$90 
twenty years, during which time he 
has officiated upon 84 criminals, ) 
was tried for horse stealing —Guilty, 
death. 
Last week T Barns and J. Sinott 
were executed near Winchester. ‘At 
the place’of execution, Sinott con. 
trived ‘to slip back the string by 
which his hands were 'pinioned, and 
when the rope and cap were fixed, 
he took both off, and resisted their 
being replaced, and the javelin-men 
were called to hold him, before the 
rope and cap could be again adjus- 
ted. Barns waited his fate with the 
greatest  resignation,—Sinott was 
a seaman, and was convicted of 
cruelly cutting and ‘maiming Joln 
Bell, aseaman. © 
5th. Richard Patch, was tried 
in Surry, at Horsemonger-lane, for 
the murder of Isaac Blight. 
Mr. Garrow said, he should pro- 
ceed to state the relative situation of 
the prisoner and the deceased, and 
the nature of the premises where the 
transaction took place. From the ac- 
count he should give of the premises, 
it would result that it was absolutely 
impossible that the -deceased could 
have met his death from any other 
hand:—he shorfld then detail other 
circumstances, whence the same re- 
sult must necessarily follow. Mr. 
Garrow proceeded to state, that Mr, 
Blight was a ship-breaker—that be 
had a sister of the prisower for his 
servant, in the spring of 1803—that 
the prison:r visited his sister; ex- 
pressed himself distressed, and en- 
tered into Sir. Blight’s service for 
mere victuals and drink ; afterwards 
‘he hada salary. Mr. G. then de- 
tailed the circumstance’ of Mr 
‘Blight’s having been in embargassed 
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circumstances, and of having made 
some nominal transfer to the prisoner 
in 1803. Last August, Mr. Blight 
went to Margate; the prisoner con- 
ducted his business, and was to re- 
ceive one-third of the profits, for 
which he was to pay 12501.—250}. 
he did pay, and for the remainder, 
he gave a-draft for 1000l. on one 
Goom. On the 16th September, 
he said that Goom could not take 
the draft up. A fresh one was given, 
which was to be due September 
20th. On the 19th September, Mr. 
Blight ‘went to Margate; the pri- 
soner was left at Deptford, and in 
the evening sent the servant, Kitche- 
ner, for oysters. While she was 
absent, a gun was fired through the 
shutters; which gun, Mr. Garrow 
said, he meant to say was not fired 
by an enemy, but by the prisoner, 
with a view to the fatal catastrophe. 
Fron the nature of the premises, no 
person could escape from the gate 
nor by water. On the next day, 
the prisoner wrote to Blight, giving 
him an account of the transaction, 
and concluded by saying, that he 
should be glad to see him. Blight 
arrived in town on the 23d Sepe 
tember; the prisoner did not say 
that the 10001. draft was not taken 
up, but led the deceased to believe 
the money was safe; he then went 
to London, witha strict charge from © 
Mr. Blight to bring the money with 
him, On his return they spent the 
evening together, and (for the first 
time) in the back-parlour, where the 
deceased was shot. At eight o’clock 
the prisoner quitted the deceased, 
went to Kitchener, and asked for the 
key of the counting-house, stating 
himself to be ill. He went through 
the 
