The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-08 00:00:00

ron THE SON.

EmToa,-1 have this morning read with
astonishment a Letter in your Paper, signed
" JUSTUS," relative to the Cast of two gypsies,
who, at tire last Peterborough Seisions, were con-
vict-ea of horse-stealing, and sentenced to die ;by
which he would have it believed that these pri-
soners are to suffer the dreadful sentence of the
Before, however, be sent his statement
into the world, he ought surely to have ascer-
tained whether they were to be executed or not ! Sir,
1 will venture to asset t, without fear of contra-
diction, that in no place is justice administered
with greater mercy than in the Soke of Peter-
borough. in the case of the gypsies, the Magis-
trates, before whom they were tried, give direc-
tions to me the same evening to prepire a petition
to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent which
(liter 1 had obtained their signatures to it) was
torwatdeu by me to Lot tl Sidmonth, praying for a
commutation of t heir sentence, and which his Royal
highness his been pleased to grant, upon condi-
tion of their being transported during their lives.
Your Correspondent forgot to mention that there
was a second indictment against the prisoners
for a similar offence, to which they pleaded
" Guilty."

The very respectable Clergyman, Sir, who
presided, was not the committing Magistrate,
neither is he " proprietor of a horse within the
s.nre district, &c." But even if it were so, can
" JUSTUS" he so illiberal as to suppose that those
circumstances would have operated to the disad-
vantage of the prisoners ? if he can, I envy him
not his feelings.

There was another cage at the same Sessions
which " JusTus," (or rather " INJUSTUS does
not condescend to notice, that of a man convicted
of sheep-stealing, in whose behalf a Petition was
also presented by the Magistrates to the Regent,
who, in-consequence of the man'S previous good
character (not so the gypsies), bas been graciously
pleased to commute his sentence to transportation
for seven years.

What motive your Correspondent could have
in publishing so incorrect a statement (not to call
it by a harsher name) I am at a loss to imagine ;
unless it was (as is too much the fashion) to bring
into contempt those whose painful duty it is to
administer the laws. _ _

The letter of " JusTus " requiring, as I hum-
bly conceive, to be as speedily answered, as, he
says, it was hastily written, I hope you and a
candid Public will make allowances for the inac-
curate style in which these lines have been penned.
—I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
JOHN ATKissoN,
Clerk of the Peace for the Liberty of Pzterborough.
Cathedral Close, Peterborough, Feb. 7, 1619.

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