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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The following announcement will create no surprise, although there has been the utmost uncertainty on the subject of it up to the last : we copy the Globe of this evening— "We are enabled to state, that shortly, before two o'clock this afternoon, a messenger was sent down from the Home Office to her Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, with a reprieve for the convict John Francis, who lay under sentence of death for his recent treasonable attempt upon the life of our beloved Queen.
"Through the clemency of her Majesty, whose benevolent wishes were con- sulted by the Privy Council, by whom the fate of the wretched man was yesterday decided, his life has been spared ; and his sentence is now commuted to trans- portation for life to the most penal settlement of Tasmania. "The prisoner received the tidings of mercy in a manner which became his situation. He had become very anxious and desponding as the day fixed for the execution of himself and Cooper arrived."
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