On Wednesday afternoon the business at the Crown end being finished, Sir Robert Graham passed sentence upon the prisoners.

Mr. John Hutchinson, convicted of forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange, was first placed at the Bar, when the clerk of arraigns having demanded what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him; his Lordship addressed him in the following terms:

"John Hutchinson, you stand convicted by a Jury of your country, of the offence of which you were indicted - the charge of having falsely forged the acceptance to a bill of exchange, with an intent to defraud the holder thereof, or others who might be interested therein. You have been found guilty of an offence most injurious to society, and against which the law has denouned the penalty of death. It is impossible not to feel the strongest emotions of compassion, at seeing a man like you, in the dreadful situation in which you are placed. A man who from his general knowledge of business, and of the laws of his country, might be presumed to have kept far aloof from such a crime. But it is not from an attention to the general feelings of compassion, that I should be justified in interfering to prevent the full severity of the law, and I deeply regret to say that I have not been able to discover any favourable circumstance in your case, and the transactions in which you have been engaged, from which alone I could be justified in affording you any hopes of mercy."

"I can now offer you no other relief (if relief it can be called) than by conjuring you to summon the faculties of your mind to enable you to sustain with fortitude, and to prepare for the dreadful fate which not I, nor the Jury who tried you, but your own conduct has brought upon you. And I most earnestly and feelingly admonish to seek for comfort and consolation, where alone they can be found; and spend your few remaining hours in preparing for a future state, without indulging the hope that any mercy in this world can intervene to save you. Commending you to the mercy of Almighty God, it remains for me duly to fulfill my painful duty, by passing upon you the awful sentence of the law."

His Lordship then passed in the usual terms, sentence of death upon this unfortunate man. Mr. Hutchinson sustained this most dreadful scene with great composure and fortitude.