The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-28 00:00:00

amor --- I I 00* L a person mooed Harrison ;he WAS Is the Geeede.__ . Hof ,. to I.!...ititie.l Harriton.) -He it 34 disloirges I n isi I wieg I knew Vim he was is king-oreet berreeht, Portman ,,:;•:.r:. lie had an oppertmtsit) of laiowinir him. c ie p..evi.nhel by Mr. C 0111.1100.-1 duit't know he e o w met ar.• in Knightsbridge-barracks. They moult I , .:ti annul Silo. Joie A ;alas, examined ::‘ X Hie:.TTOIIVIT-CitrialllL.-1 ta ; 2 1,121 . 1:1. , ker ;u Ile wia-s , reet. I knew the prisoner •.,;... •a., from als having pledged thins= at my shop. He • ost the thi of February On the moraine 1, eel took a • J•e!terreilei bltinderbuss use of pledge. This witness teas not cross-exatnined. 1•;„. l ea, Hyden, examined by Mr. tivenste.--1 am a cow k in. ! was ionINTIT 11 member of a shoemakers' dub. I knew ititaitu there. I saw him a few days before the Yid ot Febrean. Hemet nit 14 the street. and males proposi eis at,. Metaled mi. if 1 vo•nld be one of a party to de .t;,,v els Ma'..My's Mihisters. He said they e ere wai•ing lc i cabinet dhuter. and that all things were ready. I I st. .na I *odd make one. Tale was. I believe. fryer or ti‘r .I.•beiere Uld Cato-streek business. Before that I went to • ilarro ,. . by 's ; I do not remember the day ; I f01k.% ed ...sl.-rdship in the Park ; I gave him a sots. On Wedues ;l%. :he t 3.1. I saw Wilson aesin. I asked him what there • a ns geieg to be : and iir said Litre was to he a enitinet die m. at Lord Herroe by's. Urosseuur-!Snare. I went to fobs-sire. ; that evening. Whew I got there I saw Wilson a:•4I Datitison. ihisidsoe said I was come. riad he asked melt 1 would go in. I mid so, as I was going some arisen• et e to WOO' !Vale cream. A mita e 2:4 hero pet Ist:. the tv it tests ha sul.whieh he seld vas !ha lAC given by him to Lord Name's,. It was in his • on haul-writing. t rasa-exasuieed.—The reason why I gave the note to turd liatromby was, because [could hunger Lord CasUereso,— I lid eel call al Lord Castierengtes bGesat. but 1 west three or ;imp timeaseas the house. in order to see Ara. 1 did not ; F..' hie, sod thee I pee the note to Lord !Introit by. lam rersin that, in Nilsoses coolers:1 , 1On with me, the words. • LIS M11je..4 . 4 Ministers," wee nseil. 'l'.+e Earl ( f Itarr:yrbv examined from the finch by the AT :titer v-4/ENCRAL.—the Noble Earl d e p ose d to :he f ac t of a Cabinet dinner being OW to take place. and to Its hein; eat Id in cuesequeaee of litlen's information. A r..socannaned by Air. f oats ovn.--I had UM.• general kti441•41 • of wise eon.pl rsey.or so inethi ne of th•• laud. going en ' - •efore this. Ido net know a person name I E Kearns. John Balser. the butler of lord Ilarrowby, gave es itlenee to nee same effect. T. preparation for dinner went sin na t.' r• o'clock. John Mt ornil ent. examined Its the Sakteeroa-C rstnAf.. 1 'NI by trade a shoemaker. I know the prisoner Tilitt e. wood. t met him at the house of one Fen:, s,mie weeks be fore tee tra.totetion of the 23.1 of Fr‘truary. Ile niterwards • ailed aspen m.• at my lodgini,-1. Hr.att was with hits. lin r-I.! me tits' !:.• wanted to spelt', to me in private. Ile thee sat.: to me. • Great event= are now close at hand- the peo fie are ever' where auk oils for a clira i ;e. lie hail been premised .ocuott by a great mato med. who 11'211 deceived hint. bet he had now got men who would stand hs him." Ile thee asked me if I had any ems. I mid. •• No, I had eat." He snot last every mac of them, that is, of those who were attaehe... to Wm, had eras, piles. pistols. or saiires ; vati add.. ~ that I inido buy a Omni for roar or live edi t ing. II- I ailed again upon me Oil the Tuesday previous %Menet I then told hits that I thought I had lost him, as Ite bed staid away so very long. Hr replied, that owing to stAlkilig's death, an alteration had taken place in their plans. i scud Wm mitere the meeting was to be. lie said at Ty linnoterapii.e. Druet thee told me. that if I saw any persons abort. I v as to say 11-U-T: and if they were friends. they •otild ass T-O-N. On the Wednesday afternoon, between fuer aid Ire, he called again : he ensile by himself. He railed me down stairs. I went to Thld's at half-past six. M e waited till Well, but on persco cume. Ticid took out a Farce pistol. and stuck it in a belt. which he wore round his waist. lie also took out four or fire pile heads, which be wrapped up in brown paper. He took also several shafts. lbw or lie feet long. We then went out, along Holborn, ,and ep Oxford-street. I asked him. as we were going along. where we were going; and wanted to know whether it was ~ Il se a pfloeri se niow j[g_aalrt, •' No, there were too Al p , ers dear Iftere; tThry were gnlny to thiasiiiisoi- Li ,as there was a Cabinet dinner there !that eveeinig. mess proceeded to detail the occurrences at Cate-street. lie . . . tikes) into custody in the room. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPH( q.--I never saw Thistle * ood till I saw hint at Ford's. Hy a Jury ma it.—l have had uo communication with Adams eines my apprehension. name Monument, the brother of the lest wingless. coo firmed his testimony with respect to Thittlewood and Brunt toilful; upon him. Thomas Dever, examined by Mr. di aver.---I live In ('hetse-:•ourt. Oxford-street. Some time• in February I bet came amissiuted with Davidson. Ile introduced me to This- Seared. lam an Irishman. Thisilesiood said, that Weisel a good mauv of my countrymen with him. He prettied me to go with lam afro. I saw Davidson on tlie night Whore the_3d, lie told me that he was going lostand sentry. The next morning I was railed upon by a person. who took mo t, Fox-court, Gray's-inn-lane. Ile was a tall man, and his Inuit. is Morrison. I had some conversation with Thistle ,. Ht almost the hand-granades. Th'stlewood saidithat some w• re to be thrown Into the horse barracks. and others into Herrnwhy's house, to set fire to it and blow it up.— 'Milkweed asked me how ma ty of my cavalrymen I could asteese. as he should want some of them at half-past eight that seising. I told hint I could muster about 26 or V. Ile told se that I tens to pick cut the best of my countrymen, and go to the Foundling Hospital, knock at the porter's Iwo,. pet a pistol to kis Brea,:, and turn on to the right hued, as there were 23 or 20 stand of urnrs in the other lodge; these I was to seize. At the shine time another party would •cure two pieces of cannon. which were in the Light Horse School. ()ray's-Inn-lane. Another party was in the imeasoisse to go to the Artillery-ground. Finsbury, and seize what war there. Ile also mentioned that there waste be a t allaet dinner at Lord ilarroeby's, and that the party there were to he attacked. I told Mnjor Jewel of what I bad seen and heard; in consequence of what he raid, I went le the Secretary of btate about 1, or half-past 1 o'clock that day. I'n:es-examined by Mr. CUMWOOD.-1 have lived lb years ho the parish of Mary-le-bone, with a good character, and )el, kb of a sudden, a band of traitors entrusted me with dirk fraltorous designs. I liner was in a Court before, ex . re; tun the trial of a a omen for stealing. I was is Ireland at the thee of the rebellion. I cannot tell how old I was thee. George liaoeck, Rieltard Alondav, Elizabeth Wasted. Georgeltethven, James Ellis,WilliamWescon. Hugh Nixon, Joh.% Wright, William Charles Brookes, Giles Moy, Robert napinan, Captain Fitzelarence, Samuel Taunton, and iholiel Bishop, were evsmined. Their evidence yes already altrared before the public. It was the same as was given at eseeroner's Inquest. Lois-Wee produced and identified the belt found in Thistle s,. ,osd's coat pocket. Mohacs prod' end the pike-staff. grenades, de. rrison identified the sword he sharpened for logs. Sejziant Edward Hasson, of the [loyal Artillery. had *en wined one of the graitedes. It was thus composed :—the tin in the heart contained three ounces end a half of gunpowder; the priming in the tube was saltpetre ; there was pitch over Mt tin, and then rope-yarn, in which were pieces of iron; mots: !Iv• tin was oakum, which was all mired. In about half • minute it would explode. The explosion would do inurh mireloief. Witness proceeded to *pea one. Mr. OUNNIIV exclaimed, Stop, atop ; that kaife may etrikelre upon the iron." Witness said there was no danger of that. Ile next examined a ; it tripsisted of oaken% tar, rtsin. and stone brimstone. pounded: Lighted aid throws let.l a house, if it touched wood. it was sure to set it On ale. Arroexe v-GasanA L.—Thal is the ease on the port of Ow pro: calm,. Mr. CVIIIWOOD then rose to address theJotry on the pert of Or prisoner. The Learned Cuensel thee celled Niers Barker, who was examined by Mr. Avozatrtis.—l am the daughter of the prisoner 'Mkt, and used to live with 1 , rattler. 1 recollect the Poßce-elleeris conies to my lather's house in the morning of the lath of February. They took easy a boa and a numbs. of things like those (pointing to the pilsh-sta‘ es). They had Leeu lett a: my father's oal t.alf as y koar before. Ido not know who brongit them, It was OW any one In my tether's employ. My father was taken tip the night prevloas. I MeV a mar. of tide ewe THE S 7 ATESMAN. 11. also a person of the name of Edwards. rid tatter was utZen at our house. 1 re , ollect hating seen rhos: Mines ut our house before. A part or them was Paten away trern nay rather'%, on Al elliresday. by Ed- The) ECM a firm arils brought but I not Avow hy The hux hail been t In toy lather's a few days eri•re. I hat e set.° the thi:. s grattadvi: tilt.) were of rlitr. , ront sirec the large ••..t• brought to my `7oher's h0. , !.e Acl:•no.. IF:iwarti examined by Air. t'titusion.-11 knew a luau of the name ut Dvt)er for ~ e % eral years. l Nei ili/U at a public-house. I do not think he is worthy of being believed on his oath. The Court adjuurited at • warier past six. THIRD DA V.-WEI/NE.IIIAV, .tYItIL 19. The Judges arrived this morning at a quarter past nine o'clock. The prisoner was then put t.. the bar, and was as before aecommodate'l with a chair. After the names of the Jury hail been called over, the AT. .0 oxat-licxemat. observed to, the Court, that as an observation had yesterday been wade upon the non appearance of Major James, that Gentleman was now in Court ready to be examined, if the prisoner's Counsel itislenolit. Mr. Atmo.eitios declined pressing an examitiation. Aneill.t a sil•.h.e which denoted the attention of the Court, 3ir. Atole:.coo s :Len rose, and thus addressed theism :--- Uentlen►en----1 cannot rise to address von on behalf of the unfortunate prisoner at the her, without first ex pre.tstng sue gratitude to von and to his Lordship, for having allowed the boars to adjourn at so early an hose yesterday, in .der to give me time to prepare , for the dctro.•e. in all eases the situation in which I now stand is sue peculiarly distressing, but in the pre sent case that distress is aggravated by the fear, that, in the short time which l have had to prepare fur the task of addresring you, I may not have been able to simplify my thoughts and expressions in such a man ner as may be best calculated to serve the prisoner. Gentlemen, of all the men that (I think) hate ever lived, the prisoner is the 'west ueiliappy, anti I may say the most uuloctutiate. I have knots n tinny trials, hut I never knee one, respecting w►tich public preju dice had been so warmly excited as the present : never ona in whidi a primmer nall so ellVetilaily deprived of all public charity, sympathy, and wipport. To say that he has arrayed against he,,. ail the Agree of pro fessional talent, is to say nothing, for in these easel the Crown has a right to demand the hest offices of its best servants, and it would h•• injustice on their part did they not exert all their ability and industry. lint upon former trials of this kind. we have seen advocates of the highest reputation and character entering the lists in behalf of the person accused, and fully prepared on every point to meet the talents to which they have been opposed. Far different, Gentlemen, is the pre sent case. I was out of town oa Thursday ; it was only on Friday that my name was nitoitioned, and it was late on Saturday evening befare the brief was put into my hands. I du nut complain of this ; I only feel anxious lest my want of experie sire and ability should be of prejudice to the prisoner at the bar. Gen tlemen, in general pers o n barged uith !his olfeace hare been connect .d with families of respectability and fortune, who have stopped forts to aid and assist them. In the present instance the parties are all poor, and so far have I been from receiving the itiferniation which I ought to have received, that I hate had no _ _ Tliftlttutttnn whatever except sot* as this lientlentan (Jlr. Harmer) hay with difficuity betel able to culled. There is another peculiar ein netistance which marks this can. In the celebrated trials of 94 or 4s , w h en the prisoner was enabled to procup• his discharge his perial was at an end, and the in; ; ltiry into his case ended with the inquiry submitted to the Jr.r‘. But other indictments await the prisoner at the bar, even if he should escape from this, in !evil, he seems re duced to the melancholy elt.tice et* deciding whether the office of the ex•Tutioner shall en d w ith hi s fif e , or whether his butly shall afterwards Le subjected to the further mutilation, which in some rases the law has decreed. Gentleman, the Attorney General has re quested you, in a manner becoming his rank and situa tion, but nut less be..oming his chararter as a man and a Gentleman, as a Christian and a Britua, not to allow your opinion to be biassed by any other matter save the evidence before you. Still, however, this remains behind, that where a ease like the present has been so long before the public, and when it has excited such a spirit of detestation and animosity against the pri soner, it is not easy to dismiss every taint of pr..juplice, every bias of opinion previously formed. Gentlemen, I will ob s , t h at itup priant as is this trial to the prisoner, whose life it involves, it is still of less imports:tee as it affects him, than as regards the public, and their posterity at large, and it is therefore necessary that the es Menet. brought for ward to support tho charge should be weighed and scrutinized by the strictest rules which c.,n possits:y he applied to evid-nce. Nese: was a law 11, strip sly worded, where so much core an.' precision were Ex erted in defining the offence, a' in the law of treason. It is the only offence in which the King stands so lemnly arrayed against the subject; and it is neces- I therefore, to exercise a great degree of ;timeline ; to !invert any eiwroachinent un tit. part orate t roWa. I have before men Wiled that the task of defending* the prisoner very totexpectedly devolved upon ine ; I do not consider that any political opinions are at all engaged in this question : but I will say, in going into this in vestigation, t:.at. I never held an opinion tiisresp,clful to the Crown, and that I il:sapprove of those schemes and propositions %thick have of lace so violently a ; .i• tared the public tuind. Gratlemen, alkur the evidence which during the last two days has been laid 10.10,e us, it would he offering au insult to your undept t;el - were I to assert that I believe the prisoner to be guiltless of the crime of couteitsplating the murder of his Majesty's Ministers; but I am maxims that you should no . come to the conclusion, that because he may be guilty of murder, he is on that account the more likely to be guilty of high treason, the crime of compassing and intending the death of the King. .1 his is the offence with which the 'prisoner is c h arre d, an d unless the evidence which has been offered appears to you fully to fix its commission on the prisoner, it will he your duty to acquit hint. As far as it regards the law upon this subject, I will merely observe, that the four charges or counts of the indictment. each aLlvgcs ten ureters:l distinct overt arts. Now, th .se overt ac ts ars to be consideped with relation to the intentii it with which they were committed ; fir allowing them to be prayed ups the clearest evidence, they will ntake no thing against the prisoner, utiles• they also proved that his intrados& in esunsaitting them was to bring • . , abort tile death of the King, or to subvert the style ,1 and dignity of the Crown. I wil!, Gentlemen, say, i and I say it conscientiously, that I never saw evidence more defective in proving. a tr..asoriable intention than, that which has been brefight forward on the part of the Crown. Ihe charge rests solely e.on the evidence of an unsupported witness, :del that witness was an ! accomplice. If sou tf.en disLeliere his testimony, the trial is at an cad, and the charge of high treason falls powerless to. the ground. I a ill add, teat if Adams' is believed, Ciere is nu person, huwevi r black and die-' graceful his character, alto may not henceforth ceme into Court an.l dentate, that his evidence should be re- eeived. It has ;seen said. Gee lemon, that it cannot ! . he expected that an accompliee should be C 311111111 1 .11 in every particular. My own opinions upon this snli• jest are so aWy expreseed io :lie speech of a celebrated lawyer in a trial for high treason, which took place at nu very remote period, that I will take the liberty of reading to yon his words.—( I he Learned Counsel here read a long extract trout a bunk in his han.l. lie tuentioned no name or title, but we understood it to be the speech of Mr. Serjeant Copley on tits trial of lir.: Watson.)--lieutlemen, hail f employed my best friends Ito embody my sentiments in the most expressive lan ! page, lie could net have dune it so e•fectually as this !Gentleman had done it fir me. If vuti can retain what I kayo pet read, for God's sake'tio so, awl avail your iteivets ofQt, in judging of the eviden. e of the aecieu pike Adams. Gentlemen, in stating to you the out line of the defence which I intend to adopt, I may per haps not gratify in makings the concession that I believe it nes his intention (in conjunction with the rest of his party) to murder his Majesty's Ministers. Hut in making this concession, I must also ob that this is not the crime a ilia which the prisoner is charged, and that unless vou find that this involved another design, urged against the life sir authority of thk Sovereigii, you are hound to acquit the prisoner of high treason. It will be ne,-essary, Gentlemen, for von to •lirect your a:t •ntion to three particular points. In the first place, it will Is' essential to inquire how far the evidence of Adams is to be depended upon. In the 'text place, it will be tour ditty to consider how far he is supported, or contradicted, by diderent parts of his non evidence, or the evidence of those brought lonian! to support 1' ; and, lastly, and Insist partieuarly, you will consider how far he might have been connected, had they brought forward a witness, whom they have chosen to keep behind—l moan Edwards, the man who betrayed his associates. Now Gentlemen, let us look upon his evidence. Ile tells us, that upon his first interview with lhistle wood, the latter told him " that there was not a man in England worth 14.1/. who mould be trusted, and that the shopkeepers of Loudon were a set of aeistoerats. - Not a word, Gentlemen, was said which made the . design of Thistlewood look like an intent t • overturn Majesty, but it looked very much like an intent to rob and plunder the wealthy shopkeeper's of London. Let U. go on. The conversatiun then took a sportive turn, anti we are told by witness, that the heads of two great men were spoken of iu an unceremonious man• ner. This ` conversation took place on the 13th of Jannilry. ",..,:son after, witness says, that be was sent tto Wllttnteadllnsaireet prison. for slight. Thus, Itiovelaw+ could tact answer for his personal liberty one m iment. 1 Ipretends to tell us, that he joined in a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of Great Britain. Well, lon the 4th of February we are ton, they met again. Harrison then proposes, that as all the soldiers and police ottieers will be out of town on the night of the :Kieg's funeral, that that would be a gout! opportunity. ' Fur what? to overtime, the Government. No, but to kick up a row, and plunder different houses. Su tar ; this is consistent enough with the situation of a set of half-starved men. But it seems, that on the leth, . Thietlewood began to talk in a very high tune. lie • mentioned the cannon in Gray's-inn-lane, and at the ! Artillery Grounrl, and observed, that if they gut pus , session of these six pieces, they might be in possession .of London also before morning. is it possible, Gen : denten, that witness, a military man, could hay* i agreed to this wild and senseless proposition ? But it seems they hail method in their madness. As goon as the tuwn was taken by these '25 men, the telegraph at Woolwich was to be seized ; persons were to be sent to the different sea-ports, and a " Provisional Government" was to be formed. Good Hod, Gentle . men, are these dreams of the witness to be put shown as serious designs of the prisoner : and are the lives of ! II men to be staked upon the oath of a man which ought not to he admitted to decide upon a washer woman s Nil. These persons cannot timuher one man of deveirt rank, or property, amongst them, and yet we are to believe that a plan to overturn Govern ment was seriousl y cunerived by a set of beg garly wretches wh o conid not agree among them !selves in rimming a hand-bill, which, aceuroing to the witness's story, was te be fixed fur the information of the citizens upon the very houses which were barn -1,, In ll Bet. Gentlemen, the Witness has vrntured to .1 tj yen' about Cabinet dinners being talked of at this . lie sass , that the assassination of Miuisters ' w to tar place at the next Cabinet diuner, forget- I i ting what he ha I just before mid its, that long before l i . • the dinner cuald take place neither 3iiitis:ers nor a I Cal Sine! litre to cis , but that a " Pr •sisioual 6tl• TerlIIIIC;i1 •• was to be established iu i:s place. Really this falselieu I is too gross : is exceeds even every . thin,: which I ever beard. Even aihnittieg it to be true, it proses no mere than that poverty was their goad, and pleader their aim, and that their stoicism were not at ail connected with political motives. Wit ! ties. prorerds to tell ns, that on Sunday, the 241 th, another meeting was held, and Tidd to..k the chair, .• pike in hand. Now, let as me what the majesty of f TOW induced him to do. He used an repression, '1 which I beg you will mark. 1 t was when he salted . s their plan a '4 Kest End .lob." Brunt, a h.), it seems, never spoke without an oath (I have a reason for no ; tieing . this), then makes his proposal about appointing each person to murder a particular Minister, and, in case of failure. to be murdered himself. How this is to be done does nut appear, nor sloes it Appear who is to he the spare assassin reserved for the purpose of i gest-ling the failure (if sarh should be the ease) of hi- companions. There is another cite 'instance, Gen ' tlemen, which passed at this meeting, to which your attention is reanired. Tidd is made to propose that I the first building which should be fired. should be • ' . l:uruival . • Inn, lio:iniru. Cnfortu esrey. tieutlemen, for witness's story, Furnival's-Inn is the worst place in the world for sue') a purpose. It is a new stone building, audio all respects artieularly guarded again t the danger of fire. But the witness, who most likely re collected Old Furnivars-Inn (a building tery likely to take fire) has invented his story without colaidering the change, and has, therefore, increased the doubtful character of the whole of the evi.ienee. We now, Gentlentea, come to the business of the Excheque: Mighty plans require mighty dishatrsentents, and Ira; could not be levied against the king it ithout an an. ple treasury. Besides, they who %sulk must eat, and we are nat, therefore, surprised at hearing one of the conspirators inquire respecting the state of the fund. 31ark, Gentlemen, what then passes; Adams has told you that six shillings at one time, and seven-pence at another, was all the money that he ever saw amongst them. But ea this occasion, Brunt is made to say. da an my eyes. (pardon me, gent!. men, fur using this expression, hut I have a particular reason for wishing you to °fasciae that Brunt is made to swear as often as he speaks) d—n my eyes, I have a one ptotrol mite, and I will drink my men with it." Ile still drink his men, Gentlemen, does not such seem tit pre paration fur a plundering expedition ? 11'01, let as e that :he party are furnished n ith bread and chat..r and beer, and the pound is exhausted, and no: a shillii g reloaitis in treasury. Pursuing the evidence of Adams, us learn that same alarm was excited MI the 2 lst, in consequence of inti;lirrorilittfoit sthicb the landlord of the White Hart gave them. Flom this it appeared tha: some communication respecting'their meetings had been wade to the Mice Office. By whom that communication was rustle does not 'appear. but it would have appeared, had Edwards beim brought forward as a witness. 't he next day Edwards miters the room and informs them of the cabinet dinner. This int.•lliaenee he said lie derived from The Nero rows. Mark this, gentlemen. The Near nmet aloe this intelligence, and the Court re porter has sworn that he did not furnish it. ton will best be able to judge for what purpose it was inserted, Well, is hat follows. I will now call upon you to di-- miss Itrunt's execrations, ur imputed execrati ons, aid mend to the expression whirls witness has put into his mouth. The Attorney-General " co tttttt totted itiain its impiety, and if it were true, it would netl deserve reprobation. But take it as the witness has put it, and I contend that it is impossible that Brunt could have uttered it. He is made to say, " Now, I'll be d—d if I have not hitherto disbelieved the existence of a (hod, but I now believe it. I have often prayed to the Almighty that these thieves might all meet together, and he has caw , IA this dinner to deliver them into our hands." That is, " I have prayed to God when 1 did not believe there was a God, and now that I do believe in him, the first proof I give of nay belief is by blaspheming him." Gentlemen, I did nut believe, before this, that any man possessed power of eountenan .e sufficient to get up into a witness-box. and gravely tell us such a story. But let us go on. a Committee then is formed, and witness takes the chair. Thistlewood proposes sannebing which witness objects to, and witness is kicked oat of the chair. Witness now gets back ansseriais. • Mat agnia.bogiam to talk t l i l iba ge t 4 t7 4.6.ll I te Mansioishouse, about cannon, and about that unseen. unknown, mysterious nonentity, the Pro visional Government. '1 he whole plot is now laid open anew. Thistlewood is to take Grosvenor-square ; Cooke is to take Buy's-inn-lane; another person is ti take the Artillery-ground ; and Mr. Paling is to sal ly tint with his box of combustibles on his back, and to amuse himself by setting fire to all parts of the use trop ilk, and by sticking upon the blazing rafters proelaaiation., calling upon the citizens to repair to . the Provisional Government, composed of nobody • knows who, and sitting nobody knows where. Real ' ly, Gentlemen, this is too incredible. Had it pro , seeded from the lips of an expiring martyr I would s,aireely believe it; but coming from the lips of Mr. Adams, it must be rejected altogether. Is human life to be sacrificed to these absurdities ? Are eleve men to lie put to death on the strength of so wild, a , inytoliable a story ? I will not follow the witness Oa his walk to Catoatreet ; but I will notice one part ..t his story when speaking of the manner in which In, I was equipped. In addition to his common dress, and besides his pistols, his pike, alai butcher's knife, he is made to take two bags with hint, for the purpose (so the witless says) of bringing away the heads !Lauda Castlereagh and Sidinouth. Gentlemen, you I saw the bags alluded to, and I will ask you if any mail in his senses would have thought them large enough to contain a head. The natural explanation of this is, !( aid this sappositian agrees with my general arra ' mem) that he intended these bags to carry away tl.si plate from Lord Harr•twby's sideboard, and that he would never have thought of encumbering himself milk an carless head, whilst silver spoons, castors, lac. glittered before him. 'I his, then, tonal be regarded as anoth r fiction of this fictiononakieg witness. tell, •at list he gets to Cato-street. How do we find his s . ory confirmed here ? The witness says that he court ed the persons, and hound twenty —e:ghteen and two below stairs. Monument, who is brought forward to support him, says that there were 25 peo ple present ; and he, also, accurately divides them, giving 21 to the room up stairs, and four to the stable below. Witness has also repeatedly told you, that there way but one candle. Ellis, the officer, positively swears that there were eight. Wits. as has made the ufficen commence by saying, " Here's a pretty neat of you." You heard the evidence of the officer on this point, and he said that he never used sachem expression. Perhaps, Gentlemen, you were astonished that my Learn ,ed Friend contented hitnaeli with so short a crimasea • arnination. Gentlemen, the witness had evidently g-t his story off by heart : and, therefore, the only effect 'of a truss-examination would have been to make h:rn repe.tt, perhaps in the same words, what he had stated before. But, Gentlemen, you saw the manner ..t ithe "time's. You saw how he elle kcal his Cot.:,- eel, instead of the Counsel checking him.; and that. I when asked a question respecting any thisia, which t h h e at had he nothadnutyet reached , tome he constantly not so that, and took ye 'his own time and pleasure in narra tin g has. ah:re. !Nothing, therefore, came out on his crues.exaseutstain, e 1 ea ,f at a his doclarAion that he had made aid tires this , caitiff ace from aornpuortioils feelings alone. bin I le jump, I Live Lees is Court freqeently when infer acia