The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-11 00:00:00

glavglilidat wert Witit7.4o Kr. PHILLIPS gams notice that Ors Tburedey Ilidc - Petinall'iilitei Ist pem. embed yesterday from Manchester. should be mifeered to a separate Committee —(llear, hear!) Mr. BENNETT presented a Petitioefloot /leer. pool for Reform. • Ltid on the table., A Metairie home the noose of Leeds eiteeemeed that they had agreed to lb. see= s er. NCI Clauses is tbe Irish Goal Jeri • • t • 1411 . • • . Mr. 'Alderman WOOD gavelled" est sta Wod• 1!•04 1 11 , the 16th wop W.mittiktameisat r . ailibe primes in the Metropolis. • STATF. olltALlt IN SCOTLAND. Lord A. HAM ILTON. rose to melee leis proteleed emotion relative to the. &stet Trials lelieolland, end proceeded as f0110w5,.... • 1 „. „.• • • • "Ie bringing before the anise the Sotto* of whirls I have given notice; I feet, tied bop. the Haase wilt twice, with use in feeling. tbat:ehe subject is wee of as great importance- es over wee .submitted to the consideration of Parliement, or en mbielt any (dew'' demon was ever called tryconsidee, (ogle, slid pro. bounce his eobiassedopiaion. [Hear, heart] 1 tamed onto) , reamed the WWl* of the ivapostesse of the subject, when I 'tate, that .it refer,. to tbe.conded of theme Law Othcore in hcotlamd le the management of a grave 'albite frosetetioe Is the High Court of *landau, . Ii Awhile" to a case of this'll's' Itinfint• Old* to tb•PeoPio. The eleetioin ret,thi.italeve of the subject, inmy,. perhaps. stream a prejediceageinst l it chess. illrodoced boorch a pontos:1104 :11111. .it any be*, being eamelrhat of 10.111•0 16 ene it ought to hi: introduced by a professiosal titan, . for one, should hue bees sorry to see *it In the hands of a professional person, lett the gemology shock) be narrowed into grounds merely tectisirtal and professional.—Liker, heat'!]-4 consider , Orel caserlo'be lather .one of plain voientee.eolot. sod of com Mon justice, and though it might Imeiclidteeletts 'better bends, *I Kest that my feeble advoraey will pot riepiita it://f the justice to which it be eminently entitled. Iltope no that score it.lllill seffer no de. fect. I beg at thil.butset to eepliip,moet onegui. totally, that ply object. is net to call do tho Iloosate- 1 do that which is *Adopt. or ems dog—teieserfere in the proceedings of Courts of jostle.; those are' whet I know the lions* almestinserishly. refuses to touch. I biers to state, that I mean toeall epos you to do no such thing; but I do esker youto.talte cogniaapco of a groselojustice committed on the sub• otantiel justice of the tertiary, in a case which, to my opinion, involves. something near a charge of hebornaiioe of perjuty on the part of the Lew 01B e'er. of the Cro w n.—[ Mar, hear !]--The case to which I allude is a simple one, gad - does Dot branch . ' out into the whole subjrst of the late State Trials in Scotland, though my motion will be for a record of• these proceedings ; end in calling for it I shall have little or nothing to submit sere what will -be found in that record. I shall call upon she Law OnCen of the Crown for their own record, and I skullcap. Act there on their own stvWenl*au. them fa c e of that record. This subject esturally lead; me to a short retrospect of what pater) in this Howse last Session moth, state of beeline). wag them seitl by the Lord keeeseir, this tite popektieloof,Glargow, in pankeier ' were so contitialaste& dist 1 1 . 11 0 06 1 1 0 61 sedition bed been traced to 3 se 400.000 1 01 • 811 .' and that4beygegre'ltegerd together 'by a &operate oath, which he, though . it was rather emeilmi foci' fetroduced ti appal the Hoods. I de set anew 16 say, that at that period there wore not WASPS sinew to loos or disedecteil promo asetempletiog -public dittorbasires bet we mono( avoid lookios at the contrast feoliehof between the Lore Advocate's statement, aid r bikanlisetptent attempt to eahstantiate this sedition by lap" proof.— Lagge, bour, hearn— Froat this it appeared, that his ewer/hoot wee most etaggerated, if nog slanderous. $f in disturbed share any one duty more Atm ;mother eseelese on a pub. lic prosecutor, It 14 that thecemsamd chaff- have jos. Lice donoupon them by a fair, jest, and impartial trial. My complelat is. that the peados in Scot. lend had not a fair, just,. earl impertiel trial.. [Pear, hear s Aver :]—ln my. pretest proceeding;- I beg, however, to disclaim all cowers' as to the fact of the guilt or itiOnCeOCO of the accused—either is alike indifferent in my view of the ease. Whether the party be guilty or not, honest or not, he is equal ly entitled Irian open and impartial trial.—[Year, hear complain that the Lord Advocate, Wore the trial, did deleil so reaggerated a .statement of the facts he was afterwards to try, at to entail an in• toence and bias on thi country et large, and on the minds of ell men who were likely to become Jitters on the occasion. It it impossible tint to complain of such a proceeding, or of that system which Govern ment, .for the last leer mbaths pail, have established, of introducing characters, into private societies and convivial meetings, to eke •itst criminal charges upbeat particular individuals.—[dear, hear!)—This has, in my mind, led to incalculable mischief, erpl produced, by slander and osisrepretentatioa, a total error es to shtt feelings and. opinions of a great majority of the country.--[Meer, /seer Ij—When I set out with %toting, that I did not hesitate to say that suborns. Lion of perjury. bad been-committed ie Scotlaistl, was aware that I bad a right to be called upon to support my assertion by proof, and . in adducing this proof, I should be eatremely sorry if. any nerd should escape me that may be deemed personally 4 1 WNW', to the leer Niters connected with the caw I assure them that t Mean to speak of their peb acts, end net of.their personal characters.—[Near,' hear !]—To them heal have no ot h er 110/4 of bead' , lity theta they which toy man has a right .to node against Public °lacers; and I think I shell be us.. (tidy dealt by, If adeaatege shall be taken of arty casual espression I may use, instead of nieetinig• me on fair and opeo grounds. It is neceisery that I shall state, for the information of Gentle. men not accurately versed. In the forms of Scotch law, and proceedings of trials in Scotland, she mode adopted respecting witwesses, test it should be supposed that when I speak• of subornation of; perjury, I mean to insinuate that the Lew OISCPI6 of., the Crown in Scotland had eedeavoured to iiir s oence or influenced any witness to glue perjured evidence; —I do lint mean to cast any such insiwontioit epeu them. The practice in Scotland is very different from that of England, in the progress of criminal trials—for in Scotland • they are commenced by put. ling on the record the deposition of the witnesses . , . {`earned gelation Poi Ip , 6 Vas any beer tonight "we. or instructed pre what to herdirettlitiriehtli' By :it -la-net mmesselr •lostrotri alike 'whiten W hat:to goy, either tree•Mr, hter,7 - bet to tity int thing -stall. .411esr, heae-l)—if tor-were - dealreid to - ear guy thing, the , Coort amouhifil.lerpproireedksay Me was disqlsolifiod from being. 'mailmen in the mess; it id, shergiemp. guy, rhea the shrived 'brae ht forward . also -Craws woo disquelified, sod Isthat I now Thethird question is, "!'Have you in any rely reeeised a reward, or been promised a reward, to. give evidence oss . thio trio, ? I -J-111,4 hipiln' It is 'meant', •wot evidence truss or false, hut soy evidence at all— [Hear !]-and if soy such promise-is hertd.not, he Is disqfialified. 1 wow proceed to the evidence of. feted to the Ceort, whiCh, f rowels& makes out my case. On the trial of Andrew' Si*Kittley, the. Crown produced John Campbell ass Witness. The Counsel for the prisoner, I beg here to state, 'tarot, a preliminary objection, by saying that they had hod no access to the pencil. The Court said, that they Arvid have applied for access to the Lonl Ad amant, when the loiter - seidi ' It wet • my duty to prevent tutees' to'th panel for fear he should he tampered svith.'—(Losid-Crics of hear! from the Opposition lienches.)—Noa, what I COM pia'', arts, that the eeidence of this John Campbell, from the *meet he watin possession of the haw Officers of ilarreioter up to the time of the fruit, eli.ibited one militated system of gross and palpable tampering. ...eiLousi cries of hear, hear!)—The Lord 'Vivo. Otte- wild allow no tampering en the side of the panel, hot the - reverse was the case with the' wit. Ness for - the Crown,' who was tampered with to ezress.--[Near!)—Tho - three quesilevs . were, Is used), put to the witnesa,Campbell, when he case to give his evidence; and no his answer to the third 1 ground my present motirsit. 1,, his' answer to the third he said, that'll/hen taken to Glasgow jail, he was qoestioneti.io the presence of' the jailer, the Sheri{,. tha frocorator Piscat, and the Solicitor.' General of the town. • One said to him, • John, you don't knew that I know somuch about poi es' I do. I kurtosis. men who *ill swear you took the ' oath. You'll •do no good by 'concealing the fact ; hot if you don't persist , in your denial, and take the other way, you'll do yourself good.' Salmon, he- admitted, further said to that the Lord Advocate was there in Glasgow, smut would be under . any obligation to the witness if be spoke out. I I believe this Is a mistake 'respecting the Lore Ad: I vocate's being then in Glasgow—he must here bait confounded Or the Advecute.Depeta. After this period the WHIM, was removed in Edinburgh, and then a sew merle commenced. Mr. Home Dunn. asond.thois visited him, strd told him his barns was on the list of the seditious persons, and that now was tge time for him to determine whether he would be i witness or not. What wig this but holding net an ledudrlment le hies to become a witness.—[ Hear!] drrOsmpbell replied to this applitotiow, that if he ,torsted wituesa, he could sower he able to go bark and live at Glaagow ; when Mr. H. •Drotionood said, that he hid thought, of a plan for him, and would utile to Lord Sidmoluth to get him Into the Excise in a diferent part of the empire. Campbell, it seems, die wire thew decide ; bet was not this holding oat a rowovel, and actually specifying that reward ?- 1 (Dann!) -At' a subseyrieut visit Mr. Drummond Wed to • If yogi give such information es will please • the Lord Advoceve (mitt, please the Lord Advocate), you will neither be:tried yourself, nor called as a witness.' War sorts a man fit to be after. wards called as a witness.?.. I am not enabled to say whither Mr. H. Drummond acted with the privity of the Lord Advocate throughout the w hole of this on. just and unfair tampering ; but they have acted, or at least appear to base acted, so vouch in concert, that I am enable to proceed se ifhout connecting them both together in the business. Perhaps the Lord Advocate would say, • Tree, Mr. 11. Drummond did this—tree, he tampered with the witness; bat what have Ito do with that? 1 knew nothing about it, nor ever authorised such a proceeding.' To this I. can only answer, that in such an event, my observe: lions must fall upon the guilty person. At another interview Mr. 11. Drummond said to him, I don't know what to do with you—l wish to do all '1 cats to save you.' Again—' This is the last time, Campbell, I can speak to you; you must now de faming, whether you will he a 'witness or tint.'- - Campbell then said, ' Have yen' written to lord Sidtnouth - Mr. 11. Drummond replied. • No, I have Nuts yrri know you would not decide. and that prevented me -yois rejected:- Campbell them mid. this, be should like to leave the country. but that being a mechanic. he 'mew the Ilsw would not allow trim in emigrate. Mr. 11. Drommosid, In reply to this, mid, ,‘ Thew i. no question but you will get a passport and money to carry you of ' Campbell then agreed to he a witness. if his wife was also yr • sided fur. finsurrhiug was. theo_dom about marking a pound note, and sending it to her. Was this tamper- • lag, or was it not and how . mod this man be a mime* and take the purgation oaths without ettoiraiiting perjury ?-[Hear, hear 1) -Sir Was. Ray, the iligh Sherif also came to examine •Camppell, and heard whet rerctieved relative to the prong* lif She - passpiwt. The Solicitor-lieneral's Clark wrote down the terms, ls a sort of security to the witness that they were to be eventually complied with. Sir Wm. Ray Aiwa interfered. and said. • I wool sign this paper-as an (Accra the Crown' it is , my duty to see justice June.'-[ Loud rriei of Hear. bear 13-He Hies assisted Campbell that if be signed the payer, he (Sir Wit ham) would not ant.ner fur it for, a great dealt for if, when called, be took the Purgation Oath. be would be guilty of per-- Ivry. Ttae Whole of the other parties present were lenity to mime Abe paper, bet the interpositims of the Sherif Mooched Mule the brad. Sir, is my ease. I have little lofty but whittles record of the trial cootaim, and I rail fm the record so prom -my mei It must be obvious* that though the paper was ea signed. it was still a constituted agreement pearl the witoem. and dims'. lifted him ow the trial. 1 must also state, that wheo k was foiled the paper could not be signed. Mr. H. Drammeed said tis Campbell, You.k maw whether you eau be a wittier or sat -you know what you lame to expect-ma you rely oo it with* out its being set down in writing r This was saytag. is ashW' words. trust us. and every thing shill be done foe You. (omp] bell Men said he was willing t Mr. Drummual rejoiced. • Cal I rely on you t' the furore said* Yes.'-' Weil, 111e10.• I will FAY ) au as Geutletneal"lle Proeurator•Fiseal sad Clerk had the isamuire tiptoed, and the Sherif-Depute observed to 1,1 Campbell. that he had bluer go back to his loom and leave the ,N potion to among. fur itself. It world appear also. that Camp. Mil wrote to Sir. 11. Drummond for ritorr &ad (rooters. mod moray. 'llieshreer and trow.ers were Peet to biol. bet he was told he was mot to raper[ mosey sadistic Int trial was over.- Was this or was it nut a promise t-Dlear !)-,Campbell ioniser deposed. that the Sherif-Depute told him his life was in danger. He admitted that he din not believe this, shoegb.be eertatalg disliked guiag back to dlargow amoia. • - '• I bare sow, I trust..stated raimsgh ss show, that a promise of reward was held net to Campbell - for his evidence.-[ Hear. bear 1)-That from the time he was at first sent tojt , l, tonic - - . or rj:- .1. lippa,; - hams 71* boattian • foe - twodesisoing the "wader r etie Law Mierisfetlesitiand. Govensioem .base .astsv.avassed theof , apiee-mod .istforosercv-, - Mita w (far It is adedited its esiderice) Mist they fatmeuted the Mischief they weeelatended se prevent. Spies and infonseet were, f sore lark very aware, the pest mad haste orsociety. lame characters denooaced as they thought proper any isdi Ideal is sbeloty t he arnmarrested by +swivel wassail from tile y •of state, carried to aseeset,-perbspe distant prime. Woodernisob , cireosistances. sad ktagistemes moistened wile Mahe pevlbramisce of theirjlety. and evidence concocted in ossamidalosisismasider to this. I ask what.chooce .eas any isdividual More ofvelidr. trial, or nay thing like a fair trial for his lite ?-{Heve. hear!) Tat Wan outrage spew mod a yin mina of, ever• partite one venerated Constitution . ant an latractiou of is mom &level privilege.-Ellear,.hei:rl3-1 set oat with sayingolutt lbersold prier? suborn:aloe dperkary -1 can describe Abele proceedings by au other natne.-CHrties heart)-1( she Pond we're convict ed on Ike evidence at Campbell, awl the semeoce carried int& ode I, l will ii• k,siv °ski net the enovietionaaanitseen sureeted by a tampered a Poem. pmessred. In sive •tegrerable eviiessee (fun agreeable was the wort wed) for. the law Olkers of the" ('rasa. who should .base semi justice dune the prisoner (Hear, hear !) -If the man had lowa executed, as was.iateuthil : its Ike event of the Sot convict:en. aid that it nftersnatits stant?. oat sm. con•iction_was °taunted •firoats the ageneyor kee. Drummond. iu what a sitaatjult,pasoki ant the Lord Aditrocime f feel Itiat.ell? All this Imo. .basittes. 'MOO d have been liter seer..., of Campbell had .kept., his comma. Good Nod can any thing ~e so gross as. lb is proceedian 2 Con any shintf•lte so gray a. In out a crianio,sl at the has, and for a hat tie for en. de.tvottrine to overturn nor loos, mid bring into costeMpt Yhe Government and the Constitution of the country.' 7 11tror Who brought the laws into contempt Wavit fiadrew ley.. or the Lan °dicers of the Crownl-(Hear , KstrtlV--Witalt assist to be the character and mistiest of tie "Lati , .'Odicers Of the Crown ?-ntsght they not .10 !Ili:Will and sa.tain the dignity of the Justice of the bind ? Hut, its this else, did they aid-rather violate its sanctity and purity quite as each as Inky, 'and snore palpably if they had fully prayed the extras of his ether? " I have only . one nr IRO obv, valises to snake am the evi dence at the trial. • 1 ask for its recent, sad far this reams-, bemuse the Lord Advocate casinot surely serum to comply whir my motion. for it only asks fur tim; mulch i. of thr.r awe moo facture. The evidecce is theirs, and theirs only, front be ginning to end. Indeed, I cannot anticipate any objeetiost or defence that can be set ap on this oreasioo I sad unless sack ens be made, What objection can , there, be to ibe mutton? The charge of tempering. is openly made wilt b i t Sir William Ray. who might. if what Campbell stated was - trn'rue. have been called up to contradict him. 1 mama conehole without read ing no extract front Home, oo the Purgation Oaths. He says. • As to the reward or /ratable of reward, If the presenter. or any body for him, tempts a wittiest bs a bribe, ar is nay other manner. this shall exclude hiss, fens lasing examined, eves a. heiher the witness shelf yield to of Mist theapplicalloa.' He further says, • If sr Magistrate skull io far forget his deity, and mistake his power. as- to interfere in any sea see with a wit nen, he is guilty of a wrong that exposes him tea an indictable offence ' I have now, Sir, done, and the to thank the Haase fur the patient attention it Motives, me. My motion is.. " That there be laid before llotegt copies elm* Parts of the Book. and Records of the High Court of issliciary_la Pee. land, as relate to the several Libels and Charges hildagilast Andrew Vs'Kinley, on she ISM ofJoly, ISl7,tosethee *Wilde Verdict and the Audios thereof." The Noble Lord sat dews amid laid and nostiased Wet Of Hear I The LORD ADVOCATE rose end void, be wee clad to take the earliest opportunity of replying' to the chkigirs which were brought semen him, founded on the late trials in Scotland; but be should first, re ply to the complaint 'urged agairist him for tin part he took lest Session of Flritliamentin discliniogio the House the linger whicit esisted in Scotland from the designs Of the seditious. It was . said I by the Noble Lord, that .the infottnatien he fbertrve; 404 the oath of the covispiraterV, which he reed, .way' re communication " . oeneeessery •ibti Uncalled for ;" bet he would maintain, in opposition to . the..Ntible I Lord that it weitvetellsary and called for fr ifone, as he believed it was ; and hi should not hart done his duty as a Member of that Horne if he had not com municated P.-4liter, hear,- heni• !)--41,?jitif layered that point, he should new pi L ACes4 .to the question more immediately lieforeillen,',and would state the circumstances of the cast: Thi"friA.,lll no our indictment for adininiiteriogLoola icor 'oaths to several hoOdred persons, some of whose qaerei were set forth in the record. - • Thr - verilict 4 4 "riov i 016. rem." [(hear, freer, hear !]—lot it was necemary he I should **plaint') the flues. the difftrenei liftweed this verdict end that of "not guil(y." ito was speih ing in the hearing of several Gentlemeo who ,knew the practice of the COll/11 tiColl l l9d, and the sense in which their verdicts here to be taken : those Gen tlemen could therefore rOrrea Min if le was wrong. —Now for instance,' if the rfideoce upon .e trial was not sufficient to convict at-tonne* to est.. blished forms, but at the same time exhibited a corpus dckcli against the prisoner, so that theirs was.no Moral , doubt of his guilt, though lire • legal proof was not sufficient to convict him :.the ierdit in such a psi would be " not process."' Tbli was the fact with Ire; gird to the prisoner in the can before the: House; and be was told by •the Judge tb'remernber, that the verdict was not 66 not goilty," but 66 not proven ;" which verdict, be (the I.ord'Abirt4ke) did not hesi tate to•say, that the aiih hid been' administered te a hoodreds of the people in Glargonihoigh the proof had not been present in a form eiontly idmissiblee;— [Crier of Ilcar. hear ! from . Me Irposite benches.] —Before he went into the detail of use transactiors, he moat 941 the Noble Lord that' n bad been nide formed with regard to what pissed arbor CsosPbell wait first brought forward as a rallies& lit isrl the authority of the shOrt-hand notes of a very accurate reporter, who was about to publish the trial, ei l etell soot the record, for lurrtug;lfiat . " - wliWr plissed wee to the effect that certain persclie girt Abiwsld be ed•. nutted to sear tire pritener io liis i ctrofinittaeol, *act' that if his agent wished MS IntertieW l he !es told he might lipply to the Court foi tbit pompon, bet his application would be opposed. Viler, wee not one word about the fear of - tampering as 11 , 111043011 for shutting cretins agent iron the pifsOrritr." The Lord Advocate of Scotland was not only peblic prosecutor like the Attorney-General of EoglSud s bet• he was also a Police Magistrate, which cirCemstance would sufficiently esplain the part be took is this transac tion before the trial. The reason of that office unit log the functions which were divided' in England arose from its being a •disiinct pert of the kingdom under a separate law, and the Lend Advocile is not only. applied to for advice its cases of public tumult, or oe questions of police; bet is also expected to give assistence personally, sheiid it be neccessary.— This was known to Georlemen connected with that part of the kingdom, and had Plaited' ever since the union of the two . Crowns. • On the contrary, police bratiob of this doable duty of the Lard Advo cate, was•in England itelforaled by the Home Secre tary of State. In the next place, be had the recoil 'wit ion of the Gra ndlury proceedings, which was stole: times done by the Procurator General when it or - or- _ s t ow be -- 1 .--aa-- or epoupertie WNW as a slaws, he ens 1 " ibli P. l .F ei tti Pg," -Istt -1. I , w '''''"'"""',_ L., the side " as taw °seen a t en °ll oo.6. 9l4 W ialev wsve ay witeeei es ii I, p elei!ent peeping, ie se• t h rees t ee t Eerie* employ e/ *his 1186. *WIN leillilt.l.llef *MO* kr 140,4t,ky ilk derimege awe Emmy Wei lititoialg idieViiiii tilts —Atariqiii Intl nts{ nem li e s he iler re" ' ta g ar i b° : ! = : te g o = r l: wni wow* do sailer seilmtlerr-arhe -imii: epgi t#4llle A i inessy Illopees1), es et hoe eiceelee, 4 .rfs,t .-tip it *l. *.teeetiiiii fertile ' Mitt My .aka lihililtripeftlisrlY a_nlir Errri_c_a_se-. .:_ ( 1 . 1 . whether the maw be of s he desert an whiei gee. twb e r or i t b s o l:;, pr be ne li ":: g. ra l e r 0p...41 7 1 7 40 . 0 =Th Z ip ' j a i . lilies do -pasteAreet 4044 dOtem!!“, ehltrofeetP B Pkw sy# Aeilt 4 lieriielleeie brier or-sirbt'Allvertelisr rj= I , 1 ) a - eia ry tie risierriltwmg joro w i t ILI ballinfle tip Had the rubt•T linked s little feriiorQtriti-e' book from which he ree e dis e hort pert t4ta lam passes., he weets we f , t r t g l i 74,i L eg g Forbes sent Ids ' lee into ii•ketnine • evidence, lied' receive deaden on ebb the. • ' were a fterw a rd, confided. It was iseCgo • s t y A j wit they should be esceedingly careful inilisii"p,, lions; foal the chime was ant taattlieseil tA k tato &tiled islfgfirbiTiiilas iiilits'Ordam ages aesiost the Law °Seers; and indeed, in a case before Lord P re . ilium r' INiad as — t the - lEing`iA4iiiitate . w - ii - nai - d e to t ar . 1 all . 910 docu t irieriii osi, the, din s ell,lie Court, . f tah ei g koteedlits upon 'igeielli)tittifeit 1:°! thit.ooCer, - es'be Mid before stated, eats bound to make repsf., - . ties where the charge Was film end Opptfasi t te. Xi bad been a partipster ofieqt.ed.thihe:Nohle Lorti to show to the.ilouse that kis and Mr. di. Droollo olu t were acting In*C e nctireintioe)4 preiteedinits; Whi c h h e had so latbshly &dieted . ; blit i tite . Noble Lor ( L o ol li base laved ithisalf Ihe . tre4lite,s'ip bit m readils' ;ci li a. ledged 'Willett - YeePonilhle Mei dii ciirrifue,tA(# .. Geritleiiii: In the begiiiniog Of last' year info don was R iven tolbe 'Aetterbies 'iir: Gliai ow , 6 hich 'it viai'tboight idtishiste by' the'Sbeiiii=o,44,i . . • lilesself and sub* itheit,"fit irre,sl Cloiiibiell. ft& ' ilia' a c cordingly "talieli alt th'e v likligititil per . srio,i4 . he' was Wald' to possess .100,10:1',°11"i10..."01q10414` -ger . .rial not only to the pface . e t seialgawd f ia * it s, the northern ' counties Of, fertglglid•-e(Oent, 4044 ---.-4 e 'accordingly sent fell.. prensettud to .ezetains Campbell in prison, witbrept the . slightest Wei at the time that.he would ever beinoeght-es a wildes t late Court.—( Hear, hear !)--Campbell Ore ao lidera*. lion, but the whole conversation was reported to kik addles ebould deny on the pert of 'Mr. LP:reques t ? that enfolere eel* iliadia‘of lido, .atim le glyinsi . duce, ill'ill at tetipke 'to :mike • i drelopesc..4*. lityle , oo cipiteitid #.4oiii 7 - - - (neard wi r . I),_ He was well awaits that be was giving the stetteeet ?flair. Dienateaod,Who iv', not open ibis oath against the testimony 9( Mr. Campbell, who weaveit•he shoeld he able to show by.and.bye that Me.-Cauf. hell cps capable of falsehood, and he really belie* he had tattle the depOsitious from Willi* the Noble Lord had reed le largely, for the eery perpoSe 04141 quollfylng' himielf from being - a 'witness..—( (/ter; hear !)--.4t had been told to ilia, that caelphellwal in'terriF of bis lire if he spiii!ey infurmatiee. Mr. Drummond did not go to the Cestle to Campbell, bat the - jailer mite le Mr. b. and said that Campbell 'wanted to see him. Mr. Drummond accordingly . weet aid learned from him that be was reedy tegisell.; teemed.. sod evidence, provided a purport' was grunted to him to quit the kinedone; as he did riot think' It safe to Meru in Glesgbw, after, he little , 'Wow.' -Tito C,bwn Lewjen felt it lobo th e dell trapeolisit tire witste)s lid . he Ott told 44. itaitte) leils . 'o4iiiiiiiii ie *Oat proeilse nude to Cliiitbele it lia 'siiitikl be aint away to the cots. try Iliehidlied tipolt,./hich was Prussia ; but at the same dem be tact him to understand that no Money 1 49silstlara allowed him for his evidence; bet be said he ,was reedy to alleviate his distress'hy defraitii' *ttlie eiliettFi of Nseingliii hie Wife ' to Edinburgh.' at' that tram it wee dotted diet the promise w illegal, the• sberlf weak/ not iteveloori iteut, la y and: the vilsohl or the proceeding woad hive bee onset ; bet, Instead of that, the prueibie It ,inadf a Metter at tekiird in the iiiosfaipen mariner.- Theis the'ShiiiirSiiiatitete began to tale, thedeciara. tion ; ofCempbell,whiseeitilte could not he a witoest p unless be ofirpiiiiiim44,49 go to' the Contioont, and the means of conveying him thither, 'Thal was agreed to. The Sheriff cignified verbally tellikwitiotea thus l his reqiest Should be complied with, and that he should hare the necessary protection. It was,iiipoi sibte to suppoie that lbe Sherif would have deatioywi or.sappreased any paper if he thought it 'dept.-- The Couri never considered that the promise of a re. ward disqualified a witness; by the Lew of 'SColland all, promises were not illegal ; in proof of which. ha . quoted a book published by a Mr. Burnett, who laid it ihsw n'as la w,. 'diet a i witoess was ' eat sdiaitiallhed by 'a promise, if be spoke out;-therefore the Noble Lord was misinformed as to the law. Mt-this was not the law of Scotland alone ; Tor *it wet the plat croistilistiolial law of the realms. In the tviiii.efLord Melville, most of the Judgoa declared . as their .I*' • oleri;lbit the evidenie of Mr. Trotter was admissible. • lit was held by the English Judges, 'that the elidisce., of sack a person was admissible provided he' sl4lt Use wbele truth. Conceiving this to be the lair of the coootryi. be gave it •as his opinion; that it eel his defy to !promise the witness protection ; and the principle of this was that the witness should come into the.Coort protected against violence, and un biassed by fear. Sects bad been the practice ob• served is .the. trials of rebels is; Ireland, where it, .was found . necessary to give every possible degree of protection to witnesses who bad bean partietei . criosinis. ' Tien it had been Hid that the man . io question. had not been required to give evi. &sea, bat .to give information, without any In. tendon to Sall him as a witneas ; but it wee awes" airy to attakrinformation from biro in lift %Win" siSlice u in.erder to know what it was, tbritlse'coehl state on the trial. At the end of the trial the pri soner reamed thanks to the Jury forthelr Verdict,. . and to the Lord Advocite for his coedeet towards. him while be was in prison. Thictact he Wm booed to state is his' own defeat*, when he attO 'cresol; pebiiity in that House. It was said that the sleets. . . Teflon of Campbell win to be all secret. Thiabitle. nied; for etre) , peblielty was given to his eiamini , . doe; As to his wishing to bang WKinley on the eridisece of Campbell ; be would say there was twits. • tension of making Campbell instrumentiliothateeriat; for bl‘Kieley was acquitted before Campbell was bros i gtft forward. He c ontended there, wes.• no ground for the. preaeot motion, and that it was inteefering.-with •the administration of Poke. The parties trete not taken up under the Suspension of the Ilabeas-Corpos Act, but were regularly pro ceeded @piste; as if tot' late Act had . not bre! ii, esistence. 'lle would resist this motion on the same . „ ground, that the House rejected a 4milar one in the year 1794. At that time Mi. Adkm 'weed tur Ott Ireeoid of the conviction of Meir and Palmer, *llO had been tried before the Coen of Justiciary. in Cr11... n. laud, rind sentenced to 14 yeart tiinaP. ,otl11 1 i"i!!7". The Boom yea nib hound to tefuse thi_OrroPt:• • thotion on the s am e ground. If the partite di eight themselves aggrieved by the proceedi..64 %I ii;c:i ILO _... •••,• ~: