The Sun. — London, England, 1817-06-18 00:00:00

le In ~ . . . ey!, ,red the char :tette o f liigh Treaseo. r. 1 % If, niERALL bowed to the dere( ion of the - Court.-- Le and however to remark that exactly the "w e 14 " "', '. ire when th e procee di ngs to which he had b efore adverted T la reced, es were known now. 1,44 ArfORNEY-GENERAL 'could not allots. this to he "i The Learned elentleMen did not know what he as feted to be tru e , - ,i.. Me IVETHEIiALL maintained that all the external lea- Lures of the ease were known within a short tinit atter the '' °f D "ceether , All was known but that which was tlis ',. 411(1 v,:ilten. JIG. . Castles came forward, and would the Jury tits l',. : w e're Judgment of a British Court of Justice. %ould ..tire testimony the character of British jurisprudence to depend ..._ le testimony of that indescribable villain. Would they t al_ . 4 , !: . that 11,4111 to influence their decision? Would they at f ite that a!lerchant in human blood, who had lived so long 4to pleader mad on blood-money ? 'Would they, while ant -lltt.d.ll that spirit of honour and truthewhich distinguished r ar ia ' I ' e to be i to, , . tire, wmod ter suffer four human rie uns , - it b e :i led It. that indescribable villain Mr. Castles? Could 11 ; "eld that this would be endured by the British pea te,it livery thine was known against , one of the Prisoners ite t .' 44 nue/ knuwn, hut what Mr. Castles had stated, end c le eine:forward the individual was to be tried for a mis tu:_emiuur. Every thing that gave his offence the colour of L eon ma supplied by Mr. Castles, and the life of that on. I TN' man now depended on the deree of credit which the l' , might give to his evidence. lie would assert that no t aleterial fact which he had stated bad been confirmed. ~, t. , t, ..no e nt it f il i: 4 4 l l lt v t , o , r ni r . Y -eiet i eral they , had beard that the Conspi. they Nev etnEe ' r " . "' T n l i i l e e i n il f ai7 h w li a l s l t b o a t d ) I i b id e r i cCo g u l e ve t ,n ) butpoditv' the t t i e t.'estles had said it was abandoned fur the present, the it nd net befog : ripe for it; but though according to it: 1" e Pliblic were not ripe for such a project at . the west ! , seems it wavthought the time had arrived-for carrying ,ir design into execution at the east end of the town. ''`e -- lia g ran t mew," tie it has been care., was to commence 1; 6 r : 4 -past twelve at night. The paliesades in front of the e - tt,,,, in Piccadilly Were to be taken up to stop the road k 11"1 4. the turnpike, and the horses were to he ta ken qu .a , , li , acknuy coaches, to carry it with effect. Acc o r di ng .re 10,:i . , wef this reptile, combustiblis or medicaments set , I ti , placed it the entrance of the barracks, in such a way ksi:attrie the soldiers to death. This falsehood be sup , 1 , 1 a. to hare been framed iii consequence of its being 1 C 41 411 , 10 Castles th a t th e P r i soner was it chyntist. Castles htei n " c l cerrithereted in his statement reepeciing the i ,' o f 4 lk"rie, or the intention to do so, by Mr. 4 Asu " ' : a ere respectable man the landlord of the r , 4 , but it was not it to ' believe that the b—y I i t le bully (if forty might have prevai!ed on a young man of 0 : 1 11 , 1 ° 4 de this tor some other purpose than that which i 4 ile t : e l 'reil stated to have in view. This fellow might have le I h il i k. " nuts to do so, to forward some object of his own, as a 14114: 411 even he went Nine; all nee' the town. Wherever ap ; ;",e lie travelled with him. Front the es idener of the 4 , 1 4 ,it elope:us that two men had been harangued on the tit Vre i r t wa lle: Custtes had stated that there were tn. This ir a t Pleeible sample of a lie. Celtics bad said two persons 0 :l e . tcs fiether. the soldiers bad said the) were addressed hut ..e. :fe rn It had been proved that rustle. and Watson bad et ,t, I ' togeth er wa lki ng t owar d s the barracks. But . what 4, 4 m 0 " i d $ %bile that there had hewn such a plot ns,Castles ..4 ito erribed, for firing the barracks and stiuking the s? - 04_ 4 depth ? The prisoner might have been seen wit h re l i , , 're et different, times and places, but in nothing had the .oN e r le, O rorrobOrated thdt could be hehd to prove the ex keee''f ineh a plot. In his plan for cutting otf the contron- !'fi 1, Jul with WoolwicheCasttra had teen a little deficient in ei hpvel pert of the arrangetuent. He had seemed to for s` ter there was a sm all aperture passing through the city l; lii ' f t( pe Thames. His Leareed . Friend had—he would not he elms that would be offensite, but ,had conduct!d him fel e t6 v t erell through this dif fi culty, and the communicati o n 411 Si t ' a cut o ff by water as well as by land. Alt the vessels . ,di 1 4 ,, e 'Chimes were to be teeete and this was not enough, lei. le ts ire to go out to sea, and take the remaining ships ?f , . se; le e 'iesty'e nave, and all this was to be effected by six it , ,i Vats of Divis - ion, one of whom was so lame that he " 1 'i" out ride rut horseback. Could any one for a moment 11 , 1 ' /41:' 6 0 ridicnlous a plan had been formed ? And disbt . e • l e, t 3 l t the first plan, would the Jury credit the second( of 11• ml sl at P were told by Mr. Ce.stles If the public were not 4 a Revolution in Oxford-street, where General This le,`"4l was to make his grand stand, was it reasonable to Isis e t "ide that they should he able to succeed at that time, to Or t it 'cart of the tnetropolis? He submitted the whole story rale' t o eeworthy of credit. On the 2d of 'December Castles went et et# Ve Timer found an es:tra guard there on aceortnt of f ree e rAteti f y, , hut instead of . going: to Spa-fields to apprize ter t,""feetiplicee of this liet, and of the gates - being shut, eer A. I 1 11 .7 might take their measures accordingly, no more er elated of hint but that be went to Little Bri '4l PP .1; lee absconded, ,but what really became of him 0 ,,d1' 'kelr. Wetherell) would hereafter shoe. The banners „tat i„, ;tames put down for the Committee o f Publi c S a f e ty 01 4 . 4' l 'd lia intention to comm . tHi 'hir Had the trial 1 1,, eal n . n v 6 . 4 t h it eetch longer, he thought h e s h ou ld h ave b een ena bl e d )04 0, ea alliteration of crime against Mr. Castl e s on all pf elie .etties of the alphabet. Beginning with B, there was 1 10 if lionse bullying, : and bigamy. These were proved. 00 y wa% Silevra that one wife who might, have been 'wouieht .., t': 4- eg con fi rmsitoey witness; who was the only person or''' q 411 14 trove or disprove many things that tie had assert title i r e: been sent tint of the way. If he went on with the Pe ll ; Sr ibt i lo Whet) Its came to F, he found forgery and s felony Iliet t 711,,;,•,'„1r. Castles . From .the former .charge he got c lear, t PI, i l , :t t ,,i'' , ni( the blood of his companions. Castles had colt rOlv e ar , 4 4 larceny in connection with this business , for he had ee ;' ,, e a '"Y the chairs, tables, the boxes, and the other mi -1.114 L ot,, i . t furniture of the room, where they had been acetts a,, il. I ;' ;fleet, which it tees admitted bad belonged to Pres they would ( 41 2 - , ,_ l4 V.,' they Wtint on Wit it the history of Castles, Aloe, "If: - essistieg the most inveterate foe of. England, by aid- L ee s q i ., Nl' i ft k omm to e scape . Going furter hack through t , h s j i i 4 e : li l Z ci et of diegrace they would fi nd him in the infa • ' le e elk te e , „,Strailine situation of a bully at a b-e-dy house.- 7 - ' lel ‘,7, 11 ,n 4 1, 1 1 .." 1 ",fe of this man. 'lt had commenced ins. Orin- Pl' ,dim lamer. l'''' r t. '"'., liad mounted up to the depravity of shedding :" I i t ete t , - `"" %iit,. - iate of his guilt, and now attained its el o tri ‘ittee:art4mattlioin in e rinse, by urging on unhappy urn to try tra ein order to betray them for the blood o yte t t us t atCourt, be had worn clothes coat, waist- Alt al std :"° Whl e • 1 h g ' the 0 ' e 4 /I, e , k bea ches .of the. Crown. His very bad o i 1 4 , 4 i lis l i ietd for out of the wages he yens by and bye to re: Iffe 1 4 4 , 1 10 w 14 reeempertse for selling the blood of the.pri eV i, a 4:l XIL L ,,. , re their leardships. l 'it' li 4 t t "A n OROUGH objected! to such language being Pi it , d er, t' witness who hail been mentioned. Ir ii i '.4 1, 114 411,4 4 ,1 11 ALL stated Castles to bare admitted that ee hete t eh u t plalted with money, out of wh ich he had put. .rid t Wi l ,trroa s he wore. e i 1;:*: ;‘, , • Et-GE URAL-denied that this was blood till' i4 A Eill it AL . • „its, wtt i rr o „ . Lsaid that was his influence. lc we lit 4 Le orti "N Ey - GENERAL had never acted such a part 0 0 0 t44/6)ri'd Cientitmen seemed to think he:bad. Ile de eeo ,11 1 14 „,eti e n b eing treeerove that he had hem guilty of one ,pt,`; i tti k . q.rlid t t he Whole course of his life. ii k ,_tkr b ee ALI, did nnt believe the Learned Gentle 11.0' t i en t ^u toe • • .11 he •1 - 1 I ~ 1 b i , t , 'netted a corriept action, hut stt uon , 0 ,0 sete t9/tiuti 41:%facts that had .tei' ►tue oar. He then renewed .0 till NI. iik t .,. h _ ,, n , id heforti made, that one of the prisoners ' I V- !thit wet I. 'is tried for a misdemeanor, befote Mr. W ir 4k g# 141 64 " "Id of. The , day of trial for the al -41 ‘ i ,41 nletinor had been named, and it t till 1 k! k e ti bt kiW aiti to iet in the light of truth lion elk e le d ',',at the e ee , 4 0 1 1 1 I 'l4 l etee to _cue committed was raised to a hsg 4 ,, ,„ ..le, eititi ee erle Y'• Gentlemen, I say • again, that since 01; l:11144, fu ll so a transaction has not been taken Up acts that have no relevancy or coneateree" I 1 et ! ash 4i t this 0:e i ,: t ie t , t Mele olli t ..° be accumulated into a treason? Is . the 1 0 I . itte ri a tie gt l / 410 !e) construe circumstances of a riot Into ,1 4 : 4 . it g tlie ,iiiw ! (tea.' war? - He cannot do it without , cone li t ; ita wi thottt e‘t(/'e!) has existed for -centuries. Henan , Pf lo . A 1 t. 6 4, a , reee t"leting ere, y 'precedent, and ca‘tine , by t o, ;,!,,?,:,,, prect,.re re fl ection upon every Attorney-Gene ,seie 041 1 e krti ) , i l ' i l'e f l hint. I say this after a month's labo eli tel l : 1 41y 'er a fatiguing investigation, that has left Ot t i tl n • iietv "ue, and niter I re le' Is "aim)have beeWtold what was .1;,. , i l , t tlild , ef my own mild, that • he-situation in tii 'lite r t hler e 4s Itat eelY ever paralleled in reepeneibility, t oe 4 kObtei sc ,,Yetts the advocate in a trial, whose result is N e t h 'it ai e f a t * i dilet which has' hitherto invariably- been Po Ve tt , 'flute s for politicel purposes, be construed I° o ° 4 t utt, 11 Inter )1, 1 ~ n. 6 tap rnPed the Learned Gentleman, observing, r • rr o --- rePtlight v roper.]imp . ~ _ _ t ir'', 'Act4t, stiltnNi'"iENEß,lL: 60' 'e t 'lls atnlee etich .4 oL, to impossible for ee i l 4t I'4 e fhl i tee . 1 . Q.uult ,. . f,e t to says hat I have been spi- Iris A p tinite rii ;,. , 4 crituriss:essit this trausaction, is to impute 4 1 fr et !Sii lli _ eel, ',',u.tv.—vi , ,, miut not seller such reflections tes . .. t eb 4i . fty lorp,e,oi tee * .oetherall. You go to the extent of 'repot ills kl, 4 , 4 . ir 4 , 14 ; ' thew hule Court, if you say that this 11 p .teiP ek e , a eemnieneed from political f 'clines and Pp - Zip, efle t e ad it th e . C clings, II j Vitt` / LA IL :pi mutters should be found guilty'. ; i v- , h , t4 s ki. -int 4,,i b tl e ‘ s a• im vuweel any intention of • ;persona -Proper motives to the Letrued ef e„fel'ee e _ 1' -4 Wee t,ll:4;,:Niett. etle— You bare said that this 14- e - ttP. l . o l* p(Ailica.l puristic:6; such lan- gfua lie borne. . Me. E e. IVETHRALL-- 4 %1y hke " w d:tl ' personal imputation. It there is in the statue of NU, a clause restrainieg from prosecuting , the sane offence. as Treason,' wharfs has before been charged as Felony, I say the Crown has had its election ; and, as . it chose to prosecute these trans!' actions zoi a Felony before, why should it now come forward with an indictment for Treason ? The COLT tiT,.—The Statute of ee'enacts what shall beTteas sort ; and provides, that, where a charge of Treason fails, the party shall not tor tried for Felony after. • Mr. WESTIERALL Said, the interpretation of the Learned Gentleman bad been hasty and unnecessary, as he had no in- - tentiou of impugning the motives for the present proceeding. lf e said. that they first chose to try for Felony what they now prosecuted as a Treason ; and his construction of that Act hail been continued to him by several lable'frietrls whom he had consulted upon it. Having gone through the main fea tures of the case, the ultimate question was, Csiuld the Jury believe, on the evidence of Castles, that a Treason bad beet' committed. Supposing even that the prisoners meant to do what they did, unless the plan was directed against the State,: plainly and proveably, he could find nothing whatever like it. before, that It id been denominated aTi casein. No trainee- tian, in which even more mischief had been done, and venter malisimucy appeared , that had been pushed up to a. !'reason. Every thing here depended upon Castles and,. supposing all true, he was at a loss to discover that such a transaction had ever been brought within the Statute of Treason. The Jury would bear his Learned Friend, with whom he bad the honour of being associated, who would go 1 into a more minute examination of the evidence. They . would find, in his Address to them', the same 'broad lines of arguments-the saute view of the case, 'more .ably: put before. time, as he had taken:—they had conferred together closely And industriously, and their minds were made lip without doubts ur differences of Opinion remaining. His Learned Coadjutor, whose talents were of the highest order, and whose legal knowledge 88 , 1 , g reat and authoritative. would pursue the same line of argument Which be had tine, because he thought as he thought; hut he wuuldSlo this more aislys and could not fail of producing conviction •of the truth of his arguments, And the invincibility of the positions which they jointly maintained. It was that which made hint bold in asserting what in his conscience he held to be lam, mid what he thought, with the tree agency of a men, he within say ts ith the free agency of a gentleman; and if any one should say that he had Mined to the Crown that length of. interpretation, that' latitude of construction, that extent and application to which it was fully and fairly entitled, he wool* .confront that sian's statement with the unvaried teller of his life. He was no candidate fur popular admiration, no patron :of disturbances, ho advocate fur tatting from the crown what belonged to the Crown, nor from the people what belonged to the people—be would keep the balance even, giving unto Caesar the things which belonged to Cense. He bad been la flouring one entire month, without interruptioti, and almost without ceasing, the investigation ; the result had been. an 'impression upon his mind, which he was afraid he could' not strongly coniumnicute to theirs, which nothing could erase, and he believed nothing could - weaken, that if these transactions were to be . construed into Treason, the tact would be withoet precedent, and the law without jollier. tie called on the Attorney-General to give him authorities to'the contrary if he could. lint he would' not be told by the At torney-General what was law, let the law speak for itself. He would not take his challenge to spew what these things were if they were not treitiens. 'He was not to law Wend to do so, the labour of proof lay with the Attorney-General, not with him; he had given his definition af treason, let it lie proved, if it were possible, that the present was a case of treason. He would give another definitive proof, bat of Sir J. Scott in P 5; he said, the proofs must lie formal and convincing," that is, fOrmal in the number of witnesses, two credible witnesses being tie cessary to prove - an overt ect of treason, and coevineing in the plain direct tenor of the face themselves; sheiving than they were treason, and could not he any thing else.. Sir J. Scott, too, said he disclaimed constructive treason, or treason by party. Compere him with the Attorney-General of the present day. Was this an attempt to overturn the State,- - what had they to prove its--4 little flee at little speech mak ing film a waggon ; ri littietainperaig with the soldiers? very little indeed, a little speaking to the town walls? a little tumult ?' a little breaking of windows ? a little lettings Off of gunpowder ? Yes, very little of each. What theft was cue etructive treason ? Why, the putting together a limber of , little facts, accomulating a number of trifling circumstances into the solemn and ponderous offence of treason ; was this charge any thing snore at best ? Then Slr J. Scott said he wanted no treason by parity; parity of treastm menet the application of facts to prove a treason which might or night nut be intended to he treasonable, but such as might be taken within the range of: an obvious and undoubtedly trea sonable design. What was the case here ? Why, a number of transactions were stated, and the Attorney-General says, if you do not chew what those transectiOn4 were, 'I Shall M. list upott it that they are treasons. But such is not the rule of law, and the autunt of the Learned Attorney-General was not sufficient to make it so, The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to examine and'compare the case of Lord G. Gor don with the present, contending that the amount of leis'. ehisit did not make the transaction .a treason; and that the beainneigeif tumults, which might by possibility be terned against .. the State, if *littered to' proceed without any cheek, wage not treasonable till the design was formed fur 'destroy ing the Government. He thought the Jury on that occasion did themselves eternal honour, by leaving out of their deci sion all such considerations. He trusted they would not, es they could not legally operate in the present case, though the mischief was trilling compared with what had then been <loth witted. When did the treasons begin in this case ? Was it when Sir J. Shaw with his right arm stopped it, • and dtspetted the rebel army? d nn, it was when the e!rators leapt down • from the waggon atter their- speeches were :made, for so it was laid in the record. Why, at that time there were Ma gistrates in the field, the military was at hand, though that was &Int he had obtained - front one of the Crown witnesses with a deal of difficulty; the Lord Mayor of the City of Landon was prepared, the Tower was closed; why then not stop the proceedings if it was all a treason ? The meeting had been announced a fortnight before by haad-hills ; there was noseS' crecy ; the Police was well informed of. what was twhe done, and might have prevented all the mischief, it any treason was intended.' Why was not the . meeting of the 15th of:'No ember not a - treason ? The 'flags"weee there, and toweettes were made; and these, were the overt acts of treasfaLs In deed, a speech of Mr. Hunt's was then delivered, mach more inflammatory than any thing imputed to Mr. Watson, and which he GI not hesitate to say he coinideredlii lie of very dangerous tendency, as it mustseree to irritate the feelings of the lower orders against the Government; hut all this was no treason, no, not in the judgment of Mr; Attorneys Genera— l, this was not ripe enough he supposed. The fact was, the want of empinyhtent had created it soreness of feeling, which degenerated Into a riot which had nothing to do with Oolitic's. The people had not - risked for the repealaw the passing of .auy law which bad been referred to them ; it was nothing but that epidemic soreness produced by the dislocation of the tin**. No attack was intended on the State; not so in Lord G. Gordon's case, Where the object of the 40,000 persons who went down to Parliament was to obtain the repeal of Sir Gs Seville's Act in favour of Religious Toleration. He put it to the' Jury whether he' was right' in this contrast. Never was there a time when it could bu less-truly said, -that this was a riot for a political purpose. He apologized to the Jury for the want of method M Iris adaress, urging the fatigue of mind he had Undergone, and the effect upon his health, which it had proanceci, particularly that morning. but his Learned Friend would supply all his defiCietices: He should trouble them with a few words more before be sat down. There was one circumstance he had overlooked, he meant the fact of the pikes not Wring found till a fortnight after they were said to have been on Young Watson's premises. When they were found the number - was the • same; they were in the same state ass Bentley delivered them; they -had -not been used at all, and there was twitting in the whole evi -.dance to raise `a. fair presumption upon this fact against the prisoners. If then he was asked bow they came there, he should not hesitate to. declare it as hi's' opinion that Castles had put them there to bring the fact against the prisoners on the'prosecution. , There was no proof that young Watson either ordered thetusor paid for them.: ,Why were they not used? the tale told respecting them was trues there were no sticks get ready to put them in -; nut one itordue mint of death prepared. The only . theory, taeO, supported by probability,was - as h e had already -stated.' What a strange civil war was this I—There was another points to which: he would beg their attention. •It hail heen stated that theriscio was to get the handles fur the pik es, but the Crown had pet called Harrisonah corroborate this: fact, It was Said he Was r to go to °e back of the King ' s Bench the sticks, but 'Was it not then they could not find that one was urtiereir for evident that Cantles put the pikes. in . their hiding piece, or perhaps asked young Watson to put them there, Bvho, slip posit;` himto be a smith, consented to do so for . some pur pose. or other ? It was a most material faatslla eu t t l ie li s ao h y .l l l ; among the many infamous tradea that this villain Castles followed, he. had not worked as smith 14 yeafst yet made the pattern of the pikes, anti told Bentley they were for a rabbit warren. -Be it remembered-tufts thins mate of the 150 afterwards made were sharpened, pear, e sopeosed that these wine to be inetrumenti li Or the Government ? The lapses in th e e vitievee, b were to be filled . utssby interpret:Laub' arid 'caastrnairat,— . _ !!!tlire.lto. , ,i:yi 1,104; 5ti(1.7111,1.i.Tea.:141. tl.l pike toter couple te 1 , 4 taa.purpc,s of trtiV. son: Conletwrialiing 'be , more preposterims, more infamous than the story of .the villain ? W hat a strengt civil war was this had before laid down propositions of law frmu which fie would . but recede either as a lawyer or historian. He would stand or fait upon what he bad stated t be readily placed the little reputation he had:acquired by his industry and, his talents, such as they were, in Westminster Hall, upon this issue. He knew that wliat he had stated would be subjected to the Most rigid er;tieisin in private, anti the cleriet animadversioas there. He had laid down what be con. sidereal to be the law ; and if from the Solicitor-General, or front any one else, the Jury were induced - to disagree with him, he wont(' say again, as he siways would say, there and every where else, as an honest man and a lawyer, that if the-transactions of the 2d of December should be declared by then: a treason, they would obliterate the Riot Act and spew' an otter disregarri ot every pi ecedent upon the case. It was his duty to give his opinion fully and truly; he had done sy, however it might not conciliate the opinions of others. He had the concurrence of alt the laws to that opinion, he had the Riot Act with • him, and he should be glad to hear what wits not if this was not. He was aware that he had not pursued the most lucid order in his address, hut the Gentlemen of the Jury had honoured him with the deepest attention ;., they had exercised their free and enlightened , understandings upon the evidence ; he knew they had attended to hint, and he also knew that they would pause before they gave their verdict, It' opportunity had perMitted, he - should have been glad to have examined the corroborative testiturmy ' but that Would be much better done by his Learned Friend, after the evidence which they intended to call on behalf of the prisoner. lie rrinitgled them that he bad quoted a passage from Judge Foster's pre face; he would tell them why. •It was from tbe • manner in • which Mr. Hunt had been connected in these transactions. He thought the speech of that Gentleman extremely indis erect, and calculated, as he had before said, tv do much ruts-• chief. Now, be Would tell the Jury, that it was by mere ac cident aloue-that Mr. Hunt was not involved. with the pri soners, rind then standing at the bar awaiting their hat far life or death, They Would recollect that he had asketWastles about Che.apside, who, knowing the point he Was coming Is, answered Tkis man knew that Mr. Hunt was to be in the Meeting luSpa-fields at one o'clock , be met h 1", in Chrapside sonic time before that hour; be should call him ty prove to them what this villain said to Mr. Hunt when hr met him. The Crown ought to have called hint, for he was on the record, , and if the dig was treason he was guilty of treason. He would prove to them, on the testimony of Mr. Herat against whose credibility he did not believe a single objection could be urged—he would prove that this indescribable villain met him. and told him that the Tower had been in the hand, of the rioters two hours, adding, " Go with us, my boy." . Now, if Me. Nut had orsfortunattly turned his curia:le and • gone to the Minories as a spectator merely, 11. e would by this artifice have been made a co-conspirater. Let it be to-; cullected too, that his name is uh.tbat paper marked With the letters c. P. S., which has been put into the hands of the man for this special purpose, and this it would at once have been said, that he was leader in -their plots, and had consented to become a head of the new goverament to be set up. There was another circumstance in which lie *mild firm Castles, not as the Croton Lawyers confirm hint, for tiny did it where it was,not wanted. The Jury would recollect what passed about the slimier. in liouverie-street. He shotiled. long time .but at last, he admitted, that he intruded hiniseit upon the party; they would also recollect what passed about fox-.slurp. Well, this villain, whom he hoped the Attoroey- General would prosecute, or that he would lie prosecuted by an order of the State, as a man against. whom the lives,of his Majesty's subjects are never sate; he would prove, on the oaths of two witnesses, that he went into his fox-sleep in the hope that Mr. Hunt might say somethicg which he. could con vert to a ebarge•of treason. es;this indescribable villain was seeking to entrap more lives, fur the sake of the adiantages which lie has admitted were to follow the present business.— Ile was Oa leading man in all the transactions with the sol diers; 99 words out of every hundred that he spoke, .were falieboods. He had not, however, said that Watson was ever with bins and the soldiers together—indeed the whole amount of what had been proved on this part of the case, was ndt more then what might, have beets said very innocently to any man not a soldier, and without offence to One that was. He agaiu.thanked the Jury for time ,great patience with which they had listened to him. They would have to listen to the evidence which would prove the facts lie had stated, and then his Learned Friend, with whom he had the honour of being associated on this occasion, would address them upon the whole case as it stood before them. And now, Gentlemen; (said Ise), I shall sit down with an assertion,. which I have so often made, in the course of my address to you ; it is, that if these transactions are to be Interpretated by any construction W4ataVer into tje#6o,ll. it -Win lie luc,aipettilde with-the Ire* ageticy of British subjects.—The Court then adjourned. SIXTH DAY.---Savuantv, Jura 13. PntiONEß's WITNESSES. Mr. H. Hunt said, lie resided at the Cottage in Hamp shire ; he had not received any so/nutria on the part of the Cs owo, though be hail expected one; but he had received one osi the part of the prisoner : he Was present at the first Spa-fields Meeting, and made a speech, but he begged to add, it was not such a speech as was reported in a Morning picwspaper,„ nor Any thiiar Wye It.; he proposed to adjourn that meeting •tintil after the meeting of Porliatuent ; the younger Watson wished to move another and au earlier day ; the elder Watson enifeaveur to prevent his son- Inuring it, not only by persaasiow, but as the young mats was passing forward to get to the window, he put his hand before him, and endeavoured by a friendly' violenge to keit) bias buck ; this passed at the window of the Merlin's Cave public house; there was a general cry of Adjourn, adjourn l He then,proposed to adjourn . until the first or second day, or week rater (lie did riot recollect whether it was d 4 or week) the Meeting of Parliament ; on that day he dined at Cooper's Hotel, in liouserie , street ; he bud an asp- Pointment with Mr. Bryant, on private business, and Mr. Bryant had bespoke the dinner at five o'clock; three whit ings and mutton clipt,. for the witness, Bryant, and his son, a little lads. he went to Cooper's aitteethe meeting, and found Mr. Breast there; before the dinner was ready, Cos, ties, the two lifalsons, and several others carat. into the rooia', without iuritation; it W3ll in .a pris rite room, and ;iltheugh they came wholly ueineited, he was not roach surprised, be. cause it. is no unusual thing to , thoss who have taken a part in public meeting . afterwards In dine together. 'To the hest of his reeinteciion, he had never seen Castles hefiiee that .day; be first saw bins in ,Spo-fields carrying a da4,--he was very intrusive and odieines, hut not in the, least degree affected by liquor. The withers gave them a hint that they could not dine with P. yaut and him, by saying they hail only ordered a mutton chop for their three selves. Castles said they would order an addition to the dinner, sad rang the b e n, and d u d' so. They' sat down to (limier, and Bryant took the Chair. After dinner Bryant give the King's health. it went round, hot the witness said, he 'thought . they had better. sot drink any toasts; then it come to Castles,_tie got, " May the last of Kings be strangled With the bowels of the fait of Priests," and unon which the witness jumped up and said, no sach language should be used in his company. Ile was also repeobat ed. by all, partitadarly by the -elder Watson and Bryant. Fineiiig himself unsuppmted, he made a sea of an apology. Some time after but not at dinner, he said; the soldiers ate our friends: The witness acid, pray, Sir, what have we to do with the soldiers? He intimated that he had bad, frequent conversations with them; to which the witness replied, " More fool yen 1" lie related a story of his having ;tided the escape of sonic French prisoners of war, for which be trial he had been confined two years in Maidstone , 4aol. The witness said tea Bryant, low, " Pretty company we hare got into here ;" Bryant replied, " very pretty." Ile said be had received_ bOOl. for carrying these persons out of the country, and that he bad engaetal to carry, another from Wales, bat that he had been disappoi i! ted, for that the prisoner either could not or would test ride on borsch ick • upon which he said he drew a pistol nut of his pocket,, and hesitated some moments whether be should .not Wow out the bloody villain's brains—end had a good mind to do it; but as he could not get him off, he gore him "up Therelder Watson again reproved him fur sueireoncluets and he was the more certain of it, !itemise the Young,er Watson justified the aiding the prisoner to escape, llel also pitoluced a flag from his pocket, which, he said, Was his tlag, met that he would hare his heart cut out before it. should be taken from bias, He said the Spittiltields weavers had made,the silk, and that he had prepaied it. The witness said, pray, who do you suppose-would attempt to take it: from you! He spread it out, and the witness read the mottoo--- • " Nature to feed the Hungry. CO Truth' to protect the Oppreised. " Justice to punish Crimes." The witness said, I see no harm in the motto, and therefore why should yot ~ suppose any one wants to take it foul you? Healstos used some more violent 'language; upon which the witness told hiio, one of them should quit theerowa. Find ing himself aniuppOrtert by any one, lee rolled himself np,in his chair, and apparently fell last asleep. The witness naked wawa why b r ,brottacht stude a 0910 into tbe gout patsy ?, Wato, son said, he was a very good fellOw whias he was known; thet, he hod beets ill used by Goverement, which made bine foolish out eageokii seirnAltuti'il his langinnist:.•itt ',observed one eiNimcd, "fur God's sake, let that feilow alone." Some of the parry proposing to go, I desired that, Castles might be taken away with them. They attempted to woke Inm, nut could one succeed. Ile himself gut up, and used ate gentle toraint.t foe by that tints he was folk , convinced his site, was 64 a Awn ; he struck him a hard blow under the ribs, and, the party goiirg, gut up, and in a ntoment was as wide awake its any of them." Oo the day of the urxt hpa-fields Meeting he againmiet Castles in Cheapside, near 1:sow-Church, he had been in Essex, where he had never been before in order to avoid any communication with any person whatever; it want ed about twenty minutes to one, and he was driving a tandem very slowly, wishing to know the cause of the crowd that he. saw; Castles stepped up towards hint, but he hatf . no rvcollec- Gin of beckoning hitu, or indeed of seeing hint. before he stepped forward. He said to the witness, .why art ion so late ?—Witness replied, the Meeting was not until one t, dock, and it wonted 80 whittles, and lie shouid be in goad titer; Castles said the meeting had broken up fur these two hours, adding, We are going to the Tower, which has been ut our possession above two hours—come along!" The wit nest exclaimed—" d—d rascal," and struck his horses; he pro ceeded to Spa-fields, and there found the large.t meeting he ever saw; his 'servant. was also in the chaise when Castles spoke to him. Mr. William Bryant, an Attorney, and formerly Clerk of the Papers in this Court, was nest called, and examined by Mr. Serjeatit COP4EY. lEr confirmed Mr. Hunt's account of what had passed at the dinner in Bouverie-street, in every particolar. George Philpot has known Castles since June 181 1; anti front the general character of th-.t Individual, he does not thin!; him worthy of credit on oarh. * James Lawson hits khown Haywood, one Of 'the witnesses, hr may say from his infancy, mid he considered hint a pirsOn nut to he believed at any time on oath. William Hayden gave similar eodtmee. • Robert Curtis has known Haywood by the name of .1. W. Haywood, and found hini'a man who seltlon Initiiiej his pay' tarots, and who was not a g.oid dealer iu business. George Spnrrct has known 114wOod, who is a complete route, as witness will prove, it the Court see cause. Mr. J: Scott, Reporter of a Morning Newspaeer, war pre sent at the Meeting on the 2d of December. The toolusiois was so great, he could not lake a note of the proceedings, He was very near the waggon at the time young Watson was speaking, but could not collect what he said with any 'legless of accoracv. He believed Watson was saying something about the Prince Regent. Mr. S. Steer had heard Mr. Dowling say, in conversatimi, that owing to Isis connection with these proceedings, 1w had been introduced at the Home Department, and that himself and his brother had been employed; and tlie produce of their labour amounted tn'3ool. The evidence fern the Prisoner being closed, Mr. Serjcant COPLEY rose to address the Jury on behalf if the prisoner. The Learned Counsel look an historical re view of the statutes of treason, precisel,, in the same ordek pursued by Mr. Wethei ;• be also pursued the seine coarse io arguing the fot•in of the indiettnent against the prisoner, the leugth of wh:ch be declared to be unexampled iu Ole history of this country: Ha alto re-argued,' at soma length, the point of the offence, being, if proved, only a riots; and not.treason—a character which it only assumed ois the discovery of Castles. The ',rented Couosrl, af , er quoting the words of the Act of Edward`Vl. for the sup:?res siud of slots, asked what'proof'was there of previous collet rt and' conspiracy for the objects set lath in this imlict ment He forgot, there was proof; but it was the proof of Lasth s, Whose testimony he first meant to call upon theni to ex punge, but which he now wished them to retain, " as the pillar of fire by night, and the cloud by day," to guide them through this long and complicated ease. He agreed with the Attorney-fienerel, that an accomplice may be on evidence, so far as his testimony was corroborated; but did not the se quel Shew that it would be all impious mockery of justice td plaCe reliance upon his evidence. in no part of a case which had occupied a week (a strange length of time fur r, .plain inquiry to take) was the plot attempted to be sustained except by Castles. Lord ELLENB ROUGH asked ,Mr. Watson, if it was his, ill IC/1 !I A 0 ~1 Flt intention to avail hinir.elf of t he iodolgence the Court had granted to . hini, of addressing the Court, and, if he did, now was his time? Mr. Watson said, after the very able and eloquent manner in which lie had been defended by his Learned COunsel, he would trouble the Cant only to declare, that he never had any other wish but to seethe country governed in the wet) pointed out by the Cnn ion—by King, Lords, and Confmons. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose and said, that at length the time had arrived when it.becaine his duty to address the Jury. At any time he would feel himself incompetent to the task, but particularly oow, after the eloquence they hail beard. He had, however, the consolation to know he was addressing' ao F.nglith Jury. - The nature of thicoffenee was perfect' y use certained by the Court, in the Apprentices' case in the reign of Elizabeth, - when certain apprentices, to the amount of 4 or WO persons assembled, broke open gunsmith's shops to preol cure arms, and having devised labels to induce Others to toil; them, prheeeded with a trumpet and Itag.to compel' the I,ord Mayor to release horn prison some of their own butly. T 144 case was ruled to be treason, so Wog since as ()oven Eli4a boles reign, and yet his Learned Friend, the Attorney. Gerierel, was censored, al having now introduced a ITw. fangled treason, requiting the Jury to legislate, ri , t - to gi+ e their verdicts Upon faits est:et - mined and established:' Ag similar priliciple vets laid down by Judge Foster, .whig declared that-every 'rising to compel by violence 'the King to change his measures, although such rising was not attended with the p imp and eircifraltanee of wi,s, to ha treason within the Statute. The tidy question then tor Ihett Jury to ascertain was, the introit, and purpose with which tliv prisoners proceeded to Spa-fields, with which they diitrihuted their plac;,rds, awl broke open ill, gunsmiths! shops to pros cure arms, The Learned Getitlertutn; after commeitting upon the evirlerice at great length,' said, " before I con clude, let ott; remind , you, that if it be WU impqrtant case, as It effects the prisoner at the bar, it is of infinitely greeter importeke as it rev( cis the 'British Public. Your 'feel ings may be worked on by sentiments of compassion for tits , individual placed. in such -circuoistances—but .yon hive ; nit imperative duty to perform. ' You have bud addressed to. ' you various itilonnvots in support of the prit:irser's ceuee. If you can, as honest men, teeoneile the facts which have been stated with his innueence, you iwill.then ;toques-. tionahly be' bound to aquit bleu But it, as honest and fir men (for as Englishmen I know you time firm men;—it on a r calor inquiry into the subject—it, with feelings unbiassed by ally thing that has occurred without or within doors—il, 'lov ing divested Your minds of every. thing but the evidence, yolk are of opiniorr, that designs have been meditated agaiost the safety of the state, yon will express your opinion by a 'verdict! of %You will, Gentlemen, give all due weight to the arguments of my Learned Friends, as.welt as to the (Au rva thou which I most feelily (for I say unfeignedly, I feel my titter incompetence to the task imposed on me) halo:addressed to you which I hope you will nut distnissfrum your minds more than those offered tip he prisoner's Counsel. But Ido opperilio you as men and.hirorii, latrine due regard for the partyacetts od without any dispoitiou to draw anystrainedor forced conclu. shun for time purpose cif his incul...atiop, if looking to his con duct you see it Inivhed with traitorous designs to uvrtturn th•g, Govecntnclit—then I appeal to you for his cinvictioil‘ I state to sou, however inefficient the weans mere to the t0 ,,t,—,h0w., ever small a part of the plan had twen Ctketed—hoWerec rte gtigent the police were hi not putting the parties down, if any - such negligence can be imputed to them—these circtillt., stances do riot alter the case---us couseientious men, if such' affesign were harboured, I call *you, tu you estimate the . rights of the public - , as , you regard, your own peace and quiet in future, as you respect the duo adtuinistrafion of the law (and, thank God 1 . whatever other evils may murk ti xt s, it is still purely administered), to do thatjustiet «hiwit the British ilpects, by coniictiug h:a) ufthu crillic a icgctl tigalott him." SE V E NTH DAY.-11104 MY, Ju Lord ELLENIIOROUGH began his Address to the 3ory this mortlimf, Which, as it recapitulated the 'evidence of six, days}, tan only he given in it veil-brief thiscriptitin.. He began by telling the Jury, that now all the evidence veiny both on the part of the proseention and the priioner, their duty would commence, to jtulgc of the effect of that evidenco, its establishing tbc charge imputed to the prisoner at the bar. They must calmly and dispassionately consider over it, i o t a, pronounce that sel cOct which jostice and the law would war- The Treasons charged hy the indictment against the', 'inosoncrs were —Asti Twoef them Mt the ancient Statute of 26 Ed. lit. and two ton a inetlein statille of 117 Geo. Thclir:t wets that of eftipassing and imagining thedeath of the Kituci and under this branch Of Treason, it had alwitye been ittleds thattany attempt upon the Kingly Olfice, es to deo pose and imprison hiro, was tc compassing his death, because it w,a alwiivs considered that such violence led to the death of the King. 'the second Treason charged, was a compassing to de... p ose the King; this was made now a substantive 't reast n. though it was aivnyis held a civil act decisircof the other proceeding, of 'imagining the death of the King. 'rhe third , wa4 a levying war against the King And the fourth treason, e.nipiracy to levy war. With respect to the treason of • levying , war, it must' he levying war against the King, that is, against the Royal . . authority. • Any tumult tg Cal ry into Atc. - 4 a private ohjetl, in whi4b tits rioters might be Ina-