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1840
Chartist Trial. 16th January 1840 "After the most anxious and careful investigation of your respective cases, before juries of great intelligence and almost unexampled patience, you stand at the bar of this court to receive the last sentence of the law for the commission of a crime, which, beyond all others, is the most pernicious in example, and the most injurious in its consequences, to the peace and happiness of human society - the crime of High Treason against your Sovereign. You can have no just ground for complaint that your several cases have not met with the most full consideration, both from the jury and from the court. I should be wanting in justice if I did not openly declare, that the Verdicts which they have found meet with the entire concurrence of my learned brethren and myself. And now nothing more remains than the duty imposed upon the Court - to all of us a most painful duty - to declare the last sentence of the law, which is that you, John Frost, and you Zephaniah Williams, and you, William Jones, be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and be thence drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and that each of you he there hanged by the neck until you be dead, and that afterwards the head of each of you shall be severed from his body and the body of each, divided into four quarters, shall be disposed of as Her Majesty shall think fit, and may Almighty Cod have mercy upon your souls.
We hear from a source, which cannot be revealed, that the gardeners of the Stove area of Newport are highly delighted this year in the acquisition of the services of a young man of more personable appearance than in years past. They are making a great issue of keeping his name secret, so as to avoid their rivals in any other part of the town from obtaining his services, and thus acquiring the largest and most luscious cucumbers which they know will be theirs this year. On the first of May, as is the custom, the young man, visited no less than nine greenhouses, where, in the "altogether" he planted cucumber seeds. As he was blessed with the body of a young Adonis, the gardeners are certain of a crop of a quality far superior to that of their rivals in the horticultural world who have not taken the necessary steps.
"Sarah Temperance Williams begs most respectfully to announce to the ladies of Newport, that she has Just returned from London with a choice selection of millinery, and for the convenience of her business has taken a house at No.4. Great Dock Street, (the first turning in Llanarth Street) where her showroom will be opened on Tuesday 26th inst.
A few days since no less than twenty five earwigs came from the head of a young female residing at Henllys near Newport. As she had complained of severe pains in the head, she was attended by Mr. James Hawkins, surgeon of Newport. It is supposed that the insects must have been generated in the head.
We have been passed a letter from Mr. John Frost who writes from Port Arthur last July: "I am at Port Arthur, a place to which the very worst of men are sent, and where human misery may be seen. I was not, however, sent here for what is called punishment; the Governor told us repeatedly that we were not sent to Port Arthur as a punishment, but to fill certain offices. Williams is a superintendent at the coal mines, Jones fills a situation at the juvenile establishment, and I am in the office of the commandant, that is the Governor of Port Arthur. I am acting as a clerk, and hitherto the labour has not been heavy. I am in excellent health - I never was better, and my spirits are very good, considering all things - much better than I could possibly have anticipated."
Ben Mills 22 charged with having on 13th August stolen a cotton pocket handkerchief from the person of W. Gwynn. Prisoner pleaded guilty. Being his third conviction he was sentenced to seven years transportation to the Colonies.
The London Mail not arriving for more than an hour after its usual time yesterday, occasioned some apprehension and anxiety, less an accident should be the cause. These fears were sadly realised; the coach was overturned in the night 16 miles the other side of Oxford, the coachman was killed, and about three or four passengers injured, though we believe and hope not severely. As far as we can ascertain the accident arose from the shying of the Leaders at the bottom of a hill, by which and owing to the darkness of the night, they got off the road and the coach was upset. [ Back ] |
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