The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-22 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 20.

Thomas Cosham Brown pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment, charging him with inciting and persuading one
James Woods, a person employed in the General Post-office,
to steal letters, containing bank-notes, and other valuable
securities, coming into his possession by virtue of his em-
ployment.
The prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment
in the House of Correction.
On the case of William Vyse, who was this day week
convicted of receiving a quantity of notes stolen from the
Warwick bank, knowing them to have been stolen,
Mr. BODKIN rose to move an arrest of judgment, in
consequence of some objections to the form of conviction ;
hot it being intimated that the judgment stood respited
until next sessions, by order of Mr. Juitice Gaselee, before
whom the case was tried, the counsel postponedhis motion.
Anne M' Gee was indicted for stealing a frOck from,the
person of a little girl, five years old. It appeared that the
prisoner had enticed the Child from her parents' house,, in
Clerkenwell,and taken her into -a
court in the Borough,
where she was discovered in the act of stripping her.
The COURT addressed the prisoner on her infamous con-
duct, and sentenced her to be transported for life.

NEW COURT.
The following were brought up, and .received sentence of
death,—viz., George Jefferson, Mary, the wife of George
Roy, Elizabeth Pattisou, and William Jones, for stealing
goods in dwelling-houses above the value of 5/. ; Henry
Burgess, a boy 15 years of age, for uttering a forged order
at the banking-house of Sir W. Curtis and Co. ; Michael
Callaghan, for coining; James Harper, James Thompson,
William Farrow, William Cox, Samuel Helder, William
Rowley, Joseph Kingston, and Charles Styring, for house-
breaking and larceny; Peter Fenn, for uttering a forged
acceptance with intent to defraud ; Thomas Higgins, for
cutting and maiming ; Frederick Holloway and James
Collins, for horse-stealing ; Samuel Simpson, for cattle-
stealing ; James Maiden, for stabbing a man in the eye ;
Martin Mellet and James Farthing, for an unnatural of-
fence ; William Butler anti Jeremian Leary, for a robbery
from the person.
Mr. Fenn's appearance at the bar excited the greatest
interest, and, on his name being mentioned, the eyes of
every person in Court were turned towards him. When
the usual question was put to him by the clerk of the ar-
raigns, why lie should not be condemned to die according
to law, he advanced to the front of •the bar, and. after a
slight effort to gain his voice, he delivered himself to the
following effect with much firmness of manner, and in a
cleat and emphatic tone of voice :
" The question now put to me is most solemn and aw-
ful : in reply, I could say a great deal ; but, as I suppose
the question is put more as a matter of form than to give
me an opportunity to answer, I shall confine my address to
a few words. If the witnesses who attended in Court on
my behalf had been heard, they would have proved that
what I had said was true, and my acquittal must have been
the result; but, by some technicality, that evidence was
decreed irrelevant in a Court of law, although the testimony
of those witnesses would bear the strictest investigation ;
and the evidence of an attorney, whose conduct was repro-
bated by the Judge who presided on that occasion, and who
said it was abominable and scandalous in the extreme, was
received against me. The prosecutor, John Cooke, who is
a hosier in Holborn, was also admitted to give evidence
against-me, although it is well known that he has given
false evidence in the Court of Common Pleas, and the
Grand Jury have found a true bill against him for perjury,
and lam informed that he has absconded. Yet the testi-
mony of such a man was suffered to overcome the evidence
of the witnesses who appeared on my behalf, and against
whose character there is net a spot or blemish. However,
as the verdict of guilty has been recorded against me, I am
aware that what 1 now state will not avert the passing of
the awful sentence. One thing I have to implore and re-
quest, that the editors of the newspapers will give publicity
to the statement I now make at this bar. To the truth of
that statement I pledge the salvation of my soul (placing his
hands across his breast.) That they will give publicity to
this statement I have a right to expect, in consequence of
the injury I have sustained by the false and ex parte state-
ment of Vincent and others, which they have inserted
against me in their journals."
Henry Burgess, the lad who was convicted for uttering
the forged cheque, upon being asked why he should not be
condemned to die, placing his hands together, and leaning
over the bar, said in the most pitiable manner, " My Lord,
I hope that mercy will be extended towards me, on account
of my youth."
Maiden, who was convicted for stabbing s man in the
eye at Chelsea, said the prosecutor first assaulted him, and
that he made the plunge at him with the instrument, not
with an intent to injure him, but only to knock his hat off.
Mellett and Farthing declared that they were innocent,
and that the charge had been preferred against them for the
purpose of extorting money. Such an offence was con-
trary to their natures, and the charge might as well have
been preferred against the Judge on the bench as agains
them.

The prisoners having been severally called upon to show
reason why sentence of death should not be passed upon
them,

The Co:►tatoN Saa.rEaNT commenced his address by
stating, that the question which had been put to the pri-
soners severally was not a mere question of form ; for in
many instances it had happened, that at that period good
reasons, on legal grounds, were shown for arresting judg-
ruent. In reference to the one case, of a remarkable de-
scription, to which he would not further allude--
(meaning, we believe, the case of Mellett and Farth-
ing),—he could state of his own knowledge, that the
judgment of the learned Judge who tried that case went
the whole way with that of the jury. That learned
Judgo was quite satisfied of the propriety of the verdict;
and there was not any ground whatever for casting im-
putations upon those who had discharged an awful and re-
sponsible duty honourably and firmly. The judgment
which had been come to in that case, as well as in that of
others whom the law doomed to die, was not infallible;
and lie would assure the prisoners, that if any reason could
be stated, even subsequent to the passing of sentence, which
would show sufficient grounds for that judgment being ar-
rested, they should have the benefit of full and impartial
inquiry into them at. the office of the Secretary of State for
the Home Department. He would even hold out an invi-
tation to them to make known any thing which might have
the effect of altering the sentence which it was now his
duty to record; and he would conclude by assuring them
that not one of them who were now under conviction
for capital offences should lose his life, on whose behalf rea-
sonable grounds could he shown why the sentence of the
law should not be carried into effect. The Learned Judge
then proceeded to pronounce sentence of death in the usual
manner.

The following were ordered to be transported for life :
Frederick Hammond and John Clarke, for aggravated. felo-
nies ; John Costen, for the manslaughter of his own son,
by striking him on the head with a pewter pot; Michael
Cohen, for a robbery from the person ; Margaret Hartigan,
for the manslaughter of a child, by throwing a kettle of
boiling water over it; and Martha Turner, for robbing a
sailor of some money.
The following were ordered to be transported for 14
years :—James Greer, Henry Evans, George Harris, Wm.
Elliott, Robert Threlkald, John Rutt, Charles Staniard,

John otherwise Robert Speakman, John Smith, William
Jones, Timothy Malony, Thomas Jones, John M'Grath,
Margaret Coffin, Thomas Cartwright, Catharine Steel,
Johanna Brown, Henry Clayton, Thomas Jo}, Susan Kink,
Mary Mahony, Hannah Solomous, Jane Edwards, George
Jordan, Joseph Waters, Matthew Dunn, Mary Stewart,
William Ross, Isaac Fryatt, and Georgiana Baxter.

The women Steel and Brown, on leaving the bar, jumped
and capered about, and laughing at the Judge, said " Thank

you, my Lord." Solomon and Edwards were extremely
insolent, and in vulgar language said, " We have plenty of
law, but little justice. May your Lordship sit there till we
come back."

Seventy-six were ordered to be transported for seven years.
William Towell, who was convicted for two offences, was
sentenced to seven years transportation for each offence.
The sentence on William Vyse, who was convicted fur
being concerned in the Warwick Bank robbery, was respited
until next sessions.

Francis Darling, who was indicted for an outrageous act
of manslaughter, and pleaded guilty, was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment:

William Canna,line, William Adams, Thomas Bellas,
and William Coltney, were sentenced to 12 months' ilia-

prisonment, and hard labour in the House of Correction.
A great many boys who had been convicted of minor
offences were ordered to be privately whipped and discharged.

ROBBERY OF THE GREENOCK BANK.
HENRY SAUNDERS, one of the persons charged with rob •
Bing the Greenoc•k Bank, was tried on Thursday last, at the
Glasgow Assizes, on that charge. After a protracted trial,
in which nothing of any particular moment was elicited--
except that the bank had got back 20,000/. of the note,,,
though through what channel they could net discover—
the jury returned a verdict of " Not Proven," and the
prisoner was dismissed from the bar.

On the door of a parish church, not 100
miles from the town of Wycombe, was recently affixed the
following Notice—The Churchwardens will hold
their quarterly meetings once is six weeks, instead of
half-yearly as formerly."