The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-01 00:00:00

OCT. 1.

James Hew it, an old man nearly 60 years of age, was indicted
for a misdemeanor, in having in the month of August last, con- ,
trary to an Act passed in the reign of George IL. seduced an Ar-
tificer ilft his country to leave the kingdom.
From the testimony of the witnesses examined, it appeared
that the Prisoner, although recently from America, is au Eng-
lisionao, and sad lately frequented a public-house called the
York Minster, immediately in the vicinity of the cotton-menu-
factory of Messrs. Hughes and Lewis, Bunhill-row ; to which
the men employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes and Lewis
usually resorted ; and amongst others a an named Hutchin•oa, 7
who had been formerly apprenticed from the parish of St. Mar-
tin's, to a cotton-manufactory, near Manchester, where he re-
mained till he arrived at the age of 21. He then came to Lon-
don. and was employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes and Co.
in the by old-dying business, and was in fact returned a fair work-
man. This man the Prisoner frequently met, and by glowing
representations of the advantages and great wages he was likely
to obtain, by going to America, induced him to agree to emi-
grate, for the purpose of being employed in a cottononanufac to-
ry, at a place culled Cooper's Town, within two miles of New
It-Ork, and a short distance from the residence of the Prisoner.
Messrs. Hughes and Lewis having heard.of this negociation, sent
for the Prisoner, and remonstrated with him on the illegality of
the steps he was pursuing, fore-warning him at the same time,
that it' he persisted in his delinquency, they would punish him
with the rigour of the law. The Prisoner then declared his ig-
•noratice of aoy criminality attaching to his conduct, and pro-
mised most faithfully that be would relinquish his intentions. In
a few days, however, Mr. Hughes discovered that Hutchinson
was making preparations for his departure, and that his passage
had actuail:. been taken on board an American ship. The Pri-
soner wits then apprehended, and on being, brought before a Ma-
gistrate, produced a receipt for 191 dollars, paid by him to the
mate of an American ship for Hutchinsun's passage, and also a
promissary note of liutchitison's for that sum, and for other
monies which bad been advanced to him by the Prisoner, to be
paid out of the produce of his labours in America. The Pri-
sutler's defence then was, that Hutchinsou came a second time to
him, and said he had naditis master's permission to leave the
country, and that from his solicitations, lie was induced to pay
his passage out.
The Common Serjeant, who tried the case, in summing up the
evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on the raischievousaendency
of the crime with which the Prisoner stood charged, which, he
'said, was most materially connected with the manufacturing in-
terests of this country ; and aas deservealy punished by law in a
most exemplary manner ; the laigislature having decreed, that
persons, convicted of such an oftener., should be subject to 12
months Imprismonent, and to a penalty of 5001.
The Jury, without a tnomenes besitatiuu, returned a verdict
tif
Hutchinson, the artificer seduced, war then tried under au Act,
passed in the sth of George the First, w Lien enacts, That any ar-
tificer, particularly in the tnaaufacinres of cotton, wool, silk,
&c. who should be convicted of, or detected in, pre-
paring to leave the kingdom, for the purpose of devoting his
knoa ledge for the benefit and advantage of foreiga countries, not
IV it the British Dominions, should he bound to enter into re-
cog,nizances himself, arid two sureties, fur remaining in the
country.
The evidence in the former case was again gone through, and
the Prisoner was found Guilty.
Sarah Martin, a decrepid old woman, 65 years of age, was
!ikewise convicted of stealing AI yards of printed calico, from
She shop of a linen-draper, iv Xottenham-court-road.
The trials having been concluded, the Recorder passed the
• awful sentence of death upon •the following convicts:—
Robert Wilson and Thomas Simpsoti:for house-breaking—
John Devine, for horse-stealing—John Sexton, for feloniously
stealing in a dwelling-horse—William Sheppard, for forgery—
John Briant, for cutting and tnaiming—Richard Oakilen, for
an unnatural crime—Susannah Beeson, for house-breaking--
Mary Tyler, aged thirteen, for horse-stealing—Anne Campbell,
for stealing in a dwelling-house—Anne Kennington and Matilda
Dyer, for highway-robbery—Robert Arnott, for house-break-
Iog• in the day time—Thomas Mayne, for horse•stealing—
Thomas Rhodes, a servant at the Post Office, for secreting a
Ptter and embezzling Bank notes—Robert Jefferson, for stealing
in a dwelling-house—Cornelius Sullivan and Dennis Fitzgerald,
• fur a rape—and Jane Urowae and Mary smith. fur waling
privaoly in a shop.