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156 The other prisoners denied that they had concurred w ith the mob in demanding money. Several witnesses then gave the prisoners a good character. Mr. Justice Abbot recapitulated the evidence to the Jury, and observed, that if they should he of opinion that NI r. Ed wards was induced to part with the money from the violence actually used towards - him, and from the tear of greater vio lence, it was not material whether it was the money of Rick wood, or of the bankers, or of Edwards; lie was the person in po .session of the property, and in point of law the prisoners could nut say it was his property, Mir that of another. The in dietment,however, was 34 tr.atticil .t, to meet the ease in every \tiro . Dennis , his di fence, bail said, that lie was not a free and voltam:try agent, bat took part with the intili for feur of %Mistime ; hot it was incumbout on a person to stem most clearly moth satisfactorily, not merely that he was in the outset forced to juin an nula lid assembly, but that he Emit' •il in it only so long as that force was I spun him. They would ritilge from the evidence, whether the pit:mum lead made out a case of that naLiire. !some persons had given them a good eharac tee; but as he had already observed, where facts were clearly pro% ed. character could as ail. . . . Tlw Jury deliberated for sonic time, and then returned the (olio *erdiet.-- Dennis, JetEes wit, and kutter ; Hop kins and tttttt ell Nut Till itSI/AY. JUNE Atkin, John Drintigi, Sarah !LIMA, Richard Jessup'', John Jett, 'Nun, Aaron Layton, John i'rieke, and John Cooper, were found guilty of riot and rub bery in the dwelling-Mine of Wiii. Cooper, of Ely. Ju Free -111:tli was acquitted.—Funr of the above 'glimmers were again tried with W Walker 41111 Jame: Caminiell, fog rubbing .11 r S ft.% ens, of Ely, miller, Will All fOUlid guilty, except Jefferson and Mialker.—Argun Chevell and William liiminiss the eider, vrere arraigned for rubithig Henry Tausley, of Litheport, Esq. The Jury found Aaron Chesell guilty, and %I in. Ilea:now not guilty. FRIDAY. JUNE 21.—.1. Frist7, J. Walker, G. Crowe. R. Nieholas, W. JA.l,.:un, W. Wilson, and lt. fluteher, were placid •at the Lar, and arrasgned fiw haring. on the night of the gud of May Lot, in the darish of Eittlepurt, tuten rummy unities ut grocery and rapery. together with three promissory notes of the value of one pound each, from the dulling-house ut Itchisva Waddelow, and by c a s,,in g fear in the said llehecea IVadd.low and others. - 'l'o this indictment the primna s libauleit Nut Guilty. Mr. Gurmy, as leading counsel for the ploaaitition, addressed the Jury for the purpose of reminding them. that the prisoners were the stone persons who had tra n put upon their trial on Tie:sday. ac itharged with having committal the crime of bucilary. and in otiose favour a verdict of aciptittil had hcen meessardy „Mein; in ronsequenee of an error in the frame of the indium: at, which described the limo.. in qu?s tiqn to be tile prorvirty of Rebecca Waildclow; whereas it appeared by Mr Martin's evidence. that it was the joint pperty of lire and Mr. M Artie. It was the same case to vritie . li , ie had 'IOW to direct their Arcot ' n. iett jeesented in a new form. and to prevent any possibility elf mistake, three different moults w: re introduced, charging it to b . e. the pr Percy of Mr. :\ lartin,of Mrs. Watidelaw.and the joint property of bis":. In ti:: c!,arge as ori s tritially fram-1, other persons were in duct:a in the .i:ensie: but as ',ley had been convicted of other capital crimes, it had been demi. uticusible to disci:ribs:lass the present pro seemioa as fa: as they were sainceincd. The wit—swis were then new cued. and the cause ovempied a great portion e: the day; but us tar eviden .? varied little from what was the former trial, it is utuaticssaary to lead user reialtirs into a mato- 'etail of it. Ti atier five minutes consideration, found a verdict of guilty ; , Walker, liuteher, and Crowe, and acquitted Nicholas, W.p.m., and .letiilson. !Lacy Benton, a contiderlhle farmer, who was out upon bail, was th, , n put to the bar, and indiebal for exciting and instigating divers persons to caoinit riots in the town of Ely. The court ordered him to gnd atnety. hinisch in 4001. and two others in vol. each, to appear and take hit ui..l at the next assizes. It, Cooper the elder, and H. Cooper the younger, were also hand in rxugnizaness to appear at the next assizes, and take their trial for rionsu.: conii.u,:t in the town of Ely. W. d, arai a the elder, and W. keamiss the younger, were convicted of having, on Wednesday, the tad day of May list, feloniously as. saultett H. Cheeseright the younger, of Littleport in the Isle of Ely. and put him in lushly fear; and of having taken from Ida person a banker's cash note of the value of 11. Atter this, from YO to 5o prisoners were severally put to tile bar, and indicted for having committed various felonies and niialein,anours at I.ittleport, onthe V 51.2.31.1, and 24t11 of May lam. Some of then' were allowed to traverse till the next assizes ; and the remainder having sig nifies' their wish to be tried immadiately, Mr. Gurney rose, and addressed the Court as follows i— s, My Lords—My learned friends and myself have had imposed on us a very painful, but at the same time a very important duty—that of presenting to vow consideration those lamentable cases of outrage anti plunder which have occupied your attention for several days past. Of the premiers now at the bar, many are charged with misdemeanours, some of theta with larcenies, and two with committing assaultS with intent to rob. In the course of these transactions, there were not fewer than three hundred persons engaged : about eighty were committed for trial ; and in every case that has yet appeared, the commitment of the magistrates has been confirmed by the finding of the grand jury,— It ho.: been the anxious wish of his Majesty's government not to call fir judgment in more casts than were necessary ; and we have been in vested with a discretion to pause when a sufficient number of cases had been brought before the Court. We have been anxiously looking to the limits of this power; and we trust that, in pausing here. wk have not been inattentive. to the public welfare on the one side, or To the elating of humanity on the other. As to the prisoners now at the bar, we are desirous that every one of them should be enlarged, on giving a small security for their appearance here on a future day: wishing them, however. to understand, that if they make a proper return to the lenity of the crown, they will not be called upon to answer tie the offences with which they now stand charged. Eno ugh. we hope. has been dime to mach the inhabitants of this isle the necessity of obriliemv to the laws, and of repect her the peace and property of their neighbours. They will find, that if unlawful assemblies shouhl ever again spring up, it will be as much their interest as it is their duty to asawiate and put them down, as patience and indulgence only encourage greater crime.. I hope, too, enough has been done to teach thisie who may he induced to nits with a mob meaning only the violation of the peac e . the danger of being led on to the commission of the blackest entices, which navy inevitably bring them. to destruction. I have only farther to remark. that I hope we shall not hare to repent the lenity which the crown has authorized us to show to the misguided men who now stand a the bar." Mr. Justice Abbot then athlreved the prisoners as follows : " Prisoners at the liar—The lharned gentlemen who have appeared here on the behalf of the public, to conduct tae prUSettllloll against the very numerous offenders who were brought tar justice here, hare. in the exercise of their discretion, given you the opportunity of returning to so eietv, without being subject to take your feel tier the bills which have been found against you, on your own security, and the security of such friend, as you may find, to appear here at a future time; accompanied with an assurance to you, that if you shall conduct yourselves quietly, soberly, and peaceably, you shall never:kg:lin b, called upon. I trust the very greet lenity which they have displayed un this occasion will have its due effect upon your minds; and that, on your return tu your houses. you will not only conduct yourselves quietly, but warn your friends and neighbours to behave in like manne r . Th e propriety of the di:Ai:lift which has been exercised will never he called in question, unless you abuse the mercy which has beck extendal to you. The court trusts that it will operate on your future lives, and that you will no , be the less restraimsl front the commission of fresh crimes, than ye , : wwild hate lain if you had been brought to some punishment. 1 n, staifer you to depart. You will have your friend* here to-morrow THE NATIONAL REGISTER. morning, to enter into security for your good behaviour. but to an initially that will not deter arty person front being responsible tor you. Fach of you may give his own recognizance for Sul., and find two sure -Ik' for 101. each, or one surety for Dd." The learned Judge then addressed the Grand Jury ns follows : .• Gentlimen of the Grand Jury—the country is greatly indebted to you for the seniees you have already ferfonned but RS it may lw ne cessary that you should re.assettle. if fresh diiiturliiinces should he nuns mine& the court cannot disiiiisa you in the usual a ay. You are few the present dismissed, and the counnT is obliged to vii for the Jinn and niably way in which you Juice diseilorged your ditties." Several a the prisonors entered into reciognizances in court ; and the whole were Risen to retire, when Mr. Justwe Abbot desired to make one oihertbsirention to them. Ile exhorted them, on their return to tinier homes. to avoid all extort of liquor, and not to drink and tipple at public-housm such practices were most perbieions to themselves and injurious to their families. It appeared that these transactions had arisen from a mob hinting out of a public-house. this was the origin of the present mischiefs, and others of the like nature. Ile cautioned thou. therefore, to avoid such meetings, and such conduct, for the Insure, The Court then adjourned till nine o'clock to-morrow mothing. S v rutin v, tAF: 22.--'this nun niuu ut nine the Court reassembled? when judgment of death or:ti mooted on the fol loth lig prisoners, u ho hail beets convicted of rapital offences : Aaron Chet ill, Iltieliard slenottp,Joseph Eau, ,Titotra° 44,oll4 . 4 " Mao lc Denton, for Intrglary iu the duelling house of Josiah Dewey, of Link:port ; also TI as South, William Dann, and Hobert Cribb, for stealing' in the dwelling-Innen, of Ito heni Speeettley, I , f Littlepurt ; also James Neu ell and Note Hirley, f.r robbery from the person of the Het . . J. A'arliell, clerk of Littleport ; also John Dentits„lohn Jefferson, and Hit-hard flut ter. for a robbery from the person of Hubert Edward-, of Ely ; also %Valiant 11e:finis% the younger, for robin ry from the perSllll or I f 1121 i Hobert Evans, of Isle; alto Aaron Layton, Juhu Den nis, Uteliard Jlll.Oll, ‘Villiam Atkin, Sarah Hobbs. John Prirke, JOLU Cooper, and John Jefferson. for iittiliery from Ilie person of 11 illiatn Cou l ter, of Ely ; also John Di •%. Ai l - 3 , l^?'• William Atkin, and James C; II, for rubbery tines the pel SOU of George Stevens, of Ely : also It illiam Iteamiss the elder. and Ani VIII, for rob!). ry tlum Ilse p:Tsoli of Rehm Tam siey of Littleport ; ako John Eil , ey, John Watkins, lii heti Hotelier, and George Crow, for stealing in the dwelling-lunt ne of Hebert-;t IVaddelow unit Henry !lid' inn, of Littli port ; also Iteamiss the elder, and VI illiam lieamiss the younger, for robbery from the petbou of Hubei( Cheisseright, of Little porn Mr. Justice Abbott then taidrtmcd them to the folln*ing effi•et .• Prisoners to the hae—You stand here. Oa persons in number, it melancholy example to all (Doi are here preen, and to all your coun try, of the sad ettects of mi. - bilging in thus' brutal and violent passions by which you all appear to have been actuated iu the cromuession at the mimes( of whieh you have been convicted. You seem to have thought, that by your own strength, and your own threats, you should not only be able to oppress and into:Mime your poweahle neighbours, but even to resist the strong arm of the law itself. Ilow Tani that thou,, , ht, your present situation shows. It •to suggosted that you had beeninduced to perpetrate these violent outrages. by hard necessity and want; but. utter attending closely and oriedy to the whole tenour of the midence, which has occupied the attention of the court for several days. there has not appeared in the condition, cir cumstances, or behaviour of any one ot >nu, any natant to suppose thut you were instigated by distress. By what motive. or under what mistmom advice or disoosition, pat began to act :n t e way you did s js bast and perhaps only known to God and your own tainiwienves. The preservation out um, - ea toe osant miler awl }ease of society, the pre &ovation of life itself, imperiously calls upon the court to declare, tha many of you must expect to undergo the full sentence of the law. It is so:ne consolation tothe court to heable to say, that in attending to and distinguishing the eases of each particular individual, we have found uu inaiiy ut Li.t.iffenCtitiv•LillllVs Widdl IC; rrant us in giving to Dual) , of you a hope that your lives will be saved. Toe gentlemen of toe jury have pointed out some of you to our attention; and in so doing they hove acted with that merciful disposition and accurate discriminas tion which they have shown throughout the whole of yogi- trials. Such of you whose lives may, perhaps, be saved by till. crown—tliat power alone on earth who can save thulli—ntuA not expect that you shall be tli,lll6wed from dour (Minis without undergoing some severe punish mint. Many of you must expect to be sent away for a greater or less portion of time. and a few even for the whole period of their lives, from that country whose peace they have thus disturbed, and which they have thus disgraced. Human justice. however it may be administered, as it is always in this country with mercy, requires that some of you should undergo the full sentence. in order that others may be deterred from following the example of your crimes. You William lb-amiss the elder. you George ('row, you John Dennis, von lome Harley, you Thomas !tooth the younger; let me exhort you to prepare for that sentence: let me entreat you to apply your selves, during the short rimainder of the time which can he allowed to you in this world, by prayer and penitence, to appease that Almighty power whom you have offended: address yourselves seriously and fervently to that throne of grace. from which hereafter you may extra to find that mercy which cannot 1w extended to you here. You William Iteamiss the elder are a person whose condition in life ought to have taught you to restrain any unruly and turbulent disposition in your less enlightened neighbours, instead of becoming one of the most forward in the perpetration of those ofrences which placed your town Sir several days in a state of trepidation and alarm. You boasted, however. of your situation, and took with you your own son to he the partner of your crimes. Considering his youth. and the influence which your evil example may be (atomised to have had upon him. he is placed among those who are reemninended to the mercy of the throne. You George Crow were one of the number whip, at it late hour of the night, NV:se into the dwelling of two peaceable individuals against whom you had no cause of offence. One of them, whose age aril infinni6ot were entitled to imitation and respect, was subjected to your violence and plunder: the other had the good fortune to eseope fully he ing from you. Your offence, therefore, is not merely that of oath you have been convicted: you came there, not with that intentitm alone, but to. destroy the life of one person. You John Dennis arc also • per tain whose condition in life might have taught you to restrain the wicked possions of others. You endeavoured., on your first appearance in this place. to represent to the coup, that you hid been compelled by twee to leave the plate of your dwelling, and liive your assistance in plundering the inhabitants of this city. 'I he Jury to wlttati this representation was referred did even, on that tweasion, repudiete the evidence: two other trials followed. and you o ere found swotting forward as the leader of that lawless band which entered this (my ter the purposes of plunder and violence, and anted with a more dangerous weapon than the rest of pair associates. You Isaac Harley were the first person alto assaulted the reverend minister of your parish at los own door: you stood the first of that wicked aosembly, and demanded money of him: and hay ing refused shut moderate sum he otrerod. you enforced from loin the delivery of his money by your own bodily strength, threed your way into his dwelling. and compelled him tool his funnily fty at that late hour fin their lives. Yon flumes south the youn ger appeo to have been one of the most aetifo in those wicked trans actions which took place in your town; you took from one of your neitthbours the savings perhapi of many years; and then proceeded to another, and foxed him to part with such MIMS it you sail your LAW fr.,: companions detnandelL With a deadly weapon in your hand, you afterwards went to the house of an typal wmnan, mid shook it over her head. In addition to these outrage , . there are no less than four other OWL% in which the grand jury of your country have Mond bills of in dictment tolainst you. You then, the live whom I have addressed, let me again exhort you to apply you helves by penitence rood prayer to ob tain front Heaven the parotin a your crimes. It now remains fir me to pronounce on each and every one of you the awful sentence of death ; anti that sentence is, that you anti etch of you be takenfronthenee to the place from whence you came, and from thence to sonic phut of Metal. JUNE Q 4. tion, where vou are to be hung by the neck until you are dead. And as to you William riemniss the elder. George Crow, John Dennis. Isaac Harley, and Thomas South the yo unger, apply to the C e d u f merey, that he would have m erc y on y ou , ' !hiring the whole fol sentence the pi isoners were deeply adirted, and N% k 1•11 6'1.111 the bar in agony - of grief. Joseph Lavender, bei a .•011V , Ci..(1 of stealing smile silver spouts, the propel t% 1 the Re% . John then brought up, and prayed tile benefit al Oct gy, according to the statute. Mr. Justice Abbot addressed the prisoner. He told him that he had been finuid guilty 4.t •te:diiig 1 , 1111, illtql,th a sex y small part, of the property of the Res. J. Vachi 11. which was earth L I assay by ii most violent and oulriigemis assembly. It had *not appeared, however, thui he was one of thuot• who lust broke into the loose. Hail that tact or any thing 11:M.1.g to that VUll• clii.ion, been proved against I ' the coon would has c liven rolled upon to pronou n ce a Piemonte as severe as the ease re quired. Considering, therelipre, all that hail bce•u brought against him, mid draw iipg a lavourable conclusion, the) remeuiteil him to be• imprisoned in the gaol of that city for 12 ealeoplat mouths, The prisoners who oei e allowed yesterday to VIII el into re•- e•orniranee•a tor their good behaviour were than bitniglit up and The remainder of the prisoner% being pot to the bar, Mr. Gurney stated, that he was instructed on the part of the Ci Ust n 110 to prefer any ' , nisei:mien against tin in. '1 hey were there to' e initnediately dischniged by proclamation. 'the coast thto rose, and the special cuuunisswn was concluded. SENTENCES. William Bemis% thv elder. George Crow. John Mimi!, Ism Har ley the younger. avid Tiaimus South the younger—to be execund on Friday. Ow 2stli of aunt. Aaiun Clitvell, Juxph Eit-ey, John Jefferson. Richard Jessop, Jas. Newell. reprieved, to be tratisporhwi for lilt:. Richard Rutter, reprieved, to Ix: fonrtetti years. Murk Benton, John Easey, undJolin rcprieved, to be trans ported tOr seven year:. Atkin. William Bcamiss the younger. Robert Butcher, James Itobert Crabb, John Cooler. William Dunn, Sarah Itolib:J. .Vuon Luyuat, John Priebe—Du. iii.pri•oinnent in Ely goal twelve months. • Tiat,enteuces bring passel, tlx Special Commi,sion was dirscdred by proaatiatirm. Trird Capitally wzvicted - - - Yi I..uvenies - Acquitted 3 —ll Ilischardeni on Rceognitance • - 37 Du by Prbau:uatuni 'lO —47 Total - - 78 WHITE, COCHRANE, AM) CO. A LI. Persons having Mims on the Estate of WHITE, coot !lAN S, and (:0. Bouitsellas. Cur Goods left on Cranmissi .n, Of otherwise. are retlO ,tell to a: TWILL Of the score immodi attay, to Mr. W. on the premises. No. 63, Fleet-ktrett; And witn whom all Persons indebted to the Estate, arc requested to tittle their accounts without delay. OFFICE OF ORDNANCF, 14tH JUITC, ISM The Principal (dicers of his Mainll.t tednance do hereby give notice, that l'roposats :gill be received at their ()She in Pall Mall, on or bt:tiere Frid✓y. the ti•th instant. from such persons as ?nay he willing to undertake the Supply of ENGLISH. and FOREIGN TIAIBERjor service af• this Deparlmesat at Dozier and II ythe, in the Comedy of Kent, pr a period of Three determisin&e after the expiration of the first year, ',pan notice of three mouths, at the option ey'eith:r party. Farther particulars, to„ether• with the terms and eanditimis of the Contract, may beknarcn at the• Secretary's I tyke in Pall .VaU aforesaid. any day A•tie en the hours of ten and finer o'clock. nd.ere the prup•sols must he rb•tivered, seated sip. and ;4dg:ed. " Violin:4ln for English oral Foreign Timber ;" bait no proposal cur he admitted sifter the said 2uth instant, at twelve o'cick at WWI of the same day, neither uia trinkr he yolked ambles the party 'nuking it. or an agent is his he ha (shall dittoed. By (leder eil dr. Board, R. 11. Sec. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 5M Jame, 1816. TILE principal (ylicers Ilia Majesty's ()rdnancr do !teeth ! , give nutlet, th it yeupo+als will be re:viz:ell at Mrirryfee f n Pull. are ar before ir,am:aday, the 3d July 'ie.:kir...at sneh Persons as v he teillior to vadertake the Perfornmare o f the BRICIEI AYERS' WtiRK ,/in Servier of this Department. al Cbathano, fbr a period of three nears, determinable qtter Me expiratime theirst year, up.* toiler of Mire months, at Mr upturn of either party. Farther Partieolars, together with the it ruts aim conditions of the Contract, may he known upon applieation at the (Yee of Ordnance at Chatham, and also at the Seerrtai y's Office in Pail-Mull er.toresaid, any day hetweea the hoar: if ten and jimr, :Act a Mr proposal, Mint re, ed, sealed tif and indorsed Proposals for Ow Brim klayer's Work at Chatham on proposal can be °draft, d iffire thi said third July, at twelve o'eho.k al moos of the same day; neither wilt any tender be noticed unless the partp arcking it, or an agent in his tichaff, shall attend. By °idyl. if toe thr. , d. R. IL CREW, Serretary. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON : • MOND.IY, JUNE 24. -;- We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday last. They ere ahuost exclusively occupied with the particulars of the marriage-ceremony on Monday, at Notre Dame, of the Duke and Duchess of Berry. The language of the French press on the occasion is dis tinguished by such gross flattery and fulsome adulation, that some persons may be uncharitable etur.,gh to doubt the sincerity of the panegyrics so profusely lavished. The Monarch and his firmly are treated not as human bein ,, s, but us deities ; and we are told " the sun ruse clotullessfin• the purpave of illuminating the object of so many wishes and hopes." After this glowing ob. servation, the Bathos of the writer is most l , .alicrous ; as immediately after he tells us that some "veterans and others formed in two files to keep the passage clear limn the Thuillerics to the Church." The fountains of wine are represented to have run in abundance ; and if we may judge from the reverier of the writer, he drank freely of that precious stream The Paris papers, describing the Duchess of Berry, soy, " her cotuitenouee is full of sesi-