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is impossible for any subject to be more deserving of the serious consideration of young persons, than that alarming depravity which has lately manifested itself among persons of their class, and which called forth the serious determination I am about to state.

In consequence of the prevalence of crimes of the deepest die among children, from ten to eighteen years of age, the Prince Regent had been advised, that it was necessary to make a dreadful example of some of them; accordingly the Recorder was instructed to declare, at the last Middlesex Sessions, "that it was his Royal Highness's full intention to punish, to the extent of the rigour of the law, any persons, however young, who should be convicted of capital crimes at the next Sessions."

Unhappily, when the Sessions opened, it was found, that there were upwards of fifty youths in Newgate charged with different crimes, and many of them of the most capital kind.

Amongst these one young man, named Charles Huske Allen, aged 16 years, was convicted of robbing to the Post-Office of money contained in letters entrusted to his care; several indictments were against him, and he is now under sentence of death for this crime.

Another young man named Jones, was convicted of breaking into a house and robbing it, he was convicted upon the evidence of an accomplice, who