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.-. -1 i -. 5 " - ' " '..M,.f ,0' 1 . .. .i-'i ''4 ' ' . ' : i n m : y -. t. rn7M l It i "J iV ! li ! VOLUME 0; TflE C HR0N1CL1 IStato Weekly pak So)iljte-itiIum iheet tly rrfday mornluj, by .v f'f . " " NEBLETT & GRANT, - t' Pu I lit Jl c r I and' Trop f it tor k . $2 Per annum, in advanc V- 'tERMS OF ADVERT1SIN0. ' " A rMi nniBfio TWELVE LIVES OR Lt Ohb lortlnn tl1. Two moiUht . t Two InanMlom j Three Iniinrtiont On month t" 1.50 Three monlhi , ;' 15.01 2.(f I Plx monthii . .. r 9,"' 2.5!) I Tivolvo moiitln 15,0f MISCEUiANYr The Experiences ' "13 a tin 1st er;" wi nnu.1 WAmis,,t.,'of Tntin Tsnri.t. THE MARCH ASSIZ2. ;., j; SometLIng moroTtliao balf century go, ft parson,' in ' going' ftloflg Holborn, xuignt navb ieea'j' near thb1.orncr..pf one of tbe througbfares -wbicb diverge towards Eu9Bell; Square; tbe respectable-looking bop of a glover and babordasber named Jaiiiea Harvey, a'maS'generalTy esteemed by bis neigbbors, and wbo, was. usually considered well t6 do in tbo world. . Like many . London tradesmen Harvey was originally ftom tbb 'conhtry. ' tie bad ooruo up to town wbon a poor lad, to push Lis fortune, and by dint of .'steadiness and civility, and, Ysmall property lttft bim by 1 a distant relation, he had been abio tp get into business on bis own Oecount, and to attain tbat rnost iinpoftat'clcmfent of suc cess iu London v'a connection."- Sbortly after setting up in the world, he married a youug woman from bis native town, to wbom be bad been engaged ever since his tcuool-uays; anu ut mo nuieour nairuuvc commences bo was tho' father of three children. .. f a' ."".- James Ilarvey'i tsUbliHbment.was one of the best frequented, of its ; C-Isfs in thJ street. You tould never pass : without seeing customers going in or out. There ku evidently not a little business going forward. '.liut'althQUgh, to all appearance;' a flourishing concern, tho proprietor of the establishment was urpriacd ,to .find that Le was corttinually pinched in bin circTim ikucta. Ko waiter .what . was the amount of business transacted over tho counter, ho never got pny richer. At the period referred to, shop-keeping bad not attained that degree of organiza tion, with respect to oountcr-uicn and cashiers, which now distinguishes the great houses of trade. The primitive till was not yet superseded. . This was the weak point in Harvey'is arrangements: and not to make a needless number of words about it, tho poor man was jtgularly robbed by a shopman, whoso dexterity in pitching a guinea into the drawer, so . as to make it jump, unseon, with a jerk into bin hand, was worthy of Herr Pobler," or any other master of tbe Hubliuio art of jik-glery. Good naturod and unsuspicious, pprbnpp also not guffieiently vigilant, Harvey was long in discoverng how he was pillaged. Cartwrght7 tho namoof theypovson who was preying on his employer, was not a young man.' Ho was between forty and lifty years of age, and had boon in various situations, where ho had "always 'given' satisfaction, except on the score of beinj: somewhat gny and somewhat irritable. Privately, be was a man of loose habits, and for yours bis extravagances ba4 been paid for by property clandestinely abstrac ted from bis too-ronfiJing muster. Slow to believe in tbe reality of such wicked ness, Mr Harvey could with 'difficulty entertain tho suspicions' which began to dawn on bis mind. At length all doubt was at an end. lie detected Cartwrighil in tho very aot of carrying off goods to a considerable amount. Tho man was tried at tho Old Huilcy for tho offence ; but through a technical .informality . iu the indictment, nenittcd. ' ' ' ' ' ' : Unable to find employment, and with a character gone, the liberated thief became, savage, rcvungcful, and desperate. Instcud of imputing bis fall to his own irregulari ties, bo considorcd his lato unfortunate rmnlovcr us tho cause of his ruin; and now ho bent nil tho energies of his dark nataro to destroy tho reputation of tl,c man whom ho had betrayed and plunder - cd. Of nil tho beings soil-delivered to tho rule of unscrupulous malignity, with whom it has boeu my fato to come pro lossionally in contact, t never knew ono ?,i utterly fiendish us this discomfited pil- furer. l'leiuiod with his imaginary wrong bo formed the determination to labor, even trunu, ani to quia lie Uotcl by aback if It wore fur years to ruin his victim -w stair, wbi h led by Vliort cut to the bar Nothing short of doijyii j.hoiil'i divert him J bor TJ wjiolo trtaction was dono un from this, tho darling object of his ex-i pcreoivec and tho 4toh at least departed iitunce. f , Animated by those diabolical passions, ,?..n twrightpiooeeded to bis work. Harvey had tuo good reason to know, vusiu 5eA?tM vwom who bad wsdo hiw ad - t- 1 nrrirrr mi i irr imiMai n i wr nwt tiin Aw n if m i Tances; and by means of artfully-concocted anonymous letters, evidently written . by some One Conversant With' the matters on which' be ' wr6td, ' be auccecded' in 'al arming the haberdasher's ' creditors, ine consequences .were aemanus ot im mediate , payment, and, io, spitq of, the debtor's explanations and promises, writs, h6avy law' expenses, ' ruinous- sadrificcsi and ultimate bankruptcy. It may seem almost too marvcllonS for belief, but the story of this terrible revenge and its con sequences ts no ficton. ', Every instance in my narrative is true, and the whole may be found in bard outline In the Tecords "of the courts with which a; few years ago I was familiar.-; k" 'rX'V ': ' ' Tho humiliated 'and !distressed feelings f Jlarvey and bis I family may be left to he imagination. When ho found himself ruined man, I dare say his mental suffor- rigs were iufriiicntly'actitc..TeV he did ot sit down jn despair. ,' To re-establish imsclf in business nEnglahl appeared opelcsB; but America presented itself as Iscenc where Industry might find & reward; the kindness of somo friends; be was abled to make preparations to emigrate th,lus wifp and children. Towards the drof February he quitted London for 0 of the great seaports, where be was to eibark for "Boston.-' On "arrivin'j there family, Mr.. Harvey took.up his abode principal hotel. This; in a . man of sttitenedmeans, was doubtless imprudent; btl lid- afterwards attempted, .tj explain thlcircuraatance by saying, that as the hil iu which he had engaged his passage wasjto sail on tho day.after his arrival, be haifcreferred tncurripj a slight additional expVise rather than that bis wife who waslow, with -failing spirits, nursing an irtfai should bo, 'exposed to coarse, as socialons and personal discomfort.: Jn tho pectation, however, of "being only pno.itht in tho hotel Harvey was un- fortuAtcly' disappointed..'" Shiprinasters.. especilly those commanding emigrant Vessel! were then, as' now,.'. habitual promise- leakere; and although eaeh succeed ing &J was to light them.on their way, it was fily a fornight' before the ship stood out tolca. . By. that time a second and more reVcrg'o had occurred in the for tune4 I the luckless Harvey.' ' ' ' t. ' Cartfc'ilif, whose appetite for vengeance was buw)ctted by ?his first success; had never 1st Bight of the movements of hi$ yietimAtd now ho had followed him to tho plafc' of his .'embarkation, "with an esger bl undefined, purpose of working him Eobl further and more deadly mis chief. ; jzMltliily he hovered about the house wii-h sheltered the unconscious object of lis malicious hate, plotting hs he. afterwardlonfessed, the wildest scheme for satiatit his revenge. Several times ho made uses for 'calli ng at the hotel, in the horlof observing the nature of the premises, iing care, however,' to avoid being secnly Mr. Harvey or bis family. A fortnighliassod away, and the day of departure (1 the emigrants arrived with out the sliJtest opportunity Qccurrihgfur the gratifiJion of his purposes.. The ship was 11 ing her berth; most of the passengers' Ir'p pn board; ,Mrs,(Harvey and tho chilk n, with riearlj- , the whole ot the luggagelvere already saltly in hc vessel; M r.Larvey only remained on shore to purAse some trifling article, and to settle his I I ut tho hotel on removing his last.trui Curtwright bad tracked him all day; could not attack him in the street; an ho finally followed him to the hotel, in lor to wreak his vengeance on him in 1 private apartment, of the situation of ych he bad informed him self. " Harvey cnt Id the hotel first and be fore Car(wrigl: anio up he had gono down a passage intc iio bar to sottlo the bill which he had turred for, tho last two days. Not a o of this cireumstancp, L'aitwiight, iu o bustle which prevailed, went up tairs o Mr. Harvey's bedroom und pnrltr, iilicithcr of which, to hi surprise, yid hind t e occujiant; and be turned avniy dlnnfiUcd. Passing along towardi the cl ptiiirensc, ho perceived a room of . whielthe door was open, and that on the tablthcre lay a gold watch und appundagel Nobody was in the apartment; the lntleman who occupied it ad on'y a fctlioments before gono to bi bcd-cl,amboir a brief space. Quick J 8 Hghtni ig a Aolieal thought flashed 1 tlirou-h tho braiif tho villain, who had been baflld in 11 origiuul intentions. He recidlc-tod, till he had seen a, trunk in Harvey's room, lid that tho keys hung in the lock A". iynceivably short space uf time atrved forlin to eoito tlie watch, to dopoait it at tt bottom of Harvey's unnotieoi. Having finished blbusiness at tho bar, Mr. Harfy repaired i his room, lock d "itt wiuen, ug oi a small ana l bandy rii, be monnaloD bis sbtinldcT, wrt rt uniOTiOiM niwiiniffint' wriMMfnnir"Trir mrnrir and proceeded to leave the bouse by the back stair, in order to get as quickly as possible to tbe vessel. Little rocked be of the interruption which was to be present id to bis departure1. He bad got as far is tho",foot of the stair with bis burden, when he was overtaken by a waiter, who declared tbat be was going to leave the bouse clandestinely without settling ao counts. It is' proper to mention that Mr. Harvey bad incurred the enmity ,of this particular waiter in consequence of having, out of his Blender resources, given'him too small ' a 'gratuity on the occasion of ( paying a fraudulent designi In vain. Mr. Harvey remonstrated, saying be had paid for" everything. . The waiter would not believe his statement, and detained him "till be should bear better about it." . r, "Let me go, fellow, I. insist upon it," said Mr. Harvey, burning with indigna tion,' "I am already too lato." ' ' ' ' c , "N!ot a step; till I ask master if accounts are squared." .-- :,-' At this moment, while tbe altercation was at 'the hottest, a terrible ringing of bells was beard, and above stairs was a loud noise of voices, and of feet running to and fro. ..A chambermaid came hur riedly down tbe stair, exclaiming that some one had stolen a gold watch from Ne.'17 and tbat nobody ought to leave the bouse till it was found. , The landlord : also, moved by the hurricane which had been raisedmade bis appearance at the spot where Harvey was interrupted in bis exit, t "What on earth is all this noise about, robn?!'.". inquired the ',landl0rd of-, the waiter i,v ... :':" '.,'i . ' "Why", sir, I thouglit it rather strange for any gentleman to leave the bouse by the back way, carrying bis own portman tean, and so I was making a little breeze about it, fearing he" had not paid his bill, when all of a sudden Sally rushes down the stair and says as bow No; 17 has miss ed his gold watch, and that no one should quit the hotel."' l ; ,' No.' 17, an old, dry-looking military gentleman, in a particularly high passion, now showed himself on. the scene, utter ing : terrible threats- of legal proceedings against tbe houso for -the loss he bad sus tained -! .' 1 Harvey was stupified and indignant, yet he could hardly help smiling at the pothor. What,' said he, 'have I to do with all this? I have paid for everything; I am surely entitled to go away if I like. Remember, that if I lose my passage to Boston, you shall answer for it.' i;- ; - 'I very much regret detaining you, sir,' replied the keeper of tbe hotels. 'but you h:ar there nas been a robbery committed within the last few minutes, and as it will be proper to search every one in the house, surely you, who are on the point of de parture, will have " no objections to be . Searched first and then be at liberty to go?', . . . ..... .'.vs.,; ' -' . - There was something so perfectly reason able in all this, that Harvey stepped ipto an adjoning parlor,, and threw opeu his trunk for inspection, never doubting that his innocence would be immediately mani fest. ; . ( ;,' ; The waiter, whoso mean rapacity had bocn the cause of the detention, acted as examiner. He pulled one article after another out 6f tho trunk, and at length held up the missing watch with a look of triumph and scorn ! , Who put that there?' pried Harvy in an agony of mind which can be better im agined than described. 'Who has done mo this grievous wrong? I know nothing as to how the watch came into my trunk.' No one ' answered this . appeal. All j present stood for a moment in gloomy silenco. , . ' 'Sir,' said the landlord to Harvey on re covering from his suprise, 'I am sorry for you. For the sake of a miserable trifle, you have brought ruin and disgrace on yourself. .- This is a matter which concerns tho honor of my house, and cannot stop here. However much it . is against my feelings, you must go before a magistrate.' 'By all means,' addod No. 17, with tho importance of an injured man. A pretty thing that one's watch is not safe in a house like this I' . 'John, send Boots for a constable,' said tho landlord. Harvey sat with his bead leaning on bis band. A deadly cold perflation trickled down his brow. His heart swelled and boat a if it would burst. What should ho do? 1 His wholo prospects were in an instant blighted. 'Oh God! do not desert a frail ' and unhappy ' being: give me strength to face this new and terrible mis fortune,' was a prayer bo internally utter ed. A littlo revived, he started to his feet, and addressing himself to the landlord, he said, 'Take mo to a magistrate instantly, and let us have this diabolical plot un raveled. I court inquiry into my charac ter and conduct.' 'It is no use saying any more about it,' answered tho laudlord, 'here U Boots with a coustable, aud let us all go away to other to the nearer maistrottf -Bobta, mm mnnrtnTTfimniilTin m i rrnrimiiT oarry that trupk. John' and' Salty, 1 yoi can fellow us? 7 '.; 7 r-'t;' ';'' 'And so the party, trunk and all, under tbe constable (as '.conductor, adjourned to the house of magistrate in an adjacent street. There the matter seemed so clear a case, of felony jobbery in a dwelling-J house-r-that Harvey, all protestations to! the contrary, was fully committed for trial at the ensuing1 March assises,' then but a few days "distant. ' '"I, ''.'' (, '.'.!" At tbe period ; at which these incidents occurred I was a young man going on my first circuits. ' 1 bad - not - as yet been honored with perhaps more than three or four briefs, andthese .only in cases so slightly productivo of i fees, itiat I was compelled to study economy in my exour- sions.1 . instead ot takinsr up my rosidence at an inn when visiting , a consider able seaport, where the Court held its sit tings,! dwe,Uin lodgings kept by a widow lady, where, at a small expense, I could enjoy perfect qnietness, free from iutctrup tion. , . , . r . . On the evening after my arrival on tho March circuit of the year 17--f I was sit ting in my lodgings perusing a new work on criminal jurisprudence, when the land lady, after tapping at the door, entered my room.-" 5i-, vl V !' '-'. . : 'J ' 'I am sorry td trouble you, sir,' said she; 'but a lady has called to see youabonta very distressing law case Very distressing indeed, and Very strange case it. is too. Only if you could be so good as to Bee her?''"; -"- '''' ' , jwho is she ? ,'!'':'r' ': 1 -i 'All I know about it is this: she is a Mrs. Harvey. She and her husband and children were to sail yesterday for Boston. All were on board except the husband; and be, on leaving the large hotel over the way, was taken up for a robbery.; Word was in tho evening Bent by prisoner to his wife to come on shore, with all her chil dren and tho luggage; - and bo she came back in the pilot boat, and was in such a state of distress, that my brother, who is on the preventive service, and saw bcr land, took pity on her,, and had her and her children and things taken to a lodging on the quay, As my brother knows that we have a London lawyer staying here, he has advised tbe poor woman to come and consult you about the caso.' l ( 'Wcll.Tll see what can be done. Please desire the lady' to step in.' . . . v A lady was shortly ebown in. She had been pretty, and was so still,) but anxiety was pictured in her pale countenance. Her dress was plain, but not inelegant; and altogether she liad a neat' and engaging apperance. ". -.'.', , K ' ' " .r . 'Be so good as to sit down,' said I, bow ng, 'and toll, me all you . would , like to say. . . ..,'' The poor woman burst into tears; but afterwards recovering herself, ' she told me pretty nearly the whole of ber history and that of her husband. ' ' 1 Lawyers have occasion to see so much duplicity, that I did not all at once give assent to the idea of Harvey being inno cent, of the crime of which ho stood charged. . ' .' ' ' ' . 'There is something perfectly inexplica ble in the case,' I observod, 'and it would require sifting. Your husband, I hope, has always borne a good character?' ' . "Perfectly so. Ho was no doubt unfor tunate in business; but he got bis certifi cate on the first examination; and there aro many who would testify to his upright ness." . And here again my client broke into tears; as if overwhelmed with her recon ciliations and prospects. "I think I recollect Mr. Harvey's shop," said I soothingly. "It seemed a very re-; spcctable concern; and we must see what can bo done. Keep up your spirits; the only fear I havo arises from the fact that Judire A being on the bench. ' Ho is usually considered severe, and if exculpa tory evidence fail, your husband may run the riskoi being transported." A word of more terrific import with which I was about to conclude, stuck unuttered in my throat. 'Have you employed an attorney?' I added. "No; I havo done nothing as yet, but apply to you, to beg of you to be my hus band's COUnSol." ',1 "Well, tbat must be looked to. I shall speak to a local agent, to prepare and work out the case; and wo ah all all do our ut most to get. an acquittal. To-morrow I will call on your husband in prison." Many thanks were offered by the unfor twnate lady, and sho withdrew. I am not going to inflict on tho reader a detailed account of this remarkable tri al, which turned, as barristers would say. on a beautiful point of circumstantial evT donco. Along with the attorney, a sharp enough person in bis way. I examined va rious parties at tbe hotel, aud made mysolf acquainted with the nature of the premis es. The woro we investigate, ' however, the more dark and mysterious. always supposing Harvey's innocence did tbe - iihiiiihiimm immmwmmmmiumimhih ihhmiiii iiai inii n ' i i n edoeralfig'traU lii tbe "affair,1 except Har oy's previous good character j arid good character, by the law of England, goos for nothing in oppositiorf to facts proved to the satislaotion of a jury; It was likewis most unfortunate that A was to be th presidi rrg j udgo. . Th is man possessed grea forensic acquirements, and was of spotles private character j, but, like , the majority of lawyers jtf that( dayr when it was, no extraordinary, thing.. to hang twenty men jn a morning atNewgate ho was a Btauncl stickler for the gallows as the only effect ual reformer and safeguard , of the 60c i a state. - - At this time ; be was but partially recovered from a long and severe indispo sition, and the traces of recent suffering were distinctly apparent on bis pale and . nass-.oniesa features., j - . .. . Harvey wai arraigned In due fortn; th evidence was' gone carefully through and every thing, so far as I was. concerned was done that man could do.'. But at tbt time to which I refer eounsul was not al lowed to address the court on behalf '0' the prisoner a practice since introduced from &cotfand and .consequently I was allowed no opportunity to draw tho atten tion of tho jury to the total want of any direct "evidence of the - prisoner's' guilt. Harvey himself tried to point out the un likelihood pf bis being .guilty;, but he wa; not a man gifted with, dialectio qualities and bis harangue fell pointless on the un derstandings of , the twelve common-place individuals who , sat in the jury-box.- The judge finally proceeded ,. to. sum the evidence,, and this he did emphatically against the prisoner dwelling with much fjree on the suspicious circilmstance of a needy man taking up his- abode at an ex pjnsive fashionable hotel ; his furtive de scent from bis' apartments by the batt stairs; the undoubted fact of tho watch being found in his trunk j the imprpbabil- ity of any one, putting it there but him self ; and the extreme likelihood that the robbery was effected " In a few moments' of time by tbe culprit, ust as he passed from the bar. of tbe hotel to tbe room which be had occupied.. ; "If," said ho to the jury. iii concluding bis address ''yon' can, after all these circumstances, believe the prison er to bet innocent of ithe crime laid to his charge,, it is . more .than I can do. Tbe thing seems as clear to me as the sun at noonday. ' The evidence, in shorty is ir resistible j and if the, just, and necessary provisions of the law are not enforced in such very plain casce, then society will be dissolved, and security for property there will be none, Gentlemen, retire and make up your verdict." ; '; "',;;' The jury were not disposed to retire. After communing a few minutes together, one of them 'stood up and delivered the vordict: itwas Guilty! The judge assum ed the crowning badge of the judicial po tentate the black cap; and the clerk of arraigns asked the prisoner "at the bari'in the usual form, if bo bad anything to urge why septence pf oeath should not be pass ed upon him. " i--- ' : Poor Harvey f I durst' scarcely look at him.' As the sonorious words fell ou h's ear, he was grasping nervously with sha king hands at the front of the dock. lie a peared stunned, bewildered, as a man but half-awakened from a hideous dream might be supposed to look. He had com prehended, though ho bad scarcely beard, the verdict for on the instant, the voice which but a few years before sang to him by the brook? side, was ringing through his brain, and lie could recognize tho. lit tle patt'rn feet of his children, as, sob bing and clinging to their shrieking moth er's dress, she and they were hurried out of court. The clerk, after a painful pause, repeated the solemn formula. By a strong effort (ho doomed man mastered Irs agita tion : his pale countenance lie: ted un with indignant fire, and firm and self-possessed, ho thus replied to the fearful interroga tory r . "Much eould I say in tho tiarao, not o ni'rcy, but of justice, why the sentence about to bo passed on me should not be pronounced; but nothing, alas I that will avail me with you, pride-blinded minister of death. You fashion to yourselvesout of your own vain conceits do you fashion modes and instruments, by the aid ol which you fondly imagine to invest your selves with attributes which bolong on! to Omnipotence; and now I warn you and it is a voice from tho tomb, jn wbost shadow I already, stand, which addresser you-o-that you are about to commit a most cruel and deliberate murder." lie paused, and the jury looked Inti each other's eyos for tho courage they coulu not find in their own hearts. The voiet of oonseience spoke, but was only for 1 few momenta "audible. The suggestion that what grave parliaments, learned jndg es, and all classes of "respectability" aano tioned, could not be wrong, much less raur deirous or cruel, silenced the "still. Small' tones, and trauquilized tho startled jurors "Prisoner at tho bar," said the judg with bis cold, calm voice of destiny, "1 have 'been fotfttd" guilty of a hefooos of fenoe by a Jury of your countryiaeft after 1 partial trial. With that finding f need icarooly say I ' entirely ftgree. t am eat isfied of your guile as if I bad ee you lommit the aot with my owtt bodily eyes The cirourustince of yonY being i. person who, from habits aad education, should have - bocn above' committing so 1 base s (Srimo, only aggravates your guilt.' IloW ever, no matter who or what you have been you must expiate your offence on thd seaf- r'old. - The law has very rr6perly, it the iafety of sooiety.'deoread the punishment jf -death for - suoh l crimes; xur only and plain duty is to exeoute that law." '' r : . The prisoner did not roply ; he was loan ing with bis elbows on tbe front of the lock, bis bowed faco covered with bis out spread hands; and the judge passed sen- onco of doath in the accustomed form fhe court then rose, and a turnkey placed hia hand upon the prisoner's arm, to lead him away. Suddenly he unentered his face, drew himself up, to his full height he was remarkably tall man and glared fiercely round upon the audience, like a wild animal at bay. "toy lord," ho cried, or rather1' shouted, "In an excited'1 voice. The judge motioded impatiently to the jail or, and strong hands impelled the prison or from the frost, of tho dock. Bursting rem them, he again sprang forward, and his arms outstretched, "whilst his glittering eye seemed to bold the judge spoil-bound. xclaimed, "My .lord, before andthcr month has passed away, you will appear at tho bar of another, world, to answer for tho life, tbe innocent life,- which God bestowed up on me, but which you have impiously cast away : as a thing of naught pd scorn !" lie ceased, and was borna off.' The court, n Bomo confusion, hastily, departed. It was thought at the time that the judge's evidently failing health had suggested the prophecy to the prisonor. ! It only excited a few day 'a wonder, and Was fprgottett.' The I option of a barrister In such cir cumstances is always painfull need har dly say that :my;own feelings wefe of a very distressing kind. 1-Conscious' that if the unfortunate man really was guilty; he was at loast not deserving of capital pun ishment, I exerted myself to procure a re prieve. , In the first place I waited pri vately on the Judge; but ho would listen tp , no proposal for ft. respite. . Along with a number ,of .individuals ohiofly of the Society of Friends I petitioned the crown for a commutation of the sentence. .But being unaccompanied with a recommenda tion, from the judge, the prayer of our pe tition was of course disregarded the law, it was uaid, must take' its course. ' How much cruelty has been exercised under sheltor of tbat remorseless expression. I would willingly pass over the succeed ing events. . Unable to save his life, I en -deavored to soothe the few remaining hours of the doomed convict, and frequently visited bim in the condemned cell.- The more I saw of him, the deeper grew my sympathy in bis case, which was that of no vulgar felon. :- "I have been a most un- lortunatoman' saidhe one day to me. "I feel as if .deserted by God and man yet I know, or at least would persuade myself, that Heaven will one day vindicate my in nocence of this foul oharge. ' To think i f bdrig hinged 'like a dog for ft crime at which my soul revolts ! '. Great is the crime of thoso imbecile jurors and that false and hard-hearted judge," who thus, by an irre versible decree, consign a felloe-mortal to a death of violence and disgrace. ' Oh God help mo help me to sustain that bitter, bitter hour!"- And then the 'poor man would throw himself on bis bed and weep. But the parting with his wife and chil dren. 'What pen can describe that terri ble interview!,- Thcy Eneltin prayer, their woo-begone countenances suffused in tears, and with bands clasped convulsively to other. . The scene was too harrowing and sacred for the eye of a ktrangcr. I rush ed from the cell, and buried myself, in my lodgings, whence I did not remove till alt was over. Next day James Harvoy, a via. tim ot circumstantial evidence, and 'of a barbarous criminal code, porished on the scaffold. .; -"" "; Three weeks afterwards, tbe eiurt arri ved at a populous city in tho w est of En. land. It had in the interval .visited an other assise town, and there Judgo A. nau leu inrco tor execution., At ine trial of these men, however, I bad not at tended. So shocked had been tuy feelings with the mournful event which had take 11 place at, that I bad gone into Wales 'or the Sake of change of scene. Aftc roaming about for a fortnight amidst the ild solitudes of Caernarvonshire, I took .he stage for the pity which I knew thecourt raa to visit, and arrived on tho day previ jus to the opening of the assizes. "Will, are we to have a hesvuy oalen lar? I inquired next morning of a brother barrister on entering thecourt Rather light for March atitxo, 'replied 1 10 hnpatient count ft', as be bustled onward Tbere'i Cartwrigbt's case highway tob - kery ta I a roV tb prtWWii noil swing for ft, and f erhifour or 'ftr- others.' ' Agood hanging ridge Is A - - t- ,''i. the nnder-Bheriff, who at this moment joir-. cd us, rubbing bis hands, as if pleaded wilif' th prospect ef a few executions. (No change of lb tf prophecy yon dor coming' to pass, I suppose?, x. " ' !,' ' - m "Net in the least, fcplted the tasnTnir counsel 'Ho' never looked 1 belter.' ' II ;g illness has gone completely off. .And this day's work will brighten bim up.' 1 ' " Cartwrigbt's trial camo pn, ' I bad ev or seen the man before, and was not aware ' that this was the same person whom Harvey, had incidentally told ne ho had discharged, for theft; . the , truth beingthat till the last' moment of his existence, thai nnfortunatp man hadf not known bow much bp bad been. a sacrifice to this wretch's malico.. . f , The crime of which tho villain uow stood accused was that of, robbing a farmer ,c the paltry sum of. eight shillings, in the. neighborhood of I)fracombe.4; lIe pleaded not guilty, but put in no defence , A vcr-. diet was recorded against hiin and. in duo form A., sentenced bim to bo banged.; An . expression, of. fiendish malignancy nlcam-r ecl over the haggard features of tho feloii. as no asked leave to address a tew words to the eourt. . It was granted. , Leaning for ward, and rising liis heavy,' scowling yca to the judge, be thus began: 'There is tome nine on. my mina, my lora a arcaaiul crime which, a lam to die for tho eurht shillings I took from th farmer, I may as. well confess. You may remember Harvey. . my lord, whom you banged the otber duy. at-A-?, '"What of bim, fellow?' replied .1. - ! ji 1 h me juuge, 111s icaiurcs Huuucniy nusuing -... - 1. ;.. . 1 i 1 1 . . , '.-1 . . . ,i crimson . .. Vby my lord, only this that be was as 1 innocent of the crime for which you( atigedbim as the child yet unbiirhf I did the deed! I put the .watch in. his .trunk!', And to the Uftuttorablo borrpr of tbe cn, tire court he related, the whole partjpulars n me iransaciion, ine origin 01. ins gruugo, igaiinst.Harvey, and bis. delight on bring ng him to the gallows' ' ' "' ''' '' 'Inhuman excorablo villain! gasped the judge in extreme excitement. . ,,, 'Cleverly done, thoujrb! Was it not, rat' . lord? rejoined the ruffian with bitter irony fhe evidence, you know, was irresietiblo the crime as clear as the sun .at noonday;, a not if, in such plain cases, the jus? and.', necessary law ' was not enforced, society J would bo dissolved,' and there would lie no- security, for property! These' were.youfj words', I think . How on that, occasion Xt admired your lord dap's judgment and e oqusnoel, Society would , be dissolved jf an innocent man wero not hanged! Ha l-ha i f -ha I Capital! capital!' .shouted the fero cious felon with demoniac gleoj as bo mark-, eu too ti ncct oi ins worus ou tuo counton- , ance pf tho judge. ' 'Remove the prisoner!' cried , tho sheriff. An officer was about to do so; but the judgo motioned him to desist. His . lordship'a features worked convulsively. He seemed t stritingtospeakjbut words would not come 'I suppdsd, my lord,' cdn tin uod . Cart- wright in low and hissing tones, as tbqr shadow of unutterable despair grew ard fettled on bis face ' I suoposo you know f that ins wito destroyed herself. The cor-f oner's jury itaid sho had fallen accidoiital-'. ly into tlie water. 1 know better, hue drowned herself under the agonies of ft, broken heart! I saw her corpse,, with 'tho dcadbaby in its afrus; and then I felt, knew, that I was lost! Lost, doomed to everlast-1 ing perdition! But my lord,, -and hero tho wretch broke into a howl Wild and tcrifio lwe shall go down together down to wbertt , your deserts are kuown. A-h-hl that pinches you does it? Hound of a judge! Icgul murderer! coward! I spurn and spit upon thee!' Tho rest of the appalling pb- . jurgation was inarticulated, as the nion . ater, foaming and sputtering, was drrged by an officer from the dock. , ; f Judge A had fallen forward on his face, fainting and speechless with the vio lenoo of h'is emotions. ' Tho black cap bad dropped from bis brow. His bands were stretched out across the benctif'aud vari-, ous members pf the bar rushed to his as-' sistanco. ' The court broko up in frightful commotion. Two days afterwards tho court paper had the following announcement: . : ; 'Died at the ltoyal H0U5I, r-, on the 27th instant, Judgo A ; from access tf fever supervening Upon a disorder front1 whi h he had imperfectly reoovored.' ' " The prophecy was fulfilled I ' . i 11 - - - i Tim II.VNDKKiu'iiiEF. The nndker4 chief is now, in Paris, one of the mosl expensive portions of a lady's toilette. -There is tho breakfast band Kerchief) the one for mid day, aud fur tho dinner cost, ume one niude in the most olegaht manner , and of tho finebt lace. Tbcy all vary in ' rUo, In bapeandin richness of ornament. For special ocoisions they are specially: ornamented. Por tbe Imperial buut, for instuneo, tbcy aro curiously worked in . satin sti toll, with reprebcntatiou of stags, bonnds and buntainro. I'or othor oo! canons, appropriate ornamental design are adopted. The rank pf tbe Parisian ' lladiea can now be pretty well dcUirmiaod, jby the costlint and luty it til biudi UcT'j'hKX.