Star.
London, England, 1821-09-22 00:00:00

st the house, the articles were given up without the!
least hesitation.
Jobn Nurse deposed, that he was the person who
made the moulds. He was in the employment of
Messrs. Figgins for twenty-seven years. Several ar-
ticles
had been missing doling the time the prisoner
was in the employment of Messrs. Figgins, and also'
after he left it.
The prisoner called three witnesses, who gave him
an excellent character.
The Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, brought
in a verdict of Net Guilty.
The same person was arraigned on a second indict-
ment, for stealing fifty-six pounds of type from the
same prosecutors. He was found Guilty, and recom-
mended to mercy.
The CosrsloN SERJEANT asked the prosecutor if
the losses he sustained at different times by thefts
amounted to £3O, or £4O?
The prosecutor answered, that his losses were con-
siderably greater.
The COMMON SERJEANT the* said, he was afraid
that, under these circumstances, it would be out of
the power of the Court to act on the recommendation
of the Jury, consistently with the inflicting such aII
measure of punishment as would have the effect of
checking theprogress of a practice so injhrious to
industrious tradesmen.

CAUTION To Puaticasis.—Yesterday an informa-
tion came on for bearing at Mary-la-Bonne Office,
against. the landlord of the Queen's Head public-
house, in Paradise-street, Diary-la-Bonne, for using
sixteen pewter pots, not having the Exchequer mai k
W. IL surmounted by a Crown upon them, a convic-
tion of which would have subjected him to a penalty
of £32. An Attorney, however, pointed out an in-
formality in the proceedings, and the information
was quashed ; when the informer said he would re-
new the application in an amended form.
%n excise hearing took place before the Magis-
trates at '!'rum on Saturday se'nnight, to inquire into
a new invention for defrauding the Revenue. h ap-
peared that more than ten persons hadfor some time
past been in the habit of "giving awaj' beer or ale
(as they professed) to all comers promiscuously. But
the ale was accompanied with a certain proportion
of biscuits, according to its measure. With a pint of
ale, for instance, three very small biscuits, in value
not a farthing, were produced ; and osteesibly for
these biscuits threepence, the actual price of the ale,
was paid; with a quart of ale, six biscuits at sis•l
pence ; and the people dispensing their biscuits and
ale, had been thus pleasantly occupied under the full
persuasion that no law could arrest them in the exer-
cise of their hospitality. They found themselves,
however, mistaken. By this unlicensed conduct,
they had each incurred the penalty of £5O, which, on
their conviction, the Justices were pleased to reduce
by mitigation to the forfeiture of £lO for each house.
ExECUTIONS.—John Wilkinson and William Surtees
Hetherington were executed at Morpeth, pursuant to
their sentence at the late Assizes for Northumber-
land, for highway robbery. They appeared to be
men wholly uninstructed either in moral or religious
obligations. Wilkinson, when committed, could nei-
ther read nor-write; but during his confinement he
learnt his letters, and some of the little words in the
spelling-book. Hetherington was totally ignorant of
letters; and, being asked what religion he was of?
said be did not know; he had only been once in a
place of worship! On being questioned if he did
not know there was a Gon? he replied, he had heard
folk speak of it! Previous to their execution, the
friends of both paid their last visits. The short inter-
view was peculiarly affecting, and all wept bitterly.
The culprits were afterwards engaged in devotional
exercise till a post-chaise, attended by a posse of po-
lice, drew up before the jail, and the criminals stept
into the carriage. A band of singers preceded the
melancholy procession. On the road a person endea-
voared to extract information relative to their asso-
ciates, but they resisted all attempts to-obtain their
secrets. Wilkinson said, "it was of no use; no one
could be of any service to them now, and they would
make no disclosure." Arriving at the fatal spot, at.
the foot of the town, they each mounted the scaffold
with much firmness, and immediately bent their knees
in devotion. Wilkinson was incessant in his addresses
to the THRONE of GRACE, and frequently exclaimed,,
had he bestowed attention to his wife's advice, who
had long prayed and entreated him by day and night
to leave off his wicked courses, he would not then
have been standing in that situation! He looked,
earnestly about for her in the crowd, and not seeing
-her, he desired the jailor to remember him to her,
with his dying request that she might attend to the
things of a better world. He hoped the by-standers
would be warned by his untimely death, and prayed
earnestly for the mercy of GOD with his latest breath.
The emotions of Hetherington's mind were more of
an internal nature; he seemed attentive to the awful
scene, frequently shook his head, and at last he ex-
claimed—" Good bye to you all! take warning by
me, all good people!" Oa *the scaffold they twice
embracedeach other, and, at parting, Hetherington
kissed the Clergyman. Their passage.to eternity was
short, and their struggle scarcely visible.
It will be recollected, that N. J. Gard, who was
convicted at the Bodmin Summer Assizes of the wil-
ful murder of Henry Hoskin, of Boscastle, was, by'
the humanity of Baron GRAHAM, respited until the
10th instant, in consequence of the unprepared state
the unhappy criminal was represented to be in for
undergoing the awful sentence of the law within the
usual time prescribed for the execution of murderers.
At first he seemed to disregard the indulgence thus
shewn to him, and appeared hardened, violent, and
impertinent; but by the unreniittcd exertions of the
Rev. M. FETRER, the Chaplain of the 13odmin prison,
he was brought to a proper sense of his situation,.and
before his execution acknowledged that he had led a
very wicked life, though he hoped that he was not
out of the reach of mercy, and that he died in peace
with, all mankind. The time allowed for his respite
having expired, on Monday morning, at ten o'clock,
he was led to the drop, adjoining the jail, to which
he walked with a firm step, and having reached it,l
knelt a short time in prayer with the Chaplain, to
whom he repeated that he put his trust in JESUS, and
died in charity with all men. He expressed contri-
tion for what he had done, forgave all his enemies,
and said he was not afraid to die: In little more
than ten minutes from his first appearance on the
scaffold, he gave the signal, when.he was laonct'td
into etanity, an died without a stritzgle.