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Hampshire, in America, and then Chief Justice of Quebec,
under General Carleton. He was once in London, and on
reading a Morning paper, he observed a paragraph to the
following import:—“ To-morrow, the noted house-breaker,
Cox, and --, of Piscataway, in New Hampshire, for re-
turning from transportation, will be executed at Tyburn.1’
The Chief Justice had never seen Newgate ; and observing
that a person from his native country was condemned to
expiate his crimes on the gallows, was induced to visit this
prison, and see his countryman. The convict had been
an American sailor, and passing in a boat from the ship,
lying off Wapping, to the shore, the boatman informed
him that he could sell him some canvas, sufficient to make
him a hammock, very cheap ; the price was 16 5. Within
a short period afterwards, he was arrested for purchasing
stolen goods ; and proof being adduced to the Court, that
the canvas was worth 245. he was condemned to be trans-
ported to America, then under the Crown of Great Bri-
tain : this, he said, he did not much regard, as he could
W ork his way thither, from his seamanship ; his father lived
in New Hampshire. Some time after his arrival in Ame-
rica as a transport, he hired himself in a vessel charteredto
Lisbon, and which he understood was not to touch in Eng-
land. The agent at Lisbon, however, received orders
from-a merchant in London, to load the vessel for the latter
port : this at first alarmed him greatly ; but he reconciled
himself to the voyage, under a resolution never to go on
shore while on the river Thames : he kept Ms resolution
till the day before the vessel was appointed, to sail, upon
■which occasion the captain had given all his men the mi-
vilege of going on shore, and taking leave of their ac-
quaintanee. The unfortunate American -was the only sailor
who did not accept the offer; the-captain remained also on
board, and recollecting something 'that he wanted in from
shdre, requested the only seaman he had with'him to trim
small boat, u.nd sculler her on-shore, to procure what
Hampshire, in America, and then Chief Justice of Quebec,
under General Carleton. He was once in London, and on
reading a Morning paper, he observed a paragraph to the
following import:—“ To-morrow, the noted house-breaker,
Cox, and --, of Piscataway, in New Hampshire, for re-
turning from transportation, will be executed at Tyburn.1’
The Chief Justice had never seen Newgate ; and observing
that a person from his native country was condemned to
expiate his crimes on the gallows, was induced to visit this
prison, and see his countryman. The convict had been
an American sailor, and passing in a boat from the ship,
lying off Wapping, to the shore, the boatman informed
him that he could sell him some canvas, sufficient to make
him a hammock, very cheap ; the price was 16 5. Within
a short period afterwards, he was arrested for purchasing
stolen goods ; and proof being adduced to the Court, that
the canvas was worth 245. he was condemned to be trans-
ported to America, then under the Crown of Great Bri-
tain : this, he said, he did not much regard, as he could
W ork his way thither, from his seamanship ; his father lived
in New Hampshire. Some time after his arrival in Ame-
rica as a transport, he hired himself in a vessel charteredto
Lisbon, and which he understood was not to touch in Eng-
land. The agent at Lisbon, however, received orders
from-a merchant in London, to load the vessel for the latter
port : this at first alarmed him greatly ; but he reconciled
himself to the voyage, under a resolution never to go on
shore while on the river Thames : he kept Ms resolution
till the day before the vessel was appointed, to sail, upon
■which occasion the captain had given all his men the mi-
vilege of going on shore, and taking leave of their ac-
quaintanee. The unfortunate American -was the only sailor
who did not accept the offer; the-captain remained also on
board, and recollecting something 'that he wanted in from
shdre, requested the only seaman he had with'him to trim
small boat, u.nd sculler her on-shore, to procure what