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ie at lib to accompany their verdict by any re.
• PIA beyond the I¢le deehitin of guilty' of is t
toilty? • '
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Mr. Justice Bum:Wort. —You will find your terdict
its to the simple fact, .whether Lord Cochrane • vas.
Committed to the custody oldie M atsgal of the King's
Bench, and whether, niter being in co?,irnitted, he
did not escape before the espiration of hit stipulated
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eonfitiement?
'Mr: N. Vincent (another jurytnan).—Ate we per.:
inhted, in returning-our 'verdict, to .tccompany it by
an expression of our opinion ? Are we allowed tb
recommend the defendant to nervy t . •
Mr. (Notice Buntovoil.—Certainty, you are at
liberty, if you shall'think fit, to•recommend the de-
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lehdant to mercy.
The Jury now consulted again for a short time,
then their Foremen returned the folloviing verdict:
e. We are of opinion that Lord Cochrane is guilty of
• escaping from prison ; but we recommend him to
mercy, because we think his subsequent punishment
fully adequate to the offence of which he warguilty."
Mr. Justice Buttenuou.—l will state lour verdict,
Gentlemen, precisely in the terms in which you have
given it. His Lordship then wrote down the verdict
as reperted by the Foteman.
Lord COCHKANS..-.41y Lord, I want justice, and
not mercy.
On the verdict-being finally recorded, some of the
auditors expressed their satisfaction by clapping of
hands and some CI ies of acclamation, which were ern.
mediately repressed by the Magistrates and Consta•
• bles ; and the Judge remarked, that if such iudecorous
conduct was repeated, the party so conducting him-
self would be committed to jail. There was no cause
• for rejoicing because the Jury, after finding the de.
leodant guilty, had thought proper to recommend
him to mercy.--His Lordship will be brought up for
• Judgment to the Bar of the King's Bench next Term.
James ilatirrent was indicted for maliciously and feloniously
setting Arc to a hoop ard timber warehouse, die property of
George Marshall, in the town of Got:aiming, on the sth of No-
vember last.
A great number of witnesses were called, who depose! 'o the
circumstances of the fire, which destroyed property to the amount
of about £lOO. The prisoner was seen walking near and
serving It, but without offering or rendering the least moistener.
Joieph Barrington had been acquainted with the prisoner about
fifteen years. In the month of June lan the piisoner complained
to him that be had some:hiog taboo' nig on bis mind, exclaiming
" the whart, the wharf! the fire, the fire!" He expressed appre-
Lennon', at the same time, lest his brother, who was in prison,
should have betrayed him; and told the witness he was the only
person to wheat be could rarely trust his life. When in custody
of the constable. he exclaimed against the wttness,• swearing that
he had trusted him with his site, and that he had Jone fur hien.
One or two persons deposed that the prisoner had been dis-
missed from an empltiyment by the prosecutor's father, and tt,eu
he hakbeen heard to call me Mai deal d—d rascal for having
lowered the Swages of iii.. labourers.
The prisoner made IV tle or no &knee; and tie lnry, after a
few minutee tomideratioo,pr.mouneed a verdict tit Guilty. '1 he
ease was rather remarkable, inasmuch as the detection of the
prisoner's guilt arose mitirely out of Ails own coildential disclo-
sires. . • •
Jaka Hamm was capitally- indicted for lourglariously breaking
old suturing all dwellsig-bustoe of J. Awe', of Hatchain, Dept-
ford. on the tick of :lprif last, and telostionsty stealing therein a
Sneer watch,' a quantity of plate, and other articles, his pro-
perty. ft sneered, that ea the night of the day main the in-
dictment. the prosecutor went to bed, fastening, as meal, ail his
doors. About one O'clock he wa disturbed by a person named
beech, his screw, who +teamed him that the Louse had been
broke into; and having arose from bed, they found the doors
broke open, and a quantity of property removed. At an early
hoar on the same morning, the prisoner was observed standing
pent the door of a public-house, with a bundle, and being sc-
anned by a patrule as to the :eaters of its contents, be replied in
skit a war ay- elicited strong suspicion, and beini.ukeu het* CM-
tody, the discovery of the burglary was shortly a terwards Made.
Guilty—Death.