The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-13 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, DEC. 12.

The Sessions having ended, the Recorder, at
four o'clock;passed sentence upon the prisoners tried
(luring the Session.
The awful sentence of death was passed upon the
following :
HOUSE-BREAKlNG.—Jeremiah Crawley, Martin
Blaney, Henry Walton, Thomas Edwards, Maria
Smith, William Longman, Thomas Hough.
lions E-STEALING.—Thomas Chapman, alias Der-
rick, William Johnson, alias Carter, George New-
man.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—James Herring.
BURGLARY.—James Faggotter, Thomas Milgrove
Shepherd.
RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.—Edward
Purdey.
CUTTING AND MAIMING HIS WlFE.—Richard
Richardson.
STEALING FROM THE PERSON.—William Baker.
This convict said, that he hoped his case would be
looked into, otherwise he was a murdered a man.—
He said that if another witness had been present his
fate would have been different.
The RECORDER told him that his case had been
narrowly watched by he Jury, and what he now
urged was not a sufficient cause why his judgment
should be respited. If he had any thing, however,
to urge in mitigation of sentence, he might send a
petition to the Secretary of State, where it would
be sure to meet with attention. The Court at pre-
sent could not hear any thing further. _ _

STEALING IN THE
Brooke, Richard Hart, Michael Russell, Charles
Stanley, John Kilminster, and Robert Williams.
The last prisoner addressed the Court at great
length. He said that the prosecutor had sworn
falsely against him. He said he had been convicted
of stealing a purse, and a 401. note; but as for the
purse he never saw it, and the note he picked up at
the end of Chenies-mew!. He concluded by saying,
" I declare I am innocent of the charge made against
me."

The RECORDER regretted that a person standing
in the awful situation the prisoner did, should accuse
his prosecutor with perjury of the worst kind. The
jury who tried him were fully satificd of his guilt,
and nothing which he could urge could alter the
sentence he was about to pass.
The Learned RECORDER then exhorted the un-
happy group to direct their minds to an earnest ap-
plication for mercy at a higher tribunal ; and then
passed the awful sentence of the law upon them in
the usual way.

THE FOLLOWING WERE ORDERED TO RE TRANS-
PORTED FOR LIFE.—Wm. Nash, Daniel Driscoll,
Mary Leicester, Mary Mason, John Stack.

FOURTEEN YEARS.—Harriet Jones alias Tomli-
son, James Kinnersley, James Cobson, Henry
Dignum, George Collerby, John Cope, Francis
Ambrose, Owen Dail, Eliza King, Margaret Pren-
dergast ; George Davison and John Coleman, for
robbing Mr. Galloway, their employer.
William Cutts.--This prisoner was convicted of
receiving a stolen horse, and he is detained upon two
charges of horse-stealing in the county of Hants.
SEVEN YEARS.—George Wedger,Frederick Bent-
ley, Henry Hammond Flemming, John Rush, Ed-
ward Winson, William Guyon, John Weener,
Thomas Wheeler, Samuel L'Count, John Smith,
John Cramer, John Harris alias Wells, John Downes,
John Corner, John King, John Hulgate, William
Brown, Henry Johnson, Samuel Ball, Peter Hedley,
John Sulivan, John Burgess, William Flood, John
Smith, Samuel Wilson, John Morton, Joseph Ste-
venson, William Peterson, Thomas Reynolds, John
Buckridge, Thomas Cummins, William Jones, Ed-
ward Pricker, Thomas Davis, Michael Bul-
lock, John Marks, James Lucas, John Hitchcock,
William Bishop, Alexander Austin,Richard Murphy,
Flora Hayes, John Levy, Richard Isaacs, Joseph
Carmaranda, Mary Leary, Mary Ann Lyons, Alex-
ander Hunt, John Booty, James French, Henry
Mountain, Edwin Partridge, John Young, Catherine
Doyle, Mary M'Sweeney, Benjamin Salmon, James
Thumpsuu, William Ilawkin3, Richard Lett, Wil-
liam Arnold, Robert Coleman, James Brownsell, •
and Ann Frances Clifton, for stealing a 5/. note,
which came to her possession by virtue of her keep-
ing a receiving house for the general post-office.
IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR IN THE HOUSE
OF CORRECTION.—TweIve months, 6; 9 months,
2; 6 months, 9; 3 months, 13 ; 2 months, 15; 1
month, 19 ; and several for shorter periods in the
gaol of Newgate, and some to be publicly and pri-
vately whipped.
John Wilson, for stealing carpenters' tools, was or-
dered to be whipped 100 yards at the cart tail, as
near Southampton-street, Fitzroy-square, as con-
venient.

Several were discharged by proclamation, and
the Sessions was then adjourned to the 10th of
January next.

The flecla is fitting at Deptford for an ex-
tensive survey of the western coast of Africa. Captain
BOTELEA is appointed to the command.

Letters from Barcelona, dated the Ist instant,
state that the King and Queen of SPAIN were expeeted to
make their entry on the 4th. A decree had been publish-
ed, declaring the port of Barcelona to be a free port for
the deposit of merchandize, on the same principle as San-
tander, Cadiz, Corunna, and Alicant, upon a payment of
two per cent. for all charges,—half to be paid at the im-
portation of the merchandize, the other half at the export.
By another decree, the importation of cotton twist from
No. 1 to No. 80 is prohibited, and the increased duty upon
raw cotton, which was impesed on the 2d of August last,
is takc'n off.

Accounts from Toulon, to the 29th ult., give
some particulars of the expedition to be sent by the French
Government, in the ensuing spring, against Algiers.
Twelve ships of war are to he fitted out in different ports
in 'France, of which four are to be equipped at Brest. At
Toulon the Ville de Parie is to be prepared as one of the
squadron. Bomb-vessels are fitting out at Toulon. A
camp of 25 to 30,000 men arc to be formed in the envi-
rons of Toulon. The Duke of RAG USA is to command
the land force, and Rear-Admiral Ill!ssitssy the naval
part. Ile is to have under him Rear-Admiral ROSAMET,
as second in command, and General DURANTEAU is to he
Etat Major.--It is hinted that the real object of this Ex-
pedition is not Algiers, but that it is destined for Egypt.
Last night, about ten o'clock, a yotuag female
was observed on the parade, standing in rather a forlorn at..
titude upon the brink of the river. After a moment or
two she proceeded to take off her clothe?, ; but before she
had quite unrohed herself, a sailor, from the brig Apollo,
who suspected. her intentions, rushed from the vessel, and
just caught the unfortunate creature at the moment she
was about to plunge into the river. Upon being questioned
she said she wag an English girl (which, from her accent,
was quite evident), and that she was going to swim after
her lover, who was gone to America. She was lodged in
the tower, where she at present remains.—Waterford
Chronicle.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK, AND Loss OF
LIVES. —On Thursday night last the brig Ceres, belong-
ing to Messrs. GRANTHAM and PARRINDEE, of Burgh,
having landed a cargo of coals at the yard of Mr. Mlcic-
LITHWAITE, of the former place, was about to proceed to
Wainfleet Haven, for which purpose a pilot was taken on
board. The day had been stormy, but in the evening the
wind had considerably subsided, and was in fact calmed.—
But owing to the past tempest, the sea continued dreadfully
agitated ; the vessel dragged her anchor, and began to beat.
At this juncture the crew, five is number, became much
alarmed, and their piteous cries were plainly heard on the
shore, by an immense crowd of spectators who speedily as-
sembled, and many of whom were indeed within call of the
vessel. Urged by their impending danger, it was Proposed
to launch a boat from the shore, but a slight reflection
showed the madness of such a project, the sea running ex-
tremely high, so as to render it impossible for a boat to live.
At length, however/ it was resolved to procure Captain
MA NET'S apparatus, which is kept at the hotel ; the mortar
fixed, and a shot about to be fired, when sud-
denlyw a brought,
s te shipstruck
with dreadful violence. A moment
of dreadful suspense
ensued, and the vessel disappeared;
the groans of the ill fated crew were lost in the gurgling of
the waters, and all was over ! Ina few hours the floating
materials of the wreck drifted on the beach, and with them
the bodies of the pilot and master; the others are still en-
shrouded in the deep. The name of the unfortunate master
was JOHN Buumwsorr ; and the pilot, Joni% 11L.,;Dy.—
' Inquests were held on their bodies on Saturday before C.
31AsTIN, Gent., Coroner, when verdicts Were returned of
accidentallY drowned........ Boston Gazette.