The Sun. — 1831-12-05 (London, England)

SPEECH OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, IN RELATION TO THE TRIAL OF THE BURKITES. After the trial had concluded, and the Judges, Nobility, and other visitors, had retired to a private room, the Duke of Sussex (who had remained in Court the whole day, paying the most marked attention to the evidence) took occasion to express the gratification he had experienced at the manner in which the prosecution had been arranged and conducted. " I have (said his Royal Highness, addressing himself to the Lord Mayor) always made it a point of attending every trial of national interest that has occurred in the metropolis; and I have done so not only from a desire to become acquainted, as far as I could, with the laws of my country, and their practical application, but because in the station I till, I feel it to be a sacred duty to take a personal interest in every thing calculated to effect the character or the security of the people of this country. I have never, my Lord Mayor, been present at such inquiries without increasing the admiration with which I regard the criminal jurisprudence of England; the most perfect, the most intelligent, and the most humane system that human ingenuity or wisdom ever devised. Upon the present occasions whatever pain I may have felt at the sad necessity for taking away the lives of the wretched persons whose crimes have excited so powerfully the indignation of the public, I cannot help feeling proud of being the native of a country where such a sentiment of indignation has been universally evinced, and where such disinterested exertions have been made to expose and bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes, happily, I trust, rare amongst us. In what other part of the world, indeed, could such a scene be witnessed as that which we have this day contemplated. The Judges of our land, the learned in our law, Nobility, Magistrates, merchants, Medical Professors, and individuals of every rank in society, anxiously devoting themselves, and cooperating in the one common object of redressing, as far as human power can do so, an injury inflicted upon a pauper child, wandering friendless and unknown in a foreign land. Seeing this, lam indeed proud of being an Englishman, and prouder still to be a Prince i❑ such a country and of such a people." It is impossible to describe the effect produced by the Royal Duke's eloquent address (of which we regret we can only give the above imperfect sketch), upon the numerous and distinguished auditory to whom it was addressed.  This day (Saturday), the Magistracy of the county of Norfolk are invited by the Lord Lieutenant to assemble for the purpose of forming some general plan for the prevention of fires, and the detection of the villains who perpetrate this most terrible as well as most heinous crime. We pray that wisdom may be vouchsafed to direct them to means the most effectual. —Norwich Mercury.  We are informed that the murderer HoLLo• way, instead of being penitent, indulges in the foulest and most shocking language. About a week ago, seeing the female prisoner, KENNETT, pass his cell, he poured forth a volley of abuse, and said he hoped he should bang her ! KENNETT, we hear, persists in asserting her innocence. The story of her being enciente is, we are asBared, a fabrication...—Bri,qhlon Gazette.