The following prisoners were also tried last week for various thefts, found guilty, and received sentence, viz. Cornelius Arie, to be whipt 25 stripes, and set one hour on the gallows. Thomas Joice, to be whipt 25 stripes, and branded. William Scott, to be whipt 25 stripes, and set one hour on the gallows. John Goodbread, and Edward Cooper, 15 stripes each. James Campbell, to be whipt 30 stripes, and set one hour on the gallows. Michael Tool, to be whipt 20 stripes. Three notorious villains yet remain to be tried for burglary, and several others for theft. ------------------------- BOSTON, September 27. Thursday last ten notorious villains received publick whipping, after which three of them were escorted, with halters round their necks, to the gallows, on which they sat one hour. They are again committed for costs, &c. ------------------------- "Massachusetts Gazette," 1786. Johnson Green was executed, on Thursday last, at Worcester, for burglary. A greater thief and burglar was perhaps never hanged in this country. From "Massachusetts Centinel," Oct. 6, 1786. BACKS "DRESS'D." HARTFORD, October 2. On Wednesday last, David Stillman, John Hawley and Thomas Gibbs were committed to jail in this city, for counterfeiting and passing publick securities; and on Thursday last, Jonathan Densmore, of East-Hartford, was committed for stealing a horse. Stillman and Hawley belong to the county of Hampshire, state of Massachusetts. They are now in a fair way to have their grievances (and backs) dress'd and re-dress'd. ------------------------- From "Massachusetts Gazette," May 15, 1786. NEW-YORK, May 6. _Extract of a letter from Washington_ (North-Carolina), _March_ 27.