his heart,
his constitutional spirits anti firmness of nerve return, and
Le will converse figently and with seeming satisfactiou upon
ivy other subject to which be can recur; he, however,
talks of his trial with calmness, and when asked yesterday
whether he had not better hasten to avail himself of the
assistance of counsel, his reply was—" I shall certainly do
co in doe time, but if I write now, they are all too busy to
give speedy attention, for to-morrow will be the
first oar of Term." He expressed a great anxiety
within the last tiro days to refresh his memory upon the
facts deposed in eviiithwe against him. and more particu-
larly regarding thefltestimony of Woo, giving as the
motive foriiits anxiety the very natural reason, that upon
these be tenet gloomd his tlefetwe. lie was yesterday so
intent upon making these prrliwinary arrangements, that
be wroto a later to the cona,er, rmocating either a copy
of tlont's deposition, or that the coroner would do hum
tie kindness of repairing to the prison, and trailing over
tie notes of litint's examination. ilithongis upon the
sebject of his imputed Guilt in site Isle horrid murder,
Le continues inct tttttt innicetive, lie is yet loquacious upon
all the other events of his life, and eager 10 disclose the
source of his misfortunes, am! pernicious character of his
associates. The dreadful spirit of gaming lie avows, and
names the arroci:.lP% with whom he practised it, as well as
rite -w bribes twit (rinds %skit ishieh they coninicted their
toschinations— ultra:y.l with the too common butt intolerable
p..piarally from

, delft:ion of trying to disconni•it him?!