in conformity to the Law have a right to its protection, pronounced upon
the prisoner a sentence which he is now endeavouring to avert by interest
and all the acts of falsehood and misrepresentation

Your Lordship will infer from the above state of his case that I do
not look upon the prisoner as a proper object of Mercy. But I think it
my duty farther to add that the inhumanity of the Act and his
subsequent behaviour exclude every pretence to it, and render him one
of the fittest objects of punishment I have ever known

The above report is grounded upon the Evidence at the trial which
I took down in writing from the Mouths of the Witnesses and they
appeared to be persons disinterested and worthy of Credit As to the
Papers signed Thomas Marten< no role > and James Hutton< no role > which I received
from your Lordship and now return, they abound with Falsehood
and contain a most impudent misrepresentation of the circumstances
and case of the Prisoner. In short they are calculated to deceive your
Lordship and his Majesty and to pervert Justice.

I have the honour to be with great respect

Your Lordships most devoted humble Servant
John Hawkins< no role >

Hatton Street
Hatton Garden
Decembr. 24. 1773}

My Lord

The facility with which Pardons are obtained at your Lordship's
Office has been late a frequent Subject of Complaint among the
Magistrates for the County of Middlesex ; they say that in the execution
of their Authority they are frequently defied by those whom they commit
for Offences with such menaces as these "You may do your worst for
"I know how to get a pardon" and in the case of Sarah Pickernell< no role > and
others the event has verified the prediction.

I know not how to account for it; but I have for this twelve months
past remarked, that your Lordship's Office has been the fountain and
well Spring of forgiveness; this the Newgate Solicitors and other agent
for convicts have found out; so that for one referrence from Lord
Rochford [..] I have upon an average three from your Lordship