The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-28 00:00:00

iIiGH TREASON. HICKS'S HALL, CLERKENWELL, ..klmicti 27. tFurther Parliculars.l This being the day appointed for opening the Special Commission which has been issued for the trial of the Conspirators engaged in the Ca-to street plot, the Officets of the Crown attended in this Court at nine o'clock. The gentlemen who were summoned on the Grand Inquest were also in attendance. The witnesses for the Crown, about thirty in number, were placed in a room by themselves, preparatrny to their being taken before the Grand Jury. Those witnesses who themselves stood charged with being parties to the conspiracy were in Separate.rooms, tinder the charge of constables. Among them were Monument, who, it will he re collected, was committed to the Tower ; and Adaws, who remained for some time a prisoner in St. Martin's watch-house,lmt was afterwards coniinitted to the /louse of Correction in C4.ld batii-fithis. This man, ever since his apprehen sion, has been labouring under severe indis position. 'n:epike•handles, antis, - pistols, 'words, gre nades, dAggers, ammunition, am! other articles wirer! on ;h. , persons of the priSonetS, and in tato stleet, at Brunt's lodgings, and ,Isewnere, %vete tit positctl in the office of the clerk of i-dicttnen's. When collected together they I,rrsented a formi dable appearance. At ten o'clock the ATTORNVY and SOLICITOR.. CENEHAI, entered the Court, and took their seat at the Barristers' table. In a few Minutes after wards Chief Justice A 13BoTT and Chief Justice DALLAS. together with Mr. CuNsT, and other gist ra e , whose ti.tmes were mentioned in the Commission, cause upon 'he Piochnnoion %ots 'hen uta►le for silence while the Commission teas rend, 11r. DEALTHY, ooe of the Cleiks r,f the Crown Office, innnediately tea,: i he Commission. The names of the Gentlemen summoned on the Grand Tory were tlic , ) called over, (for which see yesterttay•s SUN,)—....nieSe. Geofletnen having been bworn by Charles Abbott, Esq. Marshal to the Commission, proclamation was u►ade for silence %bile the Charge was delivered. The Lord Chief Ji'stice AB3OTr .then delivered Lis Charge, to the effect following : " Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—We are assembled on this occasion, under the authority of his Majesty's Special Commission, for the purpose of bearing and inquiring into c. rtain bills of indictment, which •will be laid before yon, charging certain persons, first, with high treason: secondly, misprision of high treason; and thirdly, to inquire touch ing the wilful murder of Richard Stuithers, and any other crime or offence touching the death of the said Richard Stint hers, and any other offeucc or offences against, touch ing, or concerning the persons of Frederick Fitzclarence, Wm. James Ellis, John Surman, William Westcoatt, Tim. Chas. Brook, John Muddock, and Benjamin Gi 1, orauy of them, contrary to the form of an Act made and passed in the 43J year of his late Majesty, intituled an Act for the further prevention of malicious shooting, or attempting to discharge loaded fire-arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding, yoisoning, and the malicious using of means to procure the miscarriage of women, the malicious setting fire to buildings, add other offences therein mentioned ;-----and, Gentlemen, it has become my duty to offer for your consideration, some re touching the offences charged against the parties in he bilis of indictment, which shall non' he presented for your deliberation. Gentlemen, the clauses upon which the charges of high treason in those bills are founded, are to be found in the Statute of the 25th of Edw. 111., and in another Statute of the 36th of his late Majesty. By the first of those Statutes it is declared to be high treason, when any person dot!) imagine or compass the death of the King; and by the last it is enacted, that if any person shall compass or imagine the death of the King, or shall at tack the person of the King, or attempt to depose him from the Crown of these Realms, or shall levy war against his Majesty, or attempt by force to oblige him to change the measures of his Government, or shal by threats or tu mult attempt to overawe kis Parliament in their proceed ings, each of the persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of high treason, and suffer the penalties incurred thereby.— You will, therefore, Gentlemen, deliberately inquire, whe ther the charges submitted to your consideration shall be proved to your satisfaction, imputing to the parties the crime of imagining and compassing the King's depth, or intending to imprison his person, or depose hint frora the throhe of these realms, or levy scar again3t him; and ,it may be necessary to observe to you, that it is further enacted by the Statute last mentioned, that if a party shall express his opinion by writing or printing in aid and furtherance of such treasonable purposes, he shall incur also the guilt of Big Treason ; for the law has provided, that in cases of this na• titre, the intention shall constitute the crime ; but it does, at t lie same time, require, that the guilty intention shall be ma• nifestcd by some act of thy party to evince his criminal pur u,se. " Before the passing of the late Statute, according to the opinions of all the most eminent text-writers upon the sub ject, it was held to he the law of this land, that all persons guilty of overt acts for compassing or imagining the King's death, were guilty of high treason ; and by the late Act, any attempt to restrain his person, or to levy war against him, or to oblige him to change the measures his Government, is high treason., It may be also requisite for we to state to you, that it is by no means necessary, in order to constitute the levying of war, that the parties should appear in open array of arias. Rebellion rarely makes its first appearance by a display of military force ; but begins by secret preparations, and proceeds by degrees. But, as I•have already stated to you, any attempt by force, to overawe his Majesty or his Go vernment, is of itself an overt act of treason, and all the parties acting in aid of such a purpose, are equally guilty. In. this crime the law allows of no accessaries, for all parties so offending are deemed principals." His Lordship having laid down the law as affecting high treason, next proceeded to define misprision of treason as a wilful concealment of any treason existing against his Ma jesty; but, in order to constitute the guilt of this crime, by which the party offending incurred the loss of his estate and property, and other heavy penalties, it was necessary that h,• Should actually know of the treason existing, for mere hear say, without further knowledge, would not expose him to the penalties of concealment. 11 ut every loyal subject would feel it his duty to Communicate to the next Magistrate every thing which came to his knowledge respecting such treason, in erdc► that measures might be tak,a to bring to justice the parties coneeined. - His Lordship next proceedid to define the law as it ;Af fected the other triunes ch,ivged in these tills of indict ment. First, with respect to -the tanrder of iSmil hers, for the law protected no house except a dwelling-house against the forcible entry of the officers of justice fur the appre hension of partiee charged with felony; but, in this case, it would appear that the parties were assembled, not in a dwelling-honse, but in the loft cif a stable in an obscure street, and that the Officers upon their entry announced to the parties 'the - object of their coming, and called upon them to surrender, which they refused to do, and% as it was stated, bred their pistols and presented their weapons against those officers in resistance to them, while in the execution of their duty. The law considered this an act of unlawful resistance. If any Magistrate or Officer of Justice called upon the persons so assembled to surrender themselves to justice, in any tone or language that was audible and intelligible, and that the parties refuse and resist by force, if any death shall acctuc, iii consequence of such resist ance, it was murder in the eye of the law. The next point respected the discharging of fire-arms against the se veral partivs who were aiding and assisting in the appre hension,of those men ; and this Act, by a Statute of his late Majesty Lord Ellenhorough's Act) wade it a capital offence for any one to shout at, or wound, any pergon whatsoever iu such a manner that if the parties so shot at or wounded should die, the offender might be convicted of wilful murder. His Lordship concluded by desiring the Jury to inquire with the utmost calmness and deliberation into the nature and cir cumstances of the charges before them; to dismiss from their minds all impressions which might hare been made by pre vious rumours; and he had the In!lest persuasion that their decisions would he corerned (►y the dictates of their own hearts and consciences. The . Jttry then retired to their room, and pro ceeded to examine wit hesses upon - the indictments whien were r eferred before them. The Judges continued sitting in Court for upwat of hour, when the Foteman and a tew other Members of the Grand July returned, and an arrangement was made that their Lordships should resume their seats at 12 o'clock to-morrow, and that the Grand Jury were to assemble at 10 o'clock.—Chet fol lowing witnesses were in attendance : The Ri4ht lion. N. Vansittart, R. Baker, Esq., R. Birnie, Esq., Capt. Fitzclarence, Monument and Adams (in custody), uthven, Ellis, We3teott, Lee, Brooks, Surman, Wright, Taunton, Bishop, and Gill (ollicert); Serjeant Legg, John Mudd.ck, Jonathan Curtis, Joseph Basey, Joseph Rivell, and Joseph Edgar (soldiers) Joseph Hall, Thomas Drover, Thos. Hiden, Jos. Harry Price, Emanuel Francis, James Pocock, James Munday, Richard Monday, George Pollock, Mary Rogers, Eleanor Walker, &c. Soon after 12 o'clock the Judges lett the Court, and at halt past 12 the Grand Jury, having then been a considerable time in deliberation, proceed• ed with the examination of witnesses, Air. Bouchier, one of the Solicitors to the Treasury, was the first witness examined. lie was only a few ninnies before the Jury. Robert Adams, the cx•Oxford-Blue, and an accomplice of the conspirators, was next called. He was brought from the House of Correction, where lie has been in confinement since the fin 4 examination of the conspirators before the Privy Council, in the custody of Mr. Adkins the Go vernor, and the ps. incipAl turnkey. lie Was three hours under exatitination. He appeared pet f ee . ly cool and collected when he came from the Grand Jury Room. His general appearance is much im proved since his apprehension. The Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart. Chan cellor of the Exchequer, was the third witness. The Hun. Gentleman, together with Capt. Fitzelarence and other witnesses o f the Superior order, was accommodated with a private room while waning the summons of the Grand July, lie was not mote than ten minutes under .exa inination. Joseph Baker, servant to the Earl of Harrowby, and 14 other wi , nesses, were then examined in ioccession. Amongst them was John Monument, one of the eight committed to the Tower on th e charge of high treason ; h e w as brought from t h e Tower in tile custody of two Yeomen of the Guard, and several officers, and was kept in a private loom, attended only by the Yeomen with their swords drawn, during the day ; he seemed very uneasy, and continued pacing the room about the whole time that he remained there; he is pale and dejected, and appeared to be by no means a witness. After his examination, whi c h lasted nearly an hour, he was conducted back to the Tower in the same custody.---:Adams was also taken back to the House of Correction. There were several women among the persons examined. They were of respectable appearance. Two boys were also called. Cap'ain Fitzclarence was the last witness call ed, and at six o'clock the Grand Jury adjourned until nine o'clock this morning, when they will proceed with the investigation, and most prolmhly come to a decision early in the day, there being only 14 witnesses remaining. THE WOOLWICH MURDERS.—Further Paricu lars of the Apprehension of the supposed Mur derer.—We have since learnt that the other watch is marked John Sampson, London, 588, and the seal has the motto " Entre Nous." The prisoner is very ill from the blows and hurts he received : it seems the small part of: his back is much hurt, as when all were struggling together they tell over a form, and he was under. We have also learnt, that when iu France be seduced a young English girl from a boarding school, and having procured an accomplice to officiate as Priest, they went through the marriage ceremony. The girl is of a respectable family, said to be of Southampton. He persuaded her that marriages in France were solemnized any where, provided the Priest attended, and the mockery took place in a billiard-room. He sent her to . Southampton when he last came here, and it is said has made her handsome presents , to ascertain what these were, Mr. Hunt was dispatched this morning. It is reported, that when in Sicily, in the Artillery. he was tried on a charge of murder, but was ac quitted. During the. whole of this day be ap peared much affected with his sit nation, a nd is constantly shedding rears,—(Hampshire Chronicle.) P'ttlC rHi. DAY Al' I S I Ol•ks CIA01:11,. 3 per ('cut. Coos Cs“ New onoiiiTs :3 t oes Ct. Nary Aim. 101 IC3. Exch. Bills, 2d... is. &is. pm . 134 Is. dis. Bonds .... 9s. Ils. pr. Cons. for Account MAILS. AtitrivEn—l Dublin, I Waterford. I Guernsey and Jersey, I Lisbon, I Flatlet . , 1 Flanders. Dui-1 Holland; I Gottenburglt, I Malta, 2 Hamburg!). IG II WATER AT LONDON BMOC; F, TO .51 oitrioW. Turning, 57 minutes after 1. j Evening, 19 minutes alter 2. THE 8 UN. SOLEM fens 11ICEHE FALSU:II A (MEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, 111.4RC11 28, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Saturday last. In the Chamber of Peers on Fri dAy , the discussion was continued on the projet respecting Individual Liberty. Three Peers were heard against the projet, and six, including the Minister of the Interior, and Marshal the Prince of Echmuld (llavotisT) in favour of it. The Chamber divided on a motion for closing the debate, which was negatived 79 t•. 77. The dis.. elusion was then adjourned till Saturday. In the Cimaniher of Deputies the discussion of the projet respecting the Journals, was at length closed with the 'exception only of the summing op of Me Reporter of the Committer, which was deirried till Sai There is no frtrther news in these Journals from Spain, except a statemen't that the General CatleS are to assemble at Madrid about the 15ib and a notice art Circular issued by the ;Minister or Finance, permitting the flee exportation without any dwy, of all kinds of grain, pulse, and dried fruits, brandy, wine, vinegar, and liqueur's. '1 he fullowiog are extracts : " MARCH 25. The King yesterday transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu, and afterwards with the Minister fur Emeign Affairs. " Thursday, at half-past nine in the morning, three gendarmes conveyed Louvel from the Con ciergerie to one of the Saloons of the Palace, where he was interrogated by the Comruhsion of the Chamber of Peers till two. They then inter rogated a Proprietor of Tours, aged 70, who at.. rived in the morning, accompanied by a Briga dier of gendarmerie, in a public carriage. He was afterwards set at liberty. " 1t is s a id that M. de Serres, the Keeper of the Seals, will return to Paris in the course of the moot!) of Apa ‘ 1 The stones of th: clench of Sandi, and of his being conveyed from IVlanhtiru to Mayence, are eqii4lly void of fonndaiion. Friday .... FIVE PER CENTS. 74 f. 40 c. DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d March, 1817, lOO f. 25c. 224 March, 1820, BB f. 20 c." [Extract of a Letter from Curaqoa, 15th Feb.] " The Governor-General of Carraccas has this moment an iced here front Laguira, in an open boat. We cannot conjecture the cause of his ar- rival." [Extract of a Letter from Demerara, 20th Dec.] " For these last two months, the yellow lever has raged here with great violence. So great has been its ravages, that the number of deaths have averaged from eight to ten per day; but am happy to add, its fury has considerably abated. Num bers of Europeans have fallen victims to it." [Extract of a Letter from Angostura, Dec. 161 " Government having purchased the American brig Ellen, of Philadelphia, has fitted her out for sea ; she carries sixteen 18-pounders, and 160 men, and is now cruizing off the Bar, for the purpose of protevting the trade, which becomes every, day mote important. The number of ves sels, of all nations, since the Ist May to the 141 instant, is t, 7 , among which ere three ships from &gland, with troops, military stores, and cloth ing for the Legion of General Deveßaux. "The brigade of Light Artillery will leave this place immediately to join MARINO at San Diego. At Laguira a British 74 was lying, for the pur pose of conveying back the trade to this l►lace.--- By this it seems that matters are not altogether right there, and that the martial tocsin blazoned from Angostura is already dreaded in the province of Carracas." The space occupied by the Trial of Mr. llutsr, &c. &c. has prevented our making any remarks on the triumph of Radicalism in ;he City of West minster. 'tile deplore the event, because it must tend to the degradation of Parliament, and to 4nitnate the hopes of pseudo Reformers and real Traitors. It is diigraceful to the higher orders of the Electors that, if they did not approve of Mr. LAMS, they should remain in a torpid and pernicious indifference, suffering their City to be ihrown into the bands of vile Jatobins, who aim st the possession of 'legislative power, at the •►s eof r;:ln to their Couutr ee.a t;estry hope that the Electors of Middlesex will avoid this disgrace, and not return the Cue/iiioni3ts, BYNG and WHITI3RIIAD, the mere organs of the Baronet, who wants to domineer over the County is well as over Westminster, which has now fallen a prey to wild Levellers. Mr. MaerAsii is a man who will do honour to the County and to the Conntiy. lie will resolutely defend Trig CONSTITUTION, as it stands, from the encroach ments Of Power, the violence of Faction, acd the temerity of lonovation. It is pettedly ludicrous to see the juvenile Candidate, Mr. WHITBRECADe a youth wholly unknown to the County, come forward and untold his political Creed, as he can !ive no foundation in experience for what be says, and probably only details, like a parrot, the words put into his mouth by the Baronet, who wants to grasp all the force of Middlesex and Westminster, that he may intrude whom be pleases on the Representation of both. The Electors must forfeit all claim to common sense, as well as to justice and gratitude, if they can overlook the solid pretensions of Mr. Meeersu, founded upon lung and faithful service. if that Gentleman were not animated by a true l ' ove of his Country, lie would not sobmit to the vile treatment ,of the despicable I uffians who eve, y day insult him en the hustings. But be enjoys the triumph of seeing those scurrilous vagabonds heap ing their applause upon his opponents, applause which every WWI with the least degree of rational pride would disdain. Mr. BYNG, conscious that. be leany line no substantial claim to the favour of the more enlightened Electors, has entered into a compromise with the Burdett Rodicabr, and obviously throws off the mask. of pretended. Ilhiggism, which he had so long worn. Bet the Baronet sees through the flimsy pretext, anil wilt only use hint for the present occasion, and cast him off when other such myrmidons as Hnertoose and ‘l 7 l-IITBIIBAD shall come forward. It is perfect affec-_ tat ion and hypocrisy in those who beg that Mr. A1E1.1.1511 may be heard, because they know that he till Iliaiotaial those constitutional principles, and avow those loyal sentiments, which cannot be ac ceptable to a seditious mob, and who therefore will be sure to overpower him with factious out rage. But there are still voters sufficient to rain the honour of the County, and we hope that they will come fOrward and support in Mr. Mue r-rem, a Mall independent in spirit, principles, and fortune, against the Candidates' who avow their wish for Annual Elections and Universal Suffrage, though they daily see the practical effects of such doctrines in the hideous yellings of . a senseless mob, who, if such doctrines should-prevail, would at length reduce all honest men to despair, and leave the Countre a! large to confusion, and alI the [imam s of rebellion, cernage, and anatchy.' MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—TENTH DAY. At twelve o'clock this flay the (lumbers were ,as follow : Byng 3 7 ,00 Whitbread Mellish KING'S THRATRR.-- Dors Giovanni ;t per formed for the first time this season On before a crowded audience. AMBRnGETTI wa., itt admirable spirits, and was much applauded. BEL.. LOCHI also Shared abonflantly in popular favour. Madame GATTI being indisposed, her place taken by Signora Moat, (not Madame MARA, 'o* stated in a respec:ahle Morning [ p aper), and ac— quitted with great efft•et in acting as well as a singer. The boxes were filled with elegance and fashion, and made a brilliant appearance, which triumphed over the general solemnity of sables. VOCAL CONCERT.—We had no opportunity of noticing the third Performance of this Conceit,. which took place on Friday last. it was very well attended, and the whole was a delicious, treat. A p,rinted paper stated, that Madame was still too unich indisposed to appear on. that occasion. • • BRIGHTON, MARCH 26.—This town has once more to pride itself upon the presence of our ex cellent and beloved Sovereign. His 11.1sJitsTr returned to the Marlborough-row part of the Pa vilion , Palace yesterday, accompanied by• Sir B. BLoommttn, at three quarters past five o'clock in the afternoon. There vas no escort, nor pa rade of military. His MAJaSTY entered the town in the same unostentatious and private manner as usual ; anti his .arrival was presently announced to the public by a cheerful peal front the climCb. bells, and the British flag yeas again hoisted upon its venerable tower. • The Duchess of Kent continues in seclusion a fient , ingion Palace. Prince SkrttutA, one of the roost illustrious families in Poland, is flu ived ar Grillion's Hotel, Albemarle -street. Ilis litgiluess is come into , this coun!ty to visit tie three Vtngdoms, its pub lic in:tilalions, manufactories, &c. Lord DUNDAS is ar hip Lordship's seat in Yolk.- elire, in his usual State of health, The Earl of 1 - liartwooD, we are concerned to stare, is seriously indisposed, at his house F4* e wood • place. The SPANISH ANIP.A.FSADOR, at Paris, is ex" peeled to celebrate, by a grand illumination, the 4 , :evl) , ADce of the Constitution by his Gai - HoL . IC MAIESTY. At a (patter past six o'clock this evening, £I moon ',mitt; rise eclipsed, and continue so t!. }s' 4 seven o'clock. Si • Htct SEC to the Past u 11 A 1., 1. 4 , C 1 $ ( qf th e Made pike, tw o 1 °tiler vhar g th en tell n into ( fo lin d Pri o '~ I3il Th Alt o! ditcc pro d that ! prop, morn 19 i t y from Pc bis 11 fro m Akx Solis yestt pilot on h Crev nevi tide C( wbei disci - very 11.0 y Leo I:Ait 4.AR ' • how new lig, ?e~~r 1 41,p terly lU It `pSf) seen 114 w, . 4 1IC t OF I 9uat ql, :c , ‘gi f,e