The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-29 00:00:00

offenders like the . present, is not to be doubted ;
and if not seasonably marked by punishment, may
lead to ignominious death. I now address all those
who are here to answer for having committed this
crime. Some of you have pleaded in mitigation of
your punishment, your former good charader—
your present poverty; and the distress which a rigid
punishment will bring upon your innocent farniiies.
If you, really deserve the good charaders which
have been given, to you' (which the offences you
have been guilty of render very doubtful), the pre-
servation of such chacaaer, should have deterred
you from the commission of such crimes, by which
all good charatster must •be forfeited. As to your
poverty, -no man of sense can be surprised at it, for
all crimes, however plausible or tempting in theory,
in pradice lead, not to riches, bur to ruin. As to
your families, and the distress to be brought upon
them by your punishment, you ought to haVe con-
sidered them as pledges to your Country, for your
obedience to its laws; and you dught to have re-
fleaed, that it is tine of the wise dispensations of
Providence, that those who are most dear to us, are
doomed, in some measure, to be affeded by our fate.
However, this argument of compassion for the in-
nocent, is always powerful in an Address to a 'Fri.
hunal composed of human, creatures,- who feel them-
selves subjeft to frailty and error; and therefore,
such an argunient, as far as consistently with the
rules of law and order of the community, it can be
attended to, will have its weight : but that others
may he deterred from following your example, the
punishment of the law must take place,- that your
wives and children shall, by your example, see that
virtue is wisdom, and vice folly ; so that by. honest
industry they may resolve to earn a competence,
and that they may suffer no prosped of gain (how-
ever flattering), to' tempt them to disobey the law,
or obstruCt those who are engaged in the execution
of its orders. For this, your offence, this Court
Both order and adjudge; that you, George Good-
ing, be imprisoned in the Common Gaol of Maid.
stone, in the County of Kent, for twelve calendar
months, and that during that time, you do stand in
and upon the Pillory, in the public street, opposite
to St. Dunstan's Church, in the City of Canterbury,
for one hour, between twelve at noon and two in
the afternoon.

it To you Isaac Benham and John Siggins, I shall
not repeat what I have , said to the other Prisoners
on whom I have passed the Sentence of this Court,
though much of it be applicable to your case.—
Your offence is aggravated by your station, in
which you have ende.ivotrred to defraud that Public
whose interest it was your duty to protea, and
from whom you received ample compensation for
the utmost diligence and integrity you could have
employed ; instead of which, we see you on board
of one of His Majesty's Packets, aeling under a sys-
tematic concealment of prohibited goods on board
such Packet, aided by the common sailors, to the
great terror of the Revenue Officers, whose duty it
was to search the vessel, and who there found the
goods so prohibited. This crime. is enormous and
alarming, and will, I hope, not pass unnoticed in
another quarter. The Court, for this your offence,
cloth order and adjudge that you, and each of you,
be imprisoned in His Majesty's Gaol for the coun-
ty of Norfolk, in the Castle of Norwich, for, twelve
calendar months.

" Robert Bradley, John Bradley, and Thomas
Bradley—ln your cases the Coutt cannot but la-
ment the disgracefUl situation into which the ex-
ample of a bad father has led his two children.
You stand convieted of having committed, upon an
Officer of the Revenue, in the execution of his
dutY, an Assault, which was at once illegal, des-,
berate, and blood-thirsty ; in consideration of which
this,Court doth order and adjudge that yoti, Robert
Bradley, be imprisoned in His Majesty's Gaol, the
Castle of York, for eighteen calendar months,. and
that you John Bradley and Thomas Bradley, each
of you be imprisoned in the same place fur nine
calendar m ,nths. _

‘g John Vinecombe, for an Assault on one of His
Majesty's Officers of the Revenue in the execution
of his duty, this Court cloth' order and adjudge
that you he imprisoned in the .common Gaol, for
the county of Devon, for twelve calendar months.
" Samuel Pratt and John Pettingell for a Riot and
an Assault which ,you have committed on one of
His Majesty's Officers of the Revenue in the execu.'
tion of his duty, and in endeavouring to hand hiin
over to a mob enraged against him, for no other
reason than that he had most meritoriously done
his duty to the Public. This Court, attending to
the circumstances of mitigation offered in your be-
half respedively, and to the whole of your respec-
tive cases, (loth order and adjudge that you, John
Pettingell, be imprisoned in His Majesty's common
Gaol for the county of Norfolk, the Castle at Nor-
wich, for six calendar months, ,and that you Smnuel
Pratt, be imprisoned in the same place for fifteen
calendar months.

William Shepherd, for an Assault on one of
His Majesty's Officers of the Excise, in the execu-
tion of his duty, this Court cloth order and adjudge
that you be imprisoned in His Majesty's common
Gaol for the county of Sussex, at Horsham, for twelve
calendar months."