HC Deb 29 June 1808 vol 11 cc1103-4

On the motion of sir S. Romilly, the following Papers were ordered, I. "A Return of the number of persons, male or female, committed to the several gaols in England and Wales for trial at the different sessions and assizes in the years 1800, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; distinguishing the crimes with which they were respectively charged, and the numbers severally convicted, acquitted, or discharged upon proclamation, or by reason of no bill being found against them, and the sentences of such as were convicted, and distinguishing also the numbers of those capitally convicted, who have been executed; and distinguishing particularly, in each year, the number of persons, male or female, committed for privately stealing in a shop or warehouse to the amount of five shillings, and of those committed for stealing in a dwelling-house to the amount of forty shillings, and of those committed for stealing cloth from bleaching grounds to the amount of ten shillings, and the numbers indicted for such several offences, and the numbers convicted capitally upon such indictments and the numbers of those so capitally convicted who have been executed in each of such years.—2. A Return of the number of persons, male or female, committed to the several goals in England and Wales for trial at the several quarter sessions in the said years, distinguishing the crimes' with which they were respectively charged, and the numbers severally convicted, acquitted, or discharged upon proclamation, or by reason of there not being any hills found against them; together with the sentences of such as were convicted.—3. A Return of the number of persons, male or female, who received sentence of transportation at the different sessions, assizes, and quarter sessions in England and Wales in the said years, distinguishing the numbers transported for 7 or 14 years, or for life.—4. A Return of the number of persons, male or female, who have been transported as criminals to New South Wales since the first establishment of the colony; specifying the term for which each person was transported, the date and place of the conviction, and the time of embarkation for New South Wales.—5. A Return of the number of persons who, being under sentence of transportation, have, in each year since the year 1780, died in the hulks."

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