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