The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-23 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

At two o'clock the Recorder entered the New Court,
attended by the Sheriffs, Sir Chapman Marshall, and other
municipal gentlemen, in order for pass sentence upon the
prisoners who have been convicted and not received judg-
ment during the session. The Court was crowded to ex-
cess during the four hours the judgment-seat was occupied.
To be Transported for Life—Joseph Triggs, John Ward,
Charles Cook, Alfred Lofty, William Norris, James Dunn,
William Parsley, Charles Watson, Edward Spittle, and
John Eustace.
In addressing this class of convicts, the RECORDER ad-
verted to some of their offences, and observed, that some
of them, until lately, were deemed of that turpitude
that the forfeiture of life was almost the certain penalty.
Among them was that of coining of base similitudes of
current money, the result of which offence generally
pressed hard upon the poor ; but for ingenuity being em-
ployed in the fabrication, there would not be so many
titterers. With respect to the case of Alfred Lofty, one
of the group, he being a person of tender age, it was
not, he was sure, the intention of Government to enforce it
to its full extent, but the period of his detention would
entirely depend on his future behaviour. There were,
however, those among them who could not expect such
consolatory remarks—they must inevitably be removed
(perhaps for ever) from their native country, the land of
their education, and the abode of their friends ; and in order
to impress those who might be at present spectators, he
would remark, that those whom he addressed must (except
in cases of illness) undergo at least eight years of unremit-
ting hard labour, the Governor of the Colony having no
power to remit without the order or intervention of the
Secretary of State for the Home Department. Having
made these remarks, the Recorder said, that painful as their
case was, every thing in future depended upon, their previous
habits and character, their conduct on their voyage, and
lastly, their deportment when they at rived at the colony to
which they were destined.

Several of the convicts wept bitterly, and the pathetic
manner in which the Recorder addressed them, caused what
ever ought to be observed—a solemn reverence—in a Court
of Justice.

Transported for Fourteen Years.—Thomas Brown,
Henry Williams, Edward Fleetwood, John Williams, Ed-
mund Kell, Margaret Smith (29), James Elliott, John
Hater, Margaret Smith (IS), Thomas Curry, Robert All-
pin, Thomas Tutch, Thomas Wheeler, James Sanders,
William Owen, and John Pilgrim.

Sanders, Elliot, and Owen, were told that they would
either be sent to the boys' ship or to the Penitentiary, and
their continuance there would mainly depend upon their
good behaviour. Their tender age, and other causes, would
induce Government not to baniSh them if they 'behaved
well. It may be as well to remark, once for all, that the
Court informed the females that if they were already quali-
fied, or rendered themselves so hereafter, to fill stations as
domestic servants, the adjunct of hard labour in its se-
verest sense would never 'be experienced.
Transported for Seven Years.—Dennis Connor, Mary
Figgins, William Wilde, James Murray, William Parrier,
Charles Jones, Joseph Benge, James Powell, Samuel
Blackley, John Crow, Margaret Neville, George Tebbutt,
Mary James, John Thomas, Daniel Donovan, Stephen
Beedham, George Berry, John Longshaw, William Hall,
William Chapman, William Worthy, John Biggs, William
Morris, Phoebe Adams, Henry Hanson, William Bellamy,
John Spencer, John Grady, William Home, Catherine
Neale, Nerah Grady, William Harvey, Ireland P. Bell,
Mary A. Foster, William Hall, John Newton, Ellen Her-
ring, William Godfrey, Mary A. Clarke, Daniel Horrigan,
William George, Thomas Chatterees, James Barron, Mary
Atterwell, Thomas Gurry, Thomas Williams, John Wool-
ley, Charles Cooper, 'John Wilson, Thomas Foreman,
Charles Henson, W. Butterworth, Ann Williams, Ann
Chester, John Jones, (19), Jeremiah Seanbury, Sarah Ash,
James Slater, and Ann Haynes.

This numerous class of convicts were addressed in a simi-
lar manner as those who had been sentenced to banish-
ment for more extended periods, and his Lordship took oc-
casion to remark, that all male convicts, by a very recent order
of Government, who down to a certain period had sustained
a good character, and being under 17 years of age, would
be otherwise disposed of than a voyage to the colonies. The
Learned Judge made some very pointed remarks to Phcabe
Adams, who was transported for concealing the birth of
her child.

A person applied on behalf of Ellen Herring, and said he
was known by Lord Holland, and therefore he hoped that
he should obtain a hearing. He had reason to
,believe
that the prisoner was quite innocent of stealing the trowsers.
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applicant,
meet with
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sense—the Jury had found her guilty, and from the depo-
sitions and the shorthand writer's notes, the Court thought
the verdict was a proper one. If, however, he could lay
and he knows me, and I am sure he will
any favourable circumstances before Lord John Russell,
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Court.
The following were ordered to be
kept to hard labour for
the periods set against their respective names •
For Two Years—Henry Knight and Henry. Batho.
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The RECORDER said their offence was so horrible that he
could not defile the ears of the Court by Pv e n alluding to it.
For Eighteen Months--Thomas ThCarthy, John Carthy,
and Thomas Marsh.
For One year—George Alberry, William Brown, W.
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awkins, W. Smith, W. Thompson, Joseph
Charles Prior, and Stanhope Armfield.
For Nine Months—Joseph Kearslev, James Rogers,
Thomas Devine, George Turner, and Susan Denton. i
For Six Months—Thomas Jones (29), Catharine Cal-
laghan, Thomas Bagley, John i Drver, Samuel Payne,
Francis Rogers, W. Shelton, John English, Levi Benevin,
Abraham Fontayne, John Cane, Sarah A. Smith, John
Locke, Henry Smith, George Whitehead, Sophia E. Boyd,
Richard Bryant, William Stevens, Janics Ashley, John
Lefevre, Henry Hagesman, W. Constable, Catherine Mills,
Martha Dodd, Matthew Lloyd (16), William Hamilton,
Elizabeth Colling worth, Richard Holland, Charlotte Slater,
and Richard Hollis.

For Four Months—W. Matthews and Elizabeth Marren.