ings, having been to take leave of his friends, as he was going to the Indies ; and that Levi stoped him, and brought him into the house; that the last evidence, Marten, never saw him with his eyes before that time, and that he was innocent of the fact with which he was charged."

On the evidence of John Chambers< no role > the prosecutor, Robert Marten< no role > , one of the accomplices, and others, William Patterson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. was found guilty of the charge laid in the indictment, and was sentenced by the law to be hanged by the neck till dead.

The account given by William Patterson< no role > of himself, is as follows: that he was nineteen years of age, born at Greenwich , in Kent ; when but a year old, his father and mother went to America, and left him in the care of an unkle, who dying, he was sent to the workhouse . From thence, at the age of seven years, he was bound to a China shopkeeper , with whom he lived about two years, when his father and mother being returned from America, brought him on a visit to their home, where he staid much longer than was agreeable to his master, who would not, on this account, take him back again.

Some time after, he was sent on trial to a ship captain , and not liking the sea, he returned and wrought at bricklaying with his father and brothers. Tired of this work, he went on board the Proserpine frigate till paid off; then wrought again with his father at his trade for two years, in which time (not having a proper sense of religion, or the fear of God before his eyes) he commenced an acquaintance with a set of very idle bad people, with whom he spent his leasure time, and particularly Sundays, in drinking, tossing up halfpence, and other such idle diversions and amusements, to the neglect of his church, his duty towards God, and the loss of his own worldly wellfare, and (what he most lamented) to the hazard of his everlasting happiness, and the salvation of his immortal soul. For this bad conduct his father corrected him severely, on which he went on board a king's ship a second time, where he continued near three years; when she was paid off, he went into a Greenland fisher , and at the end of four years, being discharged from this service, having first very idly and improperly spent the money he had earned by severe and hard labour, he attended for a little time at a cooperidge : when work ceased at Christmas time, he accidentally got into company with an idle woman, who took him to a house, where some men used him very ill, and took his money from him; then said, if he would give them some drink, they would behave well to him, and return his money; on which he spent eleven shillings with them, whom he then found were known by the names of Conway, Newman, and Millbanks. In two days after this, meeting them and John Chapman< no role > in the street, they asked him to go with them to the Star, a public house , and they would give him some beer, to which he agreed. There they sold a watch, which they said they had taken from a gentleman on the highway; besides many other things taken from others in the same manner, by which they supported themselves, who proposed to him to be of their society; which he being in liquor, unfortunately consented to; but never was concerned before or since in any robbery, except those for which he was arraigned, and now must die, viz. the robbery of Thomas Brewer< no role > , John Chambers< no role > , and John China< no role > ; with the other fruitless attempts made by him in company with Chapman, &c. whose unhappy fate should be a warning to