Star.
London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

OLD nAtr.r.y SESSIONS.

Saturday these Sessions elided, when sentence of
death was pa,;seil on the following prisoners, capi-
tally convicted this Sessions, viz.
John Herring, Sarah Fl:•tcher (alias Mary Payne), Henry
Burnham, John Smith, James Wainwright, Richard Wilson,
Catherine Flimnigam Ann Groves, George Laburn, and Mary
!Tart, for stealing in dwelling-houses; George Lee, for uttering
four £5 forged notes; Francis Summers, Barnet Emanuel,
Charles Gilbert, and John Montgomery, for lilzhway robberies;
John Beazelcy, and William Haramnul, for lmuse-bre;.king in
the day-time; John Wilson (alias Patterson), Joh❑ Collett, end
William Burr, and Joseph Looseley (convicted in January Svs-
sions last), for burglary; Thomas Powell (alias Regan), for re-
turning from transportation; arc! Thomas Patmore, f, r mali-
ciously cutting and maiming General Wm.—N.B. Thomas
Thompson, for a highway robbery, received sentence of death
at the time of his conviction.

Nine were sentenced to be transported for life, viz,
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James Turn,r, henry Ih.wkins, Benjamin Jauncey, William
Smith, William Pa-4, John Reek, Daniel Ryan, Thomas Brown,
and George Morris.

Two to be transported for fourteen years, viz.
Miry Stalker and John Croft, for having forged notes in their
possession.

Twenty-three for seven years, viz.
Ann Wood, James Whittaker, John Richards, Lucy Payne,
Hector Munroe, Joseph Jones, James Swayne, Chas. Graham,
Jolin Nlalpas, John Carr, Frances Robinson, Rachel Chamber-
lain, Daniel Crane, Robert Wilson, John Douglas, Thomas Por-
ter, James Main, John Brennan, rho% Brittain, Eleanor John-
son, Samuel Alhinson, Thomas Hammond, and Mary Davis.
Teti were ordered to be imprisoned in the House of Correc-
tion for London, thirty-one in the House of Correction for Mid-
dlesex, and one in Newgate, for various periods, several of whom

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are to be publicly and privately whipp;cl; five to be whipped,
and then discharged ; two judgments were respited ; s.•veral
were fined one shilling and discharged ; and fifteen discharged
by proclamation.
The Sessions were then adjourned till the I‘..,kh of
September next.
The following is the substance of what passed at
the Old Bailey Sesssions on Wednesday last, signed
by the London Jury:

Previous to the breaking op of the Court at the Old Bailey
on Wedmsday evening, the Chairman of the London Jury stated,
that as it appeared probable their attendance might not be re-
quired again, he was directed by his co-jurymen to address a
few words to the Court in favour of the capital convicts, which,
with permission, he would read from a paper which he held in
his hand.
The COMMON SCIUTANT said, that he could not permit the
Jury to address him on the subject of capital punishments.
To which the Juryman replied, that it was an application
for mercy to the convicts of the present Session, and requested
the Court to indulge them with its patience. He then proceeded
to read, but, after a few sentences, was interrupted by
The COMMON SERJZANT—" I can hear no more; the Jury are
usurping that which does not belong to them."
Juryman—" My Lord, the Jury think it important to"—
COMMON SERJEANT-4 I cannot listen to anything more. It
is not the province of a Jury to arraign the laws of the country."
Juryman—" This is an appeal from the Jury to"—
Commx SERJEANT•••-" I cannot listen to it : you have nothing
to do with the punishment the law awards."
Juryman—" My Lord, I must be allowed to differ with the
Court on that point."
COMMON SNRJEANT--" The Jury are usurping more than be-
longs to them, and I will not hear it."
Juryman—" My Lord, the Jury could not mean to offend.
I have only a few words to offer."
COMMON SKILJEANT—" Sir, if you offer any more words, I
will commit you for contempt of Court. Go out of Court!"
Juryman—" My Lord, I am not aware of having said any
thing offensive; and had I so considered this application for
mercy, I certainly would not have undertaken it. As it is, I
must submit."
The annexed p:tper was also signed by the Jury :
" The London Jury cannot separate without making an
anxious appeal to the Court in behalf of the prisoners who have
been capitally convicted. By a conscientious discharge of the
duties imposed on them, they have been compelled to commit
the lives of individuals into the hands of their fellow men, for
offences varying in character and degree; and it behoves them
to state their feelings of deep regret that the absence of marked
atrocity should not ensure an exemption front the dreadful sen-
tence of death. Notwithstanding the high degree of confidence
they would place in the merciful discrimination of those who ate
invested with the final disposal of lives forfeited to the law, the
painful apprehension caused by the uncertainty of remission de-
prives them of the satisfaction which should follow their own
verdict. Reason and humanity dictate the hope that-the embar-
rassing difficulties attending the office of Juror may be speedily
removed ; constrained as they now are by their oath to award
a punishment so manifestly excessive as to demand the constant
interposition of higher authority to prevent its being carried into
effect. It is their humble desire, therefore, to communicate to
his Majesty's Council, through the humane offices of the Court,
that the London Jury respectfully disclaim the extreme penalty
which their verdicts would seem to invoke on the criminals they
have had in charge, and earnestly solicit their deliverance from
,death."