The Sun. — 1829-01-19 (London, England)

VEST PORT MURDERS.  (From the Caledonian Mercury.) We have before us a note, dated January 14th, from Mr. George Munro, S. S. C. agent for the nearest kindred Reel relativee of the late James NeVilson, commonly ca:led " thkft Jamie," to trite of his _constituents, who has given us •permission to make the following extract : Mir. Monro his just returned from the consultation with Messrs. Jeffrey, Miller, and Sandford. In point of strict law, it. is the (Tinian of these gentlemen that the prosecution of Hare can proceed; at all events, that the matter may very proper !y be tried, They concur in thinking that Hare alone ought to be the party to be tried : that applica,ion shohld be made thst to continue him in prison; and that the whole evidence should then be got, and an indictment prepared." We trust, therefore, that the statement of Mr. Jeffrey being retained as counsel in this case, will no longer be considered as " apocryphal" by the Scotsmune-Who might easily have ascertained the correctness of our information had he given himself the trouble to inquire. It thus appears that our views in regard to the liability of Hare to be tried, at the instance of the private party have been adopted and sanctioned by the eminent Counsel already named ; and it is equally evident, from the above opinion, that they consider the Lord Advocate, pa public prosecutor, bound to grant his concurrence as a matter of course.  Burke, we undostand, has offered to make isnportant disclosures to an individiud he has named,-1 provided that indiddual be admitted to him in the company of his Confessor. The gentleman pointed out by him as the intended depositary of hiAproffered revelations is -a respectable man of business, of the Catholic persuasion, from whom we have ascertained the correctness of*this information ; but, on applying to the civic authorities here, it was refused, in virtue of positive orders, which had boon issued from a higher quarter to exclude every one except the Confessor and other spiritual guides of the wretched criminal. The gentleman- referred to then applied, by letter, to the Lard Advocate for admission, offering, at the same time, to communicate his notes of what the wretched man might disclose, to his Lordship or any other of the authorities whom he might choose to point out ; hut to this application no answer was returned. After waiting in rain several days for a reply, the gentleman in question addressed Mr. Peel on the subject, inclosing a copy of the letter transmitted to his Majesty's Advocate, and earnestly so;citing an order from the Home Office for admission to the criminal, which, it is expected, he will obtain. We are quite satisfied, from what we have heard, that Burke has several, we should rather, perhaps, say many, circumstances of the utmost importance to disclose; and it would be a suliject of deep regret were any point of punctilio or etiquette to prevent his shriving himself sod unpacking his heart of the horrid secrets with which it is burthened. A rumour is in circulation that another' slaughterhouse has been discovered ; and if we may credit the statements which have been made to us, information to that effect, hss been given to the proper quarter. /ASIVS•