Four convicts, doomed by the Superiour Court, at their late session here, to the useful branch of nail making at the Castle, yesterday morning took their departure hence, to enter on their new employment, having, with others, previously received the discipline of the post. ------------------------- A REVEREND FORGER. The "Providence Gazette" is our authority for the following obituary notice:-- Died in March, 1805, in Wayne County, N.C., Rev. Thomas Hines, an itinerant preacher. A Newbern paper says: "In the saddle-bags of this servant of God and Mammon were found his Bible and a complete apparatus for the stamping and milling of Dollars." ------------------------- _THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT_ Was held at Ipswich on Tuesday last. At this Court the noted Josiah Abbot was found guilty of knowingly passing a forged and altered State Note, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 40l. in 20 days; if not then paid, to be set in the pillory.--[_The penalty of such an offence against the United States is_ DEATH.] The same person was found guilty of a fraud, in stealing a summons, after it had been left by an officer, by reason of which he recovered a judgment by default, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 15l. in 20 days; if not then paid, to be whipped. _Salem Gazette_, June 25, 1793. ------------------------- In a paper of 1819 is mentioned the singular case of a man literally condemned "to eat his own words." _INCREDIBLE PUNISHMENT._