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General silence being then proclaimed,
^ Lord Ellenborough, in a style ofaw
ful solemnity. highly bUnting the mel
ancholy but jiilt occasion, addressed the
prisoners nearly to the following pur
port :
" YOU Edward Marcus Dfpard!
You, John Wood! You, Thomas Brough
ton ! You, 'John Francis ! You, Thomas
Neyman ! You, Daniel Tyndal ! You,
james Sedgwick Wratten! You, William
Lander ! You, Anthony Graham ! and
you, John M'Namara ! have been fev
eraliy indicted for traitorously conspir
ing against his Majesty's perlon, his
Crown, and Government, for the pvc
pofes of subverting the fame,and chang
ing the government of this Realm.—
To this Indictment you have severally
pleaded Not Guilty, and put youdelve^
for trial upon Cod and your Country ;
which Country has found you Guilty.
After a long, patient, and, I hope, just
and impartial trial, you have been all
of you severally convicted, by a most
refpedable jury of your country, upon
the several crimes laid to your charge;
In the course of evidence upon your
trial, such difclofores have been made,
as to prove, beyond the possibility of
doubt, that the objects of your attro
cious, abominable, and traitorous con
spiracy, were, to overthrow the Gov
ernment, and to seize upon and destroy
the sacred perfops of our august and
revered Sovereign, and the illuftripus
branches of his Royal House, which
some of you, by the most solemn bond
of your oath of Allegiance, were pledg
ed,' and all of you, as his Majesty's fub
jeds, were indispensably bound, by your
duty, to defend ; to overthrow that
Conttitution, its eftabii^ed freedom,
and boasted usages, which have so long
maintained amongst us that just and
rational equality of rights, and security
of property, which have been, fob so
many ages, the envy and admiration of
the world ; and to ere& upon its ruins
a.wild system of anarchy and bloodshed,
having for its object the subversion of
all property, and the mailacre of its
proprietors ; the annihilation of all le
gitimate authority & eftabliflied order ;
for such mud be the import of that pro
m'tfe, held out by the leaders of this at
trocious conspiracy, ®f ample provifien
for the families of " those heroes who
should Tallin the druggie." The more
effectually to ensure success in those di
abolical machinations, and to encour
age those who were to be seduced to
their support, .endeavours have been
made by you and your accomplices, to
seduce from their allegiance to their
Sovereign, the soldiers of His Majedy:
endeavors which, though they appear
to have been in too many instances fuc
cefsful, yet I hope falfely said to be in
sat extent which has been dated in evi
dence. Equally falfe, I hope, has been
another assertion, that two thirds of the
inhabitants of this country were ready
for a change, and prepared to support
and adopt such measures as were likely
to be most effectual for obtaining it; a
change, by which no less was contem
plated, than the subversion of all the
forces of law, order, and public justice,
and the fubditution of massacre, anar
and all their dire effects. It has,
pl^fed that Dife Pr,^
^mce, which has mercifully watched
Q die fafety if this nation, to def,
( ^r winked and abominable purpose,
LONDON, FEB. 11.
TANT of room, and the advanc
\ V ed hour at which the Court of
Special Commission bi oke up yesterday
morning, prevented us. from giving
the admirable and impressive Address
of the Lord Chief Judice, to the unfor
tunate pt ifoners, immediately previous
to his paring the final sentence of the
law. We have here, however, publish
ed it for the fatisfadion of our readers.
The usual question being put to the
prisoners at the bar, after their convic
tion, whether they, or either of them,
had any thing to fay, why sentence of
death, and execution thereupon, fhopld
not be awarded against them according
to law ; a few words were said by Mr.
Defpard, but the remainder of the pris
oners flood mute<
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HIGH TREASON !
by arresting your projects in their dark
and dangerous progrefs,and thus avert
ing that danger which your machina
tians had suspended over our heads ;—
and by your timely detention, seizure,
and fubttittal to public justice, to afford
time for the many thorfands nf H : s
Majesty's innocent and loyal subjects,
the intended victims of your attrocious
and fangdinary purpose, to escape that
danger which so recently menaced them,
and which, I trust, is not yet become
too formidable for utter defeat. Hap
pily for the families, and the persons of
thousands of your wicked and deluded
accomplices, your detention has in time,
I liope, served to avert the calamities in
which they would have inevitably invol
ved themfclv%, as well as their innocent
fellow-citizens. The vigilance of that
government unceasingly directed to the
public security, was not to be eluded
by the dark and myßer ious feepecy un
der which you endeavored to mat. your
wicked designs ; your very endeavors
to propagate and promote your project,
have been the sources of your defeat,
and thus it has happened, that when
you imagined your vile purpose: to be
nearest their completion, they have been
fortunately discovered by the very
means through which you intended to
put them in execution; and thus the
intended victims who were on the eve
ofrbeing involved in all the horrors of
your projects, have frefh cause to ac
knowledge with gratitude the goodhefs
es that all provident God, who has thus
timely, and I hope for ever, put a stop
to your diabolical plans.
"As to you, deluded victims of a
desperate and abandoned conspiracy,
before I conclude the awful talk which
remains for me to perform, 1 wish to
fay a few words to you on the enormity
of those crimes which have brought
you to your present melencholy and ig
nominious situation. And firft, you
Edward Marcus Defpard, in whom the
dignified pride of birth, thq advantages
of a liberal education, and the habits
of intercourse in that rank in which
your conduct was once so highly honor
able, and from whom the testimony
bore of your former conded, by the
honorable companions of your earlier
pursuits, adduced in this Court as wit
nesses for your character, flfculd have
induced us to exped widely different
conduct and principles. How grossly
have you misapplied and abused the
talents and opportunities which you
enjoyed for honorable diftin&ion in so
ciety ; and how have you degraded
yourfeif to the afTociation of those un
fortunate and wretched companions, by
whom you are now surrounded, in
whose ignominious fate you so jußly
fliare ; but who are the unhappy vic
tims of your fedudive persuasion, and
example. Ido not wiffi, at this awful
moment, to urge any thing to you, and
the degrading companions by whom
foil are surrounded, to sharpen the bit
terness of your feelings, under the igno
min,of your fate ; but I would most
earnestly and sincerely wish to impress
your mind, during the fh#rt period of
your remaining life, with a due sense
of your awful situation, and of the
criminal conduct which has involved
you in your present ignominious fate :
I would earnestly entreat you zealously
to endeavor to subdue the callous in
feniibility of heart, of which, in an ill
fated moment, you have boasted, and
regain that fanative affection of the
mind, which may prepare your foul
for that salvation, which, by the infinite
mercy of God, I beseech of that God
you may obtain.
" And as to you other unhappy prif
oners,the wretched victims of his reduc
tion and example, to what a dreadful
and ignominious fate have you brought
yourselves, and what sorrow and afflic
tion have been entailed upon your-wret
ched families, Sythe attrocity of your
crimes,and your purposed and fangum
ary attempts to subvert that happy
Constitution and Government, und^r
the mild protection of which you might
still have continued to pursue industri
ous avocations,& enjoy with comfort the
fruits of your honest labours ; and the
unexampled mildness and merciful ten
dency of whose laws you have this day
experienced in a long, a patient, a fair
and most impartial trial, before that
refpeCtable and difeerning Jury, who
have convicted you on the tnlleft and
most uncontroverted evidence of your
Feb.?.?, On the Bth in ft- the trial of Col.
Edward Marcus Deftard, John Wood,
Thomas Broughton, John Francis, Thomas
Newman, Daniel Tyndal, J. Sedgwick
Wrattan, William Lander, Arthur G=a
ham, John Macnamara, and three others,
came on before aSpecialCcmrmffion,cn
charges of intentions to compass the death
of the ling—to restrain and tmprifonfis
perform ; and to dethrone him from the file
and titse of the Imperial crown of his realm.
They all plead not guilty ; and their
trials took up the time until Wednes
day. Ihe counts were all proved ; the
jury brought in a verdict of guilty of
high treason against all the above named.
The jury recommenced Cel. Defyard to
mercy, on account of the high testimo
nials offered of his character and con
duct. Lord Ellehborough then pro
ceeded to address firft Mr. Lefphrd,and
afterwards the other prisoners, in a most
solemn, awful aRd impressive manner,
on the enormity of the offence, and pro
nounced the dreadful fertence of the
law against traitors, viz. hanging, dis
emboweling, beheading and quartering.
Yesterday Col. Defpard, with fix of his
associates were executed * the top of
the goal in Horfcmonger-lane, for high
treason. Os them M'Namara was a
journeyman carpenter. Graham a slater;
Wfattan a publican ; Broughton a buil
der ; Wood and Francis privates in the
foot guards. Before execution that part
of the sentence for diftmbowelling and
quartering was mitigated.
Yesterday an address palled the
House of Commons congratulating his
Majeftyon his providential escape from
the confpiraty which had lately been
detected against his person and govern
ment. —
Numerous and very large orders have
lately been received by the proprietors
of the worsted manufactories in and
near Norwich ; they exceed any that
have arrived for the last ten years.
Feb. 24. Letters from Malta fay,
that the French have a Beet in Marmo,
riffa bay in order to take poffeflion of
Alexandria, as soon as it shall be evac
uated by our garrison. We do not en
tertain the smallest idea that this event
will take place in the piefent Situation
of Europe. [Times.
According to letters from Naples of
the 15th ult. a thick smoke had arisen
from Vesuvius since the 9th, which was
regarded as the avant courier of new
eruptions.
guilt. May the awful and impres
sive example of your Untimely fate,
prove a warning to your,wicked affbei
ates and accomplices, in ,?ry quarter
of this realm, and induce them to aban
don these machinations yMeh have bro't
you tothi< dif,acc r 1^ vi^%)e May
they learn to avoid your fate by culti
vating the bleffngs of that Conditution
which you have calumniated and en
deavoured to subvert ; and by pursu
ing their honest and industrious avoca
tions, and avoiding political cabals and
seditious conspiracies, avoid all those
dreadful consequences in which they
themselves would moll probably be a
mongst the tirll victims.
" The fame earned advice I have
just given to your unfortunate Leader
and Seducer, I now offer to yoii, which
is to make the best use of the Hun t pe
riod of life now remaining, to make
your peace with an offended God for
your crimes and feel: mercy in another
life which the interest of your fallow
creatures will not differ to be extended
to you here.;
“ The only thing now remaining for
me, is the painful talk of pronouncing
against you and each of you, the aw
ful sentence which the law denounces a
gainlt your crime,which is,that youand
each 01you(here his Lordship named the
prisoners severally,) be taken to the
place from whence you canie, and from
thence you are to be drawn on hurdles
to the place of ;Execution, where you
are to be hanged by the neck, but pot
until you are dead ; for while you are
Rill living; your bodies are to i?e taken
down, your bowels torn out, and burnt
before your faces! your heads neto
be then cut off, and your bodies divid
ed into tour quarters, and your heads
and qum-tero to be then 3t the King's
disposal; and may the Almighty God
have Mercy cn your fouls.?
The whole of this pathetic Address
was heard with the molt profound 11
lence in the Court, and every eye was
fuffufed with tears.
American Senate.
0
opce^h oj Mr. Morris.
The f tewing speech, delivered in the Senate
of the U. States, by Governeur Morris, Esq.
on Mr.RoUh rtfolution, relative to Louisiana,
is perhaps the most brilliant fyecimen of elo
quence, ever exhibited in our national Legif.
lature. For acuteneb of obfervatio* ,noble
ness of sentiment, and a corred delineation of
what constitutes the glory and happiness of a
nation, few productions of the times can vie.
It deserves an attentive perusal from every
American.—The principle Should be cheriffi
ed and adopted by the present eera and reli
giously transmitted to posterity. It is indeed
so excellent that it should be preferred and
bound up with the mod valuable works.
On the 16th Feb. Mr. Ross, after a very able
introductory speech, which has already been
published, in most of the ne.vfpaperi, submit
ted to the Senate of the United States, a num
ber of Resolutions, which have already
been published.
After Mr. Ross fat down, Mr. Morris moved
an adjournment. This was refufed. He then
rose and addressed the Prefidert as follows :— —
Mb. President,
TRISE with reluctance cn the present
occasion. The lateness of the hour
forbids me to hope for you, natient at
tention. The fubje&is of, it impor
tance, as it relates to othe ountries,
and Rill greater to our owl : yet we
must decide on grounds uncertain, be
cause they depend on ciicumliances not
yet arrived. And when we attempt to
penetrate into futurity,after exerting the
utmost powers of teuton, aided by all
the lights which experience could ac
quire, our clearest conceptions are in
volved in doubt. A thonfand things
may happen which it is imnoffble to
conjecture, and which will influence the
course of events. The wife Governor
of all thingshath hidden the fetmefiom
the ken of our feeble understanding. —
In committing olirfelves, therefore, to
the examination of what may hereafter
arrive, we hazard reputation on con
tingencies we cannot command. And
wheii events (hall be paft^we fliall be
judged by them, and not by the reasons
which,we may now advance.
There are many fiibjeds which it is
not easy to underhand, but it is always
elfy to misrepresent, and when argu
ments cannot be controverted, it is not
difficult to calumniate motives. That
which cannot be confuted may be mis
tated. The purest intentions may be
blackened by malice ; and envy will
ever fofter the fouled imputations —
This calumny is among the fore evils
of our country. It began with our
earliest success in feventy-eighi, and, has
gone on with accelerated velocity and
encreafing force to the present hour. —
It is no. longer to be checked, por will
it terminatebut in that sweep of general
deßru^ion, to which it tends with a
step as fare as time, and fatal as death.
I know that what 1 utter will he mis
understood, mifrepref^nted, deformed,
and distorted ; but we mult do our du
ty — This I believe is the latt feene of
my public life ; it flr:11, like those which
preceded, be performed with candour
and truth. Yes, my noble friends [ad
dreffing himfelf to the federal senators
near him] we (hall fobn part to melt
no more. But however Separated,and
wherever diiperl;d, wz knew that w^
are united by just principle and true
sentiment. A sentiment, my country,
ever devoted to yoh, which will expire
only with expiring life, and beat in the
last pulsation of our hearts.
Mr. President, my object is peace. I
could assign many leafons to (hew that
this declaration is sincere.. But can it
be necessary to give this Senate any 0-
ther affiirances than my word? Not
withstanding the acerbity of temper
which results from party strife, gentle
men will believe me on my word. I
will not pretend, like my hon. colleague
(Mr. Clinton,) to defetibe to you, the
waste, the ravages, ^nd the horrors of
war. I have not the fame harmonious
periods, nor the fame musical tones ;
neither (hall I boafl of chrihian charity,
nor attempt to display that ingenuous
glow of benevolence so decorous to the
cheek of youth, which gave a vivid tint
to every sentence he uttered, and was,
if possible, as impre Eve even as his elo
quence. But though w^ poflefs not the
lame pomp of words,our hearts are not
insensible to the woes ofhumanity. We
can feel for the misery of plundered
towns, the conflagration of defencelrfs
mit. By submission we may indeed
hav^ peace alike precarious and igno
minious. But is this the peace which
we ought to seek? Will this fatisfy the
just expedator, of dur country ? No.
Let us have peace permanent, secure,
and, if I may use the term, indepen
dent : Peace which depends not on
the pity of others but on our own force.
Let us have the only peace worth hav
ing, a peace consistent with honor.
A gentleman near me (Mr. Jackson)
has told us the anecdote of an old
courtier, who said that the interest of
his nation was the honour of his nation.
I was furprized to hear that idea from
'''"' gentleman. But it was not his own.
Such is that gentleman's high sense of
his personal honour, that no interest
would induce him to facrifice it. He
would not permit the proudest prince
on earth to blot or foil it. Millions
would notpurchafe.his honour,and will
he fee! less for the honour of his coun
try ? No, he Will defend it with his best
blood. He will feel with me that our
national honour is the best security for
our peace and our profperity.,l That
it involves at once our wealth and our
power. And in this view of the fub*
jest I must contradict a sentiment which
fell from my honourable colleague (Mr.
Clinton.) He tells us that the princi
ple of this country is peace arid com#
merce. Sir, the avowal of fach priri#
ciple will' leave us neither commereg
' nor peace. *
villages, and the devastation of cultur
ed fields. Turning from these features
cf general dirtrefs, we can enter the a
bodes of private affliction, and behold
tbe widow weeping as (he traces, in
pledges of connubial affection, the
tefemblance of him whom the has loft
forever. We fee the aged matron
tending over the allies of her son.—
He was ber darling ; for he was gene,
rous and brave, and therefore his spirit
led him to the field in defence of his
country. Wecan observe another, op.
pretfed with unutterable anguish. Con
-odemned to conceal her aftebtion forc
ed to bide that passion which is at once
the torment and delight of her life ;
(he learns that those eyes, which beam
ed with sentiments are closed in death;
and his lips, the ruby harbinger of joy,
lies pile and cold, the miserable ap
pendage of a mangled corpse. Hard,
hard indeed mud be that heart which
can be insensible to feenes like these,
and bold the man who dare present to
the Almighty Father a confeience
crimsoned with the blood of his chil
dicn.
Yes, fir, we with for peace: but how
is the blessing to be preferred ? I (hall
repeat here a sentiment I have often
had occasion to express. In my opin
ion there is nothing worth fighting for
but national honor • for in the national
honor is involved the national indepen
dence. I know that a state may find
itielf in such unpropitious circumflan
ces, that prudence may force a wife
government to conceal the sense of in
dignity. But the infilt should be en
graven on tablets of brass with a pencil
of Reel. And when that time and
cliance which happen to all (hall bring
Forward the favorable moment, then
let the avenging arm ftrikehome it is
by avowing ^nd maintaining this Rern
principle of honour, that peace can be
preferred. But let it not be supposed
that any thing I fay has the slightest al
lusion to the injuries fuflained from
Fiance while fullering in the pangs of
herrevolution. As soon should I up
braid afick mart for what he might;
have done in # he paroxifms of disease.
Nor is this a new sentiment ; It was
felt and avowed at the time when these
wrongs were heaped cn us, and I ap
peal for the procf to the files of your
Secretary of State. The destinies of
France were then in the hands of monfr
ters. By the decree of heaven (he was
broken on the wheel, in the face of the
world, to warn mankind of her folly
and madness. But these feenes are
past away. On the throne of the Bour
bons is now seated the firft of the Gal
lic C%fars. At the head of that gal
lant nation is the great, the greatest
man of the present age. It becomes u$
well to confider his situation. The
things he has achieved compel him to
the achievment of things more great-
In his vast career ,ve mull soon become
objects to command attention. We
too, in otir turn, muff contend or sub