The Sun. — 1837-05-04 (London, England)

JAMES GREENACRE.'n The next letter is directed to Mr. Price, the barrister, and Mr. Hobler, jun., the solicitor, and is as follows : " Chapel-yard, Newgate, April, 1837. " Honoured beg to return you my most sincere thanks for the indefatigable exertions that you have devoted for the saving of my life, and that, still more than life, the rescue of my name from the odious repute of wilful murderer. I know, Sirs, that the very peculiar nature of my case gave to my prosecutors all the advantage of substituting conjectures and remote recollectious for positive .facts—that against such evidence there could be no chance of a just verdict—that the cruel injustice and murderous attacks which were eagerly made upon my character, by the grossest falsehoods, perverted incidents, and the most prejudicial comments to incense and misguide the public mind by a trafficking Newspaper press, that cares not for truth or justice, or the life of any man, so that such Newspapers can but feed the passions of the partial-minded and unthinking crowd—that by means of my prosecutors having got possession of all my boxes, letters,and papers, a most murderous flame of prejudice is kept alive by publishing gerbled statements, and perverting the very meaning and object of such papers and articles that were in my boxes belonging to me, and persons in America, whose name and address on sealed parcels arc to be found on some of great value, that were entrusted to me to deliver.  " These, Sirs, are some of the disadvantages and oppressive circumstances by which my case is-rendered hopeless, and your best exertions unavailing. But, Sirs, I feel it to be a duty which I owe to my name, to the cause of Mrs. Gale, and to a reflecting public, to protest with my dying breath against these acts of oppression, and the two verdicts, against both real and circumstantial evidence, seeing that the real evidence, which occupied one day and a half, was only intended to bewilder the minds of the jury, as it amounted to little else than what I admitted, whilst the circumstantial evidence goes to show that wilful murder, or any thought of taking life, could not form any part of my crime. Not a dozen persons in London could have condemned, or deemed the catastrophe a wilful murder, if it had not been for the act of concealment, into which I was propelled by my horror-stricken and frenzied state of mind, and with a little reflection the real state of my mind may be conceived, by the very precipitated and delirious mode of proceeding, and that, too, whilst the greatest of all possible advantages were in my power to have utterly made away with the body, if I had possessed a collected mind, and one capable of devising murder. " If I had at once acknowledged to the fatal accident, I should not then have been in a situation to have back the clothes ; and should not, under the many circumstances opposed to the plea of wilful murder, or malice aforethought, have been thought an intentional murderer. " Not, perhaps, any persons whose minds have been poisoned by the subsequent circumstances, (and what may he considered unavoidable circumstances, when once the wrong steps were taken) would have thought that Ay crime was a wilful act.  " As regards the fate of poor Mrs. Gales I can only reiterate in the sight of death what I have before repeated, that she knew nothing of the death of. Mrs. Brown till the day I acknowledged to it before the Magistrates at Marylebone Policeoffice, so help me. God. " Thus, Sirs, I have taken another and thelast review of .my unhappy situation, which I should be glad if you would send to the Editor of any liberal journal that would give it insertion. - " I remain, Sirs, " Your most obedient and humble servant, "