The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-25 00:00:00

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Monday 29 29 prisoners were tried, 21 of whom were convicted fie
trifling oft tiers, and five were acquitted. Scoitence of transportation
fur life was then passed on three piisowers; I'2 were ordered to his
transportedlor 11 years; V) t'or 7 VCars; and 5 sentenced for 2 years
implisontneut in Clerkenw ell BriCiewell ; 17 fur one year, and 18 f. c
ti months ; 12 fur ii in Newgate for various periods; 11 to
he private's' nod '1 pohliclily whippt d; and the Sessions were adjourned
to the 20 of June next.
When the ddirciellt couvicts were brought up to receive sen-
tence. on the question living put .40 Robert Kennett, for- forgery,
" holier Le Lad any tong to sav silly judgment to die should
not lye's against him according to law."' he very steadfastly look-
ed at the Recordt r for some Float time, and then took a paper out
of his pocket, from which lie read a long adrbess to the Court. After
i remarking on Sir Richard Carr (.11)nn Uh!, his prosecutor, and having
.at at the sane time on tho Be.,eit a,. one of his Judges, he went on to
notiee, that he was Convicted upon the evidence of witnesses, who, he
1, urged, were not persons untitled to credit upon, their oaths, and who
1 clone there to give testimony against him iii order to save their own
1 lives. Ile next edvetted to the insufficiency of the proof of the
other win rises, .ed further proceeded to lament his unhappy situation
II hewailine the ml-erahle state of his wife and four childreo ; adding,
II that his eldest son a Captain in the army. fell honourably fighting fns
h:s King and country, and concluded that topic with thanking the
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f Ahnialuv that he did not live to witne-s his father's deplorable fate.
ll.: onset veil, that his ancestors had obtained the highest honours
that the city of London could bestow ; and that his uncle (the
i late Alderman Kenuett) had filled that chair, a% its Chief Magistrate
11 from whence, on that night, jnaittnelit was iguominonsly passed en him.
lie finally concloded with imploring marcy, and with earnestly morel.
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1 ling the Recorder to further his suit with the Prince Regent. The
l Record, r ob.erved, that Sir R. Glynn did not sit as Judge on, the
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bench, but morely as prosecutor.

POLICE.

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TIM M A TICTII ON ESS OP 1)0 W N 811 Tlt L'S Roneensr.—Mavelay morn-
ing being the time appointed for a public exinnivation of the ten per-
sons in custody on charge of beimg concerned in this extensive robbery,
the Office me. crowded before twelve o'clock, printipally by persons
ot .1:3141k:don. Amongst them were the Duke of Sussex, the Earl of,
Stair, Lore Crewe, the Marquis of Douelas, t:,e• Nlarchieness of Down-
shire, Sir John and Lady llippesley Cox, Gene' al Phipps, &e. At
twelve o'clock, the le/Rowing Itersolts were-placed at the 'bar, viz. f--
Joarph Richardson, Levy Hirt, Mary Hart, Sarah Cohen, James Filmic-
lin, Reuben Joseph, Dinah Joseph, James Simons, 531'411 S:11101iS, and.
Nathan SWIC)IIS.
• The prismier.Richardson, it appeared. had been the principnl exe-
calor of this robbery, though not the planner of it. Although but a.,
young man, he is supposed to have committed a number of darin4
robberies, anti has brol.e out of two of the strongest prisons in this coun-
try. Ile is a native of Chester. A gentleman present, who hat seen
lluonaparte, declared him the strongest likeness of that personage ha
ever saw. Some time since, being charged with having committed a ,
blirglary in Lancashire, he was taken and lodged in the New Palley
Prison in Manchester, and was coolined in a cell which was securest,
by east iron bars. Ile contrived to have a Neer's giesse brought into
him, in order to break the iroiebars with it ; but when he had oot it ha
was afraid to use it on account of the noise it wonld make. At lengtie
he hit upon the stratagell of Striking the bars with the goose CVlOly at
the time a verj large clock there was striking the hour, and after en-
counteting a variety of other difficulties, he at length effected his ca-
cape. lie ,:a; nut heard uny more of till he was token into ett,tody an
a charge 4 hreal:ing open and robtring the houses of the Earl of 80..
borough and Lord Crewe, for which he win committed to the !hinge of
• Currectieo, in Co!dhatlefields, where he was coniitied in ei cell in ilia
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upper part of the prison, lie being at stone-mason by trade, contrived.
to take up one of the stones of the. door, and woi keel his way through
into the laoup loom ; front thence he got ioto the yard, el tire gurdin
oakum-room, where ho tied together some ropes, which he procured in
the onkimeroom, and contrived to throw them to the top of the pre
1 son-wall, upon which thereis a elievaux ••de frize. The ropes hung by
the iron-spikes sufficiently long ni•enable him to raise himself severtif
yards, hut at lilt falling hack, lie found himself much i. jived by the
fa:l, and has :pit blood ever since. Ile was about to return to his cull
in despsir, wlien he discovered a !udder, locked and chained, both 4
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11 which lie broke, and ascended tr i

el.cape übuut two morolts afft),
jug, toter ;Eiji Itr.7:lJti of upw.n,

to the to; of the wall, and elfevted
ict«een five and sic n'elnek in ►lse moe►r
'di, (A it,c houit. Siacv that time Ire (7.
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