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k soul well obreend byre* edge Wittleffea.tbat they wenid be I tut m pieces in the attempt, you are dared to believe, that Co- • load Infpard was mad enoneh to fay," I, with my Engle hand I • will do it." Great Gon ! on what foundations does Government Mind. Are the bads of a great empire to be fubvcrted by the niferable confdrators of a. wretched pot bode. Gentlanen.you may ak me, do I not bedeve any loch traitorous (clime ever ea rned 1 I do bat deny that the queltion might have been agi tated; but. I deny. that Colonel Defpard ever bore part in it. I believe it has been thought good by Tome, to attempt to (e -duce tl.e army from their allegiance, and when they found their defperate fames failing, to call about, and confider how they might re•enter the ranks of fociety, and fecure an indemnity foe their pall mircondrid, by sleeting a contrition. The Learned Attorney General bid it was, perhaps, contrition that induced the accomplice, Windier, to Rate what be knew. Was it contrition, once he had delivered the form of oath to Mr. Bonus, that madc him flit frequent their meetings, and to (e -duce others into their diabolical plans ? I know of no one being who can be compared to him, but one, and that is the Evil Spirit, whom Goo, in his wifilom, permits to feduce n ankind, afterward. to betray them. Yet, you are required to think, that the Gentleman at tie barwasfeduced by there low wretches into a ;anticipation of their (chants, and which mutt inevi vitality forfeit his honour, his life, and every thing that man can hold dear. I fay it is not within the bounds of probability ; the very nature of the tesafon, betray. the low origin from whole, it fprung. It mull have been conceived by minds. un used to look at diltant objects, or to compare means with ends. I put it to you, Gentlemen, to fay, whether filch a itheme was molt likely to be hatched by there low wretches, or Colonel Defpa d, who, I will thaw, has a mind capabtc of molt cor red difcrimication. You have been told, however, by the Attorney-General, that he is an enchant tt, bite that is beg ging the queftion ; for I will (hew that he has that degree of knowledge, that unlits he was bereft of reafon, to a degree which would ciente him from refponfibility, he could never have meditated fuch wild sad impracticable (themes. Gen tlemen. I will prove what he is!—He is a foldier—a foldier from his youth; sot bred upon the parade, but formed in camps and in the bad ; inured to dangers, difficulties, and diftrefs ; placed often in fltuations where difcreticu, judgment, and the niceft calculation were neceffary (or hie own pectination. Can you believe, a man fo bred and fo tormed, would ruth into fuel a wild confpiracy ? I than thew you, that he who now, on the teftimony of infamous witneffes, is rsprefented as arming hit fellow-fubjetts againft the life of his Sovereign, has been tired to command, and that, in company with a name that adds Witte to our country. I mean, my Lord Neltm ; be performed important fervices in the fatmtion of one of our molt valuable colonies. Such lances entitled him, not to the chains which he now wears. but to the thanks of his country, the parliament, and the affembly of the colony who received pro tedion from his valour. Gentlemen, you will, perhaps, elk me, how then came !Itch a man in fuch a fituation ? Gentlemen, it unfortunately has bcen,that Col.Detpard, in the fervour of pall politics, fell under fufpirion. He was confined for two years in one of the prifons of this country. The rank he had honourably acquired In the army he was deprived of. This was perfedly well known throughout the country; and he was the very man a traitor would lat hold of to fallen his own tr.afons upon. The traitor knew that be was one whom they could, with molt probable fucceft, lay their guilt upon. It is not seceffary for me to prove, that be was brought to their meetings as a facrifice, tecaufe his being there was not needfarily an ad of treafon. The meeting of the Oakley Aunts wu peered!! an open meeting. They were foldiers who met to talk of apprehended grinaoc s. Was ft not probable that they kould coafult Colonel rocfpard, who was ago a fol. diet, and alto thinking himfelf aurieved? Was it not natural that he living near mould go to that houle ; therefore it was no proof of treat°s his being there ; and then you will receded, that the treafonitfelf is only proved by molt infamous wiener. fa. Gentlemen, I have already hated, that Colonel Detested was formerly fdpeded by Government. But though he was long kept in confinement, Government, In far from having any proof to affect him, had not even evidence enough to go to a Grand jury, and the fuldequent matures they adopted, pre vented the prifoner from vindicating his own character. I do not fay that the bill of indemnity, which was puffed to licher Admissiftradon for having taken up fdpedled perfons, was a endure which ought not to have paffed. But this I fay, that *prevented the prifoner at the bar from his proving the (life occuktions which had fccretly been made againft hint. If, thadore, he was found sot guilty in thofc times of political fermur,when, from the fitoadon of the country, and the es traerdinaiy Rate of Europe, treafon teemed to meet with un medal fame& and encouragement, can it be conceived that sew,* the year dos, he mould enter into a low and ddpente etapiracy; conceded not with any of his old &Shelties, and wiles a coofpiracy mutt be hopelefs any he, who bed wit/a imed treafon when the blase of it might be fuppored to dazzle and (Mace him, &odd fo now corded himfelf,isnot within tie lemma verge of probability. If it were not fo, will not you require convincing proof? and I have frequently obferved, that the witneffes who fix any tense upon Mr. Defpard arc of m 4 infamous Atwater. Gentlemen, thefe are the whole of the general oblervations I mall prefurne to addrefs to you." The Learned &dealt at this part, went into an inveltigation of the contradictory parts of the evidence of the accomplices, Which be pointed with great force and ingenuity. Speaking of Windfor, be Paid—" I do not mean to fay, that the man who takes an Immoral oath is perjured becaufe he does not fulfil k. But what credit can you give to a man who has once, as a foldier, taken the oath of allegiance to his King, wbo af terward. takes another oath, to bind himfelf in a confpiracy to defteray him, who again (wears againft thole whom he has himfelf ftduced ? Can you believe him when be Pays, that he was not an accomplice I Or can you believe him fineere in his contrition, when you And him going on (educing others, up to the very moment when the party was apprehended, tato the fanse dreadful fitnation ? With refped to William Francis, ' than* *insets, be is the molt infamous and molt incredible of mankind. Heath you, that he did refute to be (won* member of this, nefarious fockty, telling Cot Ddperd that his principles Were wan, yet with a elands and nudnds incredible, that ColondLDefpard told him all their plans, perfuietel him to • loin them, and wondered how he could have principles fo ("polite to thole front his brother. Mark how diftindly, and loon afterward. he contradids himfelf. Not a mem ber of the confpiracy, with oppofite principles, yet be goes to the public bode in Hatton Garden, and then id& Ike the Barons of old, they drew their bayonets, and t i fwore they would have the day of the attack fixed. He has • brother ado who is to be kedged by this evidence; his evidence WI day goes no Ids to criminate his brother than the prifoner at the bar,and it is a drcumftanee not =mirth y of chianti= Yet tkis wieners, fo contradictory to himfelf, grofdy impro. bade, to Infamous, is the only one that any way connects CoL Defpard with the card, or having any part in adwilniftering the unlawfuloath. 'rise Learned SerMant proceeded to comment upon the evidence of Blades and Emblyn, and having concluded this branch, be continued," Gentlemen, I mull be aware, that 1 after to hard a day's ranter, I have omitted many things which are moft material for the Imre* of my client, but I have the ' confolulan of knowing that I null be followed by another Learned Coward. who will advert to what has efeaped me. I have alto the confolation of knowing that we both than be followed by the Learned Judge, who will filer nothing to drape which is material for the prifoner. If any thing could add to thefe ennfoling clrannitanccs, it is that I am ad- deeding • Brilth Jury, who are deSrous, as it Is their duty, to execute jultice in mercy ; a Jury who feel that it is better to bind men to the Conftitution by the bonds of love than of fear. i am fore, that politically (making, a verdid of requittal mull be moft beneficial for the interefts of the Con- Quution toe nothing can fo increafe the love a man mint bear 10 our fifteen than to find that after many patient hours of Inveftigation, his innocence is declared. Gentianen, with theft nafervations I leave the cafe to you. I had an idea of contra &ding, by evidence, the Mem:fres for the Crown, in many ma terial parts of their teltimony. I mall not, however, now do It, but I mall offer you evidence of the character this Gentle man has borne; you will let it have its weight f..r an atten tion t o rkorader, and letting it ferve as a kield fur a man in the boar of dlltrefs, is the bell incentive you can offer men to 'referee their Integrity. When you bear biz character, T ou tu rather believe that the Bream could tom back on its tourer, than that he could commit the crime for which he Rands accufed. Gentlemen, If the crime be made out, you will ansiusilly &Nunn your duty ; hut remember the obkrvatioes et the Attorney General, that an improbable charge flsould be fopyorted by correlative orichoce. Be certain of this before you bard the Gentleman at the bar over to the dreadful fen puce of t%c taw.--The Frit wieners called for the prifoner was, Lord Natsesiablefaid he buena acquainted enth the pei rover In the year r!/y. Ha was dial ILLlCtrlant in the LP verpool Blues,and his Lordthip then commanded a nun of war —they were on the Spanith main together—they fervid toge ther--they were both together in the enemies trenches--they Dept In the fame tent, and he had an opportunity of knowing all his fendments. He was a loyal man and a brave officer. If he had been aiked his opinion of Colonel Defpard, he would have Paid—" (flu is Rill alive he is an ornament to the Englilk Army " ~Oa erofs•esamination, his Lordthip Laid, be had not (ben bins fine the year zySo. Sir ALURED C Paid. he hail known Colonel Defpard for thirty years; he knew that he was much beloved by his brother officers, and the whole corps to which he belonged While he MU in the government of Jam.•ica, Colonel Defpard was employed on the Spanith main. He always conlidered him as a loyal fubjedt, and a zealous officer. On crofs-examination, he Paid it was thirteen years Snee he bad fcen him. He never heard that be kept company with the common foldirrs. Sir EVAN Nr PtAN laid, he had not known Colonel Defpard fine fufpicion Rift fell upon him ; he knew him officially upon his return from Jamaica. He brought home with him fuch teftimonics that it was ienpoilible to doubt his character. Mr. GlI NEE, the other Counfel for the prifoncr, next ad dreffed the Jury in an able fpecch; but as we have fully de tailed the Learned Scrjeanee, and the other Learned Gentle man followed nearly the fame point of argument, want of room prevents our giving ft in detaiL The Counfel having finithed, Lord EL L ENI10• OVGIII steed Colonel Dcfpard if he would himfdf add any thing to what bad been laid by his Counfel ? Colonel Delpard rep:ied—" My Lord, my Conned base ac quitted thendcives with fo much ability, and fo entirely to my fatisfaetioa, that I can have no with to fay any thing myfelL" Mr. Sotictroa GENERAL then replied on the pan of the Crown. He took a review of the whole evidence, and the fpeech of the Learned Seneant, and infifted that the words, which were mere lone and idle words, could not be trelfon; yet if they excited and 'tined op others to commit a Rs of trca fon, then they became treafon themfdvcs. For this he quoted the authority of Lord Chief Junin Holt and Mr. Juftice Fa ust; and to prove that a man might be conneted on the foie teftimony of accomplices, he cited the cafe of Cheroot, King,' and Keys, who were tried for attempting to kill King William, He then adverted to the leveret circumftances in which the accomplices had been confirmed. He obferved. upon the cha. rafter given to Colonel Dapard, which, he bid, proved him to have been a bold man, and an adecnturons man; and, he feared, Gnce that time he had become a dcfperate man. Hay ing gone through there topics with great eicquence, he con eluded by defiring the Jury attentively to confider the evidence adduced; and he was lure the refult they muft come to, would be very obvious. The whole care, on the outride and the other, being here concluded, LOl3l EL LI N MIOROOGII began to Irani up, nearly as follows • " Gentlemen of the Jury, the evidence on both fides, and the arguments of Coun(cl being concluded, it only now remains for me to difcharge my duty. An irkfome duty it eertaialy is, but confidering with what minds you come prepared, for I have obferved your deep attention to all parts of the caufe, it will facilitate my means of doing it. Thofe means are, by a faithful detail of the evidence, and fuch faithful oblervations upon it, as I am heft able to make. Gentlemen, the penance. Rands charged with high trcafon, of three forts, not very dif ferent iii their nature: aft, For compaffing the death of the King; next, for compaffing to fent his perfon ; and, idly, far confpiring to depufe him. The firft of thole is treafon, by the ftatute of Edward lIL the two left, by a recent Ratute of the prefent reign. Eight di tines overt ads are Rated as evi dences of this intention. It is not nectar, to do more than to Rate the fubßance of them. Gentlemen, the overt sets arc the holding converfatioas for efeding thole malignant purpofes of the heart. Before I Rate the evidence of the Oven ad, I think fit to fay a word or two on the topics urged relpeding the nature of the proof. It is fald, by the defendant's Counfel, to confilt only of words, and that it cannot be trcafon. If it confifted only of look words, the abullitioo of an instated or crazy mind, it would not be neaten, becaufe it would be me much to infer fuch a purpore as the deftruetka of the King from words fo fpoken. But when words are (point at a public meeting, and addreffed to others, exciting and per fuading them to that purpofe, it never was doubted by any one lawyer; it never will be doubted but that they amount to trafn. Another fulled upon which I wits to fay a few words is, the nature of evidence by accomplices. That be is a competent attend's, upon whore any you may found a , coneufion, cannot be doubted. If it were not fn it would be a dercllEtion of duty in the Judges fitting Isere, and thole who have formerly fat in courts °finales, not to have repelled fuels whinges from the oath, and have toll the Jury, that they were not fit to be credited; bet they are always received, and al though rallied with the contamination of the crime which they impute to others, they are credible, though their teßiniony ' muR be received with caution and attention. They may be confirmed by various eircumftances, by the dearnefs of their own narration, or by the narration of others. They may be confirmed by the coineidence of external drcum. Ranee, and broken in upon by no one fad of adverfe eircum , Rance. In the cafe before us, when fo many Renee are Wd, tall of which, if untrue, may be inflated, and it is falfified in : no one ialtance ; if a perfoo fo 'erased is not to be believed, it would form a cafe by which confpiraeles would always ' be protected, bacaok confpiracies can never be known but through fosse wbm were participators in the crime. But the cafe would be otherwife as it regarded tome who are not ltridly at- ' compliccs. Such, as I take it, Is the cafe of Windfor. I do not think ft:idly that be can be called an accomplice; though, without :petition, a great degree of blame attaches to him for his conduct in repeatedly going to thefe meetings. Gentlemen, :having made tick obfervations that if each evideoee is con- • finned, is coofißent, is unconiradided, and more erpeddly confirmed from pure Coerces, it ought to be craditeli. I fluff now proceed to detail the evidence Will. [His Lordihip here read verbatim the whole of the evidence taken throughout the day.) In commenting upon the form of an oath, he obferved, that it appeared on the face of it to have an ulterior purpore, which was to be carried by the confliet of arms, and not of reafon OE argument, or why was there • pronfion to be made for the families of the heroes who &sold fall in the con , teft?" and if Defpard was found diftribntiog that papers, and idling with thofe united in this bond, it formed' ftrong aaficie of the purpofes of his mind. Having gone through the evidence, his Lordibip continued, Gentlemen, this k the whole of the evidence, and you have been properly told, there is no of law In the cafe. It is admitted that a tral•croos r ef ber did exult, but it is denied that it was the prifoner's.--If it was not his treafon, whole was it ? If the witneffes produc ed upon their oath were not to be believed, it was open to impeach them, but no fuch thing is done. Then with refped to accomplices, we find his the law-books, particularly in the cafe of King, Charms*, and another, that the evidence was wholly that of accomplices, without half fo many cireundtan tea of corroboration as are found In this cafe. The main de -1 eat ntance tithe cafe is confirmed, that of the treaGan. Then ! who is the traitor ? The ;tamer is found in the fociety of dusk molt unfit for his rank and fiteation ; no account is given why be attended there meetings ; we find him fitting down and al j iodating with common robbers, and partaking of their oedina ry Lire. No other explanation b given of this but his former character; happy, Indeed, would it have been for him if be had preferred that character down to this mamma of p.tiL-- Now, Gotlemen, this Is the whole evidence on the one fide, and on the other; fee bow ft applies to the charge: firß, with refped to an oven ad, consrnitted within the county. It is proved at the Oakley Arms, and at the Flying Hark ; that point of law is therefore fatisfied.-s-The only remaining confideratina is, whether you will believe the evidence of Braids, Windier, Em blyn, and Founts, or either of them ? If you have any hate tion, you will look at the eirewoßances, the confirmation.— , When be was taken with them, they hat about them the mil chievoos funiiture of their &Rios, I mean the printed papas. He was found almnit in the ad of conunand, and they of obe dience. " Follow me, one and all," was the language he tiled. It was In confirmation that he was at the Coach and Marie' in Whitechapel, by Campbell and Dean, two ratifiers totally un conneded with the codpirators, and indifferent wheelies.— Their tettintony pettedly agreed with that al Windier. If you, therefore, believe Ensblyn and Windier,there is an end of the qa.ltlosi. iron have alto heard the high cbaraftsr give of hint by a an, on whom to pronounce an eukgy, were to wain words ; but you are to confider whether a ch.nge has not taken place Gine :be period he fpeaks of. If you do not believe the whinges, then he will Rand exempt from the confogimmas of the (barge imputed to him ; but if you do believe them, then, as there is no gladden upon the law, fa there will be none open g tic fed. deutkrucp, you will cooficla of your "staid." - TM withdrew tar Not WC as boar. when they rd• turned, .KPIA PP having called timm oyez by their reflacettve names, to which they anfwered: He then Paid—" How fay you, 'Gentlemen, tire you agreed in your verdidt ? Is Marcus Edward Defpard guilty of the trea lon, wherewith he Rands charged, or not guilty ?" The Foreman replied, " GUILTY; but we carneftly recom mend him to mercy, on account of his former good character and the fervices he has rendered his country." Lord ELLINBOROUGN bowed. - _ After the verdict was given, there was a Cent pante for a few moments; after which, the prifoner was ordered to be taken away, and the Court was adjourned about three in the morning. The prifoner, during the whole of the trial, appeared very compofed ; nor did he exhibit any marks of agitation when the vet, ,iet was returned. The Court was uncommonly crouded, but the fpenators be haved the whole day throng!: with great decorum and attention. WEDNESDAY, FAIR VARY 9. The Court refumed its fittings at nine o'clock this morning. The prifoners having been brought to the bar, and a Jury fworn, [as wejfated in yef terday's STAR,] The SOLICITOR GENERAL Rated the cafe in a brief and maßerly manner ; giving a (hurt outline of the fads, to which evidence was defigned to b. brought forward, and the nature of the overt aes conflituting the treafon of the prifuners ; and he concluded with obferving to the Jury, that if they fhould have any doubt relative to the degrees of guilt in the accufed, it would be their (buy to make a difiinaion ; and he was confident, that in doing Co they would aft confonant to jußice ind the dic tates of their own confciences. Mr. Stafford, the Chief Clerk of Union Hall, then gave the fame evidence as on the former trial ; and raid he had found all the prifoners at the Oakley Arms, except Grstam and 11.4• N a Charles Bacon, a police officer, who accompanied the lilt witnefs, Paid he fearched the prifoner Broughton, and found in hiipoeket three printed papers. He could not take Iwo* him to fay, that he recolleCted the perfons of any one of the pelf°. tiers, except that of Broughton. John May, a Police Callable, ipho had accompanied Mr. Stafford, (Aid all the prifoners were in the room,eacept Graham and Macnamara. Samuel Talent= and }aleph Hannah gave a fimilar tearaway. fohn Rift raid, that on the loth of November he took up the prifoner Macnanaara at a Chandler's bop in Swan-yard, op pofite Somerfet Houk. Thomas Wissdfor was neat called.—[ifs evidence was in the molt material parts the fame as be had given on the Trial of Col. Dcfpard. There was the fame account of the plan, eon filtution, organization, and *efts of the affociation, and of the part the different prifoners took in it. His teftimo ny went chiefly to criminate J. Francis, Macnamara, Wrattan, Wood, and Broughton.] Crop-Exandnation by Mr Jekyll, who eased him how long he had been a traitor ? He was fo &concerted at this epithet, that he avowed he had from the beginning attended theft meet lisp with no other objcdt than to bring the ringleaders to peel,- senior (that was the word he ufed for profecution). He kid, that before he received the card from Francis, he had told Mr. Bonus, the Army Agent, of what he raped.... and that Mr. Banns Weikel him to mix with thole focielles, and appear very forward, in order to dircover their f cretu Thomas Bieck, a foldier in the Guards, rrpeated again the fubfiance of the evidence he gave nn Monday, at Colonel Def pard'a trial; be was (worn in by the rifoner, John Francis, and had teen the prifoners Wood, Wratun, and Meematam— Macnatnant often appeared at the different meetings 68 repre fent the Executive Power. Whenever It was funtrted that any thing was wanting, he appeared to promife it as from au thority. Braids alto mentioned that Francis Wood, Tyndal, and two men, formed a Committee to Mike out a plan of Govern ment, which was to be part for the work of an Executive, compofed of Gentlemen. This witneis alfo related the pro pcial of Wood, to attack his Ma yon his return from the Parliament Hook to Buckingham Houk. The reafon he gave for fixing on this (pot was, the Hoefe Guards left his Majefty at St. James's Palace, and therefore he was but Sightly guarded between that and Buckingham Houk. Wood thought that with a fried party of thirty-five mm he would be fufficiently prepared for this attempt. Campbell and Read, Joan Pike and John Bird, were likewife examined. j ofeph Dixon. • robber in tlitt alt regiment of guards, john Baylis, and William Scott, were examined. Sir Richard Ford was tolled to prove the period when the King was expeded to open the preterit Selfions of Parliament. The evidence given by J. Emblin, the watchmaker, as far as the farm related to Colonel Defpard, was verbatim with tbat which be gave on the trial of that perfon. With refpeet to Ms teltiniony againß the partners, It wholly went to fallen upon hate of therri,vix. Broughton, Graham, Smith, and Lan der, the charge of devifing Treatoa, by exprefling intentions of feizing the Tower, the Palace, the Bank, the arms of the Eaft India Company, and the perfon of the Monarch,together with that of Ms whole family, the Members of the Legiflature, and of the Government. But on his crofs-examination he admitted this was no more than cam:ration : he taw nalt done lead ing to soy of thofe Wa Mary Plowman, wife of the perfon who keeps the Flying Mee public-boufe at Newington, was called to prove and corroborate Tome part of the tettimony of Windfor, as far as touched tome expreffions rated by him, and likewife by the witnek Emblin, in her bout. • Here ended the evidence on the r4rt of the pro fecution ; and Mr. JEKYLL being on the point of addrefUng the Court and the Jury in behalf of the prifoners, as it was fo very late as eight o'clock, it was deemed advifable that the Jurors fhould have fome refretbment, and the proceedings were fufpended for a fhort time till that was accom. plifhed—the Court in the interim doing the fame. About nine o'clock, proceedings being iclofed, Mr. James'. made a very able fpeech in behalf of the prifoners, after which feveral witneffes were called by each of the prifoners, who, in general, gave them a good charafter. At one o'clock this morning the whole of the evidence for the prifoners being doled, Mr. Horst. the prifoner's Counfel, addre ff e d the Jury. He went pretty much at length into the different points of evidence againli the pri. loners, from which having drawn many able and ingenious conclufions on behalf of his unfortunate cheats, he concluded by a folemn prayer to the Great Difpofer of Events, to touch with humanity and compallion, as well as with impartial and un biaffed jultice, the hearts of the Jurors, and under that impreMon, he relied for a verdift of acquittal. The Arroamsv Gswaitas followed on the part of the Crown. Lord Chief Junice Esi.snaoaouc ir proceeded in one of the moft able, eloquent, and impreffive addreiTes to the Jury we have ever witnelTed ; and proceeded to recapitulate the charges againft the prifoners, to Hate the law upon the cale, to vin- dicate the nature of the evidence againii the pi. loners from the difcrediting imputation attempted to be thrown, venially, his Lordfhip would allow, under the circumflances, by the Learned Connie' for the prifoners ' • and Paid if fuch teflimony we r e to be driven with rejenion from the forum of pub lic jullice, there would be no fecurity for the State againli the machinations of confpirators, and the convullions of rebellion. His Lordthip neat pro.. ceededlwith greatklearnefs, to recapitulate the e vi. deoce to the jury, and did not conclude until Si: o'Clock this morning. LardEcLawaotecaplt c arge laßed from t ate till fia "'clock, when the Jury retired. At half.paft feven the Jury returned a vetd;ft of JOIN WOOD, THOMAS BROUGHTO7.t, JAMS? SIISHASCX VIRMAN, DANISL TYRDAL, ARTHUR GRAHAM, 14 Joow &MASA AR A--Gullty. Joan FILAI4r, THOMAS NEWMAN, and WILLIAM LAN at a—Guilty, conimendTd to Mercy. THOMAS haiLLtra and SAMUCL n—Not Guilty. yobn Doyle was abandoned by the Attorney-General, on the dole of the ev idence,t here being no teßimony for his conviction. The Clerk of the Crown (Mr. KNAPP) having, with culla, derable emotion, aOred the Prifoners, in the teehtt•cal language of the Law, If they Lad any thing to fay why the feeteJaCe of Death flould not be patted upue them ? Cot. Defpard addreffed the Court to this effeet t—ss My Lord, I have only to fay, that after the charge brought ageing me, and of which I had not the molt diftant idea; and Lee convidtion, 1 have had 1.0 time to confult my Solicitor on the means of refuting that charge, or of deftruying the credit of the %lion - nes adduced. I have, therclun, my Lord, nothi g to fay now but what I Aid when brought Lott Cu this bar; namelr, That lam Not Guilty." Lord ELLEN BOROVON then addrcffed the iin happy criminals in a moll fulemn and impreflive manner, beginning particularly with Mr.Dcfparcl. His Lordlhip fpoke to this effe&—That after a long, a patient. and he trailed an impartial trial. the prifoners at the Bar were feverally convided of the high treafons with which they were charged. In the courfe of evidence, a treafonable confpiracy was difclofed of the moll enormous extent and alarming magnitude. It had been planned to over turn the fundamental laws and venerated eftablil ments of the country, to feize upon and deftroy the moll belovecLand revered of Sovereigns, and to extend the abominable defign to his augull family; to attack and alfanate the Members of that Le giLlature, which, in their wicked confoltations, they daringly called " a den of thieves ;" and in stead of our ancient limited Monarchy. eflablilh ed wholcfome laws, approved inßitutions, and deferable and rational equalization of property, to fubflitute a wicked theory of government. and a wild fcheme of property ; holding out vain and delufive provifion for the families of thofe " Herne: who _Amid fall in the conk:ft ;"—fchemna which, had they been at all carried into execu. Lion, would have been equally deftrudive to the community, as, in their failure. they have proved to thole who have attempted them. This plan they had fought to &at by the moll deteft• able means; they had pratlifed the feduition of the Soldiery from their fworn allegiance to their Sovereign ; and by airociations of the lowelL and molt unprincipled claftes of the community, to un• hinge and deftroy the dearelt and molt valuable relations of fociety. To induce a readier acqui efcence to thole views, and encreafe the profelytes of this abominable planof treafon, they had declared, 'out hennaed had declared falfely, that the country and moil of the populous cities of th e ki ng d om were `ready to affil to its execution.—lt was. however, wifely ordered by arms Peewit:sauce for the happinefs of mankind, that the rafhnefs of fuch defigns generally proved the caufe of their failure, and the confequences of filch wicked plans fell in heavy infliCtion upon the heads of thofe with wham they originated ; they becoming. thus, the 'Mims of thole wretched and deftruCtive eounfels “ where all was falfe and hollow."—Sueh vile purports, however zealouflY begun, generally terminated in fchemes of treachery apinll each other; and the public redeemed from peril by other motives offing upon the bate delinquents. Thus it was in the pnsfent inftance, and the confpiracy became fruarated by the inftruments which had conduced it to mad. rity. Had the infernal fcheme upon the life of a Sovereign, defervedly the moll dear to the affet tions of his latices, of any that ever filled a Throes withgoodnefs and juftice, taken place, whatdread ful and incalculable mifery and horror might have been diffufed throughout this great Em pire; _ from fuch a calamity it had been providentially refeued, andwhile h i s Lord ihip congratulated theßritilb com munity on fofignal an efcape ihefcarcely thought it neceffary to invite a people, aauated by the warm. eft loyalty, to acknowledge with pious gratitude fo great a proof of the proteding goodnefs of At. uoustry (font With refred to the wicked contrivers of abor- tive treafon, it only remained for his Lord(hip to acquit him of his !all judicial duty: " As for yon, Cold D born ae yes wee to WM ter hopes, and educated to nobler enda and pupa. ; aeadtstm al as you have heretofore been to a different life and manners and purfulog, with your former Illoftrkee Ceenpaniona. who have appeared on your trial, the path of virtuous and loyal am bitios—k is with the molt (tektite pain I view the eontraft formed by your relent degraded condition ' and I wlll not now paint how much theft confab:rations enhance the sm tore of your crime. I entreat of you, by thole hopes of I mercy which are dared in this world, to revive In your mint a purpole to fubdoe that callous Infailibility of heart off which, in an ill-fated hour, you have boafted, and regain that fanativc atfotlicin of the mind, which may prepare your feet for that titivation which, by the Waite amyl of Gab, befeech of that Goo you may obtain. As to you (naming the other Convldta), fad Tidies& of his fedualons and exampk, and of your own wicked pospefes I you who fall a melancholy, but 1 waft an InflrueUve to deter others from the commlflion of &nibr adios, mop you apply the little dun you have to live, lo the repentant can. templidow of soother world ! Wireed by your sewmpar e may the ignorant and unthinking avoid thafeaisnea which yea to a tbameful and untimely and.-May they lean to entente the humble but fecure hidings of which, in an evil hour, you have can front you. The fame recommendation o ff ered to the leader of your relates, to pre pare for the awful and near termination ..of year ninnies, 1 carneftly impede upon you ; and I repeat for you my ardent be. vocation of that mercy in a future Rate, d your fellow creatures will not fuller to be to youltore." His Lordlhip here concluded his prefatory addrefs,to which the hurry of the theinaent has not permitted us to raider ade quate jultice; and then pronounced epos the Wieners the .awful fentence of the law in the dual terms. Mr. Defpard again addrefed the Court, and begged to fey a few words, in eon fry/tact of fomeerhat that had fallen hum his Lordildp. The feduaion of the unhappy men involved in his fate was imputed to him ; but he did not conceive that any thing appeared iu the courfe of the trial or crideote to jellify fuel an imputation..-No reply was made to him. Tyndall thanked Mr. .1 for his aide advocacy, and MNamara Weltered the Court in thde words—i. l an wet my Lord, under tinware of death, and will be under actollee; iliortiy—And may Goy sever receive my Soul, it I ova trim to Windfor till I came en this bode." The mitmen were witiedeswo, sod the Coon bolt w be , tweett eight sad nine o'clock Wi mentos. LONDON: Primed for tic by by JOHN &mu" NLides&ss, CoyestAisrdca) at do STAR • Omen No I. Camparett ; sod pot KENr,of Csaterboary iliser,LaeobA) at N o . 2 , sod st tie Sr ss-Or nes, Teatik rt es I remerieleidges far tbe dines ars revisited es headdisitid