Star. — 1829-07-20 (London, England)

MERCATOR. IDER BY Poisontwo.—The unprecedented mulA of atrocious crimes is one of the most dreadful characof the times in which we live, and proves that the demonof the lowest class in society has proceeded to a length truly appalling. Stewert and his female associate, who rw sentence of death on Tuesday for the murder of Robert , on board the Toward Castle steam-boat, on the rivet a the month of December last, appear to be monsters uity worthy of being classed with the incarnate deif the West Port. Even before his trial, Stewart ado some persons who bad access to him that he had doss ad) learn persons besides Lamont, by administering what he called, in his infamous slang, the Doctor— `by poisoning them with laudanum ; and since hie. , be has, we understand, confessed to three mote 11. making eleven in all. Now, if this be true, which we bed to believe it Is, it exhibits a woeful picture of the y of our criminal law, and of the tearful amount of chasms t which it affords even to the most hardened and daring I • for, by this statement, ten mortal murders were tit not only with impunity, but without the fact of dog been committed at all being known or even suspected t whose duty it is to detect and punish crimes. We the common sense of our readers, then, whether the It at present stands, or rather as it is at present adminis. yes any thing that almost deserves the name of proo the lieges ; or whether it does not, in fact, bold oat Mon to the commission of the worst and most simmer by the numerous chances of escape upon which may, and, we are satisfied,. actually do calculate.-not relaxed in his vigilance, nay ceased to. take  19.  Most ordinary precautions-, he might have gone Ons ws bow long, committing murder upon murder, in he most crowded and populous parts of this city, ver being detected. And the same thing may be said art, who, but for the enormous folly of having proadminister the Doctor in a steam-boat, whence, in the suspicions being excited, escape was impossible, might ued his career of murder and robbery for years to come unity. It may, indeed, be said, that such miscreants kph so hardened, sierra'', and reckless, that they a fall into the fangs of justice at last. But what Wit 01 is this, which necessarily implies that a man may pet' committing even the greatest crime known to the law. and habit deaden his sense of personal danger, sad more adventurous or less cautious in perpetratini answer to our observations to say, " Oh, it is quite mei man may commit eleven murders like Stewart, or slip Burke, but it is quite certain that be will be at last do. hanged 2" Our very ground of complaint Is founded fact of these monsters not being detected sooner • and dabs happen until we have the sense, or it would be wort say the humanity, to borrow from our neighbours their of a Coroner's Inquest, which might easily be adapted 14 ted upon our own institutions. Stewirt is said to have ted into the art of committing murder in this subtill y means of laudanum, in the Great Babel of the South, pleases oar vanity to consider the mother of all when we happen to forget the monsters that have or harboured in the bosom of oar own country.--: Mercury.