The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-02 00:00:00

street, Fitzroy-square. When taxed with the fact, he
admitted it, but said he had 4001. coming to him in a
few days, and would make every thing right. Upon
this representation Mr. Haydon suffered him to go at
large, but he never returned until he was apprehended.
The defence of the pi isoner consisted in attacks upon
the character of his master, for Hindi there did not ap-
peLir the smallest foundation.
He was found guilty, and the Court, in order to mark
its sense of the crime, and the conduct of the prisoner,
both before and at his trial, immediately sentenced hint
to transportation for 14 years.
THURSDAY, FEB. 27.—Daniel Griffiths was indicted
fur feloniously receking bank times to the amount of
if. 91., the property of Thomas M'Kennon, knowing the
saute to have been stolen. •
Mr. Nl'Kention stated, that he is an oil and colour
manufacturer. On the 20th of November he received
1:41-14s., among which were a 1001., a 201., and a .51.
note. Returning home about seven o'clock in the
evening, a little the worse for the wine he had taken, he
met a woman, and accompanied her to her lodgings in
Chapman-street, Commercial-road ; he had been there
but a few moments when the woman suddenly lefillitina,
and he then missed the whole of his money. He give
in the numbers of the notes the next morning at the
Bank of England, and in iilsout a month afterwards the
1001. flute was paid in. The prisoner was apprehended
on the tOth of January.
Mr. Robertson, landlord of the King and Queen
' public house, in Chapman-street, deposed, that on the
evening in question, about eight o'clock, the prisoner and
a womanot the town, wearing a red whittle, came to
his house, and the prisoner said to a man who was there,
" Come along Jack, it is all right." They went away
together. The woman exactly answered the deseriptiout
of the one who robbed Mr. M'Kennon.

Howard Lewis, a clothes salesman, in Cable-street
deposed, that on the evening of the Voth of November,
the prisoner came to his shop with a girl in a red whittle.
The prisoner produced a tool., a 201., and a 51. note,
and having asked witness the value of them, for he said
he could not read himself, he offered to lay out the 51.
note if witness would change the other two—this the
witness refused to do, and they left the shop. Witness
suspectinv all was not right, he followed them, but lost
them all at once in Rosemary-lane. He then gave in-
formation to the police. The tohl. note bad an indorse-
ment upon it very much blotted. and a red ink mark.
Mr. Dyer, front the Bank of England, produced the
MI. note stolen from the prosecutor. !'here was a
'blotted indorsement upon it.
This note was identified by the prosecutor, and the
witness, Lewis, swore it was the same the prisoner had
offered to him.

The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be
transported for 14 years. He returned from transporta
lion only ten months ago.
piisoner was the last on the list for trial, and the
Recorder, alter a short adjournment, proceeded to pass
sentence on those prisoners convicted during the Ses-
sions, who :tail nut already received judgment.—Three
weer sentenced to traiisp,rtalioll for life ; 2 lirr fourteen
veass; 15 for seven years; 5 to be imprisoned for one
year, and kept to hard labour; and 12 for six mouths.—
Several were ordered to lesser terms of imprisonment,
Cntie to be privately whipped, and others fined a shel.ing
and dischan,rd ; and in the cases of two, judgment was
reanited mail next sessions.
- The following unhappy persons (17 in number) were
then placed at the bar to receive the awful sentence of
death :—Robett Ilatchman, for house breaking in the
(lay time; Mary Anne Sloat, Kenny Daley, and John
Btu's?, fur stealing in dwelling-houses; %Valiant Hale,
fur horse stealing; James Farrier, William Harding.
John Walker, James Aldridge, Thomas Gibson, alias
Blacken, Henry Seeton, John Davis, and Joseph
Froonte, for burglaries; Henry Cocks and Isaac Davis,
for highway robbery; and Charles Cleft, for uttering
forged 51. notes of the Bank of England.—The learned
Recorder, in his exhortation to the prisoners, remarked
that there was one whose fate was sealed beyond the
possibility of a doubt. Heavy as was the oflence im-
puted to him, and numerous as were the instances in
which he was said to have committed it, and, notwith-
standing repeated warnings from the learned and humane
individuals who then sat upon the bench, he had not
chosen to abide a trial, lint, by a plea of guilty, had
confessed his guilt to the fullest extent. He must not,
therefore, indulge in the slightest hope of mercy.—Cleft
vas, of course, the person alluded to by the learned
Judge. lie shed tears during the address.

TUE PEN yrs DITIA It Y.—Olt 'Tuesday night a Coroner's
jury was empanelled at the Penitentiary, Millbank,
before Mr. Gell,Coroner for the city and liberty of West-
minster, to inquire into the cause of the death of Hum-
phrey Adams, a prisoner, 34 years of age, who came
into the Penitentiary in June.lB2l, and Wm. C.mwell,
who was received in June, legit, both of whom had
been convicted oFerintea. The Jury returned the lid-
lowing verdict :—" We are of opinion that the deceased
died natural deaths ; but it is our opinion so filmy pri.,
loners would not die if they were allowed a small portion
of meat; and it is our wish and desire that this our opt-
Mon should be cominunicated to the Directors of the
Penitentiary, in hopes they will take sonic steps to ob-
milt it." This verily.: was sanctioned by the Coroner,
who agreed so facilitate it as lunch as pos..ible.
Ft a k.--At 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, an alarm-
ing fire broke out in the house of Mr. Willis, a proctor,
in Bell Court, Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons; and
before any assistance could be afforded, his house and
property was reduced In ashes. The fire then commu-
nicated to the house of Messrs. Adtlerley and Box,
proctors; and as no water for some time could be oh-
tat net!, their premises shared the fate of the other house.
—Some part of the furniture, and sonic papers (rota
Messrs. Adderley and Box's were preserved, and carried
tu the houre of Mr. Clarkson, of Great Carter Lane.—
The fire, at hall.past three, WO got malt r, and all the
adjonitiq huu.rs salt.