Star. — 1813-08-21 (London, England)

MIL 41ND MO. BONA..  •... afterwards Mr. initlee Haiflt entered the tA.0... The doors fbc the admission of mown were then 11111 AL 1311' thrown open. mid scarce a Moment elapsed 'ere the •• ..: Court was literally crammed with people, many.of Meledrees the perpetrator of those foul and-afro- • whom Were efterwards tornesd out, .in order to make cious murders, was., as we have already stated, collo room for the Counsel: A 'east. number of Ladieie *eyed from the Cold Bath Fields Prison to Maid- had arrived in the town, in •the hope of being pre: stone, on Wednesday lad. He quitted his cell, sent during the trial, but akw only were able to ob-, doubly ironed, with;flreat cheetfulness, and seemed tarn places, and those paid dearly by the incoraveto regard his approaching trial es a source of peat- nienoe which they suffered, for the gratifization of liar satisfaction. He was dressed in a complete suit their curiosity. .. • of black, and took his seat in a posescheise tend pair Silence having been obtained, the Court was' with perfect compostire. Two of the jailors got into -.opened with the usualforms, after which Nicholson, the chaise with him ; they sat back, and le 'sat st who had been brought down from the prison on foot. , little toterard, so that all his motions could' be closely along with some other prisoners, escorted by a numwatched. Mr. Boner, whose attention to the Prisoner her of police officers, was called. He advanced from has been almost incessant since )xis commitment, was the lower end of the court-house, with a step as film. upon the spot, and regarded with great minuteness as his heavy irons would permit. Around his body every motion and action of the man who had so un. was an iron hoop, from the sides of which sprang two accountably and so cruelly` deprived him -of those handcuffs ; and-in these were his hands confined, so parents for whom he entertained so warm an afFec- that he could not by possibility lift them above his tion. An immense concourse of spectators were also breast. He was dressed in a plain suit of black ; and assembled, and as the murderer passedthent they while he seemealbperfectly sensible of the awful situacould not withhold a natural expression of their' .ab- Lion in which he stood, he did not evince any marks horrence of such a monster. Mr. Bomar, accom- of fear or horror; on the contrary, he apparently felt partied by two friends, proceeded in his own travel- all the blackness of his crime, and seemed happy that ling chariot after the chaise in which the prisoner-sat, he bad now an opportunity, by. the sacrifice of his and accompanied. him all the way to Maidstone.— life, of making some atonement. to the outraged feelThe intelligence of the intended removal of Nichol- introf his country, for his atrocious offence. son had spread along. the road, and in eh the towns n stature he is short, being about five feet six, bis-, through which he passed a number of•individuals , complexion rather approaches• to dark, his eyes are were amen-deed to take a transient view ~of a Man. full and expressive, his countenance round, his hair whose .crimes had excited such extraordinary, sea, dark broad, and, upon the whole, his physiognomy' sations. As he moved along, he seemed to be air- does not possess any of those 'characteristic traits sorbed in deep thought,. and paid little attention to which would denote the midnight assassin ; so fart outward object& . He was, pale, the natural cone- from this, his appearance in general was interesting quence Of his indisposition, and close confinement, and engaging, and would certainly be the list maul but did not shew any symptoms of apprehension or we should consider likely to perpetrate acts so foulas uneasiness et his approaching ordeal. .Whe hearses,' those imputed to him., both of the post-chaise, and MrJ Bonar's chariot, Having taken his station at the Bar, attended by a were changed at Famingharn, where .sonte wine was considerable number ofofficers,the Court proceededto given to the Prisoner. He took it with pleasure, end