Being asked if he were guilty of the facts he was convicted of, he answered indirectly, and generally with, " Lord " have mercy upon me." At the same time he said that one under the name of James Stoker< no role > , or Stocker, by the instigation of John Jourdan< no role > , employed him to receive the money, for which he was to suffer; that he deliver'd it to this Stocker, which is a false name, and was by him offered half a crown for his trouble, which he refused. He farther said, that Jourdan recommended the pretended Stocker to him as Master at Arms on board the Boreas; that he went two such messages for them, and at the third was detain'd and apprehended, when his [supposed] employers were sent for, and search'd after, but had escaped, suspecting the prisoner was detected. His friends, he added, had been in search after them ever since, but could never find them. He declared he had no knowledge of this being the wrong person, nor that the papers were forgeries; for had he known it, he would not have gone thrice to the same house, with a known forgery. Notwithstanding this plausible apology to induce a belief that this unhappy sufferer was imposed upon, and made a Cat's-Paw, it is strongly surmised, by those who should know, that he belonged to a dangerous gang, who carried on this trade of forgery in concert, and that his true name is not yet known to us.

Be that as it may, he was told, that though he would not attend our prayers, we had constantly pray'd for him in the chapel, and should continue to do so to his last hour.

By virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery of Newgate, held for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Blakiston< no role > , Knt. Lord-Mayor of the city of London ; the Honourable Sir Richard Adams< no role > , Knt. one of the Barons of the Exchequer; Sir William Moreton< no role > , Knt. Recorder ; James Eyre< no role > , Esq; Deputy-Recorder ; and others of his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer of the said city and county; on Wednesday the 6th , Thursday the 7th , and Friday the 8th of May , in the first year of his Majesty's Reign; the following seven were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death, for the crimes in their several indictments laid; to wit, Thomas Andrews< no role > , William Glascow< no role > , Charles Spruce< no role > , John Brett< no role > , David Morgan< no role > , William Dupuy< no role > , and Joseph Walley< no role > .

And on Thursday the 21st of May , the report of the said malefactors was made to his Majesty by Mr. Recorder, when five were ordered for execution on Wednesday the 27th of May , namely, Charles Spruce< no role > , John Brett< no role > , David Morgan< no role > , William Dupuy< no role > , and Joseph Walley< no role > ; and two were respited, namely, Thomas Andrews< no role > and William Glascow< no role > . And on Wednesday at the place of execution David Morgan< no role > was also respited till his Majesty's pleasure be farther known.

2. DAVID MORGAN< no role > and WILLIAM DUPUY< no role > , were indicted for that they on Ralph Dobinson< no role > on the King's highway did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person one silver watch gilt, value 40 s. and one 36 s. piece of gold, the property of the said Ralph, against his will, April 8th .

This fact being one out of several committed by the two prisoners, and a third accomplice, is fully proved by the concurring and very circumstantial evidence of the prosecutor, and that very accom