Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-01

FiCtilns Dy charging MIN VIII t"c eiin W
intended murder; Of having first used a.
gainst you an instrument Of death. ! can
not wish that this accusation were true.
am constrained to say there is not the
slightest probability that twas so.-
Every particular OF this direful transaction,
pronounces it foul and slanderous-the
desperate refuge. Of desperate guilt. Much
as it enhances your crime, and little as |
delight in the contemplation Of human de.
pravity, / rejoice that il is so. The hapless
victim Of your vengence sleeps in the tomb,
hurried by your lawles hand to his dread
aecount.-To you. guilty as you are, time
is yet allowed to make your peace with
heaven. O.! do not spend it in that con-
tinued indulgence of those passions which
have thus early blasted your earthly happI-
ness. Do not u conjure you, waste il in una
vailing hopes of mercy from this miserable
word, whence you are too surelyhastening.
Look rather with the anxious solicitude
which sincere penitence alone can inspire,
TO that divine mercy which is never sought
with contrition, and sought in vain. Look
to the transactions Of your past life. Shrink
not from the view ofyour crimes. Delay not
the fervent penitence, which can alone eff
face them.
Do you want an additional motive for
repentance Seek and find j. in the unut-
terable anguish Of parental grief-an an
guish excited by your crimes-incapable
on this overpowering moment Of all other
consolation, but that which your penitence
shall afford. Behold the tears OF your a
ged parents They are the silent re-
proaches which are exterted from bosoms,
bursting with agony, over the recollection
Of the crimes of him to whom they have
given being. They tell you OF the head
strong obstinacy Of your childhood-of III.
idle proaigacy ofyour youth-ot the fruits
Of their rejected admonitions, in The me-
lancholly catastrophe which has thus early
closed your sad career. They point to
the grey locks, which age has blanched
with the symbol of honor, which you have
covered with dishonor and shame While
they yet hover around your prison, minis
tering to you with tenderness, which e.
ven your guilt cannot extinguish, their Fix
ed and melancholy gaze is turned to the
darksome path, which your crimes have
marked Out for their descent, in sorrow to
the grave. To such an appeal, you can
net, you will not be insensible. No. Ma
lure will assert herrights in your BOSOM
Filial duty will lead you in pentence 10
the foot stool Of your Redeemer. His MGR
cy will yet snatch Jour immortal spirit from
the awful eternal perdition, which is the
just but terrible doom of unrepen.ed mur-
der.
Miserable young man We must part
1t remains only, that pronounce the SEN
tence OF the law
Its considered and ordered by the court,
that you, Jonathan Evans, be re.commit
ted to the common goal oil the county OF
Chatham there being no sufficient goal in
the county Of Ethlngham) for safe and Sc
cure custody-thal you be taken from
thence to the place CT public execution in
the county Of Elhngham, and there, on Fri
day, the twenty eighth day Of May next,
between the hours OF ten o'clock in the
morning, and two O'Clock in the afternoon
of that day, that you be hung by the neck
until you are dcad--and may Almighty
GOD have mercy onyour soul
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
" Perhdlous man thy parent was rock,
And fierce Hyrcanian tigers gave thee
suck" pIRG.
mary VS. s"'"e the E" city usr and Co ofPhiia-
Nich's Johnson }delphia, -prll 9th 1919.
This was an action brought Tor the pro-
mise of breach OF marriage
The plaintiff was modest, discreet and
artlcss young girl, OF irreproachable cha
racter, living il humble retirement with
her widowed mother, in the township Of
Roxborough and county of Philadelphia
the defendant, young, hadsome, insinuating
and designing, became acquainted with
her in the month of March, 1877, and at
forwards visited at her mothers house,
paying his addresses TO her. Having stO
len her affection, under solemn promise
of ,,rr;,y. he seduce Il and dehowered