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London, England, 1824-01-03 00:00:00

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THEODORE G A LTON,
BY HIS MOTHER.
TIVOISLATED VIIIOII 711 Y LATIN ORIGINAL. •

This Saone is inscribed by distant Parents,
to soothe an affectionate sorrow.
A beloved Son, distinguished by his filial affection,
Lies Here!
Ills Attachments wore ardent,
His Feelings generous,
Itis Passions most noble!
His perfections beamed tram his Countenance,
and animated his Manly Beauty.
Lo! _ _

Th.: brightness of Youth lies prostrate at thy feet,
in dust!
Cut off in the midst of his Course;
The hour of his expected return announced
his lamented death!
He is mourned with the Mourning of the Heart!

Stringer! -
If no Moral strike thy Heart,
Aire,
and Mourn fur -
Thyself!

SURREY WINTER 'ASSIZES, JAN.'4.•

.—...,•selos+--

William Harris, Daniel Parsonage, Catherine Seicen,
and Lucy Parsons, were indicted, the two first-mentioned
prisoners under the Statute 39th Elizabeth, for breaking
and entering the dwelling-hou.-e of John Clarke, in the
parish of St. Mary, Newington, in the day-time, no
person being therein, and stealing £2O and upwards in
gold and silver money, -end other articles of property,
and the two latter as being accessaries before the fact.
The male prisoners were found Guilty. The women
were Acquitted, there being nothing to shew that they
were privy to the robbery before it was committed.
Mr. Justice PARK passed sentence of Death on Har-
ris and Parsonage, and told them they must expect to
undergo the last severity of the taw.
The prisoner Parsonage, who was a man of respect-
able deportment. prayed for mercy, said it was his first
offence, andthat he had been led into it by others. He
was sensibly affected during the sentence:
• William Clark and Richard Cropper were indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling•house of William
Cowland, in the parish of St. George the Martyr, in the
night' of the Ist of November, with intent to steal. .
The principal witness to support the prosecution was
a youth named George Henry Stokes, brother-in-law of
the prosecutor, who deposed that the latter occupied a
house, No. 4, Birdcage-alley, St. George's-fields ; he was
in the habit of going every evening to take care of his
brother-in-law's house ; between six and seven, on the
Ist of November, he went to the house for that purpose,
and after he bad lighted candles he discovered that the
back-door, leading to the yard, was open; presently he
saw the face of the prisoner Cropper at the back win-
driW. He gave an alarm to his sister.in-law, and then
went into the back yard. As soon as he got into the
yard the prisoner Cropper struck him a violent blow on
the chest, which staggered him. Ile then saw the pri"-
sinter etArke and a third man. In endeavouring to re-
cover himself, he inclined towards Clarke, who drew
some sort of weapon upon him, and he received a cut
in the front part of his thighs. He was then taken into
the house and the prisoners escaped.
These were the leading circumstances of the case.—

There was no proof as to the manner in which the pri-
soners got into the back yard of the prosecutor's house,
nor was there any evi.ience that they had been in fact in
thi house.' 'From thew defects of prorf, Mr. Justice
gum told the Jury they most acquit the prisoners in

point of law.—The Jury found the prisoners Not Guilty.
The prisoner Clarke was Again indicted for assaulting
George Henry Stokes, the witness mentioned in the last
case, on the `2lith of Octcber, in the sane parish, putting'
him in fear, and atealin trout his person a handkerchief
and a gold pin.
The prosecutor stated, that on the evening of the
th of October, he was going to the house of his
brother in-law, Cowland, and SlAr the prisoner in the
act of endeavouring to open the door with a skeleton
key. He struck the pi-hauler on the wrist and knocked
the key.out of his hand and picked it up. The prisoner
insisted on having the key again, seized the prosecutor
by the throat, and threatened to choke him if he did not
dsliver it up; the prosecutor begged he would not, and
the ptisnner, pulling a knife out of itis pocket, cut the
neckerchief from the prosecutor's neck, in IA hick was a
gold pin, and ran off with both. Nett day the prose-
cutor saw the prisoner in the act of selling the necker-
chief, and caused him to be apprehended. The prisoner
called a woman named Saunders, who lived nett door
to the prosecutor's brother-its-law, for the purpose ot.
eraiing that the pin and the handkerchief were seen in
tie erosecutor's possession after the time the robbery
was said to have keen committed.—The Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.—Judgment of Death was recorded.
The prisoners Clarke and Cropper were then indicted
upder Lord Ellenhorough's. Act for cutting and maim-
ing George Henry St elses, under the circumstances men-
tioned in the first car. 71gainct the prisoners.
.• The Jury, however, on this indictment, after hearing
the 'evidence, and the oiyae vations of the Learned Judge,
found the prisoners N(4 Guilty.
.14.scph Kinp, a youth 14. years old, was indicted for
assaulting the same George Henry "hoke 3, on the King's
glsway, tin the 2/.;th Novesuber, putting him in fear,
and stealitig from his. person a pair of boots and a pair
of stockings.
It appears that the prisoner,. though young, was one
of a desperate gang of thieves infesting DOver-sireet
and Kent-street, Surrey. Between five and six o'clock
on the evening of the '26th November, the prosecutor
was seized by four or five men, who stopped his mouth
with a handkerchief, and dragged bins into a common
brothel-in White Bear-gardens, Dover-road. They took
him up stairs and tied Win with a rope to a bed-post.
A female named Davis, a common proStitute of the
worst description, was present. The pasty proceeded.
to cut the boots and stockings from his legs. The pri-
soner King was one of the party, and he cut the laces
of the prosecutor's boots, which were delivered to Davis;
One of the party desired another to gortfilown stabs and
fetch a hammer to beat out the prosecinor's biains.
Shortly afterwards all the party went down, and, whilst
they acre gone, the prosecutor, with a
.knife which he
found on a table, cut* the string with which he' waa tied;
escaped by a back window, and give an alarm to.tfio.
night Patrol.—The prosecutor's. statement was cow!
-firmed' by several witnesses.
• Thg.prisoner attempteJ to prove an alibi, by the evi-
dence of a man and his witiofam ed carltOn,.who lived.
in White Bear-gardens, but their restimmay being un.
satisfiktory,
.the the isegned dndge's diree4
tioatiffpwt4 the psfseaee..6o4l* reSomlllended
to mercy on account Of his yt,uth.:-Jodgcnetit of
avies the meantime. recorded.
-The Assizerinithait ei6ht o'clock thit evening.