The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-27 00:00:00

LEIVES, SATURDAY, AUG. 25.

Lord ELL ENBOR3UGn,who presided on the Crown
side, had tried all the prisoners in the Calendar by
three o'clock thisl! afternoon. His Lordship in the
most awful and impressve manner passed sentence
of Death on four criminalsa viz. on two men for
horse-stealing, and on a soldier in the bOtli
melt, and a youth of 14, for burglary ; to the three
first he gave no reason to expect a miiigaliQn of their
punishment, bum to the latter, on account of his ex-
treme yonth, anti having been encouraged to cow,
wit the crime by those whose duty it was:to hare
taught him better, h.s LorAlup promised to inter-
cede with his Majesty to save his •
A servant' maid, wtio was cony d 0 of: having
robbed her master of s,'veral articles of plate, during.
his absence from home, and which Were found -
her box, his Lordship sentenced to betran,sported:.
for. seven years. The case was, a most aggravated
- one, She had, in order to conceal her own guilt,..
and to lead her master and neighbours to believe
that the house had been broken open and robtied.by
thieves, invented and rela.ed to a Magisrifte the..
most artful story of tier having been dragged. froin
room to room by the hair of her head by a,bouSe-.'
breaker., who bad burg her by the neck-with a cord
to, a beam in one of the rooms, while he stole the
• plate, and from which perilous .siTliatiOti she had,
after the thief had left the house, disengaged her--
•self, by taking a knife out of her pocket, opening
it with ii,rr teeth, and then editing the rope by
which she was suspended. To give plausibility to
the story, sbe had sawed the bars of a window
asunder ; but from the evidence of -a carpenter, It .!
clearly 'appeared that they, must have been sawed
-by a person within, and not withobt ',the house.
Lord );;;t:LENBOROUGH having. finished the busi-
'nes's on the Cr,iwn .side, assisted the LOAD CHIEF
&florin trying Special Jury Causes; and they first,
w 4 an information filed by the Attorney General
against one Thomas Moore, a smuggler, of Hast-
ings, for aiding-and assisting- two prisoners of war,
namely, General Piller, in the French service; and
CaPtain Paoilucci, in the Italian navy, to escape
from BiShOps. Waltham, the place, of their confine-
malt, to France. After the first witness had been
examined,. the Prisoner's Counsel informed the
Court, that his. client confessed himself guilty of
the charge, and a vet dif:i was given aixoruingly...—

The. prisoner then addr lc( d .the 'gr?, and said
that .4e': claimed the ne tofpr !n st.s that bad
been o-ia!e hm by Gover ent, or, I's having made
certain di!:co‘ eri s ; but i i. Sdp: Ito. to the A(h-q.
alty who coed ibe.rro,eliatia,, informing his
I,ordship that no pr., ,•Jsbsliad bt,,ta ip.itie to hi,n, he
vas ordered frorn t‘ brotk,,ht
etoce the Court 6, Be,,leta in the next T-rtn
to receive his sen

It is no less extraordinary than true, that General
'PILLETT, who was taken
.prisoner b. the. both Re-
giment of the line in Portugal, should have been put
under their gii,ird at Hastings, where he was tali: n,
prevente I escaping from thence to France ; arid
on his arrival at Lewes, to give evidence a;ainst
Thomas Moore in the above trial, be met the Orli-
-cers of the both Pejloclit in that town, with whom
he dined at their Mess; and the Soldier who hap-
pened to wait at table, proved to be the man by
~choni- the General wap Wounded and taken prisoner
in Portugal.