32. JOSEPH MURRELL proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 2633. was indicted for feloniously returning from transportation, and being found at large on the 24th of October last, without any lawful cause .

JOHN FLETCHER < no role > sworn.

I produce the certificate of the conviction of Joseph Murrell < no role > . (Read and examined with the record.) I know nothing of the prisoner, only I apprehended him in Shadwell the 24th of October last; I had information of him as a returned transport; no fact has appeared against him; he was at large.

JOHN OWEN < no role > sworn.

I know the prisoner; he was tried here in May sessions, 1784; I was present; I am sure this is the same man; he was tried for stealing a copper kettle; he received sentence to be transported for seven years to America.

- CAMPBELL sworn.

This man escaped ever since February last.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I do not deny that I made my escape; I did it with an intent to go to sea; I led but a bad life with the people down there; I have been at sea ever since, and the ship I was taken from is gone to sea, which was the Roman Emperor, Captain Armstrong; I was going to the Streights with her again; I was on board her better I believe than six months and a fortnight.

GUILTY, Death .

He was humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.