The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-21 00:00:00

A. draft of the Heath was laid on the table, for
the further information of the Jury as to the relative
situations of Mr. Steel's house, the barracks, the
clump of trees, the ditch where the body was
found, &c.

The King's pardon, under the Great Seal, to
Franfield, remitting his sentence of transp?rtation
for seven years, for a larceny, which, he had been
convißed of, and restoring him to his .competency
as a witness, was read by Mr. Shelton, Clerk of the

arraigns.
Benjamin Hanfield, a tall, strait voang man, who
was the principal evidence onthe part of the Crown,
gave his evidenCe with an uncomm as degree of
steadiness and perspicuity, considering the situation in
which he stood. He knew Haggerty, the Smaller
man, about eight or nine years, and HolloWay, the
larger one, about six or seven. They had'frequent-
ed the Turk's Head and Black Horse, in Dyot-street,
:St. Giles's, and the Black. Dog, the-corner of Bel,'
ton-street, Long-acre, in company with him.—
About the beginning of NoVember, 180 Y, Holl6-
way asked bun if he had any ObjeCtion to be in a
good tiling? To which the witness!answered, certain-
ly not: but then asked him when and where? After
two or three days dallying, HollOway answered to
his' inquiries, that it. was to serve a Gentleman oti
Hounslow' Heath next Saturday (meaning to -rob
him). They•set off at twelve at noon, on the lay
proposed, and ended their journey about four o'clock,
opposite the eleven mile stoneon Hounslow Heatli
They delayed upwards of en 'hour lurking about that
spot, till it was dark ; the moon was up, but it was
obscdred.--'They then saw Mr. Steel the witness
desired him to stop and deliver his money ; the de-
ceased.said he would very willingly, but•begged them
not to use him ill. The deceased gave his money.
to Haggerty, but Holloway, supposing that he had a
pocket-book which he was unwilling to give up,
knocked him down
.with a stick: The deceased
continued to resist, and Helloway'repeated his blows
tilt a coach came up; ',just at:that Aline the .deceased
gave two heavy moans. The witness was alarined,
and ran off.
The case has'heen already so fully described, that
it is 'needless- to give them 'here as' stated in Court.
It is sufficient to state that the Prisoner said, that
when he was in Newgate there ivas a general con-
versation among the Prisoners about robberies,-and
Mr. Steel's case was mentioned-among the rest. The
Witness said it Lay heavy on his mind, and he could
not refrain froth observing, that there were,but three
men that could tell how that happened. Accord-
ing to the witness's own term, they thought he was
going to nose, that is, to inform ; from motives of
prudence,. he said no more about it while he was in
prison.. This hint of his was .carried farther, and
lie was brought to 'town from Comberland Fort, near
Plythouth. Haggerty was afterwards taken from on
,board the Shannon, in the_ Downs,. by Vickery, the
same Officer that took Hanfield. He was sick at the
time, and was very near fainting when the Port Ad,
miral asked him where he was this time four yeare,
John Smith, the coachman , who drove the Gos.-
port coach across Honnilotv Heath on the evening
of the 6th of November, heard 'two diStind -Moans
as he was about midway on thesHeath. • • -
The Prisoner, Holloway, declared at 'Worship-
street,
that he had never been near Hounslow in his
life; but two or three witnesses proved the contrary,
Blackthan, Crocker, Jones, and Limbriek,
street Officers, swore that they had often seen .Han-
field and Haggerty in company together; though.
the Prisoner, Haggerty, denied that be had any
knowledge of Hanfield at the Police Office.
Narts, Esq. the Magistrate, read a Paper, con- .
taming various minute statements' as given by the
Prisoners, many of which were contradicted by other
witnesses that were afterwards examined by the
worthy Magistrate.
Daniel Bishop, an Officer of Worship-street swore
that, he was posted in a privy near the place where
the-Prisoners were confined separately. He there
heard them talk together, and took minutes of what
passed between them. The .general tendency of
this was to sliel,v that the Prisoners laboured hard to
be of one story; that they- made use of many harsh
expressions concerninglianfield, and most anxiously
expressed their hopes and fears as they thought the
case seemed to take a favourable or an unfavourable
turn. They professed the utmost sincerity towards,
each other ; and when the case-was supposed to go
hard with them, one resolved on having Mr. Alley,
and the other Mr. Knapp, for his Cottnsel. One of
thethacknowledged one time. that it must be at the
place that Hanfield stated that they had some.gin to-
gether?when they came to town.
Different witnesses endeavoured to preye that Mr.
Steers hat would fit .Holloway,. and that his boots
aught very nearly fit' Haggerty. To these points,
however, the Court was not disposed to listen with
much attention.
The Prisoners, in their defence, gave a 'positive
denial of the charge, declared that Hanfield was al-r
most a stranger to them, and endeavoured to convey
to the Court and Jury, .the idea' that he 'was a bad
general charaCter, and had told some untruths in
-
this instance.
After
,a 'most impartial and bumane Charge from
Mr. Justice LE BLANC, the Jury withdrew for about
a quarter of-an hour, and then pronounced both the
Prisoners Guilty: The Recorder then passed the
awful sentence of the Law, which was in substance
that they-should be executed on- Monday, and their
bodies be delivered to the Surgeons. Holloway
shewed some symptoms of feeling for his own situa-
tion at intervals ; but Haggerty was unmoved
throughout the whole of the trial. ,
The Court was extremely crowded throughout the
whole time of the above-tnentioned. trial: The
Marquis of ABERCORN sat next Baron SuVroN on
the Bench: 'There were several Magistrates for the,
County of Middlesex also on the Bench.
Mary Prince was brought to the Bar, and arraign-
ed on two indictments, 'for uttering forged Bank
Notes—but Mr. FIELDING, 'on the patt of the Go-
vernorS and DireetOrs of the Bank of England, stated,
that there was a third indielmeni against the Pri-
soner, for, having forged Bank of England Notes in
her posSeskion. ,Shehad agreed to plead guilty to
the latter, which was the. lesser ofience, and the
Bank had, with permission of the Court, forborne
to enter into 'evidence on the other indictments,
~which might have subjected her to .be punished as
a capital felon.-