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'ntOST , ' WTTtTtTrVrTTl , MM 9 -JfrHH . ( Frtm the Hem&hire Telegraph . ) Portawmflx , F « ib . 15 . Frost , Williams , and Jones unnd here this -morning early , in the Usk steamer , after a bobteleos passage of thirteen days from Cardiff , part of frhkh time has been spent , from the severity of the breather , in lifr&combe , Padatow , and St . Ives . They armed in good health , but in bad spirits : Frost , in particular , haTing anxiously inquired if Jthe Queen had extended mercy to them on her Marriage . They were immediately transferred to the York hulk , and placed in a ward by themselves , frhieh . had been prepared for the purpose , bo that { hey may hold no communication with their fellow «> Bvicta ; and , though they were immediately clothed in convict apparel , they will not be seat on jfcore to work without farther instructions from the
Secretary of State ' s office . Under the usual regulation , howerer , of th ^ ir letters being unsealed , they wili be permitted free communication with their friends , but no one , from idle curiosity , will be suf--fered to intrude on them . ( From ihe Morning Herald , ) ' .. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the Glebe , after having nobly entered the field of contro--Tersy with us on . ihe case of the Monmouth Charrists , * nd got beaten , in . argument until it " howled again , " made . a lame and lamentable figure in retreat . A rein" torcement , however , arrived to the discomfited ch ampion of "Nonnaaby . justice , " in the shape of Mr . . Mostyn , THi&er-sheriff of Monmouthshire , who let fly -acriminatory epistle of Tery hard words , charging the
. Herald with " misrepresentations and mis-statements , " ^ rimifcke-4 id n ot choose *¦ " 1 W ; ify , V \ £ "lajrinfmnrc ^ sr tiealat charges of falsehood aga nst our corresp ondent Jktifotrmoclh , who , certainly , had a mosfarduous duty < to perform in getting at the truth amid a mass of flying jBmsors , the natural remit of intense popular excitement How he has performed that ts&k the public . hire no slight opportunity of judging , seeing that the - « djr instance his correctness or Teracifcy has been challenged , daring the whole of his labour * , - from the first -account of the outbreak at Newport , until the sequel of the "strange eventful history" of the Special Com--xoission , ws » -when Mr . Mostyn ' s letter appeared in the 4 rioie , where it was most ofiensively paraded in con-Hftiion with the coaraest epithets of abuse by that policed organ of the Bedchamber Administration .
We re-published Mr . Mostyn ' s letter , observing that at it would no doubt meet the eye of our correspondent , id would fire it such answer or explanation as it re-4 ptired . Some days ago we received his answer , the publication of which we were obliged to defer . It will be found in our columns to-day . The pub' . ic will judge "whether the Globe ' or the Herald has lent itself to an a&te-Bpt at grosi deception , in reference to the proceed-• ings ef the Home-office subsequently to the " decision of tbe Judges oa the points of law reserved in the case of - ^ Prost , Williams , and Jones . Thus we Kav « done a > much , and more than the Globe a&ked , and now we call upon that journal to re-- jiint in an ungarbled state our correspondent ' s answer . Its habits of tricky and fraudulent misrepresentation of wch arguments or statements of a political adversary as iX is unable to . fairly grapple with , is too well known to us to expoct from its honesty or candour a spontaneous act of justice .
The precipitate haste with which the under-sheriff -left Monmouthshire for London subsequentl y to the aasiral of the peremptobt ordee—aye , the peremptory order , signed "Jiormanby , " for the execution < fi the prisoners , was ascribed by our correspondent to a desire on the ^ part of that functionary to have a personal communication with the authorities at the Home-« ffice respecting tbe decapitation and quartering of the "bodies of the pr isoners . The under-sheriff has denied tbat he went *> London for that purpose . He says private business , of his own brought him to town . Without meaning to dispute his vcradty on a point on which we can ourselves have no personal knowledge , ¦ we mnst take the liberty of observing that his sudden departure for London at tJ ^ ft peculiar crisis was well calculated to make the people ig Monmonth believe that tbe object of his journey was connected with the
approad&t g execution . But the statement at pur corres-• Jtocdent &jd not rest on public rumour o ? general report . He was distjactiy Informed that such was the object of 3 tj . Ms ; ta '« Suinej' \> f % Mayor—a gent ' eman ^ wliose official situation , one Would have suppled , gave Slim a good opportunity of knowing something of the matter , and whose honourable characte r placed above ibe suspicion of stating anything , either to the correspondent of a newspaper , or to anybody else , which he did not himself believe . Another gentleman , holding ma important official station , was the authority for the aaaertion of our correspondent that other * and " distinct orders bad been sent to the sheriff , besides the peeem p-TOBT ORDER for the execution , dated the 28 th instthat is , dated the wry day n which the jvdgti eommumteated to the Gorernment their decitton < m lh $ feints if tern * ¦ ¦¦ '
Oflf correspondent had stated that a second order for ihe execution had been sent to Mr . Forde , ihe governor of ihe gaoL That was also denied . Mr . Mqatjn , who ¦ denied it , could not , however , but admit land if he liad not admitted we should have proved it ) that a duplicate of the Home-office communication to the Sheriff had been sent to the Governor of the GaoL He did not say when that " duplicate" was dated . We laid it was dated the 29 th , the day after the date of fh& peremptory order to the Sheriff We also sty that . being & duplicate of tbe communication to tbe Sheriff , it was a second peremptory order for execution . Mr . Mostyn « ayi it waa forwarded tn the usual way , lest the original might not have reached the Sheriff ; just so . The Secretory for the Home Department was so fearful tart tbe prisoner ! should not be distinctly informed , that 9 uy teert to be executed on ihe following Thursday that he sent a " duplicate , " or exact eopy , of the " peremptory order" of tbe day before to the gaoler , and fhua « made assurance doubly sure . "
Jf Mr . Mwtyn is to be believed , all those pains were takes by Government to assure the prisoners they were inevitably to b » hanged , beheaded , and quartered , because Government had not determined to bang , befcrad , or quarter them at alL If , upon so grave a subject , we eould indulge in « ay but a very s * rious tone , we might ask why the gaUxrtet , the block , the hangman , and tbe headsman were not also had in readiness , to make more perfect tbe ilhtiion of the mock-tragedy on the minds of the prisonen and spectators ? But it is n » jest The gallovs , the block , tbe hangwtan , and the hiadmoa teere all in readiness to do the See of the law of blood noon the doomed men . The
jaJlows wm constructed and brought to the gaol with a degree of pnblidty sud ostentation which left bo doubt upon the mind of any human being , except Mr . Mostyn , that the Government meant to do what the-letter of Lord Kormanby unequivocally stated . In the pUha and express language of thit order of death and doom , Mr . Mostynsaw nothing but a " usual form of respite , " yet he left copies of it with the gaoler to be be delivered to the prisoners without tommemt ! but the prisoners r » ad " no respite" in it * terrible intelligence . T « their ears it breathed n » t the voice of mercy cheering tbe gloom of tbe dungeon . In the communication tbat distimUy told them of the scaffold and the axe , tfaey
" Heard not the ssleraa sound As if an angel spoke . " To tbeir eyes that " usual form ef respits" was , as to . Ifee eyes of every one but Mr . Moston , written in letters of blo » d . To tbe heart of every member of their families it brought Xat agonies of despair . It banished the remotest hope of mercy for the husband , father , or "brother , oa this side tha grave . That there ever was such " a respite" sent to capital - onvicts before , except where GoTernawat intended it to be followed by an execution , ' we Trfcter ^ - den y . The magic name of Jformanby never " deHvered gaols" after 1 bat fashion in Ireland . '"'
Not only was tbe gallows and the block prepared , but a peremptory order was sent to the hatgma * . And by -whom ? By Mr . Mostyn himself ! Yet , we present « rr readers to-day with a oopy of tbat letter of Mr . lioztyn to tbe hMigman , which has been in our hand * fee some days pact Tbe account of a strange adventure attendiag thnt letter , as well as a verbatim " copy of it . will be fouad in our correspondent ' s communication of to d » y . Net only did Mr . Mostyn teni a peremptory carder to the hangman , after he received " the respite , " "but he sent him 5 portion ef what lawyers call the ftaddam honorariun , vulgarly called tbe fee or price of "the job . " He at first speaks of sending him tiro sorereigne ; but in a postscript , which , l ika a l adys postscript , is the most important part of tha letter , he telb him be has resolved to retain one sovereign as a security for his pvsetval attendance and steadiness . He
also received timely notice that any neglect of this peremptory order on his part would be followed by a forfeiture of " the Job" sad all ito emolument , for that Mother hMigw »» n TTould be employed . The son , with filial emulation at the paternal genre , undertook to do * be duty « f imdmaam ., aad oa tie Monday following another order was ioaed to paint tfce block black . All those terrible preparations were made became Govern-Keatbad Mirmoleed topmt tkefrimmen to death , and is tbe Jailiag state of the revenue the expeasea of a hangman were incurred benme ibere vat it be wobode *«* ped / Sorely Mr . Hwae , wbo l * oks to tbe . aving at ¦ fcrtitings to the eooafery is abe talariea of bard-work-Jag pakli * desks , vogbs to iaijaire isto tb * rnonie * expeoded vpoa this " >"" r g job , " which was never intended to ke a " real joV at aO . Snriy Jack Setcb auM nfmL
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THB HAHGMAF , THB OLOBB , AJO > MB . UKDER-SHBRIFP MOST ** . ( Pr « m At Cnretprndeni tf the ifomimg Herald . Moanwttth , Monday . How Hroea more pnde&t wovld it sot bare been ( as 1 hare already observed } for the Glebe to have " had its mreapeBdmt here t « « orreet mU-eUtanente sod erron , -Am to act tbe part « f asilly iwaggai g , by eadeavoMinf to k « lJy th « pcblk into tfce kdief of ttdafrood , in ftetteUe / JtrHMSdesBd wel < MtbeBtteated £ mU tt
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tiwwntrary . BcttbeCto 6 e , like the man "who k * t the ship by saving a ha ' porth of tar , " sooner than incur the expense of havrag a responsible conespoiident here , wrecks its character and credibility by adopting at texts and truths , statements which have neither tbe semblance of the one or tbe other . The Globe at last Friday blaeons forth the following as one of its leaders : — " We are saved the tronble of farther replying to the foolish figments of the Morning Herald , by the following communication , which we summon the Mornbtg Herald to reprint , or to submit to the stigma of wilful , as well as blundering , falsification . M Tavistock Hotel , Covent Garden , "' February 7 , 1840 .
" ' Sir , —Tbe rais-statements and misrepresentations of facts relative to the convicts Frost , Williams , and Jones , that have appeared in the Morning Herald within the last week , have not escaped my attention ; but observing in that paper of to-day that my name is mentioned , 1 beg to contradict the facts stated in connection with it . " « The Herald says that , along with Lord Normanbys despatch of the 28 th of January , containing a respite till the eth of February , there were other distinct and positive orders sent to the Sheriff . I beg to state tbat no other orders or instructions whatever were recdred by the High Sheriff or myself . Tbe Herald states , that so peremptory were the orders for execution considered , that Mr . Mostyn , the . UndeT-Sheriff , came off to London to ascertain the mode iu which the decapitation should be performed . That is equally untrue . Urgent business , in no wav connected with
the £ ite of Frost and others , brought me to town ; and so far from my considering Lord Normanby ' s letter of the 28 th to-be so peremptory , my own opinion , when I received it , was , that tbe concluding sentence was only the usual form or respites under such circumstances ; and on receipt of it I wrote to the High Sheriff , and told him I expected , on my arrival in London , to receive a farther respite , as I did not Uiink , after the division of opinion among -the . Judges , that Government would carry the sentence ints ewcutioii . In fact , if I had felt confident tbat the execution would really take place on the 6 th of February , 1 should not have come to London at all , as I should have bad te return immediately without transacting my business here . On my way to London I called at the gaol , and gava the Governor copies of Lord Normanby ' s letter , iwith orders to deliver them to the convicts , without any eommeoh * - ¦ ' ' - " -
"' The Herald states tbat a second order for the execution was sent to the * gaoler on the 29 th January . There was no such second order ; but , as usual on such occasions , a duplicate of the respite which had been sent to the sheriff was sent to the gaoler , to guard against the possibility of any miscarriage of that sent to the sheriff . I remain , Sir , your obedient servant , " ' He * ry Mostyn . " Well , th « summons is obeyed , and a leetle more will be done for the Globe . Its tirade of the following day shall be also inserted , bo that the unfortunate correspondent of the Morning Herald may be completely overwhelmed and held forth as the concoctor of " the mendacious statements , " On Saturday the Globe , after a deal of its usual ranting , says
" r » o ' peremptory order—nor any order—was issued for the execution : the high sheriff and the under sheriff were alike of opinion , after the divided views of the judges on the reserved objection was known , that the sentence would not be carried into effect—the concluding part of Lord Normanby ' s letter ordering the respite was only the ' usual form adopted under such circumstances : —the under-sheriff came to London on private business , which ' he would not have done had he not felt confident the execution would not take place , as he would have been compelle d to return without transacting it . " No ' second order * was ever issued —in fact the whole was , as Mr . Mostyn properly remarks , a tissue of ' mis-stotements and misrepresentations . "
" Yet with this letter before the public , verified by the signature of Mr . Mostyn , does the Herald persist in its course of falsehood ; and justifies what deserves the severest condemnation , by saying that tbe ( anonymous ) correspondent , on wfcose supposed authority the mendacious statements were published in its columns , will see Mr . Mostyn ' s letter , and will , we dare say , give it such an -answer or explanation as the case may require ! " Is such a chronicler worthy of tbo slightest credit ? Can the public receive on it * uncorroborated authority any statement which involves matters even of the most trivial import ? " * There was "no peremptory order "—" nor any order" for the execution , exclaims the Globe . But what does the Marquis of Normanby * ay in hi * letter ? read it " Whitehall . 28 th Jaft . 1840 .
' Sir , —I am to signify to you the Queen ' s commands that the sentence of dea'h passed upon John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and William Jones , now in the gaol of Monmonth , be respited until Thursday the 6 th of Feb . But the prisoners are to be distinctt
INFORMED THAT THESENIESCE OP THE LAW WILL THEN BE CARRIED INTO EFFECT . I am , Sir , your most obedient humble servant , , _ . ... "KORMAKBTV > l P . S . Ton will acknowledge the receipt herejef by return of p « st" To the High Sheriff of Monmouth . * Is that " not a peremptory V—is that ' no order ?" What opinion did ( he Merlin , a Whig paper , form of that order ! In its publication of the 1 st of Feb . it says : — "Newport , Fei 1 . "THB COKTICTS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN SiONMOUTH GAOL .
" The warrant for death has come , and Thursday is the day fixed for execution . Since the above few lines were written , the London papers of Thursday have reached ua , but , from the late arrival of the mail , we are inertly enabied to transcribe such information as the Time * and Sun communicate . Onr London correspondent , according to our particular directions , has , he informs us , up t » the latest hour , applied , in quarters most likely to furnish authentic information as to the i fate of the prisoners , but he states nothing upon which I we would consider ourselves justified to offer any I observations in addition to those in the above prints . " i -Agais , it
Bays"Thb Order por Execution—An express messenger reached our office last evening from our agent at Monmouth , conveying the authentic information that yesterday a communication directed to the proper authority was received from the Home Office , directing that iht fatal intelligence should be at once communicated to Frost , Williams , and Jones , that they would be put to the extreme penalty of tho law on Thursday next l Our correepoadent states that the tlirte ill-fated men were deplorably affected en hearing the dread tidings . " As I have already noticed , the Bea *> n , & paper published in thia town , says , that so positive and peremptory was the order for the execution deemed , that "the gibbet , and even the blocks , were prepared . "
The Globe insists that no secend order was issued . " Such mean , low , subterfuge—such EhnfiBing . " Such unblushing and wilful mendacity would not , could not , be perpetrated but by the Government hack itself , a ' second order , dated Jan . 22 , was received by Mr . Forde , and was read by Mr . Forde in the presence of several . He made no secret of it—I am quite ignorant what are the " misstatements and misrepresentations of facts" which Mr . Mostyn refers to as having appeared in the Herald during the week . If he alludes to the ab ! e commentariee of the Herald on the arguments before the fifteen judges , on Ihe high grounds of humanity , which the Herald treats to-day , respecting tbe fate of the condemned , and if tbe Under Sheriff disapproves of the former , and
dissents from the Herald on the latter point , he disapproves of the sentiments , and dissents from the humane and Christian feeling ' entertained and expressed by nine-teotbs of the people of England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales . The Under Sherift-in , i » U letter to the Gldbe , says , *> The Herald say * that along with Lord >* ormanby * 8 dispatch on the 28 th of January , containing a respite till the 6 th of February , there were other distinct and positive orders sent to the Sheriff . " I beg to state that no other orders or instructions whatever were received by the High Sheriff or myself . In reply to this contradiction I say that a gentleman holding a high official situation , and of the highest integrity , assured me that s uch orders had been forwarded to toe Sheriff . The Under Sheriff next says , The Herald
8 tat as , ' tbat so peremptory were the orders for execution considered , that Mr . Mostyn , the undersheriff , eome off to London to ascertain the mode in which the decapitation should be performed . That is equally untrue , " Now , my authority for suqa a statement is no less a personage than the mayor , a gentleman of tbe purest honour , who showed the greatest kindness and politeness to the gentleman who represented the Leadon journals during the trials . This gentleman told me tbat ' so positive and peremptory were the orders for the execution , tbat tbe Under-Sheriff had gone to London to receive orders couoernmg the mode of decapitation . And this excellent and humane geatlemaa told me that the Under-Sheriff had
gone to London « a a mission so abhorred , as itmust have beea even to the feelings of the Under-Sheriff himself , be « aid ( facing his hand on Ms forehead ) " the very idea of the approaching executions weighs on me like lead . " If the Cnder-Sheriff was satisfied tbat the three uafertonate Ken woold not be executed , why was the gibbet brooght down on Thursday night , 30 th Jaaaary , the very aigfct this functionary started to London on hi * own private bunlseea . "A gibbet ( to use th * expna msn < rf a bystander ; , when it was brought ovt of the gaol , tbat w strong enough to hapf three bones , moeb- Urn tbne men . " I wonder , does tbe Usder-SMi * kn » w anything about an ojder for iU being painted Mack , «¦ Monday , the 3 d Febaanr T
Mr . Mostya pledgee " kis responsibility to the public , his regard for his « va reputation for integrity . " and , above all , " Ms obligation to affirm the truth" to U » fact , that be nerer denied Lord Normaub ' ys letter to be " an order at all , " » nch less '• a peremptory order . " The Globe , which knows nothing of the transaction , swears to the truth of that which has merely reached it second hznd . Tbe correspondent of the Herald Sings back with entempt the- charge of his accusers , and li ready at any time to meet the editor or proprietor of tbe&iote not
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as an " anonymous" wr iter , who alandew away pnb lie and private character ; but , openly and avoitredly , ia any form , or in any shape , or under arijv circum stances . Amidst all their humbug , all their summoning , and all their concocting , tbe Globe and its champion never dreamt that their friend , their associate , Jack Ketch , was behind the scenes ready to act the port of traitor against them , by letting out the secrete ^ Bat as " tacts are stubborn things , " I ask the Under-Sheriff , Z ask the Globe , I ask the public , whether the subjoined letter from tbe Under-Sheriff , Mr . Henry Mostyn , to Jack Ketch , was peremptory or not ? whether it bears the evidence of the writer being firmly convinced that the erder from the Secretary of State was peremptory or not ? It will speak for itself . I give it verbatim as it reached the hangman . " Usk , Jan . 30 .
" Sir , —The execution is ordered to take place on Thursday next , tbe Cth February , and I beg you will be at the gaol on Monday next , without fa il , and Mr . Forde will be prepared to expect you . If you do not arrive that day , I shall send immediately to another person , who has applied to do the duty . I enclose you a post-office ordei for two pounds as you require . You will also write me here by return of post I am yours , ic ., "Henrt Mosttn , Under Shtriff . - "P . S . Since writing the foregoing letter , I have thouclit it more advisable to send you only one sovereign , instead of two , in order that I may ensure your keeping steady , and being at Monmouth punctually . " On the outside of the letter is the following direction : —
" Mr . Thomas Taylor , Back-lane , J * ea * , the Hole in the Wall , — ' Stourbridge , Worcestershire . " Prepaid . ..- _ > ^ Was there nothing peremptory in that letter ? What ! nothing peremptory in tho Marquls ' of > -3 vafBianhjt' 8 letter , which compelled the Under Sheriff to thftaten tbe usual execntioner-that , unless he was , there on the following Monday , another hangman was in readiness , and would be engaged ? test that JKreafc ' . would " iot have the effeet of hastening Jackj $ efcchv- » fe ! ri £ ! JMi money which ae required , and -whtch , . accordiag | o flie . Sheriff ' s own showing , he had in the first instance ordered him , was only Fent him . Thus the Sheriff " insured the hangman ' s keeping Bteidy , and being at Monmouth punctually . " Who , having read this letter , will believe Mr . Mostyn , when he denies having gone to London to receive positive and final directions respecting the decapitation of the condemned ? But the best of the joke is yet to be told .
" Quid vetat unum ridentem dieerevera . " The Under Sheriff ' s letter to Jack Ketch is ,- ntthis Tery time , pledged at tho White Hart , for 8 s . 5 d-, a debt contracted by Jack Ketch , and which he was ¦ un aWe to discharge . Jack complains sorely of the want of courtesy on the part of tho Under Sheriff , for not having acknowledged a letter written by him from the White Hart , seeking the payment of the composition he agreed to accept I again repeat so positive and peremptory did tho Under Sheriff deem the order for the executioa of Frost , Williams , and Jones , that he had in readiness two executioners , lest one might have disappointed him . Let the public judge between the Globe , its champion , Mr . Under Sheriff Mostyn , and the correspondent of the Homing Herald , and decide who are the persons that deserve to be branded as wilful and convicted violaters of the truth .
( From the Herald of Monday . ) " - As we anticipated , the Globe has refused to publish tho answer of our correspondent to the inculpatory letter of Mr . Under-Sheriff Mostyn . That would be an act of justice which it would be quite romantic to expect of a journal so liberally endowed with the fraudulent and mendacious arts which subserve the purposed of the " shabby" Administration . An Administration which , as one of its notorious ultra-liberal friends admstted , subsists upon the system of " enormous lying , " must have unblushing and unscrupulous tools . In the shameless servility requisite for the due discharge of the unclean duties of such an ofBce , the Globe , though it may have some equals , has no superior .
Whenever a more than ordinarily dirty "job" * is to be done for the Melbourne Ministry in the journalist line , the servile scribe of the Globe plunges into it with an alacrity in the art of unsavoury exertion equal to that of any of the Grub street divers in Fleet-ditc !) , who have been pilloried to fame in the ignominious immortality of the
Dunciad" ¦ With a weight of skull Downward he dives precipitately dull ; No crab more active in the dirty dance Downward to creep or backward to advance . " " Thus , when , npon tho Tery day that th « l judges gave their divided opinion to ( toTernmo ^ t wfon the points reserve *! for their Consideration by thejtoecial < W&ralsalon that tried , &oirt , ? W « ttto 3 ^ l 3 pM , i peremptory order , signeQ Nbrmanby / * a * { juned for ; the execution of the prisoners , and the //« rawjhaving ' obtained a copy of that order , made such remarks upon the indecent precipitancy of such a jgroceeding as the case called for , the Globe was instructed to "He it down . " Accordingly that journal did , with the most unblushing effrontery , deny that any order whatever for the execution of the prisoners had : been issued . ¦ In the teeth of tho order signed Normanby , " which we had published that very morning , the audacious and clumsy fiction of the evening was expected to be believed . '
It required the trne smack of the Popish faith to give creditto the journal of the Popish faction * In this matter . He who could be made to believe tbat tbe peremptory order signed " Nornianby , " was no order at all , could only believe it on the principle that the converts of Peter . In the " Tale of a Tub , " were made to forswear tbe evidence of their own senses , and to believe that a leg of mutton was a dish of fish . They who can swallow the doctrine of transubst&atiation , as Locke says , -can swallow anything ; and so it might be quite possible to persuade such persons that Lord Normanby ' s order to the sheriff to distinctly inform Frost , Will am 8 , and Joneu that the sentence of the law would be
carried into effect on the following Thursday , was only a kind communication to assure them that the sentence was not be carried into effect nt all . Mr . Mostyn , who , besides being a whig-radical , is , we understand , a member of the Romish ehurch , bw a religious right toiftlabelieve tbe evidence of his own senses if he pleases ; but the Protestant understanding is too intractable to believe or disbelieve anything contrary to such evidence . Even Mr . Joseph Hume , who has advanced as far as Kilkenny on the way to Rome , does not profes ^ to believe that black is white ; he on ' y dccHros that ho is ready to vote " black is white" for the purpose ? of faction .
The Globe , having denied that any order went down to Monmonth for the execution of the prisoners , fad having , with the a » sistance of Mr . Mostyn , the Whig-Radical and Romish Under-Sheriff , eharged Ihe Herald with " misrepresentation—malignant and audacious invention—ignorance and falsification , " let us now snra up the documentary evidence which we have adduced as to the execution having been ordered , and the peremptoriness with which it was ordered : — First wo hare a written order of the 2 Sth J of January , the day on which the result of the judifial inquiry was communicated to Government , as follows : — " Whitehall , Jan . 28 . 1810 ..
" Sir , —I am to signify to you tbe Queen ' s command that the execution of the sentence of death passed upon John Frost , Zephaniab Williams , aod William Jones , now in the gaol of Monmouth , be respited till Thursday , the 6 th of February . But the prisoners are to be distinctly informed that tb , e sentence- of the law will then be < arriea f&tfr . « fikfi t ^ , "I a-n , Sir , " " - . v- # \\ " Your most obedient Bervant , ' ¦ ¦ ; " ir 6 KMA ! fBT . -y"PS . —You will acknowledge the receipt hereof Vj return of post . " To the High Sheriff of the county of Monmouth . " Next , we have another peremptory order to the Governor of the Gaol , dated the 29 th ' - of January , for the purposo of making assurance doubly sure , and which ran as follows : — r "Whitehall , Jan . 29 , 1840 .
" S'r , —I am to signify to you the Queen ' s command that the executio n of the sentence of death passed upon John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and Wil liam Jones , be respited until Thursday , the 6 th of February . But the prisoners are to be distinctly informed that the sentence of the law will then be carried into effect .
"To the Governor of the Gaol of the County of Monmoulh . " ' est we have an equally peremptory order , dated the 30 th of January—the day , or the day after thatf on which Mr . Mostyn received Lord Nonnanby * 8 order to the Sheriff , or a duplicate of i t . which he declared to be no * rder at all , but the " usual form of respite , " npon reading which h « was so convinced that tbe sentence of the law was sot to be carried into effect at all tbat be made a journey to London to attend to his own private buolneas , bavtsg nothing at all to do with any question about the beheading and quartering fee , men far whoa be had ordered the gallows to be built aad carried to the gaol—aye , carried ostentatiously to the gaol , mbeeqoeatly te that " usual form of respite " having beem ant dowa fjvm the Home Office , which convinced him there wat to be no execution . " Uik , Jan . SO , IMO .
" Sib , —The execution is ordered to take plate on Thuwday ne ** , to © 6 th Fe * r « ary . and I beg yon will be at the gaol on Monday next < the 3 d ) without-fail , and Mr . Ford ( the governor of the gaol ) will be prepared to expect you . If you do no * arrive that dayl shall send immediately to another persea wb * has applied to do the daty . I endoaeyou a Post-cffioe order for £ 2 as yeu require . Tou will also write aa » hare b y return of post -1 am yoTtrs , Arc ¦ ¦¦ . "Hbhbt Most ** , ffader-Sheriff
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GREAT MEETING AT THE SALFORD TOWN HALL , ( MANCHESTER ) ON THE BEHALF OF FROST , WILLIAMS , AND JONES . On Friday evening last , a numerous meeting of the working classes was convened iu the Town Hall , Salford , for the purpose of considering the propriety of addrtssiug her Majesty , and requesting her to grant a free pardon , to the Welsh patriots now under sentence of transportation for life . Mr . Jauez Bakuowclouqh was unanimously called to the cbair . In opening the proceedings of the meeting the Chairman very briefly stated the object for which they were assembled , and urged the justice and propriety of her Majesty granting a tree pardon to these unfortunate men , by luouy forcible arguments . He tben callud upon Mr . Hodgetts to move the first resolution . ^
Mr . Hodgktts then came forward amid renewed che . 'Hand saitl , —If ever there was an ooccasion on which ail party discord ought to be laid aside , it surely must be now , when we are met to use our best endeavours to restore Joan Frost to his wife and five daughtenk , and to . s&va him and his two fellow political jeflfendsM from a fate woise thairdatb , on ' the sciftMd . ( Cheers . ) But the gentlemen ; tho " manufacturers , the rich men of Salford have deemed it decent to refuse any participation in those deeds of mercy . ( Shame . ) With you then , working men of Salfurd , it rests , aa it always has rested , to go through with your good Work alone and unassisted . On your conduct this evening much depends . I hope and trust that you will not for ono iustaut forget that our sole object here
tonight is to endeavour to savo Frost , Williams , and Jones , and that all violence of language or attempt at Litiunu&tion will only serve to injure our cause . ( Hear , heir . ) Men of Salford , I have met you often beneath this roof , and yet oftener beneath tho broad canopy of heaven , when you have suwembled , to demaud , the redress of grievances , aad to insist upon tho restoration of unjustly withheld rights . ( Cheers . ) From the intrepid bearing that you have displayed on tuose occasions when courage was required , I feel no fear that you will display judgment and caution , now , wlien you know that in the exercise of these qualities alone , you can expect to « erve your friends , now on the eve of transportation , ( Hear , hear . ) Let us then coolly examine what pieis we have to urge to the Queen , why
she should at this time employ htr prerogative oi mercy . First , then , we know that so tenacious is the law that uo man shall be tried f jr the most trivial offence—that not even simple money actions shall be tried in places where excitement prevails , or during times of excitement ; so tenacious is tue law of toia , that ma mere pound * , shillings , and pence trial between Mr . Oastlur and his landlord , the richThornhill , the latter on the plea of the Poor Law excitement in Yorkshire , and of Mr . Oaatler ' a popularity there , actually sob the trial removed to London , and the time postponed , although tuis subjected Mr . Oas » 4 er , who coulJ i ll afford it , to the enormous expenses of conveying his witnesses to Loudon and keeping them there . ( Hoar , hear . ) " Now , then , look at this ease where the
lives of men arein jeopardy ; the trial hurried ou at the earliest possible moment ; the place of trial , the very focus of excitement , and the class from amongst whom the jury had to bj taken in » state of extreme terror , and imagining that their families had had a very narrow escape from massacre , and their properties from plunder and devastation ( dear , hear , heir . ) It was impossible , under ouch circumstances , that a fair trial could be had . ( Hear , hear . ) Let ui nt-xt proceed to the crime with which they were charged ; it was treason , and they were convicted , and are to be pauished for treason or for nothing . We are not met here te approve of or extenuate their acts ; upon the sworn evidence they appear to bare been engaged in a desperate riot , in leading on an
illegal and armed assemblage to commit acts of outrage ; to eo ' . npel the magistrates , by threats , to better treatment of tlic political prisoners confined iu Monuiouth gaol . All this was illegal , for though tbe law permits and even enjoiuB Englishmen to possess arms , tt strictly { urbids . armed assemblages . But here ia ^ tuy treason , and independently of tuis particular ci » e > , it is of the utmost importance Uiat their attempts at . forced ' constructions of treason law should be nipped in tbe bud . ; ( Hear , hear . ) Formerly everything was treason tbat displeased the power * that vere ; words spoken iu jest were construed into treason , but the abuse produced its remedy , for the people were then represented in their own house , and a statute was passed during the reign of Edward IV ., detiaing treason to be overt
acts , aufcuAl . y attempting the flfe of the sovereign , or the overturn of thu Government . ( Hear , hear . ) We aro now rapidly getting back to constructive treason . Thistlewood and his accomplices were tried for high treason , and executed , because they had plotted tho assassination of the King ' a uiinuters . Thu was stretched enough to constititute tho niinisttrs , the Government ; but in Frost ' s case it is infinitely worse ; for herj a riot ,. caused by tbe infamously ill treitmeat in gaol of certain political prisoners , and an attempt to causa an amendment of their condition by force is construed into treason . ( Shame , shame . ) We will next proceed to the Judge ' s charge , which evidently tended to aa acquittal . ( Hear , hear . ) He spent many hours iu carefully weighing every particle of evidence fur and against th » cuarge of treason , and in neariy every instance the treasonable scale was light and kicked the beam . ( Cheers . ) After this charge , a verdict of acquittal , was universally aud confidently
anticipated ; barristers , attorneys , and tho public all oonaurred in the same expectation . But mark what followed ; thia prejudice ^ thia te rrified jury retired , and though they had to weigh all the nice points of evidence that had taken three days to deliver , aud the Judge many boon even to ram up , though they had this weighty , tills intricate , this difficult task to perform , or the due performanoe of which the lives of three creatures depended , they actually returned in twenty minutes , and cat all the Gordion knots of law and of evidence , by % verdict of guilty , with a recommendation to mercy . ( Disapprobation . ) Merry for treason I Mercy for a crime of the deepest dye ! What eould they mean ? Wliy , they meant this : t * These men have terrified us and our families , and we hall bare so peace of mind till they are banished for ever . True , there ia no proof of treason , but it ia treason or adimttal , ! we wish ; we could convict them ef a less © ffence , but the law will not allow us , and we will rather find * them guilty « f » crime they hav « not
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committed , than sst them at liberty . " ( Disapprobation . ) Then oime the salve to the conscience-r-the recora- ' mendattotf io-mercy . » Now if they are hanged , their blood willnot lie at oar door . " Butnow let us proceed to the most important point in our petition for mercy j tne disputed point of law . ( Hear . ) Tlie law has most wisely and humanely fenced around tie man charged with hi ^ h treason , more caiefully lfiau him charged with any crime of a less deep dye . lV has ordered him to be furnished with lists of tbe witnesses against him , with copies of the indictment , and with all other documents that can aid him in making a full and complete defence . ( Hear , hear . ) The limes aud manner of the delivery of these documsnts are prescribed with the most scrupulous exactness , add it is of the utmost
importance to the safety of the subject that th * se forms should be followed to tbe very . letter , fpr , ha sure , if the ietteT be once disregarded , the spirit will soon share the same fate . ( Cheers . ) Well , in Frost ' s case the letter was disregarded , the forma were not followed , and the trial was only suffered to proceed on the understanding that if a majority of the Judges to whom tha point was referred should decide it to be a valid objection , the prisone s should ba plac-diu tue same position as they wouldhave beonuulnotriaitakenplace . a ; all-, forob 3 trve , a decision of the majority of the Judges on a point of law becomes at oneo itself the law of tho land . Well nine out of fifteen Judges did decide that th 3 point was good , that the law had not been complied with , and that tbe trial was an illegal trial . ( Ch ? erA ) Tru- three
01 ttie majority joined tho minority in deciding that the objection was not ur ' ed in time ; but are three men to be banged , or-worse than hanged , transported for life as slaves when the Judges of the land declare that they havo been condemned illegally , merely because they and their lawyers made a mistake as to the time of protesting against the illegality- ( cheers )— and more particularly when six out of the fifteen Judges declare it was no mistake at all , but that they did right . ( Hear , hear . ) Besides all this , it is surely some palliation of their crimo that these men had nothing to gain from disturbance , but all to lose , that no selfish views cou' . d enter into their motives of action . They lisked
property aud life , feeling deeply for the wrongs , sufterings , and miseries of their oppressed fellow-countrymen , and engaged , in a mad enterprise , solely in the hope of redressing those wjpBgB , and putting an end to those auffwings aud miseries . ( C&eers . ) Once again begging you to aba * . ain from all Tiolence of language , to repress your rational feelings of indignation , and I trust I have res raiBed mine , and .-io conduct this discussion with oautio » an 4 > tampejf- , rI » theg ^ O'tnt ( TV- « utt an address to her Majesty be adopted by this meeting , praying her Majesty to grant a free pardon to John Frost , Zephaniab Williams , and William Jones , now under sentence of transportation for life , under a chare of high treason .
Air . Littlek briefly seconded the resolution , which was put to the meeting , and carried amid loud cheers . Mr . R . J . B . Richardson then rose amidst loud cheering and said , after tbe very excellent manner in which Mr . Hodgett bad surveyed this question as a question of law—after the able exposition of the law of high treason , aud also the dmgerous consequences of what is termed constructive treason hud been so eloquently , so ably , and he might say so learnedly discussed by that gentleman , there would bo ho use whatever in entering upon the same course ; but he hoped he might be permitted to take up auother position , and view the question as it now stood in its most popular view . In doing so he should be able more fully to
argue in favour of bis unfortunate countrymen . ( Hear , " hear . ) Since the late lamentable affair at Nowport . and since the arrest of John Frost aud hia companions , the whole of the country , from John O'Groats to the Land ' s end , had been ag . tated : one portion of the people , backed by tbe venality of the press , have been loud in their demands for the blood of thesa men ; auotner portion had bestirred themselves to save tluir lives , not from auy real sympathy that existed towards them , but from a desire to su . ve the country from the eternal disgrace which wou' . d have falkn upon it had the bl od of these men crimsoned the hoadsnum ' s knife . ( Hear , hear . ) Another portion , and by far tbe larger portion ' liad been actuated by laudable and patriotic moavos ; they bad laboured indefatigab y in tbe cause of freedom '
for they had emlcivoured to enervate the strong arm of the law that was raised to crush their pat riot . c countrymen ; they bad legally , peaceably , an ; l honourably stood forth foremost in the prayer for mer . y , and loudtst in their supplications for a free pardon . The labouring classes bad nobly redeemed their high character as Englishmen , for they had utood forth and stretched out their arms to- save their countrymen , who , at the hazard of their lives , ventured to advocate the cause of liberty . ( Cheers . ) Thu present movement was one that must do honour to ihe labouring tlasa . s , for to save the lives of Frost and his companions , even Whigs , Tories , and Radicals merged all tlieir po itcul differences . This uoiun succeeded in staying , and ultimately preventing , the execution taking place : but no sooner
was tbat end obtained , than , all the malevolence of paity burst forth—the union was very sLort lived the middle classes , whom we Lad thougLt had setn their folly iu opposing the labouring classes , and Lad seized the opuortunity ' of joining them iu the cause of suffering hunanit / , by pleading in behalf of Frost and his companions , hare now relaxed their exertions , and all thtir sympathy hrfd vanished ; : ( Hear , hear . ) One fact would prove the oniatks of the patty to Whom he alluded . He ( Mr . R ) haf lately had the . honour of being in London , on a deputation- with the Manchester ahdSalford petition . Whilst there he had conversed with several Members of the House of Commons , upon the case oi Frost and his companions , several of whom exerted themselves very much to save their lives :
but when that was done , all their sympithy vanished , and the oracle of the middle classes—the liberal and enlightened patriot , Daniel O'Connell , that apostle of peace , love , and charity , declared "he would do no more for them ; their lives had been saved , aud he thought they hid got off very woll . " ( Shamo , sham \) Thin fact shewed the labouring classes that if a free pardon was to be obtained it must be done by their exertions alone . ( Cheers . ) Thty atone must save Frost and Lis fellow-sufferers from tho horrors of transportation—they alone must assert their right to uphold tUe very letter of the law , which declares that the prisoners havo not been tried in legal form . ( Hear , bear . ) The people must now inquire whether the Government have a right to take upon themselves that which is
not the law—namely , that of substituting a punishment which the law never contemplated , 'and therefore cannot allow . ( Hear , hear . ) Tue people , whose duty it is upun all occasions to uphold the law , must now stand firmly by the law , and strenuously m tintain that Frost ami bis companionscanuot legally Lc transported beyond the seas . ( Hear , hear . ) Iu firm an I respectful lauguage let their protest ; be rccordcl against the act of transportation . tCueers ) Approach the throne in a becoming manner , and tell the Queen , in thu language of Sir William Blackstone , " tbat no power oa earth , except tbe authority of Parliament , can tend any subject out oi the land against his will : no , not even , a criminal—for exile and transportation ore punishments uuknown to the
common law ; and whenever the latter is now inflicted , it \ i either by the choice of the criminal himself , to © scape capital punishment , or else by tue expross direction of some modern statute . ( Cheers . ) So eyeful is tbo law in allowing any infringement upou the liberty of the subject , tbat tbe Habeas Cprpus Act d clar , s , in the strongest language , tbat no Briti- > h subject shall be ssnt beyond the seas under any pretence whatever . Not only does this great bulwark of British liberty declare tuat , but it makes all persons concerned in effecting the transportation of a British subject , guilty of a prcenmnire , and a jury in such cases is bound to assess not less than £ 500 damages ! ( Cheers . ) The common law declares that no subject shall loive U 16 realm ; aud the King may issue his writ ne exent regnti ' ui to st > p them .
( CUoers . ) Surely in a land where » u < 5 h care is professedly taken of the liberty of the subject , transpott . uion cannot bo constitutional or legal . They had never beard of transportation until the laud was cursed with a set of philosophers who have mendaciously promulgated tbe doctrine thai the people are " too thick upon tha sod . " ( Hear , hear . ) Siuce then , so eager hav « these scamps been to fend people abroad , in defiance of the common , law—ia defiancu of tbe Habeas Corpus Act —in defiance ' df the itiug ' a ' prerogative of issuing writs to prevent it—they have been so eag ; r to clear tuts Jani of its * ' surplus population" ( as the Economists call it ) , that they have made laws ia Parliament to transport men even for stealing an apple , a wild rab >> it , or a partridge ' s ne « t ( Shame , shame . ) The Parliaments
may decree the banishment of any individual ; but it cannot delegate the power of banishing or transporting to any man or set of men whttover . The Habses Corpus Act allows them to do it , by an Act , at the same time , it does not allow the Queeu to do bo . The 14 th section of tho Act allowg the prisoner convicted of felony to pray in open Court that he may be transporto . l instead of suffering capital puni » lniieut . This , also , ia the opinion of Blacks '< o « o ! But how stands Shis question regarding Frost ? The Queen has granted parJon , a conditional pardon , which she may do by law ; she has named htr conditions , "That John Frost , Zephaniali Williams , aud William Jones be pardoned on condition that they be transported for life . " Hera is simply a conditional pardon offered to them , which
they may , if they please , trample under foot or scatter to the winds , exclaiming "We despise mercy oa auch terms , lead us to the scaffold ; " or , they may bo thankful for the boon ; but was their opinion asked ? No ! Did the Queen , on the one hand , and the prisoners upon the other , agree to these conditions ? No ! John Frost has declare * he would rather die at once and submit to all the rigour of his cruel and barbarous sentence , than he would be condemned to a life of torture and transportation . ( Cheera . ) Where then is the mercy ? Wai it ia holding tue prisoners in awful suspense ? Was it in sending down Inspector May , a hired policeman , to steal them away in tbe dead hour of the
night without the Sheriffs consent , and without any warning whatever , inarched them doW » to Cheputow , guarded by a troop of bone ' , without telling them wby and wherefore , or whither they were going f Wee that mercy , he tasked , to drag them away from their prison cells , with the condemned irons upon their legs , without notice ; ' not even allowed to take a last farewell of their wives and families ? ( Cheers . ) Oh , no ! it was tortore , tha most harrowing—the most afflicting . ( Hear , hear . ) What followed ? They wert > put on board a steamer , sailed from Bristol Channel on their voyage to Portemonth , where the Ke «( , ' convict ship , lay , to convey them immediately to a Penal Settlement . ( Shane . But tfce heavena fought . agata $ IJii j deed !
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( Rear , bear . ) For two , day » : they wera bu « etted a $ & by the adverse elements—they sailed again- —Stoln we » they lashed about in the Buy of nfracombe , ' % e * tti % elements contending agaimt them , marking- th »^ ft | . pleasure of an offended God at such cruel tre ^ neahf ( loud cheering )—being inflicted upon thei » . _ VNo hmma law , save Whig law ; could warrant ,. Wh atroCflfe ( Cheers . ) No human reason ean be-i * " with such ; iafc ciless conduct Let the people remember , how ; t& » Dorchester labourers were .-kidnapped awajjhow the Glasgow Cotton Spinners were put onboaid a ship at Leith , and sent © IF to the riulks ^ thoufii moment to take leave of their families . Let the people remember that by a constant vigorous agitation , « ft-CroTermnent were compelled to bring back the D ^ Chester labourers . Then agitate agitate !! agitate ! ' 4 until the voice of tho nation penetrates ttfe Boval eaV
aemauomg that these their unfortunate ifontryinen' f * restorol to their homes and their families ; " TeaeeiiJ BJr . Hodgetts bad said let us not demand anythM * r b ir % !" fli Woiail / f * ith him " »« ^ maDdedfflrsi . the fulfilment of the law-xcheersi-second , the beneSt of tue doubts expressed by the Judges / which by » W must a-qmt tha prisoners . ( Cheers ,, Thirf-lSrt they bo not banished at all without their coaseaiL ( Cheers . ) Fourth , that the people shall determmelhS tho Government shall not be stronger than * the * laV * tiu that the strength of tbe law shall be maintained totta Tery letter . ( Cheers . ) Thia was most necessary Ut we were fast approaching to that period when th *
uoercy ot me subject will be left to tbe mercy ofa hired spy whose word wo ^ ld be . law . We weiefast approaching that period when the common law of th « land would no longer avail the subject wnen the-boofc of the Constitution would become a dead letter ; . when the lives , liberties , and property of the subject would be at the ipse dixitot a Stipendiary Magisttftte appointed from the ranks of political , partisans ' by the powew that be . ( Hear , bear . ) : To these we mnst . come at la * nnless the people cling to tbe last remnant of the Constitution as their sheet anchor , and tenaciously hold Tastto the ancient common law of the land . ( Hea * hear . ) Abandon that , and they will be without hoperjoin the ruthless band of Whig innovators and liberty . will forever perish , slavery the most abject , degrading and pitiful , will be the lot of Englj » h « iien , aM despotismw ^ ll s talk triumphant pYer the " r ^ ns ^ f-thTonci mighty people of Edvladd .:, ( Lo'ii cBfiaki' TKr ^ ii
then abtered into aaaccomit of hia missfian ^ feSeitdifr detailed his interview with the Marquis of Vormanbji and alss Triif Interview * $ th t £ e Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and concluded amlds 64 oud cheera bymovin 5 ^ address . \ ' ¦ - -.- ¦ , 5 ~ ,.. * r ^" Mr . Thomas Beli , in seconding the adoption , of t |« petition , said it w « uld ill become him ,. after thVabV speech of Mr . Richardson ¦; to occupy the iame' ^ tf t !» meeting , but being » working ' man * -ami lrnnwmg ^ h ^ Mr . Frost had got into this dilemma by doing , hia utmost to assist him and such as him to regain tKelrion * lost rights , he did think that he was doing right' « £ trying to get him pardoned . ( Hear , bear !) .. - - -4 Mr . Edward NightingaMs had had the honqfurof accompanying Mr . Richardson from Manchester , ' with the petition agreed upon at the largest meeting erer
assembled in one building at one time in any tjitV of this Kingdom . ( Loud cheera . ) His object lit consenting to take that petit on was to try If he / could not pre % h » it from sharing the -fate of' jnany -other - petitions , aijd that it might reach its destination . It was true , as Mg . Richardson bad told them , that the Marquis of Normanby was the first Marquis that he ever had the honour of speiking 4 o , and it was his desire to see , though frustrated in the attempt , if a plain and humble citirea like himself could not extract something even from * a Marquis . ( Applause and laughter . ) With this View he bad entered into a minute detail before tbe Marquk of the feelings of the people on the question—thte question of such vast importance to them , and of the !* determinat ' on never to ce we agitating for their righJe but at the same time to agitate peaceably . His Lordshh » said-he was very glad to hear that , but beyond this
observation he eould extract no answer save a very courtly bow . ( Hear ,, hear , hear , and much lauglitejd ) To-night , Mr . Nightingale continued , they meet uu * r very different circumstances to those under which b * last addressed them . Frost / WjUiams , and Jones we ?» all at that time on the brink of tbe ^ grave , and be must say that he differed in somei degree * hhi . this point from Mr . Richardson , who said tliat nothing had been gained . He ( Mr . Nightingale ) thought that the-m& « a power of the people had gained an object ihnaving thesa men from the gallows . ( Hear , bear . ) The pe « pl » ia his opinion had shewn their moral strength ^ auil h *
thought it was not for them now to question tie truth of the saying— "that while there is life there isTiope " —( cheers)—and he augured from the result ef this-display of their power , that tbe time- was not far distant when it would predominate even ia the legislatttrt itself . ( Applause . ) The people -of Manchester / aid Salford had nobly done their duty , and if they we » but as firmly united to obtain the points of their pdlfc tical creed , the people of Great Britain would not muck longer remain unrepresented . ( Applause . ) Afterthanking the meeting for the patience with which they had listened to him , Mr . Nightingale resumed his seal amidst loud cheers .
. The motion was then put and canted . ; -. Mr . Ge . vdall briefly moved" Tbat tbo Memorial be presented to the Queen by Lord Stanhope . " ' :, ¦ ¦ .. ¦¦ > .-.. ..,. Mr , Willis seconded the resolution , and It w * # unanimously adopted . . . Thanks were then voted to , Mr . Barrowclough for bis able conduct in the chair , and the meeting was abeut to separate , when The Rev . W . V . Jackson was loudly called for , and addressed tbe meeting at some length . Three cheers were then given for Frost and his aM ) . dates , and this concluded the proceedings . . . ~
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Drath op Mr . David JoUkS , of Llakox ;—Tbe > above unfortunate victim of ecclesiastical tyranny is now no more ; though followed to the verge of tilt grave by the harpies of th » Church , Providence htt interposed to deliver him from further snffering . yll v will be in the recollection of our readers , that tai » poor man , who was a Disseuter , was cited in . tUr Ecclesiastical Court of the Diocese of St . David's , about two years ago , npon certain ridiculous allegations of neglect of duty in the discharge ot his officw a 3 Churchwarden ; and that eventually a bill of cost * was worked up against him amounting to . abtfol £ 40 , which , he being unable to discharge , a writ was put into the hands of the Sheriff , and he jfr « consigned to one of the loathsome dungeons of Ajj
County Gaol , where he remained a prisoner for ft period of seven montli 9 . Ho waa liberated from prison in June last , in consequence of a success / ol application to the Court of Queen ' s Bench fbrhk , discharge , on the ground of aa informality in th * writ of SignificaTit , agreeably to the judgment * given by Lord Denmaa . in delivering judgment , on the 22 cd of June , Lord Denman Baid the Court was disposed to think that they had not the power to set-aside a writ issued by the Court of Chancery , but they could , at all events , order the discharge " of the defendant out of custody , and they would say that he should have his costs , provided he agreed not to bring an action , The prisoner declined taking his coats , reserving his right of action against th »
prosecutor for the false imprisonment . Underfb * advice of his frieud , however , he did not prosecut * the action lor damages , to which he was clearly entitled , believiut that no further attempt wouldAii , made te deprive him of his liberty , or to disturb hil . peace . Every right-minded person will participate in the surprise of poor Janes upon receiving , a feW ( days since , a communication from Mr . J , Williams * attorney , of thia town , the official proctor wh « , conduoted this crediubis prosecution oa behalf of his client , the Rev . Ebenezer Morris , Vi car of Llanelly and Llaaon . That communication intimated that the proctor had another writ to imprisoa Mr . Jones ; and ou receiving the information he left his home on Saturday , under great excitement and
distress of mind . Whea wnhiua uiile ofapiac * called Crosseinon , on the Swansea iioad , he wa * attacked with a dangerovw " disorder , and conveyed to a private boose ia .-tllS neighbourhood , and , attar i sTiffisrtttg- ^ he most e'ilf ^ tie agovj , exprad on Mqtt- ~ day morning , leaving a disconsolate widowjafi * i-everal adult children to lament his death . Wff art uot informed whether the Rev . Vicar was a < Jh * bedside of hid dying parishioner , administering th * last consolations of that religion which incucatef peace , charity , and good-will towards all men . — Welsh Paper . S-rnANGB Disappevkauce op Five Bots * ro *> Reading . —On Friday morning , a boy named Lun-1 uer , whose parents ate labouring people , residing at J 3 , Eldon-place , in this town , was sent by bis mother j with some clothes which she had mangled . He ( heft 4 fell into the company of four o ^ her boys , and they . < went as far aa Bulmarah-heath , whore they were see » ^ playiog ; and between fire and six o ' clock the boy Luuner was seen near the Marquis of Granbjt about a quarter of a mile from his home , sum *
which perioduQthing whatever " has been heard ** his fate . He was a very pale child , about ejght years of age , his hair of a very red colour ; his dr «« consisted of a cap , a dirty briwra frock , aad greett striped trousers . Any information respecting huft will be thankfully received by hispareuta , who * i ^ as may be well imagined , m the most distress * state of mind at their loan . We do not know , pt names of the other boys ' parents , but we andeTBtaiMt one of them is a shopkeeper in the Kiog's-rwA They were missed about the same time , or within * day or two . We have since learned that oneof-tM boya sold water-creases in the streets ; .-the othait . are from eight to twelve years of age ; and the wry singular dwappearanoe of several at the same tun has given rise to the horrible suspicions and report that they have , beea"burked , " Ac . At presea » tb # case ia involved in great mystery , bnt the police a ? t endeavouring to aueever . some traces of the ^ lasf children . —BerkMr * Chronicle .
StbahsBoat Accident . —Ob Sunday mona * betweeiv eight and nine o ' clock , the Lively steaft ^ boat , passing down th ? Pool , on account of the deW fog , tan foul of a large boat with six men in it ) ** longing to Woolwich , and overset her . The OrfV were immersed in tho river ,, and four of f Q «' H' ** ; ceeded in saving their lives by hanging to the bojWP of , her , and were safely got on board ti » e ** eai « £ i the other twojrere unfortuna * f ^• "' ¦ V 'Kbtw&P * was purely accidental . f
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"P . S . Sinoe writing , the foregoing letter I have thought it more advisable to send you only one sovereign . instead of two , ia order that I may enraro your keep ! ing steady , and being at Monmouth punctually . ' "Mr . Thomas Taylor , " Back Lane , " Near the Hole-in-the-wall , " Stourbridge , ¦ * " "Worcestershire . " Besides ' the attack made upon our correspondent ^ Mr . Mostyn , in offensive terms , charged th « Herald with mis-statements and misrepresentations of fact * relative to the convicts Frost , Williams , and Jones , '' which he did not venture to particulariss , and which we challenge him to specify . In the meantimejlefc m say a few words as to tho documentary evidence d ' t peremptory order , or no peremptory order , which we ; have placed under the reader ' s eya . ,- " ' ' „
Mr . Mostyn , according to bis own statement ; npon reading the words of Lord Nonnanby , that . the pri , soners were distinctly to be informed tbat on rtie Thursday following the sentence of the law wasuta . be carritd into effect , was convinced that the liveasof the prisoners were to be spared , and tbat he now got leisure to attend to his private business . In fact , he reads Lord Normanby ' s order as if the word not had been inserted before the words "to ba carried Into effect . " Being now satisfied that no execution was to take place , inasmuch aa the order to the prisoners to prepare for ine vitable death was only the " usual form of ivepite , "he sltsdown and writes a lett . r to the hangman ; which begins with tho worJs , "Tho execution is ordered . " Now , according to Mr . Mostyn ' s mode of construing public documents , we must read these words thus-
—THE EXECUTION IS NOT ORDERED . The hangman , as a legal functionary , not unacquainted with the ordinary style of otfieial communications , was bound to read Mr . Mostyn ' s letter in the same way that Mr . Mostyn assures us he read Lord Normanby ' 8 ; and , as the uuder-sheriff , on reading tbe latter , saw that no execution was to take place , so the hangman , in raiding the former , must have seen that no . execution waa ordered . Tho hangman , ' also , iau ^ tjjng the words , " 1 bsg you will be at the gaol on Monday next'without fail , and Mr . Ford will be prepared to expect you , " must have seen it only meaot exactly the opposite , of what was said , as if written thua— ' I beg you will not be ut the gaol en MonaayTSBX ^ -aee . "Mr . Ford , will jwtJbe prepared t » expect you . "
Mr . Moatyn wrote to the hangman to come to Monmouth because he believed bis services would not be required in enabling the Whig-agitators to get tid of some of their troublesome Chartist friends ; and tho hangman came to Monmouth with his son , to act as headsman , because ho knew bis services would not be Wanted . For the same reson the gallows waa set up at the gaol , after the usual form of respite had come down . And tho keeping back one sovereign « f his pay , to make the hangman punctual aud steady in his attendance , was precisely for" the same reason—namely , that it was known he would not be wanted at nil . For exactly the same reason , a second hangman was in rtadinoss , if the " reg ' lar operator" had failed to
come . If the hangman , either suffering from the poverty of the times , or the penury of the shabby Administration , had not pledged the letter of the Under Sheriff for eight and sixpence , wo should not have known that such a letter had ever been written , for Mr . Mostyn did not let us into the secret that he had written a letter on the 30 th of January , in winch he bimself says , " the execution is ordered , " and in which he says to the hangman , " I am yours , " &c . And no doubt , our friend of tha Globe , that used to engage us in many a controversy formerly , on account of its pertinacious admiration of tbe banging system , Bays " oitto" to Mr . Mostyn .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 22, 1840, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2672/page/6/
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