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The Sun. — 1833-06-03 (London, England)

CONNELL. in strong and powerful language, dwelt upon the attack made by the recent proceedings on the strongest barrier of liberty—the trial by jury. From a thirty-five years' legal experience, he (Mr. O'Connell) solemnly declared tha' the only verdict the jury could have come to. was that of " justifiable homicide," if any reliance could he placed on the published report of the evidence.—(Cheers.) He had himself no doubt of the accuracy of the arcount which had been communicated by the daily print.. Now, what caused the meeting to be numerous? Why, the Whig Government its-lf ! It was their preeiona advertisement wi bout a name, purporting to be by the Secretary or State. It was this that excited curiosity, and cau.ed numbers to congregate. He was decidedly of opinion that the evidence here out the verdict of " justifiable homic'de," and no honest jury could have returned any other verdict. He regretted in being compelled to say that he had no confidence in the present Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Let the people of England bear in mind, that this superseding of the verdict was an impugning of the basia on which' all their constitutional rights rested.—(Cheers.) The Learned Gee tlemen con. eluded, by moving the fallowing resolution : " That the evidence published in the newspapers charges the Metropolitan Police with violently assaulting a peaceable meeting of the people, on Monday, the 13th of May ; and if that evidence shall not be contradicted, such conduct will not only merit public indignation, but aftbrdsan indisputable proof that the police force, as at present directed, is at variance with the peace and welfare of the country," M.. I) WAKEFIELD second, d the motion.  Mr HENRY HUNT declared hie rsecirltd opinion, that unless the evid,rii e could he contradiett-d, the Governmen had most grossly outraved the liber?y of the subject. The queqinn wai then put from the chair and carried.  Mr o'CONNELL pledged himself to take. the earlie.o opportunity to brine ,he matt,r before the House of Corn. mom.—:(Loud cheers ) followinv r.s.•lutinn. w.,re afterward+ agreed to :  " That this meeting contemplate with the greatest satisfaction the conduct of the Coroner's jury in the Calthorpe-street • affair, and regard it as highly creditable to them as free Englishmen ; their verdict being a just recognition of the ancient and undoubted right to resist evrry forcible and illegal interference with any peaceable assemblage of the people." " That the sanction given by persons acting in the name of some members of the Government to the late outrageous attack on the people—the proclaiming that to be murder which the jury decided to be justifiable homicide, and the apprehen. sion that advantage may have been taken of technical defects in the verdict to mitigate its effects, convince this meeting that the Ministry are the inveterate enemies of libtral principies, and afford additional reasons for their no longer retaining the respect and confidence of the people." The meeting was then dissolved.
The Sun. — 1868-05-26 (London, England)

EXECU7IOV OF BARRETT.  TUESDAY, May 26.  This morning the Fenian convict, Michael Barrett, expiated his great crime on the scaffold in front of the gaol of Newgate, in the presence of a vast concourse of people. The crowd was, to a large extent, composed of a better class of persons than usually assemble at executions there, and the prevailing behaviour was in accordance. A large open space was kept by the police in front of the scaffold, so that the crowd at first sight did not appear so great as it really was. The convict retired to rest last evening about 10 o'clock, but' passed a somewhat restless night. At 6 this morning he rose, dressed himself, and engaged in prayer. Shortly afterwards he was joined by the Rev. James Hussey, from the Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields, by whom he has been attended since his conviction, and who remained with him to the last. It is understood that in the course of the morning he received the last Sacrament of the Church from his priest. All along, according to Mr. Hussey, he had borne himself with great fortitude, and given much satisfaction by the pains he had taken to prepare himself for his end, and the docile and affectionate manner in which he received the consolation of religion. He died without making any confession, so far as the public are concerned. What took place between him and his priest in reference to the crime may never be divulged. All that is known is,- that he gave "immense satisfaction" to the clergyman who attended him in his last moments, to use that gentleman's own expression. A course altogether unusual was adopted by the authorities, iu one respect, in the arrangements immediately preceding the execution. Instead of being conducted to the press-room to be pinioned, the convict was pinioned in his cell in the presence of the Under-Sheriffs, and thence conducted by a way entirely private and unusual to the scaffold. This he mounted with a firm step, accompanied by his priest and attended by the executioner. The moment he appeared upon the drop a kind of cheer broke from the crowd, which swayed about with the wildest excitement. The preparations were soon made, and to the last moment the Rev. Mr. Hussey continued to utter words of consolation to the doomed man, whose responses were indicated by the motions of the lips, concealed though the mouth was by the cap which had been drawn over the features. The drop at length fell, and piercing shrieks from women in the crowd rent the air for a moment, and that indescribable hum peculiar to such occasions broke upon the ear. The convict, who had great muscular strength, appeared to die slowly.  It is a noteworthy circumstance thit after his conviction he was never heard by those in attendance upon him to Jeny his guilt. Whenever .he referred to the crime he always said he was convicted on insufficient evidence, and that he was not guilty of murder.
The Sun. — 1815-03-16 (London, England)

LOUIS."  PROCLAMATION TO THE ARMIES. " Lotus, &c.  " To our brave Soldiers, .clfety—  " Brave Soldiers ! the glory and the strength of our Kingdom, it is in the name of honour that your King orders you to be faithful to your colours ; you have sworn fidelity to him, you will not betray your oaths. A General whom you would have defended to your last breath, if he had not formally abdicated his authority, has rfrstored you to ynur lawful Monarch. Mingled in the great family of which he is the father, amf in which on are only distinguished by the.most brilliant services, I bear you all in my heart ; associate myself with all your triumphs, though not acquired in my cause : recalled to the throne of niv Ancestors, I am delighted to see it supported by the brave Army, so worthy to defend it.-Soldiers, I invoke your love, I .demand your fidelity : your forefathers, in other times, rallied under the St'andard of the Great HENRY : it is his descendant that I have placed at your bead ; follow him faithfully in the paths of?honour and duty : defend, with him, the public liberty, which is attacked, the Constitutional Charter which it is attempted to destroy ; deferia your wives, your fathers, your children, your property, against the tyranny ‘vhich threatens them. Is not the enemy of the country also your enemy ? has he not speculated upon your blood, trafficked on your fatigues, and on your wounds ? Was it not to gratify his insatiable ambition that lie led you to encounter a thousand dangers in achieving useless and murderous victories. Our beautiful France was not sufficient for him, he would again exhaust the entire population in going to the extremities of the world, and ply for new conquests with your blood. Resist then his perfiduous promises ; your King calls, your Country demands you'; let honour attach you firmly to your standards ; I charge myself with seeing you rewarded ; in your own ranks, among the elite of faithful soldiers that I will chuse your Officers ; the gratitude of the public shall repay all your services : One more effort and you will soon enjoy the glory and glorious repose which you have so wellode. served.  " March then, brave Soldiers, wrthoot hesitation, at the voice of honour : yourselves arrest the first traitor who would seduce you. If any one imong you has already lent an e.r to the perfidious suggestions of Rebels, there is yet time to return to the path of duty. The door is yet open to repentance : it is thus that many sqoadnins, whom a guilty. Chief wished to mislead, near la Fere, themselves forced him to fiy. May this example be beneficial to the whole Army may the great number of corps who renuiin pure, and who have refused unite with rebels, close thcir batallions to attack und repel the traitors, and persevere in their good di;_ position. Soldiers ! you are French, lam your King ; it is not, then, in vain that I confide to your courage and fidelity the safety of our beloved country.  Given at theThuilieries, 12thillarch 1815, the 20th year of our reign. (Signed) "
The Sun. — 1822-01-31 (London, England)

IRELAND.—The heart sickens at the contenl; plation of the frightful picture daily presented by this wretched country. Another horrible,. murder has been perpetrated, on the person 0' the head clerk of the Mail Coach Office at I falee, a Mr. BRERETON, who was on Friday morning sent off with the mail bag from Tralec tp Cork, in consequence of the destruction, the (13,v before, of the Cork coach, by the insurgents! Mr. BRERETON was attended by one of the assist: ants belonging to the Office. On their arrival al a place called Tuckbey, about twelve miles be" yond Killarney, they were surrounded by numerous party of insurgents, who commence' their furious work by mortally wonntling the horse on which Mr. BRERETON The ruffians then dragged the unfortunate nil to the ground, and after giving him sever'!. wounds with bayonets and pikes, finished the'` atrocious crime by severing his head from his body with the blow of a scythe. The assistan' had also fallen into their hands ; but in the confusion of the moment he was so fortunate as to make his escape, and returned to Tralee Nsltl, ' the shocking tidings of the fate of his companion"' The account of a second engagement with the rebels on the Friday—(See our paper of Jester'' day)—is confirmed. The Military were con' mantled by Colonel MITCHELL, accompanied 11 Sir N. COLTIIURST, Bart.—The party of incur' gents which this force encountered had corne from the neighbourhood of Dunmanway, for dr purpose of joining the main body of the rebels rti the hilly country about Macroom. The result was the complete dispersion of this hand, after having had two killed, several wounded, and 3' great many taken prisoners, who were brought into Macromn.  There has also been a third engagement, be; tween a party of the Rifle Brigade, who 103` charge of some cars laden with amrnunitico/ which they were accompanying:from Macrooro to Bandon, and a party of the insurgents, at 3 place called Clara Mountain, near Kilmurryl The rebels, who made the attack, were repulse with the loss of several killed and wounded. There are as yet no further particulars 61 these affairs.—The Irish Papers continue to be nearly filled with accounts of outrages on a rnin°r scale.'  The hoax played off yesterday at the RoY°l' Exchange by -a man in boots and spurs, vvb° came to the door to seek for Mr. RICA two, wag an excellent ruse de guerre for the Bulls, vvb° immediately commenced their operations 11 setting afloat various reports from the Continent/ which rose the Funds -} per cent.; but this morn ing Consols have again resumed their former price' and are now, 12 o'clock, 76k; sellers knowing; that yesterday's operations wera all a deception'  for the  bets 111 result  after and 3' rought  it, be: hap  wrooro at 3 rrp•; puiseti  U. r Jars _Ol_  to be win or  ROY° echo 0, WaS wbo IS Di  ,noril  price, OWi"g  ptio►l•
The Sun. — 1822-01-21 (London, England)

PQN- J U  ;ILy EXTRAcTs FROM MORNING FArbats,  January 21, 18'12.  [MORNING cIIRONICLE.I • :;:,;et riaong our extracts from the French Papers 715 a 'letter- from Corfu, of the 3d December, stating that Arta was taken, by assault on• the ,ISt of December, by the Greeks. The cap': hire of this town, it is observed, r` is a cOnquest • • 'Of the utmost importance for the Greeks, not on recount of its fortress, but the strength of its 4ituation, which from its union with the defile, !.rad the fort of the five Wells, forms an impregnable bulwark. From its position between Epi-1 os, Acarininia and Etolia, it is the key of these provinces, which it commands."—We have in our . possession, however, a setter from an individual :y ho had excellent means of information at Mil-•'solungi, on the Coast of Etolia, an extract from we have given in another colunin ; which, • though dated the 13th December, speaks of the Castle of Arta as still holding out, though the .greater, part of the town had been taken. A good deal of con fusion not unfrequently arises from the stiles,the G reeks reckoning by theold,and the -West of Europe by the new. Our Correspondent se know uses the new stile; and the letter in the Constitutionnel is probably - dated according . to the old, and therefore in reality later. In the 4.-o7stitutionnel.of the 13th, some important particulars are stated in a letter from Corfu, respecting the taking of TriPoliza; After giving on account of the murder of the Greek hostages, • the- letter goes on to state, that the Beys and ;gas of the Morea inflathed the imaginations-of their followers with the terror of the punishments which the Infidels would inflict on them; that in-the assault the Greeks had to overcome,a most determined resistance; that the Turks, entrenched with their families within their houses and other tenable places, fired on the assailants ; that the place could only be reduced by setting fire to the houses ; that this engagement within the ,walls lasted two days, and that it_ terminated with the destruction of nearly the whole of the Turks ; that those who surrendered at discretion were all treated with humanity ; that the few Mussehnen who survived the combat were not slaughtered, but retained prisoners in the fortresses ; and that as to the Turkish women, they most of them perished with their husbands, under the burning roofs, the victims of their barbarous institutions, according- to which a iNiahomedan female, who becomes a captive, is held unworthy to live with a Mussulman, the Mahomedan law expressly declaring, that " the true believer ought to live no longer with his spouse, if she has had the misfortune to become captive, and still less if she has had the still greater misfortune of being dishonoured." This is a very different version of the affair from that given us by the Austrian Observer. •We observe from the Scots Papers,, that letters have been received by Mr. Gordon's friends in Scotland, dated long posterior to the capture of TripoNza, in which no mention is made of any cruelties having been committed there.  [M 0
The Sun. — 1822-09-05 (London, England)

ROW-STREET.—(SINGULAR FRAUD.)—Yesterday, Geo. Gooch, a young man now very smartly dressed, but who a short time ago was in a state of extreme distress, was brought before the sitting Magistrates, Mr. Mrssuum, and Mr. HALLS, In the custody oeSalmon, a principal officer, charged with forging the name of Mr. J. S. Taylor, the vestry clerk of St. Andrew's, Holborn, to pretended copies of bills of exchange, drawn upon Messrs. Coutts and Co., bankers ; and thereby defrauding his aunt, a poor aged and infirm woman, of wearing apparel, some trinkets, and money to the amount of 19/. 10s. The circumstances of the case were very curious. It may be recollected that about five or six weeks ago, a man named Robert Hartley was brought to'this office by the same officer, charged with burglary, committed at the residence of Count Byland, at Blackheath, and -sent to the Maidstone assizes for trial. The principal, indeed almost the only material, witness against him was the prisoner. Gooch, who had been a messmate with him in the navy. Hartley had met him accidentally in the street, and communicated to rim that he was gettinglis living by plunder, and in the course of conversation he threw out some hints respecting the murder of Mrs. Donatty. Gooch upon this waited upon Mr. Taylor, the gentleman who had the management of the investigations which took place in consequence of that horrible affair, and having told him all that he had learned from-Hartley., the latter was taken into custody. :Nothing, however, was elicited of a satisfactory nature with respect to the murder, but a complete case was made out against him as to the burglary at Count Byland's, and he was convicted capitally at the Maidstone assizes. After his conviction, several conversations were held withhim, with a view to obtain some informatide, if he really could give any, respecting the murder; •but nothing was learned from him which could be relied upon. When Gooch had been some days returned to town; be waited upon Mr. Taylor, and told him be thought that if he went down to Maidstone and had an interview with Hartley, the latter would tell any thing that he knew regarding the murder. Mr. Taylor consented to his going, and gave him some money to help him on his journey. He, however, spent the money in 'town, and did not go to Maidstone at all. Meanwhile the prisoner had been practising a very gross fraud upon his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Lonsdale. Mts. Lansdale resides at Lambeth, and is receiving relief from the parish, her husband being. in the workhouse in a state of insanity. He went to her and told her, that in consequence of the assistance which he had given in 'promoting the ends of public justice, in the case of his old messmate Hartley, he had got into a situation at Mr. Taylor's office, in which he received 30s. a week. In proof of this, he gave her three documents, which he said were copies of bills of exchange which he' had received from Mr. Taylor. These pretended copies ran thus:— " Messrs. Coutts and Co. " Gentlemen,—Ten days after sight, pay the bearer on demand, the sum of —/. for value received. " To Messrs. Coutts and Co." " J. S.
The Sun. — 1826-03-27 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  QUEEN SQUARE.  I4IY1)( WITH 11.Ei.aT ()rte....1-Among the miseries of human life may be classed the following case, displaying the misery of residing with one's relations. An afflicted man, named John Arinstead, came before the Sitting Magistrates at this office, to complain of the mat-treatment he had experienced from his eon-in-law, Mr. Thomas Cooper. On Sunday the 19th, coin. plainant was in Cooper's garden, Who Is an eminent sort of bird fancier at Knightsbridge, when the defendant thought proper to quarrel with the complainant about digging ; first as. misted in tying up his hands and feet, anti afterwards kicked him till he was nearly left for dead upon the ground. Capener, of No. 24, hi Kinnerton-street, Knightsbridge, three doors from Cooper's, deposed that, hearing a cry of murder, he looked out over the wall, when he saw Moistest( with his legs tied with a line in the garden, which Mrs. Cooper cut down for the purpose. At this juncture he was nearly black in the face ; and witness did not think that he could have survived had not some one released him, which, fortunately, was accomplished by the oa lnanwiltonfre.os Ittztleihitiitiuunncwit,es, awititoealsellre Chei6bdierddsil ganecluirtgwtahsetVenComplainant's business, as the witness heard, to look after the aviary. Mt's. Sarah Campton saw Armstead while tied fast in Cooper's garden, from her back window, when the complainant was cry. mg out murder for .upwards of an hour, to the terror of witness avid also of a lady who lodged with her. Lydia Johnson, Who resides next door to Cooper's, deposed to seeing Armitead tied fast, and then kicked while lying in tits defendant's garden. Mr. Cooper, in his defence, said that Armatead was unfiniunately the father of his wife. Several times he had dismissed him, but Mrs. Cooper cried him back again. Ile had assault_ t ed the defendant on the morning in question; so early as nine o'clock, then went away, but returned at dinner time. AM. stead then struck and even bit the defendant, ~who, to more mischief, had tied him up ; but his busy neighbours let him loose. Thomas Schofield, an inmate of Cooper's, spoke to Arm. stead's being drunk, and refusing to come down stairs to dinner, or give up the keys, and to his striking Mr. Cooper. Armstead denied that he was intoxicated. tieoree Yates, serVant to Cooper, said that Atmstead was drunk that morning,, at eight o'clock ; that besides, he struck Cooper first, when witness helped to tie him by his hands and le s. Mr. OnEnctnitt.----I do not believe for a moment that Arm* stead was drunk. If you take your father-in-1m for charity's sake, Cooper, it is what all the world will applaud you for ; but you are not, on that account, at liberty to tie up his hands and legs, and leave him in your garden. for dead. Ido not think that any thing can justify your conduct to this man ; and, therefore, yon must find bail towards him. Cooper—Find bail I For what ? Mr. tin HoontE—For a violent and brutal assault on your father.ln.law, Sir. Several of Cooper's neighbours were present at the examination.