. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. entence of deathwas then passed upon T/ioiuas Fitzroy,-A\\:\s Peter Fitzwater,for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of JamesHarris, in the daytime, and stealing a cotton Cooper for stealing a linen cloth, the property ofGeorge Singleton, in his dwelling-house. /. Davies for aburglary. Rie/iard Ennns for breaking into the dwelling-house of Mary Humphreys, in the daytime, and stealing HANGING. 447 a pair of stockings. Richard Forster for a Kerner for a burglary, and stealing six sil
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. entence of deathwas then passed upon T/ioiuas Fitzroy,-A\\:\s Peter Fitzwater,for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of JamesHarris, in the daytime, and stealing a cotton Cooper for stealing a linen cloth, the property ofGeorge Singleton, in his dwelling-house. /. Davies for aburglary. Rie/iard Ennns for breaking into the dwelling-house of Mary Humphreys, in the daytime, and stealing HANGING. 447 a pair of stockings. Richard Forster for a Kerner for a burglary, and stealing six silverspoons. Robert Pearce for returning from Alcorn for stealing a horse. JoJin Noivland andRd. Frcke for burglary and stealing four tea spoons, agold snuff-box, &c, JoJm Goldfried for stealing a bluecoat. Joseph Huff, for stealing a lamb, and JoJin Pass forstealing two lambs. In fact, the Tyburn tree was kept well employed, andyet, apparently, the punishment of death hardly acted as adeterrent. A sad, very sad street cry, yet one I have often. THE CONDEMNED SERMON. NEWGATE, heard, was of these poor wretches ; true, it had been madespecially to order, in Catnachs factory for these articles, inMonmouth Court, Seven Dials; but still it was the an-nouncement of another fellow-creature having been doneto death. The executions which would arise from the batch ofsentences I have just recorded, would take place at New-gate. The last person hanged at Tyburn, having suffered,November 7, 1783, and the above illustration shows in apeculiarly graphic manner, the condemned sermon, whichwas preached to those about to die on the morrow. Tomake the service thoroughly intelligible to them, and to
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