The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-29 00:00:00

„ ,0141,,AW0girr-Saaltalikalf.
Much interest was excited is the Old Bailey on Saturday by •
the expectation that the Judges Gamma add) Best were
to pass sentence on the persons who had been capitally eon-
-micteelnis Serrano% Ind that no report being herelifter to be
node to his Majesty in Council. the dreadful sentence of the
law would inn given time inevitably take pine. The leaned
Judges. however. did not raakeitheireippearance, and et one
o'cleck the Recorder took his seatoo the-Bench, and lame-
alisseiy proceeded to pass sentence an neisobers. •The un-
dermentioned prisoners received the awfal4efitence of death—
John Hogan. for cutting and maiming; dames
Williams, o°t
Nndtli, John Hoare. John Wright. Wa. Young, John C sp.
James 'Eixorii Thomas Wellmath, and Samuel IPhlllipe. for
burglary; JosWi Brace. John Brown. and Thomas. Jeffries.
for breaking and entering lon James
ises in the•dey time; Ja
Cleric, Williama Smart, Samuel Haydn, Charles Cole list-
Weyer, nearey, Sarah Hitchman, (Jenne Ambrose.
Wiliiaustliratibene; and Henry Cochrane, forMialleg to the
Imouniornion than 4.05. in a dwelling house; Wm. Brine
and Samuel John Chalfont. fookorse stealing • Samuel Thos.
Firldlutz, Jame; Hughes, Mary Rained; •tileury.Bordulph,
and J ohn *agar. fur' highway robbery— feldipg sod. Hughes
protested their innorence,• Ikhoegli:;hies raid, may blahsed
neither Judge nor Jury ; Sesno'Codrteney. for returning (rom
tranaportetien ; end John •Snlith, who had pleaded tq
the clierge against him. of disposing and petstng away a forged
Gl. Bank of England Note. This panne& ,on being asked
1% hat he had to say why he should net receive indrawn to die,
sec/ening to law, addressed. the Court 'as follows woe `ay My
1.6 rd,•• person in my. situation can have very iittle to say. I
was extremely candid pq this occasion, and disclosed every
circumstance Wative to. my offence to the Bank of England:
I now humbly. as I did before, throw myself on the mercy of
his Majesty's Crovernment end of by Sovereign.. If my crime
has been sof such ii Allure that aolvist' canot be 'extended.
t 6 melte:m.l. have onl y. to hope that I.. Shell Ind that aiteref
ftomthe King of Aloes. when 1 depart thlslifeh" • •
James Sullivan, John Wheatley. Willie* 1,10110101.110hn
mutter. A: Willson, Chides Stock, Michael Thorpe. i7onfas
Jpiies. Mori Price, Mary A. Helps, Thomas
.. 'mesas. Jos.
11111nhon;Francis Turner. John Johnson, Charles A. Alwyn,
and John Wray; :were ordered to be transported for 7 years.
ThoreinWicki, William Long. and Edward Hagan were
sentenced to be IC:nisi:fined for life.
A greet number of prisoners were sentenced to be impri-
sr ne 1 arid kept to bard labour for different periods, varying
from one yearn a week.
No hope of aercy was held out to any of the prisoners see-
ten wd to death, so that if he intended to commute the punish-
ment, they are all alike left to the horrors of uncertainty.-
Thrte is noActobt net sentence will not be executed on all.
arantsthiii. from some difficulty on the part of the Judges,
as to whether the Act passed in the late Session of Parliament,
enabling/W. Judges at discretion to record or,ass sentence of
death. extended to the City of London, as well as the counties
at large. their*Lwashlps did not pursue the course with re-
spect to t)'e prisoners tried by them, which was adopted during
the late cirenits. • Messien were sent by the Rec 'tiler to their
Lordship; ehanibers (Mr. Heron Graham and Mr. Justice
Best) on the subject but their Lordship% we believe, had left
torte'. Under these circurnstences. the Recorder passed sea-
trees In the usual form, and it will he for the Privy Council to
deride an whom the severity of the law Is to he executed.—
On the eiretiita. it will be recollected, that the Judges only
Passefedsfnidnde .4 death on those they intended to leave for
execution. With respect to the others, who were capital y
ealtricted, but whose peril:limed it was thought expedient to
commute, aente ire of death was merely recorded egninat
them ; sod; thus. they were relieved from those egonislng ap-
preheasing which. according to the former practice. were but
too frrdoently excited.
The Sessions were (lien milkweed to tUe red October.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.•-•SATURD AT.

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'math Johnson, a journeyman carpenter, was convicted
of a brutal twit& upon the, wife of an induetrions trader:
man. The defendant attacked the peoseentrie in the street.
iteder the supposition that she was an unfortitnate female;
she resented his overtures with some warmth, upon which
he knocked her down, and with a blow on the mouth struck
oat one of her teeth.
A companion of the defendant was called to contradict
the prosecutrix, at h eqivocaed so witch, that the
Learned Chairmanb told theu t
he
Jury was unworthy of
belief.
The CHAtustAN, in panting sentence, lamented that no
'decent woman could pass along the streets after enn-set,
without being subjected to inselt. The defendant's conduct
was most unmanly and brutal, and therefore he adjudged
him to pay a tine of twelve pounds, with liberty to talk to
the prosecntrix.
Js. Beaches, a hackney coach maser, was indicted for a
brutal assault on Jane Hitchcock.
The prosocntrix stated, that the defendant hail married
her sister, anti treated her so ill that they were obliged to
separate. On the .slay mentioned in the indictment, her
sister went to see her daughter at the defendant's house,
in Chrney-mee s. Thor:Omagh-street, when the defendant
came out, seized her and dashed her with peat .violence
upon the pneinent. She got up again, and he seized her
rotted the waist, for the purpose of (seating her in the same
brutal manner, when witness cang.ht him by the arm, and
entrraleil he would not murder her sister; upon which de-
fendant directed his fury towards the prosecurrix, ku.wked
der down. with her head °iron the kith stone; and. whilst
she was tr.vn, be had the brutality to expose her person to
the view of the people who had collected.
It was admitted that. the defendant's wife had broken his
windows before he hail commenced any violence.
The Jury forted the defendant guilty.
The Outsmart said he hardly knew how to deal with a
person who had been guilty of such barbarous and unmanly
canduct. He had toanorer not only for a cowardly anti
ontrageons assault upon a Itelplessiemalt!, but also for . an
offence against public decency, in the mature of tlie un-
happy woman's person. He should, therefore, let the ease
stand by, to give the defendant an opoortnnitv of doing
something which should relieve him from the just severity
of that pneisinnent which the Court should feel itself
bound to Inflict.
In shoat hail an hour afterward., it was announced to
the Court that the defendant had made such terms with the
prosecutriz as were satisfactory.
A 6oe of one shilling was then imposed upon him, and
he .was discharged.
Richard Amor was indicted for an assault upon Priscilla
Pinnioa.—The defendant was a beadborough, and carried
on the buainees of a baker. He had summoned the pro.
secutrix's husband iu the Court of Requests for a debt, and
on the dty mentioned in the indictment, called at the
house of the latter, to know whether the summons had
been received. He saw the proseentrix, who told him she
knew nothing about it. The defendant afins2d her in the
grosseAt terms. and, without any provocation, knocked her
down four or tire successive timer with his staff of 061 m,
leasing her weltering in her blood.
The defendant railed two or three witnesses in his de.'
ferpte„ who completely corroborated the case' for 'the pro-
secution, . • •
The Jury found him guilty, and the Coast sentenced
him to pay.* fluent tweive•pentols, eritti.iiht.„7, to Speak
to the prosecutrit: .Thrse Hendon% ended to.lay.

see.
Oa Wednesday evening the King's Kessch Prison exhibited
a dreadful 4cene of tosnult. It pp•iirs that 4 Solicitor,
had visited Oat above prison for the purpose of consulting
a person onbusinms.; when, on his way oat, he was seized
by several, individuals, who repeatedly called out. " In-
foruker," and instaotig dragged hint towards the pump. to
give him the usual ablution, which they make those persons
w)to arelhe least noxioise to the prisoners undergo. The
Splicitor, wisp no dosbt expected some such reception, had
repared himself. with a. sword stick, and immediate4y drew
it.taut• was-overpowered by numbers; who, deaf to all
hie r and cries of murder, wok the weapon front
KI biro under the pump for several minutes,
tearing his clothes literally front his back, they
" 49d flown the tacket-groamtl, and altimatelx
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it. bin Well.OVeripu.
ilia moaning,. and. c
k' and p!god his'
ackcetatrakt: µlepiri)itill
wit of the prison.
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