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London, England, 1819-04-20 00:00:00

under the commof the ission,
bankruPtc and that hey. left that !tie
in'eonsequence
The Loan-Cus ar-Jurrlc I summed up !he it
to the Jury, and charged them, that if they •
the evidence of Smith, the Bankrupt, %vac c;;;02t,
in the main points by the other wi:netses,
them to decide whether it ought not to be crt,iitd
in the minor points.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict ei
against all the defendants. They will be brough,.
for kidgment in the ensuing Term. The trial 1,4
from half past nine in the morning till till-patu.

UNEXAMPLED DFPR tv:xx.--Friday tree);
‘
man, named Thomas Hopkinson, undetwent the zirl
sentence of death on the front of Derby jail,
career of guilt, which, although short, seems te
been marked by an extraordinary degree of pr.. 6
tHoethweasheb:itto2foh,isanrettc-rioiemctitohne, t
aghee
fell( iwingo
Cutting at five different times horses nianesalei Li.
and two cows. tails; cutting off the feet of a inu.-7'
sheep in the turnpike roads two highway enunn;.
breaking into butchers shops three times,
whole sides and joints of mutton ; keaking into u.s
house, cne shop, one pantry, two corn-mils, a •7ca
turnpike-house, and stealing flour, Meat, ClOt;lCs,
ncy, &c. robbing gardens 27 times; ste.C.ies °tem
nej. ; stealing pooltry 9,5 times, 2t9 fors Is. "! tem'
nine ducks, and 14 talkies; stealing it "2 -
pecks of wheat, ste.di ng at 20 time, t.'2- cea:•
tag at '2O times 112 perks of rotatoes ;
tunes 18 sheep and :3 lanthsi:ostancdkps;:ninastgoteitutoneepf:.&:,;
milking cows in the nig4n-time belonging to Cipe.
csoontess;
; setting tai:reflt)ou raticroilreas
firdslithers, on several occasions. To this was added.
an almost incalculable number of minor °fences, is.
.that scarce a day seemed to have escaped from
commencement of his guilt without some offer.ce,
fruits of which were spent in the worst debaoerserr.
He was finally condemned at the last Assists frig
way robbery, havilig previously turned king's el,
dence against four of his companions for setting ire
to the stacks of hay aaci corn in the farm-vard deal
Halton, all of whom were executed. This wretched
,youth was a weaver, and up to the age of 14was
brought up with propriety. He then became acquit:a.
ted with a youth named Jackson, one of those cis
terminated his existence for firing the stacks of Celc,-
nel Halton, and by him was led on to the inegit'.ar.•
ties which we have described. Jackson was the son
of a depraved father, who stood by while his son ire
launched into eternity, and who became a candidate
for the office of executioner to Hopkinson.
son did not seem to feel the awfulness of his situation,
and died without exhibiting any symptoms et re..
morse. He hoped, however, that his death weu4i ie
a warning to others, and ascribed all his crimes tone
evil example of vicious associates.
James Gibbs, wlio, at the late Surrey Assizes, srs
capitally convicted of stabbing and cutting George
Gibbs, his namesake and neighbour, and condemne&
to be hanged; suffered the dreadful sentence of et
lase, on Horsham Common, on Saturday, the lei
instant. His irons were knocked of abaut ore o'clak,
immediately after which he was conveyed in a can,
accompanied by the executioner, with his coffin be-
hind him, to the fatal tree, where, on, his =lira!, he
appeared feeble,
.as if froni illness, but unaccom-
earliest by any symptoms of fear,at the nigh approrh
4 death, or agitation at the operations of the hang-
Man ; on the contrary, he gazed, with apparent com-
posure, at the surrounding spectators (not numcrono,
as if to afford some one an opportunity of cite:lir:.
his eye; he next uttered a sew words in a low town
voice, which amounted to an acknowledgment of the
justice of his sentence, and then joined the Jail Chap-
lain in a short prayer, after which the cart moved
from under him, and launched him into eternity
without a struggle. Having harboured no hope oi
mercy, he was resigned to his fate, and met it in a
becoming manner. After hanging the usual time,
his body was cut down, and delivered over to his
friends. The following is a copy of his confession to
John Webb, a fellow-Fishier (who was generally criii
him after his condemnation) only an hour before he
was summoned from his cell to the gallows:
" On the 15th March, about eight at night, after I had sup-
ped, 1 left my father's house to go to Cdotham, so see a•youog
man of the name of Dukes. On my return home, about a sole
from my father's house, I was taken with a violent pain in ray
head, and laid myself down by the road-side. I then Lit a mire
in my had like a ring of bells. The gamekeeper's son had been
to deliver a letter for his father, and as lie was returning licsk.
I heard some person coming towards me, and when be was 00r
enough for me so know him, I rose up and knocked him does
with a stick, which broke from the violence of the blow. Itka
fell upon him, pulled a knife out of my pocket, and cat hits
across the throat. The lad cried out for mercy, and said," James,
don't kill me," and in struggling to save his life caught hold of
the knife, and in the struggle, receHed a stab under hie ear. His
ran
nes towardsof
sbeingtil
ibearing
ehaer
blur dg
tbyhe mancriaesof murder.
o thef name
making towards me, I left the knife, and ran home and hie
my father's garden. West, on going to the lad's assistanct,
on being told that it was James Gibbs who had sucruelly
him, got more assistance, and went to the house of my faqter,
who was gone to bed. •hey inquired if I was within, r:IY 14*
ther replied, no. They then demanded' admittance, and ha.alf
Seeofin I
g es
loe t.
,"4
obtained it, searched the house, and then the garden. I sal
them coming towalkts me with alantern, upon which I rote ',4F•
pulled off my frock, put it across my arm, and ran into thecae*
road. The men pursued me, and took me. They asked IDs
name, and I told them. I was also betrayed by the blood, as 1
had not washed it off my hands. Had I not been discos( red is
the garden, it was my intention to have lain until all was o$ .
then to have gone in doors, changed my clothes, and fled to 301.,
I them country, in the hope of not being apprehended. My fir',
and tfie gamekeeper were at variance; and the gamekeepee au,
had oftentimes ordered me out of the park. I had malice in rtr
h-art, and it Was that which prompted me-to the commission c•,
the crime for which } tin now going to suffer."
endnoefrtleiiiss ,
munfucohrturenaastoenytoounfegarm, thatan, hthaed iignts
poaching, that common nursery for the gallows.

DIED.
At Fredericton, New Brunswick, on the 21st November rao•
Isabella, wife of H. H. Carmichael, Esq. late 1114th hegiresx
in the 9.7 th year of her age.
At Trincomalee, hlr. Isaac Day, Clerk, R. N. son cf 3lr
Day, quarterman, in the Dock-yard, Portsmouth.
Tuesday, at Iltrablcdon, liarriet, wife of John Richard*.
Esq. Purser, IL N.

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