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<p n="38">in conformity to the Law have a right to its protection, pronounced upon<lb></lb>
the prisoner a sentence which he is now endeavouring to avert by interest<lb></lb>
and all the acts of falsehood and misrepresentation</p>
<p n="39">Your Lordship will infer from the above state of his case that I do<lb></lb>
not look upon the prisoner as a proper object of Mercy. But I think it<lb></lb>
my duty farther to add that the inhumanity of the Act and his<lb></lb>
subsequent behaviour exclude every pretence to it, and render him one<lb></lb>
of the fittest objects of punishment I have ever known</p>
<p n="40">The above report is grounded upon the Evidence at the trial which<lb></lb>
I took down in writing from the Mouths of the Witnesses and they<lb></lb>
appeared to be persons disinterested and worthy of Credit As to the<lb></lb>
Papers signed <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n40-1">Thomas Marten</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n40-2">James Hutton</rs>
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which I received<lb></lb>
from your Lordship and now return, they abound with Falsehood<lb></lb>
and contain a most impudent misrepresentation of the circumstances<lb></lb>
and case of the Prisoner. In short they are calculated to deceive your<lb></lb>
Lordship and his Majesty and to pervert Justice.</p>
<p n="41">I have the honour to be with great respect</p>
<p n="42">Your Lordships most devoted humble Servant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n42-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Decembr. 24. 1773}</p>
<p n="44">My Lord</p>
<p n="45">The facility with which Pardons are obtained at your Lordship's<lb></lb>
Office has been late a frequent Subject of Complaint among the<lb></lb>
Magistrates for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo18">County of Middlesex</rs>
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; they say that in the execution<lb></lb>
of their Authority they are frequently defied by those whom they commit<lb></lb>
for Offences with such menaces as these "You may do your worst for<lb></lb>
"I know how to get a pardon" and in the case of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n45-1">Sarah Pickernell</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
others the event has verified the prediction.</p>
<p n="46">I know not how to account for it; but I have for this twelve months<lb></lb>
past remarked, that your Lordship's Office has been the fountain and<lb></lb>
well Spring of forgiveness; this the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo19">Newgate</rs>
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Solicitors and other agent<lb></lb>
for convicts have found out; so that for one referrence from Lord<lb></lb>
Rochford<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
I have upon an average three from your Lordship</p>
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