Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-28

dng am most IN amaze st the mistaken information
that were sent to me BY my friends full Of expectations
favor and empoyments Who can think that they who i'm
prison them would employ me, suffer to 1--we whel
they put TO death II might live and be employed cal
DC expected that should .srve Government that seek
such detessbe ways Of establishing itself All no hav
learnt to make my own by prosecuting and betray
ing my brethren eminent and worthy than myself
must live by just means and Just ends or not al all
After such manifestation Of the ways BY which intend
ed the King shall govern should have renowned any place
Of favor into which the kindness and industry Of nv end
might have advanced me- when found those that were bet
ter than only fit to be destroyed had formerl,
some eaiouaes the fraudulent proclamation for indemnify
increased them the imprsonng Of those three men, ant
turning out Of all the officers Of the army contrary 10 pro
mise confirmed my resolution return To conclude
the tide is not to be diverted the oppressed delivered
but God 10 MS Tune WIN have mercy on his people, He will
and defend hem and avenge the blood Of those who
shall perish, upon the heads Of those who in their pde
think nothing is able to oppose them Happy are those
whom God shall make instruments Of his justice in so bless
ed work. If iUe to that day, shall be rim,
for the grave and able TO sag ,o jog, Lord noso kttsst
thou thy servant depart peace Farewell. MY thoughts
as King and State depending upon their actions no man
shall be faithful servant him than l. il he make the
enemy he doth the contrary. To my particular friends
shall be constant In all occasions and you most aec
tomato servant"
The charge Of bribery, first brought against the great
names of RUSSELL Hampden, and Sidney by Sir John Dali
rympe in his " Memoirs Of Great Britain and Ireland
appeared in l773 has been fully by the author
it has been before by the present Lord John Russell in
defending the memory Of his pious ancestor.
The murder Of Sidney by Charles H. and his brother the
blackheated Duke of York. and their Infamous accomplish
Chief Justice Jees told all briefly for the curiosity
Of the reader and the interest Of the subject OF this act
that nobest Of English statesmen Charles James Fox,
History of the Stuarts, page Az has thus spoken:
"The proceedings in Sidneys still more detes-
Vhn Iurtsnva rfn
opinions government and liberty, written long before
and perhaps intended be published together
with the made Of those papers, in considering them as
substitute for the second witness to the act exhibited
such compound of wickedness and is hardly
to be paraeed in the history Of urd tyranny But the
validity Of preences little attended TO at that time in the
case Of person wom the court had devoted destruction
and upon evidence such has been stated was this great
and excellent man condemned to die"
"Posterity, says Mr.. Van Sanvoord will hold him as
an accompce, not principal, in the crme he was in
that other crime, the death of Vane whom he directed his
chancellor to put honestly out Of the way at the
trng expense Of violating the faith which he had soemny
pledged And yet such is the monarch, whose conduct ia
refusing to ntepose his pardon upon conviction which his
creatures bad UNANIMOUSLY procured is only palated
but justified by historian eminent and in some respects
20 impartial as Mr. Hume. The indignant comment upon
this passage, by the iustrous statesman whose words we
have just quoted, may be properly added: Gas well might
paae the murders Of Tberus who seldom put to death
his victims without previous decree Of the Senate. The
seems whenever q
intimidation, corruption, illegal evidence, or other such
means, obtain verdict against subject whom he diskes
he may him be executed without any breach Of in
dspensable dutynay that it is act Of heroic generosity
if he spares him."
We make one more extract Son the 9TH day Of De-
cember, 1853, Sidney was executed on Tower Hill We
have brief of the transaction in the original paper
of the sheriff. preserved in the state paper Office From it
we infer that the victim met death with all his constitutional
inrepidy and insensbiy to fear with the soicisn of
he aandh If had
made his peace with God. Unlike Vane he undertook to
make harangue did he enter into any justification Of
bis actions the scaffold There parade no dis
play, effort there shrinking or fear on the part
Of the victim He uttered but word his execu-
TONERS, but they were strkngy impressive and full Of
ing and such calculated to live long in the memories
Of those who heard him.
The shers asked him the Tower if he had any friends
to accompany him the scaod he said but two SER
wants of his brother.
"They conducted him on foot up to the scaffold. He
said nothing in all his passage.
As be came up to the scafod he said 4 have made
my peace with God and have nothing say to men but
here is paper Of what have to say
son being asked by the sheriff if he should read it. he
answered in the negative and told him be refused take
the paper he would tear it. To question Of the officer if
the writing was in his own hand, he replied, Yes
"sdney then took off his hat coat and doube gave the
customary fee to the execuioner and said, ready
die will give you nofrther trouble Observing the
cuoner grumble though he had given him too tle he
directed of his servants give him guinea more
which he did. The victim then kne down for few mo-
menls in silence, apparently engaged n devotion He then
calmly laid his head the block. The excuoner,
customary such cases. asked him il he should rise again.
Nor TILL THE GENERAL RESURRECTION. STRIKE on,
the laconic and sublime rephe last words that ever
passed his lips"
The following is the closing paragraph Of the last chapter
containing brief analysis Of the writings Of Sidney:
Gin spirit Of sympathy with the subject, which, perhaps,
needs apology have thus attempted trace the
and sketch the character Of Algernon Sidney Errors may
we'll be passed in silence and bis faults forgotten where
much be admired and veneraed. One Of the
nobest martyrs Of that liberty which the progress Of civil
zaton and the developments of time TO point the
heritage Of the Anglo Saxon race his virtues which
deserve Immortality aud bis name which will 60 down
with honor to remote generations Of men. The man dies
the principles he cherished immortal That cause for
which Sidney suffered prescribed his day, has been glo
ousy vndicaed in The doctrines Of resistance OPP
pressonof popular sovereigntyof the naenable right Of
mankind to Intellectual and moral to civil and religious free
dom-of which he the champion in life and In death
the martyr have become the foundation and stone Of
those democratic institutions which since bis day have sprung
up in the New World. No nober cenotaph than the free
institutions Of America be reared to the memory Of the
dust which sleeps in its ancestral vault at Penshurs No
more glorious eptaph be written for the patriot martyr
than that which eoquenty speaks in the silent workings
Of those institutions Surely while they endure, and while
the doctrines which Sidney taught shall continue 10 be
garded the elementary truths Of political creed it may
on Tower Hill has not been spilled in vain"
THREE FEnALEs BURsT TO "A letter from North
uroon states that the 18th instant dreadful
amy occurred at that place. cabinetmaker by the
OF Annable In reducing varnsh, left it long upon
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