We insert a letter on the...
We insert a letter on the subject of the publication of Police-office examinations, becausc the writer strongly presses it upon our impprtiality, though we on maniy parts entertain a different opinion, and though we are wholly untouched by thosc imputations which he endeavours to cast upon the Press generally. The first thing that made Thurtell, the murderer, an object of less horror than on the first discovery of his crime, was the stupidity of endea- vouriug to stop up the access of legal advisers to hirn. The trash which he spoke on his trial was Do subject of our praise; but, on the contrary, wve were greatly shocked to hear of any approbation bestowed upon it by a higher au- thority than ours-the learned Judlge who tried him. With respect to O'Connolly, we never ceased- from repre. hending the wicked and venal efforts which were ma(le to save him froin a merited punisliimient. It is a present case which seemr to give the writer pain: but the life of a cri- minal is an object, we maiiitain, of just and rational cu- riosity ; and the supposition that juries are so ignorant as not to be able to distinguish between the evidence adduced before them on a trial, applicable to the. oQfence charged only, and the anecdotes which they may have heard out of doors, is a proof of the ignorance of these (of wliom there are many) who make the supposition.