The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

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get possession of Ilse goods, they wool.: then be justified in
boding him godly of felony.
The Jory believing this instantly found him godly.
The Recueder ordered him to lie brou4ht up for judgment,
He laid the poisoner mood its great danger, for if the hail had
been put into circulation, lie would have been liable to be in-
dicted fora forgery, and would have beeis convicted, unless be
could have proved the hand-writing of the drawer and acceptor;
and even if be could have done that, it was evident they were
m.•re men of straw. and all would have been liable, to have been
indicted for a conspit Rey. The sentence of the Curt on him
for this impudent fraud was, that he should be tranpurted fur
sei en years.
The prisoner said he had lost 10001. by Brookabank.
The Recorder—Where is Brooksbank
Prisoner—lle is gone to America. lam convicted for things
which I never had.
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The sessions having ended, the Recorder proceeded to pass
sentence upon the prisoners convicted. Considering the short
space which intervened (three weeks) between 1440 and the
present stasions, the windier of convicts were us ally great.
--rive were sentenced to be transported 1,,r life—one for II
rears—twenty-four for seven years. and a number oh others
•ere sentenced to different terms of imprisonment.
Several were discharged by proclanintion.
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Seventeen received the awful smience of death :—William
Crinicher, Charles Bennington. 'Theodore Constantine, Edward
Itpwittianis, Thos. Filthy, William Whitton, William Lester,
John Curl v, and Samuel Haven, for stealing in dwelling houses ;
William Bolland, George Swindle, and John Barnett, for burg-
laries ; John Smith, for housebreaking io the day tunic ; E.. w.
Ediidge, for a rape ; William Towntend, alias Pocock, and
John Harrows, for highway robberies; and henry Uav, fur
forgin; the Goldsmith's Hall Cotopany's *lamps upon certain
articles of plate.
The Recorder, in the course of his addreao to the unhappy
con% its, said there was one individual• amongst then*
who had, in the wickedness of his heart, threatened to
charge an innocent person with a crime which could only be
thought of with horror, and had availed himself of the dreadful
ahem which such an accusation most naturally create in the
mind even of the bravest man to carry on a regular system of
plunder. To that individual the Court would recommend an
immediate and an earnest appeal for mercy to that ynarter
from which alone he could expect it ; mercy in this world the
Court feared could not be granted to him, and it was only by
sincere repentance that he could hope for its ,extension here-
after. There were some otherst to whom he would also sae-
voiously recommend a similar preparation ; he meant lila re who
had gone about with others in a gang for the purpose of plun-
dering persona, whose circuitistancea might, for ought they
knew, be ptch, that an act of plunder committed upon them
would be their absolute ruin.

After some further observations, the learned Judge passed
the sentence of Death in the ustml terms, anti the ses-
sions were Adjourned until Wt• • .essay, the nth of December.
• Towns'nd was he,• alluded to.
The robbery of the Inn at Hounslow was no doubt hinted
■t by the learned Judge in this part of his address.

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