Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

EXECUTION AT LISBON.

LISBON, MAY 8

Yesterday an Englishman, Mr. H. * nephew of an English Peer, late of the Imperieux. underwent the sentence of the Portuguese law. The law for a murder decrees that he shall be strangled, and then have his head and hands cut off, and be removed to the place were the murder was committed, and put up upon a pole, with the hands nailed under the head, and there to continue three days. The prisoner was accompanied from the prison by police soldiers, and walked bare headed, without shoes or stockings on, with a kind of surplice tied round with a cord. He proceeded thus to the place where he was to terminate his earthly career, a Minister of the Church of England, the Chaplain of a ship, knelt down with him for some time, and, after a suitable devotion, he was led up the ladder, where he gave up his life. After being suspended some time the executioner proceeded to perform the other part of his duty, and severed his head from his body, which was put into a basket, and carried away to the place were he committed the act: Some sailors attended with a coffin, and put the body of the deceased into it, and carried it away in a boat.

The cutting off his hands was remitted. His head was placed upon a pole, for some hours, opposite to the spot where he committed the murder, and after that time was taken down and thrown into the sea.

[ Mr. H killed a Portuguese, in a quarrel which originated at a gaming table.]