THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.

BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old-Baily , before the Right Honourable William Beckford< no role > , Esq. Lord-Mayor of the city of London ; the Honourable Sir Thomas Parker< no role > , Knt. Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's court of Exchequer ; the Honourable Henry Bathurst< no role > , Esq. one of the judges of his Majesty's court of Common-Pleas ; the Honourable Sir J. Eardly Wilmot, Knt. one of the judges of his Majesty's court of King's Bench; James Eyre< no role > , Esq. Recorder , and others of his Majesty's justices of oyer and terminer, &c. holden for the said city and county, on Wednesday the 6th , Thursday the 7th , Friday the 8th , Saturday the 9th , and Monday the 11th of July , in the third year of his Majesty's reign, nine persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments set forth, to wit,

Richard Potter< no role > , Cornelius Saunders< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Lewis Mackely< no role > , William Holloway< no role > , William David< no role > , Thomas Murphy< no role > , James Geary< no role > , and William Hall< no role > .

Immediately after conviction, they were severally put into a cell as usual; a place contrived by the architect, no doubt with a view, first to safe-keeping, and then to a speedy execution; for they can scarce breathe, much less exercise in the compass of six or seven feet square, having neither air nor light but what is strained through a thick-barred iron grate, fixed in an aperture scarce so large as a port-hole, and yet so high above the head of the prisoner that it cannot admit light enough to read by, at the brightest noon-day, however needful and proper that exercise must be to those who can,