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London, England, 1816-06-24 00:00:00

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This morning at nine o'clock the' Court re-assem-
bled, when judgment of death was passed on the fol-,
lowing prisoners, who had been convicted of capital
offences :—Aaron Chrvill, Richard Imola, Joseph
Thomas Sorth, and Mari Benton, for burglary in the
dwelling-house of Josiah Dewey, of Littleport; also'
Thomas death, William Dann, and Rokrt Crabb, for
stealing in the dwelling•house of Robert dpeechley.
of Littleport; also Joao Newell and bade Hark,' for
robbery from the person of the Rev. J. Vachell, Clerk,
of Littleport ; also John Dennis, John Jsferroa, and
Birhard Avner, for robbery from the person of Robert
Edwards, of Ely ; also William Brainier the younger,
fur robbery from the person of Hugh Robert Evans,
of Ely ; also Aaron Layton, John Dennis, ktehard
Jessols, William /Win, Sarah Hobbs, John Prick, J,hn
Cooper, and John Jferson, fur rubbery from the per-
son of William Caper, of Ely ; also John Dennis,
Aaron Layton, Willem Adin, and James Gemmel!, for
robbery from the person et George Stevens, of Ely ;
also irfilliani &amiss the elder, and Aaron Chita, for
robbery from the person of Henry Tansley, of Little.
port ; also John Easy, John Waller, Robert Butcher,
and George Crow, for stealing in the dwelling.house
of Rebecca Waddelow and Henry Martin, of Little.
port ; also William Beamin the elder, and Wilfions
Bemoan the younger, for robbery from the person of
Robert Cheeseright, of Littleport.
Mr. Justice ABBOTT then addressed them to the
following effect :
" Prisoners at the air—You stand here, twenty.
four persons in number, a melancholy example to all
who are here present, and to all your country, of the
sad effects of indulging in those. brutal and violent
passions by which you all appear to have. been ac.
tuated in the commission of the crimes of which you
have beta convicted. You seem to have thought,
that by your own strength, and your own threats,
you should not onlf be able tO oppress and intimidate
your peaceable neighbours, but even to resist the
strong arm of the law itself. How vain that thought,
your present situation stews. It was suggested
abroad, that you had been induced to perpetrate
these violent outrages by bard necessity and want
but, after attending closely and strictly to the whole
tenour of the evidence, which has occupied the atten-
tion of the Court for several days, there has not ap-
peared in the condition, circumstances, or behaviour
of any one of you, any reason to suppose that you
were instigated by distress. By what motive, or un-
der what mistaken advice or disposition, you began
to actin the way you did, is best and perhaps only
known to GOD and your own consciences. The pre-
servation not only of the good order and peace of
society, the preservation of lile itself, imperiously
calls upon the Court to declare, that many of you,
must expect to undergo the full sentence of thelaw.
It is some consolation to the Court to be able to say,
that in attending to and distinguishing the cases of
each particular individual, we have found in many
of them circumstances which will warrant us is giving
to many of you a hope that your lives will be saved.,
The Gentlemen of the Jury have pointed out some of
you to our attention, and ill se doing they have acted
with that Iserciftil disposition and accepts discri-,

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mination which they-have strewn throughout the whole
of your trials. Sod of jou whose lives may, per-
' haps, be saved by the Crown—that Power alone on
earth who can save thenl—must not expect that you
shall be dismissed from your offences without under-
going' some severe punishment. Many of you must
expect to be sent away for a greater or less portion
of time, and a few even for the whole period of their
lives, from that country whose peace they have thus
disturbed, and which they have thus disgraced.—
Human justice, however it may be administered, as
it is always in this country with mercy, requires that
some of you should undergo the full sentence, in
order that others may be deterred from following the
example of your crimes. You William Beamiss the
elder, you George Crow, you John Dennis, you
Isaac Harley, ydbi Thomas South the younger ; let
me exhort you to prepare for that sentence : let me
entreat you to apply yourselves, during the short re-
mainder of the time which can be allowed to you in
this world, by prayer and penitence, to appease that
ALMIGHTY Powell whomgyou have offended s address
yourselves seriously and fervently to that throne
of grace, from which hereafter you may expect
to find that mercy which cannot be extended to you
here. You William Beamiss the elder, ire a per-
son whose condition in life ought to have taught
you to restrain any unruly and turbulent disposi-
tion in your less enlightened neighbours, instead
of becoming one of the most forward in the per-
petration of those offences which placed your town,
for several days, in a state of trepidation and alarm.—
You boasted, however, of your situation, and took
with you your own son to be the partner of your
crimes. Considering his youth, and the influence
which your evil example may be supposed to have
had upon him, he is placed among those who are re-
commended to the mercy of thaThrone. You Geo.
Crow, were one of the number who, at a late hour
of the night, broke into the dwelling-house of two
peaceable individuals against whom you had no
cause of offence. One of them, whose age and in-
firmities were entitled to protection and respect, was
subjected to your violence and plunder—the other
had the good fortune to escape fully by flying from
you. Your offence, therefore, is not merely that of
which you have been convicted ; you came there, not
with that intention alone, but to destroy the life of
one person. You John Dennis are also a person
whose condition in life might have taught you to re-
strain the wicked passions of others. You endea-
voured, on your first appearance in this place, to re-
present to the Court, that ou bad been compelled by
force to leave the place of your dwelling, and give
your assistance in plundering the inhabitants of this
city. The Jury, to whom this representation was re-
ferred did even, on that occasion, repudiate the evi.
deuce : two other trials followed, and you were found
standing forward as the leader of that lawless band
which entered this city for the purposes of plunder
and violence, and armed with a more dangerous wea-
pon than the rest of your associates. You Isaac
Harley were the first person who assaulted the Re-
verend Minister of your parish at his own door; you
stood first of that wicked assembly, and demanded
money of him; and having refused that moderate
sum he offered, you enforced from him the delivery
of his money by your own bodily strength, forced
your way into his dwelling, and compelled him and
his family to fly at that late hour for their lives. You
Thomas South the younger, appear to have been one
of the most active in those wicked transactions which
took place in your town ; you took from one of your
neighbours the savings perhaps of many years ; and
then proceeded to another, and forced him to part
with such sums as you and your lawless companions
demanded. With a deadly weapon in your hand,
you afterwards went to the house of an aged woman,
and shook it over her head. In addition to these out-
rages, there are no less than four other cases in %hid,
the Grand Jury of your country have found bills of
indictment against you. You, then, the five whom
I have addressed, let me again exhort you to apply
yourselves by penitence and prayer to obtain from
HEAVEN the pardon of your crimes. It now remains
for me to pronounce on each and every one of you,
the awful sentence of Death ; and that sentence is,
that you and each of you be taken from hence to the
place from whence you came, and from thence to,
some place of execution, where you are to be hanged
by the neck until you are dead. And as to you Wil-
-1 liam Beamiss the elder, George Crow, John Dennis,
Isaac Harley, and Thomas South the younger, apply
to the GOD of Mercy that he would have mercy
on you."
During the whole of this awful sentence the priso.
tiers were deeply affected, and were taken from the
bar in an agony of grief.
Joseph Lavender, who had been convicted of steal-
ing some silver spoons, the property of the Rev. John
Vachell, was then brought up, and prayed the benefit
of clergy, according to the statute.
Mr. Justice ABBOT addressed the prisoner. He told
him that he had been found guilty of stealing a part,
though a very small part, of the property of the Rev.
J. Vachell, which was carried away by a most violent
and outrageous assembly. It had not appeared,
however, that be was one of those who first broke
into the house. Had that fact, or any thing leading
to that conclusion, been proved against him, the
Court would have been called upon to pronounce a
sentence as severe as the case required. Concidering,
therefore, all that had been brought against him, and
drawing a favourable conclusion, they sentenced him
to be imprisoned in the city gaol for twelve months.
The prisoners who were allowed yesterday to enter
recognisances for their good behaviour were then
brought up and discharged.
The remainder of the prisoners. being put to the
bar, Mr. GURNEY stated, that he was instructed on
the part of the Crown not to prefer any prosecution
against them. They were, therefore, immedikely
discharged by Proclamation. The Court then rose,
and the special commission was concluded.

We are sorry to be obliged to notice an outrage
that has been committed by some ignorant persons an
Ayr. A miller bad found it necessary or prudent to
increase the priei of Meal from 141. to 15d.
and as this was done after the market day, which ge-
nerally regulates the price for the following week, a
mob assembled, and like savages broke iato the mil-
let's house, and destroyed a quantity of grain. In
addition to this notable exploit they broke the win-
dows and some furniture in the home- • They after.
wards dispersed itad went hawk

DIED. -------------
June 12, Junes Tomlicson, Esq. one of this Mittman of the
Borough of Maldon.
June 10, in her 9th year, LIM Sophia, eldest daughter of Br.
Handy, of Chelmsford.
June 20, Miss Elizabeth Stoddart, youngest daughter of the
late Rev. C. Stoddart, of Ashford.

June 11, of a rapid decine, aged 19, Lieut. T. W. Trdlops,
of the Royal Marine Artillery.
Thursday, at his house in Hollwell, Oxfordshire, aged 6.i, M..
Nicholas Gunn, who many years since served the dices of Cha %-
Dorian and Bailiff of that city.
At Bradley, Hants, the Rev. C. G. Scare, rector of that puia,
and one of the Chaplains to the Prince Regent.
At Bury, aged 26, the Rev. J. Tilibrook, B.A. of L'..mboin
college, Cambridge.
Rev. J. Guughsquare, one•of the Chaplaia of aapi ifisto
nest the Prince Regent.

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