The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-18 00:00:00

THE SENTENCES.

The whole of the prisoners on the calendar having
been tried, the Learned RECORDER proceeded to
pass the various sentences on those convicted; and
the awful sentence of death was passed on the• fol-
lowing prisoners, after a most feeling admonition
from the Recorder, to prepare themselves for the car•- .
rying into execution the utmost penalty of the law :
Wm. Brettle, for horse-stealing; James Taylor, Samuel
Rogers, James Breckon, William -Harris, Frederick Beale,
Edward Griffiths, and James Hawes, for stealing in dwel-
ling-houses ; John Byford Smith, John Wright, Joseph
Wells, Thomas Wilson, John Haggarty, John Williams,
Elizabeth Ryder, and Thomas Norton, for highway rob-
bery; Peter Johnson Hamilton, for uttering a counterfeit
sixpence, having before been convicted of the like offence.
TRANSPORTATION FOR LlFE.—Harriet Lather, an el-
derly woman, for stealing I4s. from the person of John
Cook.
TRANSPORTATION FOR FOURTEEN YEARS-John Ma-
loney, Isaac Solomons, Ann Williams, John Lovegrove,
Joseph Pickett, Thomas Bradford, Richard Bowers, (the
last named prisoner is the notorious duffer, who has for so
many years infested the neighbourhood of the Strand, par-
ticularly about Exeter 'Change, and has been well known
as " the wooden-legged man"), and John Brown.

TRANSPORTATION FOR SEVEN YEARS.-John Owen, ‘.
Michael White, William Daley, Lawrence Shefland, John
Churchman, Richard Harris, William Telford,-James El-
liott, Patrick Mansfield, Thomas Few alias Tew; Thomas
Mills alias Miller (having married three wives), Thomas
Cochrane, John Bridges, Samuel Clarke, Henry Camden,
James Purcell, jun., George Rye, Thomas Smith, Charles
Hodson, Mary Elliott, William Johnson, John Haynes,
Sarah Brown, John Brown, Mary Graham, Joseph Cooke,
Moses Moore, William Mack,-. Elizabeth Brown, Thomas
Lewis, Maurice Driscoll, James Milton, Francis Mitchell,
Martin Clarke, William Williams, Reuben Collender, John
Callaghan, Maria Fraser, Joseph Perkins, Robert Pitcher,
Hannah Bourke, Mary Kevan, Jane Brett, John Reddeth,, •
William Cullender, Mary M'Cauley, William Brocking,
William Jones, Frederick Spellers, Henry Daly, Andrew
Mowatt, and Francis Corani.
On Henry Solomons (the father of the notorious
Ikey Solomons); Lyon Lyons,William Darley, James
Brownell, Thomas Donovan, William Neale, ,
Francis Spencer, and Thomas Thomas, the judgment
of the Court was respited until the next sessiens. ,
Edward Hudson Tredaway, who was charged
with the murder of his wife, and was found guilty'of
manslaughter, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the. .
House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labOurt
for three calendar months. t
Eleven were ordered to be privately whipped,.
and some of them to be imprisoned for short periods.
A number were sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment and hard labour, from seven days to ,
twelve months. • •

The'. total number of prisoners brought up for
sentence was 177, exclusive Of those upon Whom
judgment was passed at the time of their trials.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JULY 17.

Patiick Bennett was indicted for assaulting Mary
Gregory, with intent to commit a capital offence.—
It appeared from the girl's statement, that the de-
fendant had lodged at her father's house for nearly
a twelvemonth, at a rent of 2s. per week. On the
day named in the indictment, the. defendant and she
being alone in the kitchen, he put his hands-round
her neck, and attecpted to kiss her. She repelled'
his familiarities, upon which he threw her upon the
bed, where she struggled against him, and ulti-•
mately succeeded in getting away from him. Hon,-
ever, he again caught hold of her, and she again got
away. She then seized the poker, and swore She
would knock him down if he touched her again.—
Whereupon he ran after 'her, but his foot
he fell on his back, and she taking advantage dins
prostrate position, turned upon him, and belaboured
him about the face and head most unmercifully, .
with the poker, the marks of which were still stall;
ciently apparent on his face. He got up as quickly
as he could, and abused and kicked the girl until
some persons came to her assistance. Her evidence
was partially corroborated by the testimony of a
neighbour, who had been attracted by her screams,
and who deposed to the marks arid bruises on her
limbs.

The defence attempted to be set up was, that the
girl had promised. to marry the prisoner, but on the
day in question she came and sat on his knee, and
then told him she bad changed her mind. He in-
sisted on her stating her reason. and would not per-
mit her to leave his knee until she did so, and this
it was that gave rise to the quarrel. This state-
ment, however, was not supported by any evidence.
and flatly contradicted by the prosecutrix.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and he was
sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the House
of Correction.
The cases having been gone through at 5 o'clock,
the Court adjourned to Thursday, the 26th instant.