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have plunged you into guilt, and have ter. minated in your destruction. You stand a melancholy proof how speedy can be the transition from one licentious passion to another, and that vice is so all-absor- bing in its nature that he who gives himself to its indulgence will eventually be led. on to deeds of the greatest depravity. The object for several years of your im- proper pursuit has at last perished by your hand. She has been hurried by you out of existence, without time allowed to her for preparation. Her children, some of whom are of very tender years, and who were entirely dependant upon her, have been deprived by you of their earthly SUD- port, and are now cast upon the world or- phans and destitute.

 mention not these painful circumsian- ces to harass your feelings, deeply as l trust they must be afflicted by these conse- quences of your crime. dwell upon them for a better purpose. l. would awaken your mind to sense of its situation, with the hope of leading you to contrition. It is one of the most consoling principles of our religion, that however great are our offences, forgiveness will await the con- trite, and that our Maker is as merciful as he is just. .l4.-,' ] The character which was testified of you on your trial, was that of being indus- trious in your habits, upright in your deal- ings, aud kind in your general deportmen. l-that you had been brought up to rec putable business, and which you was dili- gently pursuing for livelihood. Young in life, had you only kept vigilant guard up- on your conduct, you had every thing to hope. The indulgence in one vice has blasted these expectations--has hurried you into the commission of an enormous crime, and has left you miserable and des. olate. While we pity you, public justice requires that you be held up an example and warning to others. We would enjoin you not to be misled by the hope of esca. ping the fate which must SO soon await you. The yielding to such hope, will on- ly beguile your mind from that serious re- Hection which your present situation most solemnly requires. What is left to you of life,i too short to be passed otherwise than in humble preparation for your future state. Let your thoughts be anxiously devoted to your religious duties and while every thing is failing you here, let your reliance in penitence in humility of soul, be placed upon Him, who, in the deepest extremity, is able to console and to sustain you.

 The sentence of the Court is, that you, Richard Johnson, be taken hence to the prison from which you last came. aud from thence on Thursday, the seventh day oi May next, to the place of execution, and that there, between the hours of seven in the forenoon and twelve at noon, you be hung by the neck till you are dead. May God prepare you for that awful event, and have mercy on your soul.

 Catharine Cashiere, the colored girl, was then requested to stand up, and the Clerk put the usual question. She repli- ed faintly, that she had nothing to say.- The sentence of the court was then pro- nounced by Judge Edwards, that she be executed at the same time as Johnson.