The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-09 00:00:00

SENTENCES.

The Sessions having terminated, the COMMON
SERJEANT (in the absence of the Recorder) pro-
ceeded to pass sentence of death upon the following
persons who were capitally convicted; previous to
which he addressed them in the following terms:--
Prisoners at the bar, you have each of you been
convicted of offences by which your lives become
forfeited to the laws of your country, and it is now'
my duty to pass upon you the awful sentence of
death, a sentence which is always pronounced from
the Bench with the utmost pain. Some among you
may perhaps litter themselves, that although sen-
tence is passed upon them, their lives may be spared.
I beseech you all to banish such hopes, and to con-
sider your lives as forfeited; an act of mercy can
alone save any one of you; whether that mercy will
be extended to any of you, or if to any, to whom I
cannot tell ; whether your lives are spared or not,
you will be the better for a proper consideration of
your situation with that feeling of sincere repent-
ance which becomes each of you. There are va-
rious degrees of crime in your several offences, but
justice may perhaps require that an example should
be made of some of those who most flatter them-
selves with the hope of escaping the extreme penalty
of the law. Even if your lives are spared, your
punishment will be severe; you will at all events be
removed for life from the land of your birth, and
from all your connections in society. How dismal
would such a prospect have appeared to any one of
you but a few weeks ago. I beseech you, and all
who are likely to follow your example, to consider
of this. I again entreat you to endeavour to make
your peace with Heaven, and to make every atone-
ment to those who have been injured byeour con-
duct.—He then passed sentence of death in the usual
form upon—
Thomas Holbeck, aged 21, for sheep-stealing ; Wm.
James, 22, for burglary; Henry Holmes, 35, for a rape;
James Stevens, alias Stephen, 18, fur house-breaking ;
Catherine Ryan and Richard Gander, fur stealing in a
dwelling-house above the value of bl. ; Mary Conway,
alias Donahoe, and Hannah, alias Ann Welch, for utter-
ing counterfeit coin, they having before been convicted for
a similar offence; and James Dixy and Wm. Shadwick,
for a robbery.
The following were sentenced to be transported for life :
—Ellen Connor, 20, and Benjamin Guillors.
FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.-John Green, Joseph Walker,
Isaac Davis, Samuel Williams, John Kilpatrick, James
Pickett, William Joseph Baynes, Betsy Brackenbury.
FOR SEVEN YEARS.—George Clark, alias Freeman,
William Palmer, alias Laing, George Wiltshire, George
Albert Bennett, Barney White, James Juchan, David
Thomas Jones, John Dunn, John Brennan (the porter for
stealing the 1,0001. Bank note), William Copping, John
Smith, William Smith, Thomas Smith, William Bales,
Edward Higgs, Mitchell Hart, George Lilley, Robert
Payne, Mary Taylor, George Lewis, Francis Smith,
Mary Anderson, Ann Kegley, Sarah Wootten, John
Harvey, William Collier, William White, William Smith,
Lydia Quey, John Richards, John Jones, John Flint,
James Binglow, Edward Taylor, Thomas Mountjoy,
Edward Carr, Jane Richards, Edward Phillips, John
Scroggins, William Price, Henry M'Kensie, Frederick
Ireland, Edward Hennison, Henry Hodgson, Timothy
Hurley, James Gavin, Daniel Daniels, John Conew,
Abraham Hall, Eleanor Browne, Maria Bevis, Rebecca
Martin, Peter Doran, Richard Moody, William Felstead,
• Mary Cox, William Wix, James Sheen, George Rolfe,
Thomas Robert Lurchen, Samuel Braile, James Arthur,
Michael Hogan, John Stephens, Susan Scarborough,
John Harris, Sarah Davis, Ann Smite, Thomas Maher,
and Louisa Heskins.
To be imprisoned twelve months in the House ef Cor-
rection—
Jonathan Wix, William Reed, and Elizabeth !Estop
(for the robbery at Messrs. Sewell and Cross's) and Ann
Goldsbury.
FOR SIX MONTHS.—Charles Newman, Thomas Sheet,
William Bilby, and Abraham Hanford.
Several others were sentenced to various terms of im-
prisonment, and some to be privately whipped,The judgment of the Court upon the following persons
was I%!spited

Hannah Thorn, John Frpflerick Sarah livar,R,
Richard Corney, and Jane Coleman.
The SeAsions then adjourned to hursdr;y, the
14 It of January.