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a little chaise. He told her the coach was ready i
by *hi. h rite wa. to Ito lu Blitiiiisghaffl. and that
hw *milli meet leer there that night. He gave her
ti/ In pay ler eepessses„• sod he conducted her he
Ow Saracen's 11-ad Inn. where he took
the key of leer soastrs's elope from tier, and agreed
to vesielsset tlw children home leistoelf. She went
to Birentstetham, where lobe fouled slit had been rho
teived. Need ret nrewil gioise !stows, ose the Wednesday.
( ern:shard •by Mr. Atros.ruus —lt was the
111-i-osier who Ares. the eh Weer boot Smithfield to
sew Smartie's,
The letters ituoloring mercy. written by the
Premier to Mr. lihNanserit mid Mr. Horsley, were
these put in sesa read.
The tweeter the prosecution was then closed.
The Prisoner was then called upon, ur his de.
.fence. lie inimellestely took from hie pocket a
toll of prover mot opened it,
Mr. Auutpnus,. oleo wog Coneforl (with Mr.
ANDaews), begged to :;ay' that he was ignorant of
the contents of deisieeper. :
The Prisoner these ,reitl him defence from the
mamoseriso. 'He implored, in the first iessiance,
!lest the Jetty woldil banish from their salads all ',w-
indier which ruight leave hero excited ley the peer.
'lid statements of his conduct which bid gone
abroad, and he entreated their attentiou while
reoleavonseil to place the crime to his cleirge
hs a esfierriet !rosiest of view front that its which et
was represented by his Prosecutor. He these went
into coss.telerable detail respecting the personnel and
'freehold pr ,terry of leis father, which he stairs! to
have been rosesedrrable, and the greater part of
which Mr. Dignum the singer, became passeswil of.
Mfr deortihett leis tether to have become, towards the
close of his life, very feeble in his Invited frculeies,
rod he very severely erotism's' the cowbell of Mr,
pigment. ies a number f private faMily matters
which In. narrated. He described the step,. he had
taken, with et view of recovering from Mr. Dignoni
'certain property of which In. became possessed, and
his bring, isi the end. compelled by poverty to
compromere his right with that gentlemen' for a
cuss, of ttttt eery much inferior to what he *wiled to
he the amount of his just climes. He admitted
tie having acted wrong in carrying off Mr. Horsley's
child, but ins denied that his guilt deserved the
colour whirls lad been put upon it by his Pro.
-secutors. lie had beets changed with • waist of
feeling Nod lionsairty. The leeest answer to that
. was, the care sod kinstnews hr had sliewes the
child while in his possession. He had been also
charged with sbassilmong the female child ewer the
Ayluen. and leaving it so its fate. This was also a
caleelsood. He pressed the girl, ies the first place, to
leave the child at tlw greets-grocer's where Mr. Hursw
ley's family dealt Mertioubury-looe,but OW refused,
need when In. eventirelly left the child sitar tier Asy.
lune, hr stopped at the opposite side of the road un-
til he saw three well.dressed females come up and
lake charge of it.. He then stated, at Week he
restrrposed as, delay to Mr. Horeiley's Identity of the
child. soul Owes received from Mr. Horsley the
striengeist asettraoces of pardon. Ise
canelu►iun. lee
uhrrrtrrl that his provocation to commit Ihr UMW
least been great, mid his soilesequeest pneesslsmeut
signed: In. 11.s1 suffered *ix moieties' einproseonsueut..-
I.s• iafaW repeld load died to the prisms, *here Isis
wife hail hero realise. d cis a viewer of participating
in his guilt. Under ibsue rercesuptruces, hr Ml-
t.lino the Costal and the Jury to take a wervilul
c 00000 Or Isis owe. . .

In the course of this uddress the Prionotr was or-
icasiooally .rs •Ifected us to rhed flood. of tears, and
he repeatedly Iworme iududible bout hi. dinettes.
Wore. hr lord liirialred, . .

Mr. Horsley rose, and entreated !tennis.' to
veply to the seatemetet ilia& by the hammer of titter
family re urea, Hut the Court refused to hear
a.ty thing WI MAWS so iflrtiellent to the present
itoriry.
Mr. Justice BAT LEY then briefly recapitulated
the evidence In the Jury, who nestatotly returued a
in rani of Guilty.
The Learned Judge three addressed the Prisoner
in the T.ittowitig terms:—
" Chinks Rennet, ynn here been convicted on
the clesiest evidence of • clime of the utmost
magnitude, • crime which precludes the resii.
in!ity of your receiving any mercy. You have
sunken at great length of the provocal which
Tim rs present yourself to have rev caved front
the infliction of ;aerate wrong--but that cool
not justify the crime you committed—und.r any
ciictsiustances you had no eight to be your
nivel avenger. Wpitleo. what satisfaction had you
to y our power to give for the possible cense.
'rpteecss of your act. The inertias of the child
might have died, or lost their frames no account of
his lots, at how could you repair such an ore -,r.
relicts'? In the proper time you will receive your
•-eitence; but I owe it to public justice to
to yoti nu*. that the roll measure of punishmetit
which taw moot& will he adjudged in your cam-,
ilia your fade will be transportation for 'ryas years,"
The Prisoner. was greatly agitated.
The Court was (rum • very early hour crowded
'hy ladies, slimy or whom were obliged to stand in
the dar-k. the body of the Court was so filled. A
line di Id iseAhe arms or a female attracted consi-
de.shir attention, frets, • whisper havitig gone
round that it was Mr. Horsley's. The Detects WA*
CfOlide'd with Magistrates.