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Monthly Chronicle.
us treasurer , had paid for pikes which Watt bespoke . But upon the whole , he appeared not so guilty as Watt , and in consequence was , by the unanimous voice of the jury , recommended to mercy . The following day , when the Court met , Watt and Downie were brought to the bar , when the Counsel stated an objection as to point of form in the commission appointing the Court to be held : and also as to a small variation in the words of the indictment from what they conceived to be the usual form . This
was stated in arrest of judgment . The Court took both objections under consideration , and were unanimous in repelling them . The Lord President then addressing the prisoners in a most solemn and affecting mariner , said , The painful duty which now remains for me to perform is , to pronounce the sentence of the law , which is ,
" That you , Robert Watt , and you David Downie , and ' each of you prisoners at the bar , shall be taken from the bar , and conveyed to the place from whence you came , and from thence ( on the 15 th of October ) be drawn uponahurdle to the place of execution , there be hanged by the neck , but not until you . are dead : you shall be taken down alive , your privy members shall be cut off , and your bowels shall be taken out and burned before your faces ; your heads shall be severed from your bodies , and your bodies shall then be divided into four quarters , which are to be at the king ' s disposal ; and the Lord have mercy on
-your souls !" On receiving sentence , Watt was much affected , but Downie heard his doom with great firmness . When . carried to the Castle , Downie expressed his confidence in receiving a fiardon , and refused to go into the same apartment with Watt . So soon as Watt entered the room , he threw himself on the floor , and could not for some time be prevailed on to rise ; a glass of spirits was given him , which made him more composed .
' Mr . Watt was a wholesale wine and brandy merchant in Edinburgh , and Mr . Downie , a jeweller of some repute in the same plape . 4 . A singular occurrence took place near Bloomsbury . A man who keeps a public-house sold his wife and child to a neighbouring publican in Buckridgestreet , for the consideration of one guinea , which was immediately paid down , and the wife delivered up with the usual formalities to the purchaser , who conveyed her and the child to his house . '
5 . Mr . Carrol , a Roman-Catholic priest , who had stopped at the end of Red-lioncourt , Fleet-street , to shelter himself from the rain , was followed by three men , one of irhoin gave him a violent push , which turned . him quite round ; he then gave him a blow which drove him across the pavement into the kennel , and falling on the edge of the curb he received a wound on the right side of the head , which occasioned his death . He had been robbed of his watch , and , it is supposed , of what money he had in his breeches pocket , as none was found therein ; but in . a side coat pocket there was found a purse containing 11 guineas ,
arid a single guinea wrapped in brown' paper , Mr . Carrol was a man of good property , about 74 years of age . 6 . A French gentleman of distinction presented to the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture , apian , by which ships of war maybe built at infinitely less expence , draw one-third less water , be worked easier , and navigated by half the number of hands that they require according to the present mode of buildingSec . His propositions induced the warmest approbationand
, , a vessel is immediately -to he built under his direction . 17 . The Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey , when Thomas Bailey was capitally convicted of s ealing in the dwelling-house of Mary Fitzherbert , six silver table spoons and other articles , her property . 18 . Mary Edkins was indicted for having married William Slar"k , on ths 6 th of April last , George Edkins her husband being then alive ; thc marriage
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
us treasurer , had paid for pikes which Watt bespoke . But upon the whole , he appeared not so guilty as Watt , and in consequence was , by the unanimous voice of the jury , recommended to mercy . The following day , when the Court met , Watt and Downie were brought to the bar , when the Counsel stated an objection as to point of form in the commission appointing the Court to be held : and also as to a small variation in the words of the indictment from what they conceived to be the usual form . This
was stated in arrest of judgment . The Court took both objections under consideration , and were unanimous in repelling them . The Lord President then addressing the prisoners in a most solemn and affecting mariner , said , The painful duty which now remains for me to perform is , to pronounce the sentence of the law , which is ,
" That you , Robert Watt , and you David Downie , and ' each of you prisoners at the bar , shall be taken from the bar , and conveyed to the place from whence you came , and from thence ( on the 15 th of October ) be drawn uponahurdle to the place of execution , there be hanged by the neck , but not until you . are dead : you shall be taken down alive , your privy members shall be cut off , and your bowels shall be taken out and burned before your faces ; your heads shall be severed from your bodies , and your bodies shall then be divided into four quarters , which are to be at the king ' s disposal ; and the Lord have mercy on
-your souls !" On receiving sentence , Watt was much affected , but Downie heard his doom with great firmness . When . carried to the Castle , Downie expressed his confidence in receiving a fiardon , and refused to go into the same apartment with Watt . So soon as Watt entered the room , he threw himself on the floor , and could not for some time be prevailed on to rise ; a glass of spirits was given him , which made him more composed .
' Mr . Watt was a wholesale wine and brandy merchant in Edinburgh , and Mr . Downie , a jeweller of some repute in the same plape . 4 . A singular occurrence took place near Bloomsbury . A man who keeps a public-house sold his wife and child to a neighbouring publican in Buckridgestreet , for the consideration of one guinea , which was immediately paid down , and the wife delivered up with the usual formalities to the purchaser , who conveyed her and the child to his house . '
5 . Mr . Carrol , a Roman-Catholic priest , who had stopped at the end of Red-lioncourt , Fleet-street , to shelter himself from the rain , was followed by three men , one of irhoin gave him a violent push , which turned . him quite round ; he then gave him a blow which drove him across the pavement into the kennel , and falling on the edge of the curb he received a wound on the right side of the head , which occasioned his death . He had been robbed of his watch , and , it is supposed , of what money he had in his breeches pocket , as none was found therein ; but in . a side coat pocket there was found a purse containing 11 guineas ,
arid a single guinea wrapped in brown' paper , Mr . Carrol was a man of good property , about 74 years of age . 6 . A French gentleman of distinction presented to the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture , apian , by which ships of war maybe built at infinitely less expence , draw one-third less water , be worked easier , and navigated by half the number of hands that they require according to the present mode of buildingSec . His propositions induced the warmest approbationand
, , a vessel is immediately -to he built under his direction . 17 . The Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey , when Thomas Bailey was capitally convicted of s ealing in the dwelling-house of Mary Fitzherbert , six silver table spoons and other articles , her property . 18 . Mary Edkins was indicted for having married William Slar"k , on ths 6 th of April last , George Edkins her husband being then alive ; thc marriage