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EXECUTION OF EMMANUEL BARTHEIiEMY. Emman...
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CONINGHAM v. URQUHART. A qoabeel between...
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MELBOURNE. The people of this colony are...
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Execution Of Emmanuel Bartheiiemy. Emman...
EXECUTION OF EMMANUEL BARTHEIiEMY . Emmanuel Bartotxemt , the murderer of Mr . George Moore and Mr . Charles Collaid , died on the scaffold on Monday morning In front of Newgate , m which prison he had been confined since the sentence of death -was passed upon him . On the day after theseriterice was passed , the Bev . J . E . Pavis , the ordinary of Newgate , visited Barthelemy in his cell , for the purpose of offering his services . In the course of this visit , Mr . Davis prepared the prisoner for his fate byinforming ' 'hint , that although the jury had recommended him to mercy , he should not allow his hopes to be excited . :
Barthelemy denied again and again the existence of a First Cause . Being" pressed upon this point by Mr . Sheriff Crosley , he exclaimed , " Well , well , if there is a Godi I hope he speaks French . " He added that he would soon know the great Secret if there were any , but he did not believe in anything of the sort . Being urged to penitence and prayer , he said , "If I pray , it will not open the prison door , nor break the rope ^" On Sunday morning , Mr . Sheriff Crosley again saw him , and again deemed it . his" duty to speak to him on religious matters . The sheriff said : " Now , take my advice ; you have but a short time to live , and while you have that time to live , try and make your peace with God . " Barthelemy replied , " I am no beHever ; I
understand geometry and the sciences , but I don t understand faith . " He" asserted that there were a vast number of men as bad as he , and their crimes went unpunished . He particularly mentioned the Emperor Napoleon , who , he said ^ had committed more daring and more violent acts than he , and that while the Emperor was now receiving the acclamations of Europe , he was sentenced to death ofc the gallows . The only time Barthelemy was seen to exhibit any strong emotion was during this interview . The sheriff said , " You have a father , a good man , I understand ; is he a disbeliever ?" He said , "No ; " and Mr . Sheriff Crosley then asked , "Why do you not follow his good example ? " Barthelemy went towards the fire , gazed ; upon it intently
for a moment , and burst into a flood of tears . He was spoken to on the sin he had committed . Barthelemy passionately exclaimed , " I have committed no sin . I have done a wrong , perhaps , but no sin . " Undaunted by the failure of his good intentions , Mr ^ Sheriff Crosley again entreated him to ask forgiveness of God , but the answer lie received" was , * ' I don't want the forgiveness of ( Sod . I want the forgiveness of man , that I might be able to walk out of these doors . " Mr . Sheriff Crosley then asked hinr if there was anything he could do for him , and Barthelemy expressed a wish to have Tara- " dise Lost" in French . After tot immense deal of trouble , the Sheriff succeeded in obtaining a copy of this work , and
it wps read with great attention by the prisoner every day . On the Monday morning he was asked if he had made any confession or statement to Mr . Herring , his solicitor . He replied that he had made none , but the only person who knew could tell if he pleased .. . He asked that his clothes might not be given , as requested j to Mr . Herring , as he fancied they were wanted for Madame Tussaud . This was promised . He refused all religious counsel , but said he ^ wished , thsthe ' . h ^ faHb , aj » itj ^ ould be a consolation to him . He also asked permission to hold a paper in his hand at his execution , which paper was found to be a letter frpm' a French" * girl exhorting him to * repentance . He died without a struggle .
The motives which prompted Barthelemy to the commission of the murder are still involved in mystery . There has been no confession beyond a statement which he volunteered to Mr : Davis , that the young woman who accompanied him to Mr . Moore ' s , house was the illegitimate daughter of a Catholic priest , who was to receive money from Mr . Moore . ( Some political subjects connected with the French Government were mentioned in connexion with this money . ) He denied that he took the formidable weapon found in Mr . Moore's back parlour with him to the house , and asserted that it was used by Mr . Moore for business purposes . Mbr . Davis reports of him that he was the hardest criminal with whom he ever had to deal-Various cases of picking pockets occurred in the crowd .
In a letter to the Times , the Abbe * Roux contradicts tho statement ascribed to Barthelemy , that the Abbe " " had too much " good taste to trouble him on the subject of religion . " The Abbe" sayfl , that for his first three visits he had not , tduched upon religion for fear of a repulse , but since the fourth it had been the subject of continual discussion . On-Sunday evening ho had conversed with the prisoner on eternal punishment . At six o ' clock on the morning of tho execution , at the time he was said by the newspapers to bo fast asleep , ho had written tho following letter to tho Abbd : —
? ' Dear Monsieur l'Abbe , —Before it ceases to beat , my heart is anxious to testify to you all its gratitude for the affectionate care which you have no evangelically lavished on me during my last days . If my conversion had been possible , you would have converted . me ; but , as I have told you before , I believe in nothing . Believe me , my unbelief is not the result of pride and obstinacy : I have sincerely done my best , with the help of your counsels : unhappily , faith has not come , and tho moment is near . ... In two hours I shall know tho secret of death . If I have been mistaken , and if tho futuro that
awaits me proves you to be in the right , in spite of the judgment of men , X do not dread to appear before our God , whOj in his infinite pity , will be ready to pardon my sins in this world . Tes , 1 would desire to share your belief , for I can understand how those who take refuge in religious faith , find in the hour of death strength in the hope of another life , whilst I—who believe in nothing but chemical annihilation- ^! am obliged in this supreme moment to draw my strength from the reasonings , perhaps false , of philosophy , and in the courage of a man . " Once more thanks ! and adieu . ¦ ¦ •' . - ¦ " E . Barthelemy . " Newgate , 22 nd January , 1855 . Six . o ' clock in the morning . " P . S . I beg you to express my gratitude to Mr . Clifford . "
The Abbd adds , that poor Barthelemy was mistaken ; that he did not die an unbeliever : he had charged the Abbe" to declare that he pardoned all his enemies , and begged the Abbd to remain by his side until he had ceased to live . "He said , as he left me , with an accent I shall never forget , ' Pray , pray , pray ! ' I did pray with a full heart , and I trust that the man who declared that he was born a Catholic , and that he desired to die a Catholic , may have received at his last moment one of those ineffable gifts of repentance which purify a soul , and open to it the gates of eternal life . "
Coningham V. Urquhart. A Qoabeel Between...
CONINGHAM v . URQUHART . A qoabeel between Mr . W . Coningham and Mr . D . Urquhart came out before the Brighton magistrates on Saturday . It appeared that Mr . Coningham had lent Mr . Urquhart 20 / ., which was considered by Mr . Urquhart as a kind of political contribution , but by Mr . Coningham as a personal loan . The difference led to some angry letters , and a warrant for the arrest of Mr . Urquhart and his friend Mr . Holland has been issued . The following is Mr . Coningham ' s deposition : — " BOKOUGH OF BRIGHTON " , IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX ,
TO WIT . " The information and complaint of William Coningham , of the borough of Brighton , in the said county , Esq ., taken this 20 th day of January , in the year of our Lord , 1855 , before the undersigned , one of her Majesty ' s Justices of the Peace in and for the borough of Brighton , in the said county of Sussex , who saitb . that late in the month of February or early in March , 1854 , David Urquhart , of No . 9 , Bennett-street , St . James ' s , in the city of Westminster , Esq ., who was then occupied in organising a movement in favour of Turkey , called upon me and expressed himself solicitous of my co-operation ; and after various meetings at the Clarendon Hotel , in Bond-street , London , the hotel where the . said David Urquhart was staying , and elsewhere , an association was formed , under the title of the ' Association for the Protection of Turkey and other Countries from Partition : '
" That Stewart Erskine Holland , of Worthing , in the said county of Sussex , Esq ., became the chairman of the association , and I accepted the office of treasurer to itf ' ari d ~ a working' secretary ,-who-received a-weekly stipend of two guineas , was the only paid member of the association . The association was governed by a committee of some eighteen or twenty members . As treasurer , I received the subscriptions , which ( including my own for 25 ? . ) amounted to about 117 ? ., and were expended in defraying the cost of public meetings , and the ordinary attendant expenses of printing , stationery , & c . ¦ '
" The said Stewart Erskine Holland was at this time introduced to me by the said David Urquhart , and acted as his confidential friend and adviser . That early in the progress of the movement , the said Stewart Erskine Holland spoke to me , privately , of tho possibility of raising a fund for the relief of the said David Urquhart ' s pecuniary necessities , to which proposal I gave a decided refusal , saying that I should withdraw if such a plan were adopted ; and I then stated to tho said Stewart Erskino Holland that I objected , on
principle , to the employment of paid agitators , and that each member of the association must defray his own expenses . That the said David Urquhart afterwards spoke to mo of his pecuniary difficulties , but I declined to enter into the question with him ; but tho subject was never brought before the committee or association , and he afterwards gave me to understand that tho necessity for his immediate retirement from London no longer existed , as his difficulties had been temporarily arranged , but he did not inform mo by whom , or in what way .
" It was shortly afterwards decided to hold a public meeting at Stafford , and tho Buid David Urquhart and myself wero invited to attend At tho meeting , and I agreed to call at the Clarendon Hotel for the said David Urquhart on my way to tho railway station . That I wont there according to provioua arrangement , early on tho morning of the 10 th April , 1854 . I found the said David Urquhart in his room , walking up and down in a stnto of considerable perturbation , and , after some hesitation , he told nio tho , t ho ' could not leave , unless he had a score of pounds . ' I replied to him ' that I was sorry for it , as I feared we could not go to Stafford , but
after some further discussion , and my expressing to him my reluctance generally to lend money , I unwillingly consented to lend him 20 ? ., and I then drew in his room the cheque ( now produced ) for that amount on my bankers , Messrs . Hoare , and of which the following is a copy : — " « London , 10 th April , 1854 . " ' Messrs . Hoare—Pay to D . Urquhart , Esq ., or Bearer , Twenty Pounds . "• « WnxiAM Coningham . - "' 207 . 0 s . 0 d . '
"That the said Stewart Erskine Holland was not present when the said David Urquhart applied to me for the said loan of 20 ? ., nor any other person , and I believe he was then out of London , as on our going to Stafford , which we did on that day , he joined us there , from , I believe , Manchester , or some other place in the county . " That after the cheque was drawn , and given to the said David Urquhart , he rang the bell , and the clerk of the hotel took the cheque , and gave the said David Urquhart the change , after having deducted the amount of his bill .
" The said clerk I believe is since dead , but I have seen an entry in the hotel books of the Clarendon , of which the following is a copy :- — "' David Urquhart , Esq . ( contained in cheque for 20 ? . ) , 5 ? . 2 s ; ' and which I have been informed , and believe is , in the handwriting of the said clerk . " That when the said David Urquhart applied to me for the said loan to pay his personal expenses , as I understood , and was in my presence in part so used , not one word was said by him that it was for any public object whatever , nor was there anything which then transpired to lead me to infer that he so considered it .
" That the conduct of the said David Urquhart at the election for the city of London induced me subsequently to throw up the office of Treasurer to the association , and on my doing so there was a small balance of 2 ? . or 3 ? . due to me , which I left to be placed to the credit of the association . That from that time I have had no intercourse whatever with the said David Urquhart on political subjects , and I have seen him but once , when he called , with a common acquaintance , about the month of July or August , at my house in Kemp Town . ' At this stage of the matter various letters passed , including one from Messrs . Westmacott , Mr . Urquhart ' s solicitors , enclosing the 20 ? . The deposition continues— _ — -
" That Until I received the said letter from the said Messrs . Westmacott , Blake , and Blake , I had no reason to believe that the said David Urquhart considered joy loan to him of 20 ? . was for any public object , or was otherwise than a personal loan to him for but personal expenses , which , at the time it was lent , he was unable to pay i and my said letter to the said Messrs Westmacott , Blake , and Blake , was written to show the absurdity of the attempt to convert that loan into a donation for a public object . " The deposition affirms ( at a meeting ) —
" That the said Stewart Erskine Holland , after some conversation , said , ' Then you have nothing to retract ?' I replied that I had nothing to retract , —I had ^ stated nothing but what was true ; and as he was leaving the room , I said I had no account to render , and I begged him to takenoteof the observation . " - —— . Some very violent correspondence then ensued on the part of Mr . Urquhart and his friend , evidently pointing at a hostile meeting . The deposition concludes" That I believe the intention of the said Stewart Erskine Holland and the said David Urquhart , in writing and sending the letters aforesaid , is to commit a breach of tho peace , and to provoke me to fight a duel with ono or both of them .
" And I apprehend that the said Stewart Erskine Holland and David Urquhart intend to do me some bodily injury , and I pray that tho said Stewart Erskine Holland and David Urquhart may respectively be required to find sureties to keep the peace towards me . Sworn before me at Brigh- ¦) "JOHN FAWOETT , ton , in tho County of Sussex , \ Justice of tho Peace of this 20 th day 4 > t January , f tho Borough of Brigh-1855 . J ton . ( Signed ) " William Coninghtam .
Melbourne. The People Of This Colony Are...
MELBOURNE . The people of this colony are very naturally desirous , to use , their own words , that " tho convict element of their population should be blotted out as speedily ns possible . " They therefore , in a petition to tho Queen from the Legislature , pray Her Majesty " that tho conditional pardons now hold by many of tho former prisoners of tho Crown inhabiting these colonieS bo deemed and taken to be full and unconditional pardons . I . mat Her Majesty " will bo pleased to grant hor gracious pardon , without any condition , to all those now holding indulgence who may bo recommended by the local Uo-VC Thore aro now about 18 , 000 convicts in Van Diemen ' a Land : of those 10 , 000 will bo entitled to conditional pardons in tho course of two years . If the prayer be frrantcVl . it would have tho effect of liberating the 10 , 000 at onco , and of abolishing tho conditional pardons . There scorns some probability that tho homo Governmont will advise tho Queen to adopt tho suggestion of
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/9/
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