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 inaccessible to the Officers of the Law. In that house was found the Engine which has been produced in evidence, together with every material necessary to accomplish all those purposes of fraud in which you were engaged.—Your crime has been a crime that has involved the cheating of almost all the kingdom—a crime that has been the means of defrauding and imposing upon every subject into whose hands these things might come.

Under such circumstances, there is little reason to expect that the Sentence of the Law can receive any mitigation in your case. I would therefore warn you to think of that dreadful account which you must give hereafter—to employ the short time which you can be permitted to continue upon earth, in endeavouring, by penitence and prayer, to obtain that mercy in another world, which cannot be extended to you in this.

It now only remains for me to pass upon you the Sentence of the Law; which is, and this Court doth adjudge, that you be taken from hence to the