text:  We are tempted to give it unaltered as we find it in the words of Northcote:-- "Sir Joshua as his usual custom looked over the daily morning paper at his breakfast time; and on one of those perusals whilst reading an account of the Old Bailey sessions to his great astonishment saw that a prisoner had been tried and condemned to death for a robbery committed on the person of one of his own servants a negro who had been with him for some time