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No. 1.-Hanging of English La- bourers, at Kent and Essex; Treatment of the Labourers.- Chelmsford Sessions.-Bloody- minded.-Confession of Goodman; Cobbett's Lectures.-To the La- bourers of England; on the mea. sures which ought to be adopted with regard to Church Property. -W. Collett, Vicar of Surlingham, Norfolk.-Preston Election.-The Ballot. The Prayer.-Trevor and Potatoes. General Fast. - Ire- land; Letter of Mr. O'Connell to the Trades of Dublin-Foreign
Affairs; France.-Tithes.
Evils.-France.-Reform, and the intrigues at Court-Meetings in Lincolnshire, and Worcestershire. -Parson's and Tithes.-Parson and Parsons Wife.-Tithes.- Bourbons and City Guttlers.- Parliament: Tithes; the Middle- sex Petition; Trevor; Straw being moved.
No. 7.-Belgium.-Wiltshire Benett. -France; Letter from Mr. W. Cobbett.-No. 3. History of George IV. To the Labourers of Wilt- shire. The Fires.-Labourers' Wages. Hunt. - Marquis
Blandford and his Parsons.-Par-
liament: Tithes.
mentary Privilege; Breach of
Privilege.-Reform Bill; to the Readers of the Register.-Majo- rity and Minority on the Second Reading of the Reform Bill.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1ST, 1831.
HANGING OF ENGLISH LABOURERS. I SHALL, under this head, put upon re- cord the hangings that are now going on. I shall not, except in the way of explana- tion, make any remark, or state any fact, from myself, and shall not venture on the insertion of any private, or written com- munication; but shall put on record merely what I find in the public papers. The trials are taking place by SPECIAL COMMISSIONS; and a Proclamation was issued before the trials began, offer- ing a reward of a hundred pounds to any one who should cause any one to be convicted of some of the acts of violence; and FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS in the case of SETTING FIRE. But the best way is to insert the Proclamation itself.
fires), in case the person making such discovery shall be liable to be prosecuted for the same.
And the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury are hereby required to make payment accordingly of the said re wards.
Given at our Court at St. James's, this twenty-third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the first year of our reign. God save the King..
Here, in the case of the setting fire, is a freehold estate worth twenty-five pounds a year; or, an annuity for life of about forty- five pounds a-year, though the informer be be from forty to fifty years of age, here is only twenty-one years of age; and, if he the worth of an annuity of a hundred pounds Chelmsford, in Essex. a year for life. The hanging began at
AT CHELMSFORD, FRIDAY, CHRISTMAS EVE. JAMES EWEN, a young man, having a wife and two small children.
On Friday James Ewen, convicted of arson, and Thos. Bateman, for highway robbery, accompanied with cir- cumstances of savage barbarity, underwent the extreme penalty of the law in front of Springfield Gaol. Ewen, it will be recollected, had been found guilty of setting tire to the barn and stack of Mr. Sach, farmer, at Rayleigh. The circumstantial evidence to connect him with the fact was very slight, but the principal witness, a man named Richardson, who had been imprisoned as an accessary to the crime, swore that the prisoner had, unsolicited, told him at the same time to join him in firing another stack him, after the fire, that he was the perpetrator, and urged belonging to Mr. Blewett, the next evening. Richardson WILLIAM R-Whereas great multitudes of lawless and stances subsequently transpiring to cast suspicion upon was known to be a notoriously bad character, and circum- disorderly persons have, for some time past, assembled his evidence, the most strenuous exertions were made, by themselves together in a riotous and tumultuous manner, a number of the most respectable_inhabitants, to save in the Counties of Wilts, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Ewen's life, but without success. Ewen protested his in- and Berks; and for the purposes of compelling their em-nocence, in the most earnest manner, up to the last mo- ployers to comply with certain regulations prescribed by ment, though he freely confessed that in his life he had themselves, with respect to wages, have had recourse to been guilty of many offences. His wife and two children measures of force and violence, and have actually com- took their farewell of the unfortunate man a few days mitted various acts of outrage in different parts of the previous, and his brother was admitted to him on the counties above-mentioned, whereby the property of many morning of his execution. No commiseration was excited of our good subjects has, in several instances, been wholly for Bateman, who had robbed and cruelly ill-used an destroyed, and their lives and properties are still greatly old man, upwards of 70, by stamping his head into a ditch, endangered: inches in the mud. About nine o'clock, after leaving the and crushing his ear off which was found buried six chapel, the culprits ascended the platform, Ewen with great firmness, and Bateman discovering much agitation. Upon placing the rope round Ewen's neck, it was found to be too short, upon which he observed, "It's rather a tight fit." The halter was obliged to be spliced, and while this was accomplishing, Ewen remarked to a per- son who stood near, "It's rather cold standing up here." The ropes being adjusted, the bolts were withdrawn, and the prisoners were launched into eternity. They strug- gled very much.-The general impression amongst the Magistrates was, that Ewen was innocent.-London Morning Advertiser of 27th Dec.
We, therefore, being duly sensible of the mischievous consequences which must inevitably ensue, as well to the peace of the kingdom as to the lives and properties of our subjects from such wicked and illegal practices, if they go nished; and being firmly resolved to cause the laws to be put into execution for the punishment of such offend- ers, have thought it by the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this Proclamation, bereby strictly commanding all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and all other Civil Officers whatsoever, within the said counties of Wilts, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, and Berks, that they do use their utmost endeavours to discover, appre head, and bring to justice, the persons concerned in the riotous proceedings above-mentioned.
And as a farther inducement to discover the said offend- ers, we do hereby promise and declare that any person or pessous who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be discovered and apprehended, the authors, abettors, or per- petrators of any of the outrages above-mentioned, so that they, or any of them, may be duly convicted thereof, shall be entitled to the sum of Fifty Pounds for each and every person who shall be convicted, and shall also receive our most gracious pardon for the said offence, in case the person making such discovery as aforesaid shall be liable to be prosecated for the same.
EXECUTION OF THREE INCENDIARIES AT MAIDSTONE.—
John Dyke, otherwise Field, and William and Henry Packman, brothers, were executed on Penenden Heath, on Friday. The first had protested his innocence of being concerned in the fires; but the two latter, who are quite boys, eonfessed their guilt. A troop of Scotch Greys at- tended, for fear that any disturbance should take place. Henry Packman addressed the crowd, and accused Bishop, who gave evidence against him, of having instigated him to burn the ricks, &c. No disturbance took place.-London Morning Chronicle of 28th Dec.
And whereas certain wicked incendiaries have secretly by fire, in many parts of the said counties, destroyed the corn, bay, buildings, and other property of our subjects, we do bereby promise and declare, that any person or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be dis- covered and apprehended, the authors of the said fires, so that they or any one of them may be duly convicted I shall, by and by, collect all these trials thereof, shall be entitled to the sum of Five Hun- together, with as full an account as I can dred Pounds for each and every person who shall be get of all the circumstances relating to so convicted, and shall also receive our most gracious pardon (except the actual perpetrator of any of the said each.
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