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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Aram 13.

NEW COURT.
Before the RECORDER.
Wm. Rudland stood indicted for embezzling one sovereign and
seven shillings, on the 11th January, the property of Francis Mat-
toon, 33, Brook-street, Holborn.
The Jury immediately found him Guilty, and the Cootie sea.
tented him to be transported for seven years.
SENTENCES.
Barnard Leirnan, who was on Tuesday convicted of selling se.
vereigns, knowing them to be counterfeit, was this morning son-
tenced to be publicly whipped, and imprisoned in the House of
Correction for the term of two years, and to be kept to hard labour.
Daniel Leveridge, Henry Oliver, Henry Barton, and Phi)*
Ward, also convicted on Tuesday of selling counterfeit coin, were
then sentenced to be twice publicly whipped, and imprisoned two
years in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour.
Isaac Salomon', alias .Martin, a lad about 16, similarly con-
victed, was sentenced, considering that from his youth he had been
entrapped by the above prisoners, to be whipped once, and one
year's imprisonment in the Fame prison.
At half-past two, the following prisoners were placed at the bar
to receive sentence of death :
Ilenry Goff, burglary ; Henry Williams, stealing in a dwelling
house ; William Probers, horse stealing; John Thompion, high-
way robbery ; William Sergeant, horse stearrig; John Cobbett,
burglary ; Stephen Medwinter, burglary ; Frederick Morgan,
stealing in &dwelling-house ; Elizabeth Doyne,atealing in a dwell-
ing-house • W illians August, stabbing with intent to do bodily
harm award David Dunn, burglary ; James Goff, burglary ;
Edwanl Crawley, burglary ; Henry Brown, stealing in a dwelling-
house ; John Bowers, stealing in a dwelling-house.
When the Officer of the Court put the usual question to William
Probert, why judgment should not be passed on him, the psi.
Nonce read the following address from a paper which he held in his
hand :
M r LORD—In soliciting leave to obtrude myself on the notice
of your Lordship for a very few minutes, it is not my intention to
occupy your valuable time by any interruption with respect to my
past life, but to urge something on my own behalf, which may,
perhaps, be of some service to me hereafter, when my unfortunate
case shall undergo consideration in a higher quarter. Should Ibe
out of order, your Lordship will have the goodness to signify the
same, and I shall think it my duty immediately to desist. I, like
all others similarly situated with myself, naturally look to my
Gracious Sovereign for some mitigation of that awful sentence
which your Lordship is now about to pronounce on me. 1 am
confidert that the public prejudice, which for some length of time
has operred powerfully against me,. may still continue, but will
not have any weight with ha Majesty's Council, or render me
an unworthy member of the Royal mercy. It is therefore I
humbly implore permission, before I shall be removed from
th's bar, once more to offer a solemn appeal to all who shall
hear me, and to my country, that in this instance of the crime
of which I have lately been convicted, I did not act from any other
motive than that of the most heart-rending distress, which bad put
it out of my power to obtain a morsel of bread for the subsistence:
of myself and family. Whatever my final fate may be, I wish not
to sink into my grave with the curses of my countrymen on my
head. I can truly declare that the fatal event which was the princi-
pal cause of my subsequent miseries and degradation, was, in no
shape, contrived or executed with my concurrence or knowledge. 1
possess no more than an after-knowledge of the deed. My, great
distress and poverty at this time can be well known, for although I
was assisted by my Council on my trial, the fee was kindly sent
me, and the gentleman who prepared my case and assisted
in my defence, I could not rwompense with one sixpence. This
distress and poverty was brought on me by being almost an outcast
from society. No liends--no employment, nor any could I pro.
cute—with a wife and two children, who looked up to me for sup-
port--my Lord, when it is considered that no violence was used,
and the mare the property of a relation, I thought I should not
have been pursued with such severity. These circumstances, from
your Lordship's great htimanity, will not be forgotten when my
unfortunate case shall be represented to his Most Gracious Majesty.
Having said thus much, k will now become a duty required of me,
to prepare myself by prayer, by patience, and by resignation, that
whether I lire, or whetherl die, I may be an object of mercy to my
God, and of some commiseration to my fellow men. I humbly im.
plore your Lmdship's pardon, and only pray that my. wretched life
may be spared on such conditions as my Most Gracious Sovereign
may be pleased to extend.
lo conclusion, he begged to express his sincere thanks to Mr.
Wontner, for his humane attention to him whilst in his custody,
and also to the other cfficera of the prison.
His I.onnsttrr said, that the matter contained in the address
was rather a subject for the consideration of his Majesty. in Coun-
eil than any argument against the legality of the conviction, cc the
sentence of death that was to follow it so far it was of ro avai'.
What its ultimate success would be. he of course could not say, as
it was not for him to anticipate what might be determined on at a
future stage. His Lordship then, after a very impressive address.
passed sentence of Death on the several prisoners. His Lordship,
nn p sing sentence, did not make the slightest allusion to the per-
due' ir crime of any of the prisoners.
l'robert was dressed in a black coat and waistcoat. Whilst in
Court he appeared quite collected; perhaps his manner bordered on
indifference. His address was delivercel in a clear and distinct voice.
When he came to that part of it is which allusion is made to the
poverty of his wife and children, he became evidently affected, and
then only it was that he exhibited the slightest emotion.
The tollowing yrisonen were next sentenced
Mary Arne VI ilson, Jane 111'Donald, Evan Evans, Jas. Lewis,
John Smith, and Joseph Thomas, to be transported for lite ;
Richard Green and Thomas Riley, to be transported for 14 years;
James Wilson, Joseph Drury, John Attains, Wm. Silvester,
Henery Vesey, Jas. Irving. Louisa Hill, Mary Watson, Anne
M•Kensie, George Harris, Wm. Richards, Wm. Brown, John
111•Honald, George Thompson, Samuel Afoxey, Joseph So-ahem
Thos. Terabit**, John SienLe John Williams, 11'm. Abrahams,
Chas. Cullirgford, Catherine :Sullivan, Elizabeth Webster alias
Eady, Berjanun Camp, Samuel Turner Daniel Thcs. Preoon,
John Crease, Samuel Ever, Henry Hart, James Jackson, .Eliza-
beth Sadler, Henry G. Griffith., George Kent; Mary Sullivan,
David Jones, Mary Edwards, Joseph Hurst Britton, Isaac Stowe,
Win. Thomas, James George, Wm. Holdworth, Joseph Forbes,
John Bober, Wm. Moffat, Moses Joseph, Richard Motlock,
Richard Frost, John Patmore, and Win. Patmcre, to be transported
for seven years.
Nine were unwired to imprisonment in the House of Correc-
tion, and to be kept to hard labour for one year ; one, 18 months;
one, 9 months; 18, six months; four, 4 months; and 19, three
months. . .

Several others Vert sentenced to minor punishments.
The Court adjourned to the 19th of April.

CORN EXCHANGE, Aran 13.

Although we have seereely any Grain fresh up for to-day's mar-
ket, yet we have had a very dull trade. Fine samples of Wheat
scarcely supported Monday's eurreacy ; and inferior ones •ere ra-
ther tower. Every article was somewhat cheaper.

COAL MARKET, Aram 13.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold.
%I. Newcastle . 231 -
19 Sunderland - 17

Prim
-29 s 9d to 37s Od
314 Od to Ings Od

We regret to state that Richard Incledon Bury, Esq
Vice-Admiral of the White, was thrown from his gig, at a
short distance from his house, near Barnstaple, on Sunday
last, and killed.
Mr. William Cobbett, jun., son of the celebrated Wil-
liam Cobbett, arrived at Tuthill's hotel in Dawson-street,
on Saturday. lie comes to take "a rural ride" through
Ireland.—DaMin Freeman's Journal.

Ex E. C Axford, the unfortunate youth con-
victed at the lut Launcestor, Assizes, for setting fire to a
rick of corn, near St. Austell, was executed at Bodinin,
pursuant to his sentence, on. Thursday last. He was only
in his 21st year.