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to have been the master and general superintendant of all those employed and of all that was going on in the house in which you resided, and within which there seems to have been every implement necessary for the purpose of cheating the public—implements, engines, and materials of every sort requisite for the fabrication of false paper and false coin were found there; and this false paper and false coin you have been in the habit, and I fear long in the habit, of sending into the world for the purposes of fraud and deception. Your's is not the case of a person guilty of a single offence, or against a single individual, but on the contrary, from your manufactory innumerable quantities of those false articles issued, to the impoverishing and defrauding of every one into whose hands they fell, and from the extensiveness of that circulation, which from the great quantities made by you and your associates they must have had, the extent of those defrauds must have been very great.—Under such circumstances you can have little reason to expect that the mercy of the law will be extended to you; I can hold out no hope for that expectation, but I do hope you will now do that which I greatly fear you have hitherto neglected—that is, that you will, by humble and devout prayer and contrition, endeavour to prepare yourself for that great and dreadful day, when, before a judgment-seat far more awful than any earthly tribunal, you will be called upon to give an account of your actions in this world; the short interval that can be allowed to you between this time and that of putting into execution the sentence which the law directs me to pronounce upon you. I trust you will employ in that preparation: it now only remains for me to pass that sentence, which is—that you, William Booth, be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead; and the Lord have mercy upon your soul!"
GOWER & SMART, PRINTERS, CHRONICLE-OFFICE, WOLVERHAMPTON.
