Star. — London, England, 1803-02-10 00:00:00

I Q OW yea Lea the eonvi which pall' klatiteett ing?—A. Very little of it; for it was prevailed that all thole who came tor the purpofe of fettling bulkier', Ihould go to ate fide of the roost; and all thole who came merely to thew thc.r prod will Giould retire to the other. Q What fide of the room did you go to?—A. To the fide whicn was the forth& front the fire. Q What Ode did Colonel Defpard go to!—A. He fat at a table very near ohe fire. Q Was that the tide allotted to thole who came to fettle buffilefs !—A. It wall. Q . ....Wcre you at that time acquainted with Colonel Dcfpard? --A. No, I bad neve r ken him before that day. Q Who introduced you to him, or how were you introdu ced.—.A. It was Broughton introduced me. Broughton thit atked ow in the room, did i ever fee Colonel Defpard ? 1 an. (we red that I had not. He then Paid there is Colonel l)cfpard, be ip a very fine man, and aPerwanls he Introduced me to hint. Quid you hear any particular converfation at this meeting ? —A Yes, I beard a great deal of converfetion about how is would he heft to attack the King. Q Did you hear any plans laid for that purport ?—No, gpt my pofitive plan, but I heard a good deal of talk regretting - it. Many Paid the belt place to attack his Ma lefty would be in the Park, either on his leaving Buckingham Houle. or at the pri vate gate near the HurfcGuards. They laid the Parliament. Houle mull alfo be attacked, and after that was done, they mutt file away for the Tower diredtly. Q Did you ever fee Colonel Defpard fince that meeting till be was arrefted N—A. No • I never faw him befort or fince. Caoss-alatatirso.—ti, Pray how often have you been tried ?—A. I neve( was tried, except by a Court Martial. How often have you been tried by Courts Martial ?—A. Three times. Q For what offences ?—A. For abfenting myfclf from the regiment. Q, In pain Englith, you mean for defertion ?—A. Yes. o,Wliat was done to you by thole Courts Martial was forgiven the Brit time, b t punithed the fecond and third limes. Q Were you never charged with theft ?—A. Never. Q, Do you know Philip Evans ?—A. Yes, he was my cra g/17c Did he never charge you with Reeling leather from him? A. e had loft fume of his leatker, and raid he believed I mull have made away with it. WILLIAM FRANCIS EXAMINED. 0., What arc you, Francis I—A. A private in the Sift bat tali,ia of the IR Reginain of Foot Guards. (`Were you at any time lately applied to take any oath, and by %clam !--A. t Was applied to by Colonel Dared in the month of September UR, at Tower-hill ; I was alto applied to by jo hn Wood aid homas Francis . Was there any written or printed form of oath (hewn you. A. There was. ft Did you read it?—A. I cannot read toyfelf, but they ca ptained it tonic. tz_ Do you remember what was the fubflanee of it, or what they told you was the nature of it?—A. It was about overthrow- Dig the Government and all the Royal Family. QDo you recolkel any particular converfstion of the pri inner to yea upon that day ?—.A. He liked me'what were my principles about the mute tint was then going forward. mean /el the attack of the Towe-, which was to take place that day. I then aped him was the attack to take place that day? His told' me it was not; it mutt be poßponed, as he expeded money and news from France. <Z . Was there at that time any afremblage of people near the Tower?—A. Them was, but they deperfed very loon after ;weds. (Z.._ By whore orders did they Opole ?—A. By the orders of (Acme! Detpard. Who read the Oath to you !—A. Colonel Detpard read it, apd then Wised me to kits It. Q_ Did you do C No, I did not. OlLliVere you at any meetings after that b.—yes, I was at smotEer Merritt at the Coach and Holies. I heard there' plan cod over refpoßtne the taking of the Bank and Horfe Guards. Q, Was soy Oath toodeited to yen at this meeting ?—Yes, Colonel Defpardyead the Oath to me again, and *Red me to lia's it, but 14ii, refuted. Q Did the Colonel make any obferrations upon your refit liner—A. He laid it was very odd that my principles were not at all the fame asmy brothers. Do you remember any other paper peodarted!—.A. Yes. itzdaire breorght paper from Windier. refpedling phase of riven:anent'. Q 2 Do you remember the contents of It?—A. Not preeite ly ; tf was awe maintaining rights and overturning the Go vernment. QDo you remember any ding more that pared ?—A. The ftibbers drew their bayoesota. bad [lid they were ready to die the canc.:. q z . Was there any thing more fad, to you about not taking due oath I—A. Yes. Radelife biblie to me a great deal about It, .ind.osivifed me to join the Arbeitttion, and take the oath. I told him Oat I would not take any more oaths; I had (worn to be true to my King and Country. Cit 0 IS- t MINE often have you been dogged in the Aral ?-4. neverz i sa!dogged or iitinidied. Mean sof rto diet pa/direly ?—.A. I do. ‘4,, Did you dews debut Awn your Regime:?—A. I was front it dote for so Iron; but I did pot defat; I vo binrarily fair, oderal mitt to tZ Were you not chirgid *Rh fte4ng watches at Chatham, that time that )IW foliftlootitegintent ?-s.A. I never arm tried for it. . _ o,,Yerc yonantnliseird by Tow own brother with iteallng the watches t--,A. fa.. I never wee. Q_ Ton quitted the gesissent in company with one Calla? -A. Yee. 1 did." • - - Rid DO , Jou ipwor thin Wiles had feveral watches with him? —A. Yu. .1 by higa give foam to the Nachman. and law him paws ono Q : _ coo you awn moray he only pawned one in your tom. ratty Dot readied his pawning more than one in my osmpany Q Am! P. you fay you were not at that time charged with .4+%r healing, or being ad accomplice to Celtics in Rating afewataCs I do net know what might haw:been laid, but I never was charged or tried font. Utak' with the Kell mynt aftworank, and went abroad with them. JOHN CONNEL • 'Who had been anvil& at the Oakley Anne, on the t6th of N`Fv.. NW shad boon *knitted u of Evidenr., for the Crowns, neat called ua Witada Or his entering thewitneers boa Mr. GAILRIVIt, who pretazin; to examine hint, Lid torbe t. °art, this Is jobs Conn& Coonsi Lord, ni noise is not John Cannel, my sense as rhi Cannel. - ?Oki/aWVow—Did you never pare by the ny s e qi Jvhit. C w itisf i Ilkt—A. Never In my life. I was always Patrick Caned you. never been known by the name at Jabal—A. 11/4's zve e My:life. 0 be Capture% fee the Profeuttion appeuod much furprift•d as as well as indignant at the trick that bad been prodded upon thenel Mr. GA a RCM', after a moment's confisktration. then aiked httn—lllowegne yon to ve in your name Joint Cormel,witen you were aereftedst the Oakley Aria ?mut. I was adviftzl to slo it. rt. Who advired you ? was kale Prif.ncr ?—.A. It was. IX. OAIROW then fobmitted to the Court. that as he had binefelf chore+ to aillimethe nam • oilcan Connet,snd haddone it at the fuggilltion tithe Prifoner, and had been fworn by that name, he had a right to calamine him et that to Serjeant BOST obyeetod to his being etandfied as a witnefs. lie Laid, that the law regokm a true lilt to be delivered to the Frifoner of the Witadres againft him, will their Chrlitian names, foramen, and additinest and that it was evident, that thole who oakum* the defence of a prifoner could not come r• pared to meet a what& whelk tame was not truly Rued la t!le 1.11. [smiling to the Trireme before his nisi The A T at mutate, without at all admitting that Me min was not liable to be azunined, &mile thouLl be coil. tent to dtividtheut his tetlimany. Lord rLLENSOTOrGIT then faid, if the A Gant. hat contests to wave his tight, It sawn , every pa:ptie that ; could be Withed for by the Cow:del. who made the otifedlion ; but ii the Countil for the Protecution meant to bap apon it, 1 he was very moth Inclined to fay, that no man be al. I Inwed to take the benefit of his own fraud. AM that at it was ups the foggeltioa of the Pittman' that Patrick Connel had invest in his/same as Jab Cannel, the Pittance mould not be i an.upsd moiled open that ground. TM itneiellWaisoietding, &.4 g I• R. Terntiefee. e foldhe ht the Ottirthp—ii &no* . theilank and Windmill. I wis there oh a Sunday night, it was the fecmid Sunday after we returned from Windfor : there were feveral fokNers and two men In coloured clothes : I do not know therm They alked one to be fworn In of their lociety : they told me it was a Free and Eafy Suckay to overturn the prefent Govern ment, and to have the Wind the fame as France : they alke4 me U 1 would e. me on the Wctlitcfday following? I laid I could not, for I m ou ld b e at duty." . _ John it:Alerts, a foldier in the Guards.—" I was at the HAM and : it was on a Sunday ; Tontlinfon and I went to• gether." The witnds then gave the fame account as the latt wlttiefs had dune, but could not identify the prifouer as having been there. Peter Pollard, a foldicr in the Guards.—" Dan. Tyne.:ll, one 1 of the prifonars, alked nit to go to the Oakley Arms . I work 'ed with him as a c-rpentcr. I want with him: it was on the z6th of November, when the painters were apprehended."— The witticfs did not add any thing materlaL John Leiblra was then called. This was by far the molt im portant witnefs, both as to detail of Leis, and fur bang of fu perior underitanding to thole who preceded him. He &paled as follows:-.." 1 am a watchmaker, and was one of thole ap prehended at the Oakley Arms on the t6th of November lett, where the prifontrs were taken up. Lander, one of the other I painters, was the Grft who intimated to me that focieties of that defcription were on foot. It was about four weeks before I was apprehended. I met him one day, and he alked me if I heard any news ? I anfwered no! He replied, that there was fomething very particular on the earpet.—Had 1 beard of any focieties forming? I told him that I had not, I thought they were all done with. He Lid, no, they were not, a party was forming ftronger than had ever been yet, and that they looked up to Colon .1 Dcfpard as their head. After this 1 faw a perion of the name of Broughton : when I fi rft law hint I and Lander were talking. I objeCted to their plans, but Broughton laid font, dung mutt be done before the Man Eater: met. He called the Parliament the Man Eaters. Broughton (poke with a con fident certainty of fuccef.. Broughton frequently invited me to attend the meetings of their Society I told him I had my family to attend to. He produced tome pieces of badly printed paper. (The witnefs was (hewn the form of the oath, and Paid it was the fame). He laid it was a focicty for them to know their friends by, at the faint he told me, that all thofe who were not of their principles were to be put to death when the grand attempt was made. I remember ',wing at the Qiieen's Arms, Vauxhall, on Friday the rath of Novkmber: Graham was there, and Broughton came there He (poke to Graham and me. He anted nu-to go down with him to the Hying horfc. He laid there would be fuch a nice nun there, he was lure fhould like his company. At brit I alit not agree, and aked who it was ? He laid it was Col. Defpard. Before we went, he laid the day was fixed for the attack to be made. The King, laid be, will be !topped as he goes to the Hoare, and the beaters wilt be fettled. I think he Paid alto that the Tower was to be taken. Broughton then laid, he mutt go, fur the Colonelwas a very punctual man, and he (Broughton) was then behind his time. He went out, and took Graham with him. I overheard him perfuading Graham to go they (caned as if they were turning back delved out and laid, if you, Graham, will go, I will go. Graham (aid, we would be there in an hour, and Broughton went away. Graham Maid to me, I did not know you were of thcfe fentiments : I anfwered, I am not, but I have a mind to go to fee the humour of it. I afterwards went to the Flying Hoeft : I found there Colonel Defpard, Brough ton, Windfur. and Smith: they were fitting in a final! back room. Windfor was there before 1 came. Brdughton de. fired me to fit down. I made my obdfance to the Colonel, and fat down. Graham fat next to Colonel Defpard, and 1 fat next to Graham. It was the fint time I entered that haute. When I tot there, they were [peaking of the form ufed at the Tower in pairing the keys. When the Cooltable palled the keys, it was dual to fay, GOD bids the King and Queen Charlotte, to which the fentinel ufed to reply, Amen , bat that of late it had been difetheinsied, except in one balance, when the man was (meted. 1 anted Broughton who Defpard was? He told me it was Colonel Defpard; I turned to the Co lonel, and laid, Sir, I beg your pardon, 1 bad not the &afore of k. owing you before; but I have read of you in the CUD bridge Paper. The converfation turned on the Wet Decks.— It was fomething relative to employing fiddlers at the Wet Docks. After a little time, I anted Col. Defpard whether there was any particular Winds in hand, and what he thought of it ? He Lad, there was nothing particular, only it feasted the widt of a great many people that au duet druid be mdse on Tuefday week nein to endeavour to mower Tonic of theft li berries which we have lad. I aka If he bad any ground or funcient force to aft upon ? He laid, Yes, a very cooliderable farce indeed ; at lead, I can only fay, if the people come for ward in the way I have been given to landediand, we have great numbers of the army ; and there are great numbers In all parts of the kingdom, partietharly Birsaiagbam, Leeds, Man chciter,Shedeld, and other great towns. Ido not knew taut I enumerate the towns in the order in ethic! Col. Ddpard I named them, but I am fore he mentioned sL thole towne , - He added, that in London, and about town, the people are every where ripe. He Laid, that he had been engaged in this burin& for two years, and added, I have travelled so mike to-day; everyplace where I have been, the people are ripe, and anxious far the moment of attack. In the fame coeverfadon I shed, If he had any regular plan of organisation? He fald, No! a regular orrthadon would be a moral impoillbility, as it was fo near, nod tinder the eye of Government ; bet in the oziottrY i would be Mori general- 1 skis! hies if the attack viasio bemailsfa Leaden and the country so ens and the rinse day ? tiltaid, No! by no means, that would be improper; but that it would be a egnel so the country the ping the mail and Ragetheches. During the concerfaclost he .denehed the of his right band, and (wore with an astli s , You will do no gond ankh you feeurethe whole family. Breves ton at this Meek his iseici in a lowswirg way, and kid. Ilse I. eafily done. Some one raid, Howl He replied, Shoot the two brit holies, and then the teenage .n.ni- Raj, then frith' bins (the Klieg) dirally. This was t 0 be time' relent froth the Parliament Hoak. f fad, Do y ) sait confider that.' there are borfemen riding deftheithe cerrieth with the bodes heads aloud in at the wisSoto; and that any perfoo attempt ing would be cut to idethirtbis who would do it? The, Colonel replied, I would do it with ter own' hand. I recoiled that In fame part of the cenererfkiiihe Odd, have weighed this Matter well, and my heart butheeit Lava poddve beefed dick an eepreffs.in, anal think kith pfter dd. part or the renthefa tion Amu Mein: the King. There was a ecoverfaties them faxing the Bank. It witageeld Olathe Bank Itheild be kited and the Tower taken. f rthethif MU they fail tit the inns at the Hook had been vendee,* eklefs trefoils* pert being taken from them. and that they amehated to Cob in number. I think It was the Colonel who faid it. The enaneddion twat, for the mod part, have been bawd by the Cahouet. I recolleet their plan was Snack matter of confident Ikeda. Windlor fald,_glve ors too mut , and nu take the Tower ntefelf. TheCel. went away audit* oti sad Ilkw nis meth of kin until I law • him et the Oakley Arms oe the tfith of .flovanher. Lender,' in the methane of that der, had beep talking to me of the at tork main the Tower. *reamed to !door whether it would nut be wedeln to bath a evil The surds froniiith Tower to Nfftalreet, Bthopfgate-dreet; and alt forme thrums of' the EA 'Adis Company, winch were &poked Is their yrerehothes there, and tests from theme to the Artillery Oremod, where they would get more arms, and'fietat the glens' of artillery, then to go forward end add at the attack epee th. James's. —He Ws reputed that another dreilleo *meth earth through the Borough to Join the oast at St. James's. He laid tho it would be proper to have couriers who theold go, backward and forward, end carry seaman of the diem& and I Smoke et the different bodes of the etteckleg army. I underlies... 4 that be had both to fame a hear ethere he this to fat and receive thde reports, lid that lenweitibe Sp at the Aird, in Cecil-court, St. bdarthesthah !Lemke then earth me to write this plan down; width 1 refilled. He !mond to look Mange at me. I had net been fwefm, and therefore I was rather an °Wed of fufpkion. I then fall if the phafe I will go along with you to the Colonel, mid fee what he Jaye about it. I told Lander a ethvetfatkm I hod with OsiMaa aq kfung!sy. He fald he vivid introduee teeth the Cedthel in the evening. That evalne. es I was IC4g home with • dark, I met Broughton ; be Lido magrAked Tok ass mm ing down h?'"?fht MY do, bat do We ho bet I deg, Dula pat thy clock up fiat. Going thong I 'few Lender dotting up his Ihnlt He eked me if I was ready? I fall No! I was going to put op a clock. Re 44d be was la halts, but if f would return faun In. woad Wait for pea— N bete 1 ret union I found him gen.% and I wan by nalfdf to the Oakley Anna, I irk went bees a rattle parlour. aid kels se S . .und nu ;twee sled whom 1 wonted? J fad prolitheell *et . RSIIEI. They told medley weoeup *Art, and !was "hewn up. When 1 got up, the parnee were e.ngigel . in core. rfa tion. Colonci Dcfpard was handing up, and fpeaking m the prifonerjohn Francis. I lived mvfelf, and nab , ' Ink; been fo, when Broughton fail to nee, M hoy, my buck, w, have got the complcieft plan in the wofid, it will do the bulbul's without any trouble. I 3&:d what vat that f He faul, to load the great gun in the Park with four ball. or chin thole, anti' fire it at the King's coach as be returned hum th , : Wolk:, and . _ he would hr dif it would not knd him fo hetl Thi, (hocked mr much. and I etclaimat Gond t:on! do you con. fider how many people will he in the Park th it day, and hot many lives you may take away. He fall d—n them, let them get out of the way. He added, that it would pay hell with the bourn about the Treafury. Some p.-rfon f.tid, the cannon might be too low; another laid, it shiest he curtly railed an inch : lonic other perfon laid, but if it ntifila his Majelty ? Broughton replied, then in.-el him, we mull manhandle him. I am not certain whether I hada eunverfation with the Colonel before this paired ; the Colonel wis very near, but I cannot fay he heard it : I anted Broughton whether I misfit fp.uk to the. Colonel, and be told me to do in I accordingly addreffol him, and laid, Sir, you was (peaking of taking the Tower (alluding to the converfation at the Flying Hale). Lander raid, would it not be proper to have a divifion to march from the Tower ? and fo I went on, and repeated the whole of Landr is He objeacd to it ; for why—be believed one half of the India Company's men to be our friends already; but, my good Sir, laid he, we are not lure that we can have the Tower, but if we have, we have every thing; for there are arms (or ; I know not how many men he Paid, but I know It was a great number; and he added, to go to the Artillery Ground would be ulelefa—what purpofc would it anfwcr ? It wa, to annoy the afrociations, I replied, by forming a fort of gated - 0,, He laid No; St. Paul's would be a better fort of place. li. if we had the Tower, we had every thing• for if he had that, he could from it burn down the town if neeetTary, and hatter It to pieces. 1 told him Graham had fuggefted refpea lag the Bank, and anted him, do you think it right to meddle with the Bank ? He laid, yes, Neely, the Bank ought to be the eonfideration. I recoiled hearing tonic perfoh fay, that the telegraph mutt he dettroyed. I looked at the Colonel, and raid, do you ruppofe that would be neceffary ? He replied, finely, for it would be of no fervice to us, but of van. impui tance to our enemies. Soon aft* this converfation the officers came in; and the whole party was fecured. Wlndfor 1,13 a 'anger to me before I law him at !h•• Plying Horfe, Nee Ing• ton I recuHcet I gave the girl at the houfe come halfpence, with an obfervation, that I would kilt her the mat time I came." (The witnefs here apologised that he (!could fife Nei light difeourfe to the girl). The C/111111111i,kn in chief of the %vim& doled here. The Counfel of the priNner afked him where he came from ; he Paid he was in cultody, he was taken at the Oakley Arm, with the others. Mrs. Mary Plowman, the landlady or the Flying Horfe at Newington..— Two or three days before the people were ap prehended at the Oakley Arms, tame Genttcnuti came to my houfe; there were fix of them, they came a little before eight, one of them had a brown coat and a fink umbrella: two [AMC. together, and four others came aft,iwards: They were in a little back parlour, the door was Ihut, the curtains drawn, and they teemed very private. As I was leaning over the bar, I beard one of them fay, that he had weighed the matter well, and his heart was callous. I know lAriudfor, he was one of them ; there were two oth. ra who came before Windier, one went away fir& The fervant.maid took the reckoning; they had a dais of rum each as they paffed the bar, it came to pd. I gave the change to a little man, who turned round and gave it to the err Sir R. Ford fail, he took the examination of Windier, and in co/Oki:pence of it (eyeful foldiers were fent fur and csan4ried. Mr. ATTOINST My Lord, this b our cafe on the pert of the Crown." Mr. Serjeant herr then addreffed the Jury, in a fpeech re plete with moft Ingenious argument, clothed in elegant die• don, and delivered with midi perfuafive energy, Of which we than attempt the outline. It Was as follows :—" Gentle men of the Jury, it noir becomes my duty to iddrefs you 011 belialfordie Gentleman who itands secured at your bar. You will edgy conceive it is one of the molt painful dudes that a man tan have erdt upon him to execute ; for, Gentlemen, however favourable the cafe of my client may be, When it is eoofidered that it is my duty to bring forward to ob(ervation thole preeminent &condi:maces of favour, 'purge them with for . ilhie argroyentsoind to prefent to your Bodge add obfervation link vorrudswitich ought to entitle hint to be relieved from his charge ; did when your recoiled ado, that lib Feraly;hisfoltune, its life Wen% all that Make* &tar p ! had alined fad all that can viiiiablein a time nate, depend now upon the able' caeca din army duty, you whi feel hOW mach I mu' opptered With the majtfti&ind importatice of that duty. I do fay.Gen tiessen, that if I Wire not add:ding myfelf to a Briditt Geed of lattice ; a Court where else judge who Frail" Upon Batch is kinttelf,by law, of sftunfd for the prifener, mid Whew the Jury are to adminifter jerkier with mercy, if 1 wee not ad diethng a *not fo •K I fed I Omuta be unahle to sa. drefs you at ad. Gentlemen, the Learned Attorney General has told yen; that the greater the crime that Is charged, * greater osOt die caution of Juries to be before they delivered over a perfon needed to the avenging am of the law. Gen tlemen, &Whine nevi principle of the la*, it has "Log been laid down by Learner Judges, and not only by 4 illen, but alto Ileathea 'writers, who were not profetied Lkleyers It he In cafes whine the public arc no othenvire Wen:ft . dithi Iftrcrime than at they tap the morals of theeottimunky, lintb.abore tenni* It be to a cafe where the public id& la .ffie profeentor Gentlemen, What fa treJfue ? It is tit} that attachithe foundation of the laws which afford Ma 'lb all; therefore, If jades ought - to - be candour = Ifjggeoldfdt Ica tiehmon cafes, how much more fo ought the, ye be r biedkt of Make Gentlemen, the Learned At ta to you the advantages which are af try our* to a peer= an:tired of the crime of disfun ; and be hated this as one of the redoes, that from the cafe with Which the dime could by impend, the greater was the De lal:hew it Medd be dearly proved. Thole who plumed the the [chew of liberty Oldeh charadterifes this country, felt bligetely neceffary to thrill a greater degree of feeurity round di Iliblea upon ads; than was neceffary in ordinary Safes. Oedema, 1 cannot help thinking that this is one of the mod brigand parts of pUr Conitleation, and pretests it kg' one of ale nalltUimifnl ?diem of a Coaftitutiori which the hmeglinallen elan eemeelve. One which places it in excel lence bared cell Comithstioms that tan be hewn by any na den at Canny ender Marco—Teaching even their who wend deity, that they are allowed advantages belonging to ho other Offends whatever. lithe Gentleman Rending ac cured ht the Bar hr thole advantages (one of which is, that he east be defended by Counfel, If indeed 4t be any adveillatc to I be defended by nee fo very feeble as myfelf), why do I make thefe obfervationer It la to thew you that the founders of our laWs have, In the* widamt, declared, that any one handing In the &motion of the milder it the bee, is entitled to peculiar favour. Ottogkines, having hated that. obferrations, I hum blydeffse You to dlbelt yourkltes of an prejudice; I reevelt you * dr; that which the littokoey General has declared the Law itfeff does, namdy, to prelim* the Prifoner iimocaat until his guilt be denstinflratiid ; that Medlin+ guilt be made oat, anti by ISO evidence, It is yet Unladen duty to perfume him an no forename, and not a guilty ern. Okedemen, pent* me hew to call your attention to fend fter nibs al evidence, chit I forget to nwetkoi. The goeftion you hintatodecide is limply • gisate offs& It 6 impollbk to argue that if the tads Oinked b tbe Wieder:at be proved. that they dome sinews to tendon tteddeeneyy that die oVert sell Mae ha- Ottl.ere not ibillereet evideoce of that trpifon. But the gridiron wlllire, whether the Fat% are made set. by dear and fatisfac mire teltimoay, whether the neaten be proved by the bell ed. deice that the fubjed matter could slim/ Ooe rule *flaw Is dal Mks Meet be made out by words only, but it mull be Wank,or has, or writing.' The d ir sec olthe King, upon reheat hidiebnent is portly regoiees.in eon. Neddy reitli the Old Wes of taw, tron to b: tit ' eat by prindng or wild* or feint tuber overt ad or dmill. Ido net igen tolay ;hit the tdihnoo yof wimdfes as to Wilt Is Said Is tsdtdy lobe ittleitled. but I Wilt that ft is not, tritertisteof shale* weds Opiken, that the guilt of the aefea firth es he made Get, het k is by prod offione deed tie od cons matted. Why ahem does the law slew teftituemy of words fetches I tell you wlry, Gentlemen, it is for die prepole of rig eke nature deny on looe, and oat fee the potpie a 's deritierate ineestiosi of the mind. Gpadaten, I aim about on advert re the opinion di learned wastoott r aufe of Oh mnburity thlstsonft. betade it wed pet ac eerie tinily one ciatinida, did le esgweliod mindi Maietprge• . • • elbly than Teem hope to do. lallude to Manterqufea, who, is his Spirit of Laws, (peaking of thefulis et of high tinfoil .f.,y.-- • Nothing renders the crime of high 'realms more addax y, than declaring people guilty of it for indifercer (perch, s. —Meech is fo fubjeel to maims-rpm...den ; tfirrel. to great a daft-tyke between indikretion rii malice, aye frequent ly fo little is there of the latter in the c.i.reilions tired, Mar the law can hardly (object people to a Ctpital pa : nithanent for words only, utilrfs it esi reftly deelai , I what I o.nds they are which meter A man guiitr.' lie cowl. tue.-.- . Words do not conttitute an ov, r: act—they remain only m idea. They generally, when confulered by themfely.s, have no determinate fignification; for this drp0,..... upon the tom in which they are utter d. It often happens t:.at all reheating the fame words, they hue not the fame me.thiaz; this meaning depends on their connexion with ink r things; and fume:Mies more i. repealed by liknce •han by any diteourte wbarfoever. 'As there i„, nothing to equivocal and ambiguous as all this, hew is it pd lible to convert it into the crime en hag:, : reafon. When ever this law is eltablitbed, there Is an end, to t only of liberty, but even of its very lhadow--uven acts are not things that hap pen every day, they re liable to olifervatlort of a great massy people ' ant a falle charge with n:fpeet to fads may be cailly detected; words joined to an action aflkme the nature of an adtion. Thus, a man who goes into a public market place to incite the fubjeds , o revolt, incurs the guilt of high trealon, De cade the words arc joined to the action, and partake of its na ture. It is not the words which are punilbed, but the adtion in which Words are employed. Every thing is confounded If words arc confider-II as a capital crime.'—Gentkmen, it is lies poi:able that the idea of an Engliet Lawyer can be better es prelfed than if is here dune. if any Met be proved—if a tnau went into a public market, he could bring many witnrifes to the co nduel. he held there; but what would be the fituation of a m ti if he were liable to be charged and convicted of the crime of High Trenton, for words which were (pokes In a pri vate room, and upon the teftlmony too of witnelks who were fo infamous, that no human being would give them credence. In vain has the the law of Treafon been fixed, if the rules of evidence are fo unfixed. Gentlemen of the Jury, lam aware I may be tokl that going to a meeting for a treafonable purpole Is an oven act of treafon. I admit, alto, that Cob Defpard was at fume of theft. meetings.end that it is (worn he froke the obnos ions word., hat before you can conviet hint !Dew roe that he h knew tc meeting wan a treafonable one, Gam me where you wilt hod the evidence to ha upon him a knowledge of its hang a tredundae meeting, or that he attended it for tr.:jumble par rots. The learned Attorney General has called upon me ro explain the meaningof the printed card be has produced . Our. perhaps, I could ; ;lve tome explanation of it, yet I am oft celled upon to do it; Is it ruanteted with Colonel Delpard at all? I lay there is not a ilogle tittle of evident.: to conned hint with that paper, except the teltimony of Franck, the molt infamous man alive. Is there teftlosony of the other charge? I fay nut, except loch, as if received, would leave nO !kitty for the life, li berty, or foray *fatty MAIL Let us compare the cafe with other cafes, of like stature, which havegone before it. In Layer's can, did the Crown content thenffelves with merely proving as Muth as is here proved? No, they proved that arms were found. 'They thawed the Maid writing of Layer, to prove Ms panic:A rlon of the attempt. I call upon the Learned Lawyers for ta Crown to thew me any other cafe lime the Revolution, where a nim ha: been convicted on fuch fort of evidence. I fay fine; the Revolution, for, before that period, Judges were O.; o fjai fulpicion, and not as they are now, objeds of Ripen and TO. neration. I challenge the Solicitor General to produce me ti tingle inßancr, fur I fay no Jury will belifte that a traitorous intention c silted without the indication of Come nacous of ant rye ing it into effedt. I can, Indeed. conceive a ea's of freaft", where it has jult been moillated, before the meanslfte • • procured; but was that the tale Isere? vias tim wat t 's' E he l inchoated ?—They fay it was all fettled, the Tower was to carried, defended as it is by a brigade of guards, and yet ICU% not to evld'ence that a pokereted arse pftpared for the am -4:entlenten, I fay, If the Met terkedlahle ve.tnelres hi proved lack ah improbable fehime, you could not bellsve them, you would fey In this you mutt bc.mUtaken. If they arc no deeds, then ate there any writings? Can It b laid that the Colonel Was •fo cautious that he preven ted any writings being found upon him—was he cautious . . incautious ?he emote be reptefented as both. If he were cautions, can you then believe the 'amerce Chit he w, i e tellinz every man the& wild febernes which they have natal here today; if he were inandous, is it pale but Mow tali, terevidetiee might have been fur:lined of his guilt,if he ready, Were the traitor the wittielres reptefent him tote . Goldoni* I come now to a Molt linparti g ar It Is a mod importans rule et taidebce that the cafe be made os by credible %sancta. If lam and that, do yep fay t tat accompaci ought not teibe called, Isle hot fay that they may be aided, and may be credited to a 'certain totentlint I think I can fro a'clou• fine of didnetko. They May be called to wide 4 tranfadioa Acta crime has boch roved by more credible Wit- Perks ; fur I fay, if you Show him to prove a cafe which wide out him could not he made aft, foie deliver every man into the hands of an accomplice, hod his Oh 'and chatadter ia it the Mercy of fo abandoned i Wretch. (The Learned Salautlere put fevcral cafes tp Undone this point). . The niter dais dence; he added, are Trained rather that the guilty &ma dcape, than the Mooed* nould Cuter; and I intik that the evidence of acceanklkes limpid not be let in gelid the char eared guilt is made out by more uneleceptionable evidence. Let as camp then if there Is one tittle of proof slilicofe. bet what cornea from the contaminated evidence of occompliceo.frih:re be net. lit Is not the cede of Col.'Defoordl am advocating, it i. the cailf of every toglinmsn, 4 dash& law, and of Entitle libeity..-‘ When yoit raditrto the ranks of today , from whence yes came. and lay aide your charade of Jurors, If you civil@ on dala unfuppated evident, you lay a fouodation for sditellief vrlorolx may hereafter datroy yottrfelreo Bat 1 way bet. 14.Gattle men, that there are four witoeffei,' namely Buda, tinkly*. Francis, and Wintlfor,aod that although you onght.out tti tom. AR upon one, yet the calcarintu teltimoity of four is deci fire. It appears that thhle coo dike cafes where tie curlew rent teltiniony of one huOdred gives no &cog* to d u i: ll = tefiLnouy pf one Moimplice., Molt tendril, if. come from dittant quarters. with combats with each othee, Mid: glVe the tune account of the fame tranfaelion, this cancidaace of evideha le fixable proof of he truth. But this shimmies Ides ail its force, when applied to the cafe of confplfacy. For amen mat and mediate to fate an obicet Found the neck of au Innocent man, they will all agate in the material fada.-.. Then do you believe the codpirory. or do you not ? If Tint do not believe It, there is in end of the cafe. If you do , tha concurrent tcitimouy of there witnetes is of no more Mice shwa ocie. Any more that an aggregation of broken records coon convey any Mercer/01'0.7'14th. Gentlemen, I cons; now to a snood. which I think pettedly declare of the relent cafe. I Though you heard Me w ..40 telling a tale of borne which ' ahnott freeses one's blond, yet it is with the smelt amide they taste it Mr. Emblyn f.k quite *named and &bond dist be based tell the maid at the Flying Hark that he would kits her, but the death of his King he mold Isar planned without embdon. Let ears here. neadanall. dl. red your attention to what has been faid by great authority, greater than ever I 02111 attain, It was well LA Daman a Rory is improbable, it does not follow that, therefore, it is not tract bat Wien to what his on the Ifienelrfaid, and gnaw/ authority there csonott r t% to whom did he fay It? to she Grand Jury, not so pm, who mutt pronounce a definitive "Wm of the Irak or ionocenso of the seeded ; but to the Grand Jury, who were only to en. quire whether there were graionde of Was:ion fußklent to put the igrifone aro his defence. His Leonid, fold to than, if you find the Racy Improbable, you will moire Me grater de gree of evidence. I have, therefore. the authority of his Lord • hip In laying, that if the cafe be an improbable one, you will require moor mosso evidence. It is a mod i r probable ode ; I need not fay whet It la: Fourteen or lineal men at a common tip-room. with no fire-arose bet don tobacco pipet( men of the lowed order, of today, without mind or Incas =were to fay the King, the Tower, tie lank, and the of Doti Hodes :if Parham:at I How werrthsy to do la Hive theyloridgo copactlions ? Have they of in the .sillilmai ? It Was. htskol.tdhed of. Mt I fay it was ant taw; not a Ingle guns deem: is thereat any hick thing In the cade. The rasa sr:Carat:to norer defineatsd say thing war. 4 j icia ... 4 as this fuhcine All the mamas of Dsp Quixote were Gabor mid rational fthanee.corapsred with thole of tins heroceof the Oak ; ley Arms. what were their mans? an exchequer of tse. 6d a What alma? not e pike,. piftol, or • rutty maker. Tate .h no evidence, east their number ever exceeded Nay ; yd, with this number, the Tow.r. delCaded by a huge& of guard% ;Was to be taken; the-Kitqrs palms fetoedja dm mold of hie gultrilt, kr huyargr4 the whole of their oveloni end who