The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-18 00:00:00

OLD- 17,411.1.0 .

SIXTH DAY--TUESDAY, JAN. 17.

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Samuel Jenkins was tried upon an IndiBment,
chargi►tg him with having knoWingly, wilfully,
and feloniously, uttered a base and counterfeit Piece
of Money, as and fora current Piece of the Coin of
this Realm, calfedan Half Crown, he having been
before conVieteCl as a common utterer of base and
counterfeit Pieces, as and lot good Money.,
For the first offence of uttering base and counterfeit
Pieces for gimad:Money; knowing them to be bad,
the punishment under the Statute is six months im-
PriSOnment, and the party to find security for good
behaviour for a further six months. On 'convic-
tion of the second the imprisonment is two years,
and security for two years more, and ti►e offending
party is declared a common utterer. For the third
offence the party shall be declared guilty of felony
without benefit of Clergy, and shall suffer death.
There was no doubt whatever in this case : tlie
Prisoner was conviaed in April Sessions, t$Q2, as
a common utterer of base Coiu, and the record of
that convidion was produced. He was found
Guilty—Death. -
The RECORDER then .tlAnked the Jury for the
attention they had bestowed upon all the htisiness
that came before them; they were_ then discharged.
The Court:then proceeded to dispose of the dif.
recent eouvias : eighteen were ordered to be bans_
ported for seven years, and one for receiving stolen
goods, namely, a pewter pot, knowing it to have
been stolen,' was ordered to be transpOrted for four-
teen years ; she made many asseverations of her
innocence.
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Two were ordered to be publicly, whipt opposite
to the East India Company's warehouses, out of
which they had pilfered some properly.
•Ten were fined 'one shilling, and ordered to be
imprisoned six months in the House of Corrthion.
-Six to be fined one shilling, and to be confined
twelve months in the House of Cotredion. A few
for one month only in Newgate.
Two were ordered to be fined one shilling, and
to be imprisoned two years in the `House o 1 Cor-
re&ion.

Thomas Simms, who was found guilty of stealing a
chaise, contrary to the dire Lion of Mr. Justice
LAWRENCE, who told the July that the case, as_ it
appeared in evidence, did not amount to a felony,
was brought to the Bar.

He was proceeding to address the, Coutt an the
hardship of his case that the verdit was againSt
the opinion, and, contrary to the direction of the
Judge before whom he was tried : that he had caused
a petition to be presented to: that Learned Judge,
tcc,.

The RECORDER observed, that whether the
diet by which he had been found guilty, was right or
wrong,
it was impossible for the Court, in this
stage of the proceeding, to hear any thing, unless it
Was to end in a. Motion in Arrest of Judgment.
The Prisoner Said, he wished the RECORDER
had been on the Bench when this trial took place.
The RECORDER said he was tried before a very
able Judge.
The Prisoner admitted it ; but wondered that he
was now to be, sentenced as a 1?elon, for that which
was' twit a 'Felony in the opinion, of the Learned
Judge.before whom he was tried.
TheREcoRDER.--ic The sentence of the Court
upon you is, that you be fined one shilling, iinpri-
soned one week in His Majesty's Gaol of Nlewgate,
and then discharged."
This was to spew the error of the Verdia, for if
it had been approved of by the, Learned Judge, the
sentence would have been transportation for seven
years.
A. very old man, of the name of Irdliam
was fined one shilling, and ordered to be imprisoned
s Caleeidar months.

The RECORDER observed, there was hardly a
Session in ;.Vltia this offender was not brought into
that Court.
One was ordered to be. whipped in .pxison, there
to he kept for ,several months, and then whipped
again.
The following Prisoners then received sentence of
Death, for the following offences :
Sarah Cheshire for a burglaty... •
Ann Hurle for forgery.
Jeremiah Cernellie for feloniously, wilfully, and
maliciously cutting Thomas Coultman, with intent
to kill crr murder, .or' to do him some bodily harm.
He said he had nothing to say, but he hoped for
mercy.- . .

'7amet Draper for the same offence.
Margaret Carrol for stealing goods upwards of
•
forty shillings value, in a dwelling-house.
Cecil Pitt, for a burglary, and Samuel jenkin.scnn-
viEted of feloniously and knowingly putting off
counterfeit money, knowing it io be counterfeited,
and lThvlog been before cony itied as a common Lit Ecru
of base money.

The RECORDER addressed these Conviets in an
awful manner, previous to pronouncing on them the
dreadful Sentence of the Law, laying great stress on
the case of Ann Hurle, who was convitted Of a
forgery of the Power or Attorney to transfer
_cool.
.stock, which belonged to her master, an old Gen-
tleman :.11 Greenwich between So and 90 years of
age, and holding out hopes of mercy to none by
name. • -
Sarah 'Cheshire, on heing asked what she'had to
say in stay of her execution, said, she was six
Monthsgone with child.
A Jury of Matrons was called in—they eXamin_
ed the Prisoner, being charged to inquire wheiht'r
she was quick ‘'Vith child or nor ? They -returned
a verdia rharshe was (lot quick with child, and
therefore she'ivarcharged, as the other two women,
in execution of her-sentence.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Monday a young
Lady of fortune, who resides at North_End, near
Hampstead, charged a youth with hAving robbed
her of divers articles of wearing apparel, anj his
mother with having received the Stl Me. Pfisonz:r
'was a servant to her brother, in whose house she
resided ; and, in cont..efpience of her having lost se.