and by their ignominious deaths, taught their countrymen the folly and madness of attempting to separate Ireland from this kingdom; for it is not less their duty than their interest to live under the protecting influence of the British government. THOMAS RUSSEL, EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON. THOMAS RUSSEL, (the only leader of note after Emmet), under the title of the general of the Northern District, under the Provisional Government, issued a proclamation to that district on the 23d of July. This man had been long distinguished for superiority of talents, particularly as a military character. He had served both in the East and West Indies, and in the latter with great credit in the same regiment with General Knox, with whom he went to Ireland, and was very attentively treated by the Northland family, through whose interest he was appointed a magistrate for the county of Tyrone, and he lived for some time at Dungannon; but in consequence of a difference with the Northland family, entirely arising from politics, he removed to Belfast, where he resided until the year 1792, when he was arrested, with Samuel Nelson and others, and conveyed to Newgate, Dublin: there he remained a prisoner until 1798, when he was sent, with Arthur O'Connor and others, to Fort St. George, in Scotland. At the conclusion of the last peace he was, with the other prisoners, liberated, and he proceeded to France. He lived in Paris during the peace, and was observed to be intimately acquainted with many of the members of the French government, and with several of the first generals in France. Immediately subsequent to the declaration of war he was missed from Paris, and found his way to Ireland. one His mal-practices having been discovered by government, thousand pounds were offered by proclamation for his apprehension, but his arrest was not produced in consequence of that offer. It was owing to a Mr. Emerson, of the attorney's corps. He had received information, which was obtained through the vigilance of the divisional inspector of the district, that a stranger of suspicious appearance was observed in the house of a Mr. Muley, gun-maker, in Parliament Street. This circumstance Mr. Emerson immediately communicated to Mr. Secretary Marsden, by whom he was referred to Major Sirr. Mr. Emerson accordingly called upon the major, and, accompanied by him and Lieutenant Minchin, with a detachment of Captain Green's corps of Yeomanry, under the command of Lieutenant Beton, proceeded to the house in question, about ten o'clock that night, where, in a garret-room, they discovered the person whose conduct had excited suspicion. On their attempting to examine him, he drew forth two loaded pistols, which he snapped at them, but both missed fire. Being recognised by Sirr, as Russel, the rebel general, he was seized, and taken to the Castle. He represented himself as Mr. Thomas, but Sirr had recollected him since he was a prisoner in Newgate; and, upon being taken to the Castle, he was immediately identified by an old acquaintance of his, the Honorable Captain Knox, son of Lord Northland, under whose His trial came on October, 19, 1803, before a special commission, at Downpatrick, Ireland: it occupied the attention of the Court from ten in the morning till past eight in the evening. One very important fact came out in the course of his trial: that, with all the influence which he possessed at one period among the lower orders-with all the exertions which he made, aided by the manners of a popular leader, he was unable to raise any thing like a formidable body of insurgents. Individual adherents he met with; but the great body of the people showed no disposition to espouse his cause. The prisoner, having been asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, addressed the Court in an eloquent and energetic, though rather a somewhat unconnected speech, of about twenty minutes, in which he took a view of the principal transactions of his life for the last thirteen years; and on a retrospective view of which, he said, he looked back with triumph and satisfaction. He endeavored to vindicate his conduct from the criminality attached to it, by asserting that in all, he had done, he had acted from the conviction of his conscience; and anxiously requested that the Court would make him not only the first, but the only life which should be taken on the present occasion; mercifully sparing to their families and friends the lives of those men whom it was asserted he had led astray. The Honorable Baron George, after a pathetic address of some length, then pronounced the awful sentence of the law, which the prisoner listened to with the greatest composure-bowed respectfully to the Court, and then retired in the custody of the sheriff. This unfortunate man was executed on Friday, October the 21st, and suffered with great fortitude. He was very liberally educated; and, in some pamphlets written by him upon the state of Ireland previous to 1798, manifested considerable genius and information. He was about six feet high, of a very noble mien, a remarkably well-proportioned stature, and very marked countenance. His mind seemed strong. His conversation was very interesting, where he was disposed to be communicative; but he was in general reserved. On the whole, he appeared to be amazingly well calculated to conciliate attachment, and insure obedience. LAWRENCE INNIS, EXECUTED FOR MURDER. THE prisoner and the deceased were both pensioners in Greenwich Hospital. The trial came on at the Kent assizes, held at Maidstone, March 17, 1803; and the following is the account given of the transaction by the witnesses : James Millar said he was a Greenwich pensioner, and his birth was in the Clarence Ward; his cabin was next to that in which the deceased slept. On Tuesday night, the 20th of January, just as he was in bed, he heard the prisoner and the deceased come up the gallery toge ther they were talking. The deceased said to the prisoner, Go to bed, and then there will be no more on't.' The prisoner replied, I won't.' The prisoner then went away to the fire-place in the hall, but soon returned to the cabin-door of the deceased, and cailed out, • Price! Price! Jack! Jack! The ་ deceased did not answer. The prisoner went away, but returned a second time, and called out as before. The deceased then answered him, and said to the prisoner, You will prepare to appear before the Captain of the Month to-morrow. I have you upon the complaint, for striking me to-day at the Tyger's Head, in London Street.' To this the prisoner replied, Then you have done me, have you? but damn you I'll do you in return.' The prisoner accompanied these words by a blow, which knocked the deceased down. The deceased called out • Murder!' upon which the witness jumped out of bed, and the prisoner was secured; and the next morning he was carried before the committee, and mulcted two months' tobaccomoney for his ill-behaviour. This was the morning preceding the night of the murder. As he came out of the committee-room, he said to the witness, Millar, you have borne false witness against me, but I hope to God I shall live to seek revenge.' On the same evening he did not see the prisoner till eleven o'clock: he then saw both Price and Innis go to their cabins. After he had been in bed a short time, he heard the prisoner come out of his cabin, and go to the cabin of the deceased. From that he went to the fire place in the hall as fast as he could go. He returned a second time to Price's cabin. He staid a second a two, and then again went to the fire-place, and once more returned to Price's cabin. In a little time he heard him shut the door softly, and thought no more of it, till about a quarter of an hour afterwards, Bryan came to him, told him for God's sake to get up, as the boatswain (Price) was murdered. John Hawford, another pensioner, corroborated the above account. He had on a James Bryan gave evidence as follows: lay in the same cabin with the deceased; we were talking together not ten minutes before he was murdered. The prisoner's cabin was nearly opposite to our's. I heard the prisoner open our door softly, and he looked in: we appeared both asleep. As soon as he looked in, he went away towards the hall fire-place. great coat, and two night-caps. He came back, and when he came in our cabin, he looked at me attentively. He again went away, and returned with the poker. He turned round, and gave me another attentive look, and immediately after struck Price four or six heavy blows on the head. At the first blow his head crashed, but I don't know whether the others hit him. As soon as he had done it, he again turned and looked at me, but I lay still, as though asleep. He then went out, and hauled the door softly after him, but did not lock it. As soon as he was gone, I got up, and gave the alarm, and the prisoner was secured.' James Curran, another pensioner, described the state in which he found the deceased. The prisoner, in defence, said that the witnesses were in a conspiracy against him. The jury, without a moment's hesitation, found him guilty, and the learned judge proceeded immediately to pronounce the sentence of the law, that he should be hanged and dissected. The prisoner seemed very little affected. He appeared about fifty years of age, and discovered strong symptoms of a brutal and ferocious disposition. On Saturday, March 19, this malefactor suffered the sentence of the law on Pennenden Heath. His body was afterwards brought to Greenwich Hospital for dissection. JOHN TERRY AND JOSEPH HEALD, In this man we find a sad instance of early depravity, and, like all cruel people, a more than common horror of yielding up life, as an atonement certainly due for shedding innocent blood-a precept of holy writ. His voluntary confession, mysterious conduct, and resistance of his fate at the gallows, renders this account dreadfully interesting. John Terry, and his fellow-apprentice, Joseph Heald, were found guilty of the wilful murder of Elizabeth Smith, aged sixty-seven years, at Flaminshaw, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire. The deceased, though in humble life, bore an excellent character, and had maintained herself by keeping cows, and selling their produce, Having had the misfortune to lose two of her cows, she was left nearly destitute; but by the humane assistance of her neighbours she was enabled to purchase one cow; and a son, who lived at Leeds, sent her eighteen guineas afterwards to buy another, but desired her not to purchase it before Fogtime. On her receiving the eighteen guineas, it was immediately made known amongst her neighbours. T. Shaw and S. Linley, constables, proved the confession of Terry; which was, that he and Heald met together on the night when the murder was committed, and parted at ten o'clock, to meet The judge summed up the evi dence to the jury, and, as it ap During the trial, and at the time the awful sentence was passed, Terry behaved with prudence, though apparently affected; but Heald appeared perfectly ignorant of his situation, often looking round the court, and, to the last part of his trial, showed great hardiness in his behaviour. Their execution was fixed for Monday, March 21, 1803, on which day, early in the morning, the Rev. Mr. Brown, the Ordinary, attended the prisoners in their cell, to administer the sacrament, when Terry informed him that Heald was innocent; on which Mr. Brown stated to them the leading facts that were proved against thom upon their trial, and referred to Terry's own confession of the manner in which they had perpetrated the murder. Terry said that he had been induced to make that confession, as he had been told that he should thereby save his own life; but he now declared Heald to be innocent, and that he would not be hanged with an innocent man.' In consequence of this declaration, the Ordinary thought it his duty to inform the judge of this extraordinary circumstance; but his lordship was so perfectly satisfied of Heald's guilt, that he ordered the sentence to be put into execution; his lordship, however, humanely sent his marshal, Mr. Wells, to attend the prisoners, with a discretionary power to respite the execution, should any circumstances appear to him, respecting Heald, that would justify the measure. Mr. Wells was convinced, from the conversation that passed, that Terry was not speaking the truth, and in consequence they were left to their fate. Again Terry, in proceeding from the cell to the drop, exclaimed aloud, that Heald was innocent, and that they were going to hang an innocent man, and appeared to have worked himself up to a state of frenzy and distraction. On their being brought on the platform, a scene of more brutal stubbornness was never witnessed, than that which was exhibited by this young offender; for as soon as he got on, he went forward to the front, and exclaimed in a loud voice, They are going to bang an innocent man, (meaning Heald); he is as innocent as any of you! On uttering of which, he immediately made a sudden spring, in order to get down the ladder, which he certainly would have effected, had he not been laid hold of by the clergy man. While they were pulling him back, he again exclaimed, It was ME that murdered the woman: I said it was Heald, but I did so to save my own life; and would not any of you hang an innocent man to save your own life?' These words he afterwards repeated, adding, Don't hang Heald; if you do, I shall be guilty of two murders.' The clergyman then proceeded to do his duty; to which Terry paid no attention, but continued very clamorous, notwithstanding the entreaties of Heald, not to deprive him of the benefit of the prayers; but Terry was not to be restrained; and it was from the utmost exertions of five or six men, that he could be dragged to the drop, and the rope forced over his head; during |