names to gross offences, sapping the very foundation of morals. 4. You are, with the maxim in your mouth, that " every man is to be esteemed innocent till he is proved to be guilty," treating all the witnesses against the Queen as perjured liars, though as yet unconvicted of falsehood; and the ministers of the Crown as base and profligate conspirators, though their honour and humanity have never been called into question. 5. You are holding out to the females of the country, as a model, an individual of whose purity you must at least entertain some question, and whom you probably would not suffer a wife, mother, sister, or daughter, to visit. 6. You are cherishing in the mind of the multitude the spirit of "radicalism!"—a spirit of which the first elements are, a rejection of scripture, and a contempt of all the institutions of your country, and of which the results, unless averted by a merciful Providence, must be, anarchy, atheism, and universal ruin. You, Sir, will not, I think, be ungenerous or unjust enough, to say, in reply to all this, that I .am "a clergyman, and have nothing to do with subjects of this nature." Others, however, may urge this objection. To them, therefore, I would say, that this is not a question of mere politics, but of morals, of decency, and of religion -a question involving, in my judgment, the moral purity of all our families, and parishes, and counties. This brief letter is but a practical comment on the doctrines I am commanded, on the highest authority, to teach Sir, Although very much averse to enter into what is usually termed a paper war, I feel I should be wanting in what is due to my friends as well as to myself, if I were not to give a public answer to the letter you have thought fit to address to me in the New Times of yesterday. And first, Sir, allow me to observe, that I cannot think the public paper the best mode you could have adopted to convey advice to a young man with whom you are personally acquainted, and to whom you have expressed yourself a sincere well-wisher. In reply to the very extraordi nary questions you have put to me, and to the very unfair and unmerited insinuations you have thrown out against me, I answer, that, intimately connected as I have the honour to be with the county of Middlesex, I think it my duty, when called upon, to attend any public meeting, legally assembled, which takes place within the county; and, Sir, if you had thought it worth while to have attended to the sentiments I have expressed at the late meetings, you would have found, that I have uniformly abstained from giving any opinion upon subjects of which I had had no opportunity to judge. It is true I have invariably expressed, and shall continue on every occasion to express, the abhorrence and detestation I feel, at the malignity with which her Majesty has been persecuted ever since the period of her marriage; and, above all, at the attempt which is now finally made to effect her ruin under false and hypocritical pretences, as it appears to me, without any object of state policy to justify it; and by means which, if successful, I must consider as giving a fatal blow to the constitution of this country. And now, Sir, I must repel with indignation a charge, that, considering the high situation which your character and your talents command, I should have thought beneath you to make. I hope, Sir, that I have inherited some honesty, and I hope that will secure to me a permanent place in the respect and esteem of the inhabitants of this county; but allow me to add, that I never will condescend to utter one word that I do not feel, nor to give one opinion in opposition to my conscience, in order to gain a single vote-not even to gain that vote, upon which you lay so much value yourself in the beginning of your letter. I have only to add, that if any friend, who has my good in view, intends to give me advice, and wishes me to believe him sincere, I earnestly hope he will choose a more friendly manner Kensington Gore, OLD BAILEY, Saturday, Sept. 16.-R. Mott was indicted for forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 50%., with intent to defraud C. Dover. J. E. Wood is in the iron-trade, in Earl-street, Blackfriars. Knows the prisoner, who, on the 17th of June, purchased some iron for Mr. Dover, whom he represented to be a respectable builder. He brought a written order, signed "C. Dover." He also gave witness a bill of exchange to pay for the iron. Witness asked who Mott, the drawer, and Dover, the accepter, were? He said he was Mott, a poulterer, in Leadenhall-market; and that the accepter was a builder, at Weedon. Witness said, "As you are Mr. Mott, you supply some of my friends (mentioning their names). with poultry." He answered, "Oh yes, I have served them for years. On this, thinking the bill good, he let the prisoner have the iron. The goods were taken away to an auction-room, where witness afterwards saw them. He applied to the lordmayor for a warrant, and stopped the sale. the sale. He inquired at Leadenhall-market, and found, that the prisoner was a distant relation of Mr. Mott, the poulterer. When he got the iron, he represented that he was going to send it from an inn to the country. There being no one who knew Mr. Dover's hand-writing but himself, Mr. Justice Best had directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, because Mr. Dover could not be examined touching a thing for which he was himself liable; when it was found that the prosecutor had given Mr. Dover a release from all liability as respected the bill in question. Mr. Adolphus started another objection on the part of the prisoner, that the iron was only valued at between 201. and 30%, and that he had not received the balance between that sum and the 50l., for which the bill was drawn. Mr. Dover must have a release from the prisoner also. The judges consulted, and at last agreed, that the point should be reserved for the opinion of the judges. [The admissibility of this evidence was subsequently allowed by all the judges, and the prisoner, though not executed, was transported for life.] Mr. C. Dover, builder, at Weedon, knew the prisoner, but never as a poulterer in Leadenhall-market. The bill and order shown to him were in no part his hand-writing. Cross-examined.-He knew a person named Tayler, and believed that a letter shown to him was his hand-writing. He had purchased 10 hogsheads of ale from the prisoner, in 1818, and afterwards he sold him a pony; those were the only dealings he had had with him. He had several times drank some porter with the prisoner, but they did not talk over money matters. Witness denied that he had ever said to Mr. Baillie or Mr. Richardson that he had given the prisoner a bill to purchase pork; but as he had passed it for iron, he must take the consequence. Re-examined. He believed the order and the bill to be the prisoner's hand-writing, but not the acceptance. The prisoner, in his defence, said, Dover gave him the bill, in part payment for 60l. worth of ale, and now denied its being his hand-writing because he (Mott) would not lend him 5l. Dover was called up again. Denied that fact, and produced the prisoner's receipt in full for the payment of the ale. D. Baillie swore, that he is a chair-maker in Montague-street, Whitechapel. Dover told him he authorized Mott to pay away this bill for pork, but not for iron. He had received two letters from Dover, and believed the acceptance on the bill to be in that person's-hand-writing, Examined by Mr. Justice Best. He lives in Charles-street, Commercial-road. He had not entirely taken his property away from Montague-street. He lived there when he received the letters from Dover, and that was the reason why he just before gave his address in Montague-street, instead of Charles-street. Mr. Justice Best summed up the evidence; and the jury retired for about an hour, and then returned a verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty-Death; but recommended him to mercy, on the ground that due inquiry had not been made into the validity of the bill. Mr. Justice Best said it was fit that they should know that this man had been tried within eight months for the same offence. William Patterson was indicted for violating the person of Sarah, the wife of J. Finch. The prosecutrix deposed, that her husband is a journeyman painter. She lives at No. 3, James-street, Manchester-square, in a back garret. She knew the prisoner perfectly: he lived in the same house, on the second floor. He is married too, but his wife is in the country. On the 26th of August, she asked the prisoner, when he had time, to put a top on her bed. Her husband was in the country, and that was the reason she asked the prisoner to do it. This was on Saturday; and on Tuesday he came up into her room to do it; but nothing farther passed at that time, not even a joke. She observed that he had left his hammer on the table. She went a little way down stairs, and gave it to him. She then went up again to her own room, and began sweeping it this was between three and four in the afternoon. The prisoner came into her room: he walked up to her to the window, caught fast hold of her, and accomplished his purpose. She endeavoured to get away. and made a hallooing. He said "D-n you, don't make a noise, they'll hear." To which she answered that she wished them to hear. The bed was turned up. Prisoner shut the window, and was about 10 minutes in her room. Most of the people of the house were out; but she went down to the landlady to tell her, but she had company; and she abstained from telling her afterwards, because she thought she would not believe it. Next day told a female friend named Howard. She told her husband, not that night, or next day, but on the Thursday morning after; and on Saturday morning she went before a magistrate. Cross-examined. -She had Her been three years married. room looked into Gee's court; but she could not say that the court was much inhabited. Her husband was not unacquainted that she had asked the man to come up to screw the tester; and he scolded her for it. She told him not to laugh or joke, or take notice, because Finch did not like it. His conduct to others she had seen was most unbecoming a married man. She asked her husband to unscrew the tester, but he said she had better get some one to do it for her. She screamed the whole time; but no one came to her assistance. She was never thrown down. There being no other evidence for the prosecution, Mr. Justice Richardson thought it quite insufficient to sustain a charge of this most serious nature; and the jury, agreeing in that opinion, instantly acquitted the prisoner. Ricklington and Ellis, for burglary, were executed on Saturday Jast, the 16th inst. at Chester, pursuant to their sentence. The Rev. Mr. Farmer had, by permission of the magistrates and others, laid himself out very humanely and indefatigably, to bring these unfortunate men to a proper sense of their crimes and condition. Ricklington's former vice had been the result, in a great measure, of infidel principles, and these, with a hope of making escape by some means from the sentence that awaited him, had operated to render him reserved, cautious, and even ingenious, in answering every question that related to his guilt, but when the hope he had entertained of escape vanished in the attempt, that prop forsock him. Ellis made no hesitation in frankly confessing the crimes he was charged with. His melancholy condition he attributed to disobedience of parents, a profanation of the Sabbath, and evil company; among which he mentioned a bad woman, whose demands, together with his own wants, had prompted him to that summary, and wicked way of supplying them.. The morning before he suffered, when Mr. Farmer went into his cell, Ellis said to him of his own accord, "I have been thinking," said he, "what I should choose, if I had the offer of liberation now, to return to my former course of life, or be confined to this cell for the remainder of my days, and I should cheerfully prefer the confinement." The interview and at parting between Ellis and a younger brother of 15, was exceedingly affecting. The strongest affection in the deepest distress was manifest; but the culprit's mind seemed, notwithstanding, to possess paramount support. Ricklington was also permitted to see the young woman, Elizabeth Crewe, his companion in the crime for which he was to suffer death, and she transportation. She appeared, having recently been delivered of a child in the prison, another unhappy fruit of their unlawful acquaintance; but it is impossible to describe their feelings, or those of the spectators when they came into the presence of each other. Human nature in the extreme of wretchedness and misery was depicted in their looks, and broken accents: while the unconscious babe, smiling in the mother's arms between them, was altogether a scene the most appaling. Indeed the distress of Rick lington himself was, he said, greatly aggravated by his bring ing the mother and child into such heart-rending circumstances. A few minutes past 12 o'clock, the prisoners, conducted by a party of the 88th regiment, were taken to Glover's Stone, where the cart was drawn up, and were delivered over to the city sheriffs. The melancholy procession moved very slowly along the streets, and many of the female spectators wept aloud to behold two young men in the vigour of life, thus led to expiate their crimes by an ignominious death. At a little time before two, Ellis appeared upon the drop, and was soon after followed by Ricklington, round whose leg a rope was fastened, it being evidently suspected that he meditated precipitating himself from the scaffold. The Rev. Mr. Farmer, and the Rev. Mr. Willan attended them at this trying moment, the latter reading prayers. After which, Mr. Farmer devoutly prayed close to the prisoners, addressing himself alternately to each of the unfortunate men. When these gentlemen quitted the scaffold, Ellis made a short prayer, and Ricklington also desired a short time for private prayer: the executioner gave him a handkerchief, and retired to attend the fatal signal. The unhappy man, by the movements of his body and hands, the cap being over his face, appeared to be engaged deeply and earnestly in devotion for a considerable time,-when dropping the handkerchief, they were instantly launched into eternity. After 3 momentary struggle they were both motionless. 17. 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