The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-09 00:00:00

OL,T) BAILEY.

,
. trial of iiitere'sf tiinkl4lo.cie
Session being. eiukd, the ItEC0111)811' pr()-
cce(to.d. to yitsi Scat:two oil the

sutlers.
Mr. 11fay, ttpon being brought to the bar, and
asked what he had to say why .seatvn.te of death .
shOuld not passed, briefly addres,.:l,the Court.--
lie stated; 6' that the difference in his situation .
now, from what it had been a few' days since, .
when he had'stothl in theta= place with the eon-
fident hope of acquittal; was su great that he was
scarcely able to arrange his ideas; or;
,to clothe
them with language. Though, on his own account,
he had no tiii•sh toliveistripped of the unblemished'
reputation he had formerly enjoy.ed ; yet, for the
sake of his family, for the sake of his parents,
and of near and dear connections, be wished his
life to be spared. Ikaeknowledged be had heel'
fOuntl guilty after a long and patient trial ;
and hoped that the long confinement he had un-.
dergone, and the anxiety of Mind with which. it
bad been decompanied, would be looked upon as
some expiation, clen upon the supposition he.had
been guilty of the imputed crime.
_lie humbly cx-
expressed his hopes that the beamed Judge
would represent_ his case to the Prince Regent,.
and the circumstances with which it had been
accompanied. It bad not been proved, that the
Bill, in its original state, had ever been in_his
hands ;:soi., that lie had either forged itshimself;
or had uttered it kno%ving it to be forged. The
forgery must have been by •anotlicr, who CI)
'tirely possessed his confidence. Did he abscond
Did he seek to elude justice ? He had bee'
seized in the bosom of his family, in al
that security that was the attejldailL on Irmo
cence. The bill had , passed undetected throug
the hands'of others ; in the sante manner, also,

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might have passed through his. . FrOnt the res-
sure of extensive business he had been. unalLe to
examine all the bills that had passed through his
hands, and the examination of them had, in cAt-
sequencibeen frequently entrusted to his clerk, us
also the tilling up. of cheque's., Ile hoped it would
he stated to the Prince Regent, that the Jury had
taken three hours to consider their verdict, which
she that no common doubts hung over his case.
At all events,die,was confident that he , was be,
fore a tribunal where any doubts on the side of
justice; would' leave room fur the voice Of mercy
to be - heard, and to preVail.*!... ,
The most profound silence 'obtained while Mr. ;
. May was addressing the Court.-:—The Iletoenv.x.
then, in a most. impressive manner, passed sen-
tence of deitth on him, and on
John Miner, for stealing a letter bilt ,of . the Post-Office,
containing a Bill ' of Exchange; Juba. Keene, otherwl;e
Wright, and Benry Thornton, tar forgery ; James Dawson,
for .tertlhig prieatOy in a shop; 'William Got:l:ling, for a
burglary; James Taylor and Willhot Luelt, for sheep stlal-
ing; Peter %Vihanti Pinomer, fur forgery; Mary Franklin,
for privately stealing in a shop ; William blenham, William
Wurrall, and James Walsh, for burglary.
The following received sentence of transporta-
t.
tion e—
• Jan Richey, Catherine King, and Thomas Whitfield, for
funrtelin years, MiehaelrFan ell for bigamy, Mary Wheeler,
Jahn '4'uoiney, Michael- Anthony,- Thomas Aluock, Thomas
Sheridith, Daniel Powell, Ccorgt, Chan:hers, Thu. Liwnian,
Mtry :Z.liCarthy, James linwiird, Mq.cl; Arnold,• Thomas
littYil n, and James Twogivid, for seven years. •
'l•hrty-three. to be confined for different periods, three to
be pi Illicly whipped, and two privata:y whipptit.
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'1 he next SessionS will counnefice on the 12th
of 'tannery.%

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