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Monthly Chronicle.
armed , was immediately sent from each ship to witness the awful scene ; the crews of the respective ships were called on deck , and the Articles of War read to them by their Captains , ivho afterwards warned them lo take example from the fate of the unhappy men Avho were about to suffer . The Rev . Dr . Hatheral , Chaplain of the SandAvich , ( who has constantly been tvith the prisoners since their condemnation ) , administered the sacrament to all of them , except Michael Cox and Martin Ealey , Avho Avere Roman Catholics : after praying with them until eleven clockthey brought on deckand the fixed round
near o ' , were , ropes their necks , Avhen John Flint , George Wythick , John Lawson , and William Handv , Avere made acquainted that his Majesty had been pleased to pardon them . ' Handv , AA'ho had a Avife and child on board , immediately ran down to her , and fainted in her arms , Avhich presented a most affecting scene . The tear of thankfulness and joy adorned the cheeks of the hardy tars ; and LaAvson , addressing the Clergyman , said , " I am afraid I shall nei ; er again be so well prepared
for eternity . . . . At a quarter past eleven the signal for the execution oi the remainder tvaa made , by firing a gun , when Michael Cox , Robert M'Laurin , John Sullwan , Michael Ealey , and William Morrison , ivere launched into eternity . After hanging the usual time , their bodies were sent on shore , to the Agent at sick quarters , for interment . . The awful spectacle had a due effect upon the several ships' companies , Avho ¦ behaved in a proper and becoming manner on the occasion .
very 15 John Fellows , one of the Yeomen of the Guards , was brought before Nicholas Bond , Esq . by Dixon and Allan , two of the Bow-street officers , , who apprehended him yesterday morning ' at the Bunch of Grapes in Hemmmgs ' s-roAV , on suspicion of being the author of four anonymous letters sent to Mr . Northail , lottery-office-keeper in New Bond-street . Mr . NoTthall stated , that a few days since he received an anonymous letter , informing him that the writer was in possession of several that had been iven at hisoffice for illegal insurance in
policies g . the lottery , which made him liable not only to forfeit his security given to the Stamp Office , but also to be punished as a rogue and vagabond ; but all of these he added , might be prevented by his sending 200 I . inclosed in a parcel , directed for G R . at the Somerset Coffee-house , Strand . Not having complied with this proposal , Mr . Northail said , he received the . three other letters , nearly to the same effect , except that the last , which came to hand yesterday morning , deto be left at
manded 300 ! . to conciliate matters , and that the place for the answers was altered to the Bunch of Grapes . The letters were produced and read . Several 'witnesses ivere examined as to the fact . _ The prisoner positively denied being the writer of the letters , or having any concern in the business , any more than that of calling about the parcel at the desire of a woman , tvhose name he could not recollect , nor did he knoAV where she Avas to be found . Committed for trial for a , misdemeanor . March 16 At assizesAvhich ended this morningSusannah Morton
Derby our , , , aged 23 for the wilful murder of her bastard child , and James Preston , aged 70 , for aiding , abetting , and assisting her to commit such murder , recen-ed sentence of death , and are ordered for execution to-morrow ( lhursday ) . Job Ward was arraigned for the wilful murderof Hannah Oldfield , his fellow servant , by administering arsenic for the purpose of procuring abortion , she being with child by h . m ; after a long trial , and some time spent by the Jury in deliberation , they acquitted him . Thomas Fretirell was convictedof sheepstealing , and received sentence ot What most engaged the
attendeath , but was afterwards reprieved . particularly tion of the public , was a charge against a woman of the name ot Aim Hoon , aged 24 . for the wilful murder of her infant child , about 14 montns old ; the circumstances of this murder were as follow : on Friday last this poor creature , Avho is the tvifr of a labouring man , was about to heat her oven , and being short of wood had broken down a rail or two from the fencing round the plantation of a gentleman in the neighbourhood ; some of her neighbours threatened her with a proitcution , and told her she would be transported for it . This so much alarmed bet mini and the idea of being separated from her child , whom she had ahvays appeared
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Monthly Chronicle.
armed , was immediately sent from each ship to witness the awful scene ; the crews of the respective ships were called on deck , and the Articles of War read to them by their Captains , ivho afterwards warned them lo take example from the fate of the unhappy men Avho were about to suffer . The Rev . Dr . Hatheral , Chaplain of the SandAvich , ( who has constantly been tvith the prisoners since their condemnation ) , administered the sacrament to all of them , except Michael Cox and Martin Ealey , Avho Avere Roman Catholics : after praying with them until eleven clockthey brought on deckand the fixed round
near o ' , were , ropes their necks , Avhen John Flint , George Wythick , John Lawson , and William Handv , Avere made acquainted that his Majesty had been pleased to pardon them . ' Handv , AA'ho had a Avife and child on board , immediately ran down to her , and fainted in her arms , Avhich presented a most affecting scene . The tear of thankfulness and joy adorned the cheeks of the hardy tars ; and LaAvson , addressing the Clergyman , said , " I am afraid I shall nei ; er again be so well prepared
for eternity . . . . At a quarter past eleven the signal for the execution oi the remainder tvaa made , by firing a gun , when Michael Cox , Robert M'Laurin , John Sullwan , Michael Ealey , and William Morrison , ivere launched into eternity . After hanging the usual time , their bodies were sent on shore , to the Agent at sick quarters , for interment . . The awful spectacle had a due effect upon the several ships' companies , Avho ¦ behaved in a proper and becoming manner on the occasion .
very 15 John Fellows , one of the Yeomen of the Guards , was brought before Nicholas Bond , Esq . by Dixon and Allan , two of the Bow-street officers , , who apprehended him yesterday morning ' at the Bunch of Grapes in Hemmmgs ' s-roAV , on suspicion of being the author of four anonymous letters sent to Mr . Northail , lottery-office-keeper in New Bond-street . Mr . NoTthall stated , that a few days since he received an anonymous letter , informing him that the writer was in possession of several that had been iven at hisoffice for illegal insurance in
policies g . the lottery , which made him liable not only to forfeit his security given to the Stamp Office , but also to be punished as a rogue and vagabond ; but all of these he added , might be prevented by his sending 200 I . inclosed in a parcel , directed for G R . at the Somerset Coffee-house , Strand . Not having complied with this proposal , Mr . Northail said , he received the . three other letters , nearly to the same effect , except that the last , which came to hand yesterday morning , deto be left at
manded 300 ! . to conciliate matters , and that the place for the answers was altered to the Bunch of Grapes . The letters were produced and read . Several 'witnesses ivere examined as to the fact . _ The prisoner positively denied being the writer of the letters , or having any concern in the business , any more than that of calling about the parcel at the desire of a woman , tvhose name he could not recollect , nor did he knoAV where she Avas to be found . Committed for trial for a , misdemeanor . March 16 At assizesAvhich ended this morningSusannah Morton
Derby our , , , aged 23 for the wilful murder of her bastard child , and James Preston , aged 70 , for aiding , abetting , and assisting her to commit such murder , recen-ed sentence of death , and are ordered for execution to-morrow ( lhursday ) . Job Ward was arraigned for the wilful murderof Hannah Oldfield , his fellow servant , by administering arsenic for the purpose of procuring abortion , she being with child by h . m ; after a long trial , and some time spent by the Jury in deliberation , they acquitted him . Thomas Fretirell was convictedof sheepstealing , and received sentence ot What most engaged the
attendeath , but was afterwards reprieved . particularly tion of the public , was a charge against a woman of the name ot Aim Hoon , aged 24 . for the wilful murder of her infant child , about 14 montns old ; the circumstances of this murder were as follow : on Friday last this poor creature , Avho is the tvifr of a labouring man , was about to heat her oven , and being short of wood had broken down a rail or two from the fencing round the plantation of a gentleman in the neighbourhood ; some of her neighbours threatened her with a proitcution , and told her she would be transported for it . This so much alarmed bet mini and the idea of being separated from her child , whom she had ahvays appeared