The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-28 00:00:00

the day tad read ; acd, had not the rabid nntense hr
hied given isthmuses to been es i,ited in the publ e
prints, Mr. Coffey would have b en unheard of, and he
would am sow be at the bar of this court. lie called on the
jury to treat the quietism at lose in a rreetical, every-day
manse, and to weigh well the geodetic* of the men
who wee. milled cm to prove the charge. And if they found
that t'se unmans for the mono were much as they would not
tesit la any of the ordinary tranesstiinis of life, he called
wpm them to raisin their evidence with distrust ea the pre-
en* ose akin. The learned strotimoteartal might all them
Meet Vila re was o;hev evident' wMA sealrmed the Metemat
Kan witaemee, however isfassoes, it would be ralkiest to
the jar; in rec. bug hie terbium. That was veil
_teas, ‘4 the remarmatcry evideme praised in this ease,
however it might bs applimble to prows a gosuld design,
was not at ail epplicable to the three approvers Mae swim pro-
duce! by the crown. With regard to the temsbiasues for
the chart. r. it spawns!, from what had ormarred at these
Irk*, that it wan • most esteems" ausfidersey,
sad, it appeared to hi" to be perfectly legal. The
plots of the ei meter were a fit merest for legal kgitiittes.;.
bat an Illegal character might be Own to mesh agitator, it
pumas emplojed by the geseram at became imaged in it
be the peep see of tuning it to criminal pupates. There
wen many genet club. or societies In this country which were
net illegal, as the Fr. mew* end the society of Odd Fellows.
New, ohtde n. was a elects...rely an at, 'suet of seemly.
were the venous called to prove this me 7 Tee
whole of the e in. had bees commences. coeeocted, and curried
ow by Powell, one of the wont of characters—a man who
was nee only ea accomplice and a spy. but who entrarped
edam Into W. acts a'imit which he afterwards intended to
give evideoce eg Snit them. According to kis own state-
room., his lite, from the earliest ix rood, was • time of ta-
limy. It would not be nussere for him to go through his
evidence, same jut y had marked the manner in which hy gays
has testimouy, and had taken . opisua notes of it. The son
who h d spent a port of hie life as • decoy at • roulette
table at tit men akilliage per day, was just the
person who was likely to aR3 similar meats to
entrap undeuining men. He it was who, according to
his own coulees on, bought powder sad made hand-orm
maks, and oh s pr.dond pikes le tore the meeting. What
object costa b • ban in thus acing but to cute the unions
dill Chtflit a to that point when the police could legally
interfen with them? Then a person unite I Davis was pro-
duced Of him 'Ss y had he ..d nottd g till he had lam
produced is the witnesimbos ; they could therefore have no
ooportunity of pr -curing ev:.l, nee to rebut his testimony,
Till mid-.ley )estvelay they hal never heard of this person.
For ought t..cy knew, he was a man of equally infamous
character wit' Powt.l. The government must have been
acquainted with his eviction •; they most have knows that he
took copioas nein. and that he had detail. of circumatenese
about aich,Pswell spumesd in he entire', ignorant. Why,
the.., hal not this ma been produced before? Why,
bemuse the cow of the prose. ohm had been ut-
terly destroyed by the breaking down of Powell's evidence..
How many m .re of this. wit noes were behind ? Perhaps
when the d. strayed the evidence of Davis, as they did that
of Powell, •nu other new spprover would be produced. He
Celled on the jury, therm's°, to look with suspicion on the
temiosony us Days. Was it not clear that he was kept
back as • relay to prep up the evidence of Powell. He denied
that any lamest, romp. etsble traommen would become • mem-
ber of a shaman association f.r the mere purport of turning •
spy sad an infoim r. He believed that the fate of the prisoners
depended or the en hence of Davis. The jury would nos
he thought, give much weight to the testimony of Pow*
sad Barrett, end then there was only this sew wham.
Da is, this ruseetable tradesmen of Greenwich, who did
met think it diegranful to become • spv against his messiallees
He did sot thick the evidence of such a I*llolll will add
mash to the strength of the antimony of the Ohre wit.
awes& foe lathed gentiaman then dwelt an the fact that
se document had be. n pro:need to confirm the truth of the
int lime of either Powell or Did/. If they had been
lag the truth, how account fur the feet that ow ausesu
K • criminal nature had been found ea their peewits se to
their homes. Ins learned gentleman concluded by tolling
ea the Jere to supply icy omissions he might have made,
and to weigh the case with *4 good sense for which English
Juries were always characterised.
Mr. Piny thin addressed the jury on behalf of the an-
num Faye, and said, that it would hardly have been asses-
vary her him to do so at all, after the eloquent address alb
beamed friend, but that there were some emcialities In hie
is.., which made it somewhat different from that Mt
the ether arbours. His eii7nt was e yetis, boy, and be
was anladantially, though nut in weer, charged with high
treason, that is, toss he imagined and compassed the death
of the quell, and intended to deprive her of her queenly
title. Let an a.t of parliament baptise the crime
as it would, they had to try the mere lad in the dash
for this great crime. Bat it did not appear that any of the
prisoners bad surest a word of disrespect against bet
idejesty. flappeuing that the prisoner Wended /nimble,
that he even intended plunder, would the jury say that he
was platy of treason It wee for the jury to determine that.
The crown lawyers of the dls of Lord Game Gordon did
not venture to charge him with high trump, although a
mob under his leadership held possession of London
for some days. Thu nature of the charge thialitgade
that
to try was of comersetive treeme,—•
against which the most constitutional lawyer of Heelball
had set their lams. This nu the very first instance to
which an indictment for high treason and conspiracy bad
been preferred on the same facts. Why was tits? Why.
because the attorney-pserel had no faith in getting a au
victims for high treason ; and if he was defeated in this he
bad sLatlttr indictment for saisdemanour, on which he
would try them. Ile begged of the jury to consider that fest.
Bo much for the nature of the charge. Who were the per►
sons produced to establish it? Three men, on whole
single %team ,ny —am, he would it'd, on Wiese
united teetintncy—the j icy would not be wersimesi
in firing a verdict of guilty if not corroborated by odder
proof. They had seen enough of Powell. But a new wit-
ness had been produced in the person of Davis. Was he
more entitled to credit than Powell? Was ha not a off ?
Would they beli. vs that an honest tradesman would Wt.
upon himself all the infamy the: attached to a government
spy for 3s. 6,1. a day ? Was he not laughing in the fame of
the jury when he told them such a story ? He believed
that every one of the jury was an honest am honourable
man, end he would put it to them whether they
would set as this lamest tradesman of Greenwich
had done. No, he defied them to reconcile the conduct of
this man Davis it he was not quite is bad se say of the other
witnesses. He could not think that the attorney-general
had setae more probable account to give of this man Davis.
Powell was thrums, by his own confession. Barrett and
others had confessed to several crimes, and it was but natural
to in 6 r that something deroguory would be brought home
so Davis, if they had an opportunity of investigating his cha-
racter. The fact is, they were all scoundrels, and he warned
them against the euphuism of the attorney-general, who
meld tell them that he was a respectable tradesman of
(hosawieh. When this fellow 'mid that he was a shop
• thrill of delight seemed to run through the veins
!ifr attorney-gager. He well knew the infamous mats.
aislehe hail to trust to, and, knowing the value of • unmet-
alto witoen, he seemed unable to awaits himself at the
limaght of having•shopkeoper. Would anyone of thensehehe
bendettumorrow with the respectable trading* who beiama
,Mthe good of his country. Powell proved that sash of
icetin who was to take part in the Insurrection wan to
bide ico Ica r wristband, in order that they might be knows
to Milt other. It was • meat remarkable feet that
boa • siegl• one of these beads was found.
end that in Ritehis'e house the day after a smut
was made in it, and when Powell had bad an amour
city of putting it theme The turned gentlemen meat eat*
show that Powell had been at the bottom of the what wise.
that he hal °moored and etoadmed the conspires/
for the purpose of afterwards betraying thetas
Five of the witnesses were half ememplkee and hall spies;
and if the evidence of one of them was of we vamp, their
united t. strum, could not give any mbildmal weight to
that evidence; because, of course, all briar approvers,
they wouoi all swear what was swore to by one. There
was no sufficient evidence on which to bring • verdict of
guilty optima lay. Na weapons had been found at his
lodgings. The attorney-general bed alluded to Fret and
Mitchel, and dwelt upon their case, with the view—for
there could be no other—of pre jodicing the priaue,
at the Mr. But he w mid not allow his client to
. tried by any such teat; his client should be tried by
the 'videos)* sad the 'sidestep alone. He would now goor
mad to call +dosser who would tell them something of
the chageeter of Powell, and prove that be bid
used the meat diesinting language respecting the
authorities, and used all hie endeavours to deceive and ended
others. He sailed ea them d. try the prisoner by the rules di
laity es well as of justice, and not to sanction by Oak
'enlist the system of moor spies, which was submsive of all
paws and private morality.
Hoddleemese *es rose to eddies' the jury, when the
wort adionneed for refreshment.

SEIZURE OF ILLICre 80AP.—An =Unitive seizures
c. of map illicitly manufactured under very einem-
stances was made yesterday by Mom. Pepe and
Ilarriaon, surveying examiners roma of an the
premises of an old established rap4maallailarr in the
City, and who hue for pan atrial at • my famishing
trade. From inketnauon masked, the above elan visited
the premises a few days sine: but alter a largand diligent
search, they were unable to discover anything I. bear out
the information they had received, and without making any
observatioa, returned to the chit i odes Is Breadotroit.
After the lapse of a few days, feeling by a• awn sett led
with the result of their visit, they returned to the
remises, taking another person (Nicholls) in company,
well acquainted with the 1 °entity, when even a closer
search was made than !afire, but nothing could be
found connected with their information. Whoa about leaving
a second time, Nicholls took up a box of iron, and commenced
sounding the walls, and when he eame to that part of the
soap house at the further t ad, a bellow wood appeared to
arise. At length it was discovered that sear the film were
some loose bricks, which upon being removed left a hole
large enough to par a pail through into a small lodestar,
behind, bar' not suflicAmit to allow tie passage of a man, and
considerable curiosity we. manifested so to how it was to be
approached. The nearest building was a stable (also lx.
longing to the wigmaker), approached 1 y another street;
and this next berate a piece for loveetigation; but no wens
of ingress er egress could be observed except the usual stable.
door entrance, and it was almost concluded there could be no
connexion with any other presniess• but feeling strong in
the truth of their information, the Akers were determined
not to give up while any chance remained of fluting
the object of their sesreb. They accordingly renewed It,
and dise,vcred under the manger, a few inches from the
flooeine, a board shout 6 feet long and 12 or 14 inches wide,
which appeared to have been recently nailed up. [kis was
=ly removed, when it was at oasis evident bow the en-
behind the soap-hoar was approached. By lying
dowt, a matt ould this gat into lb* °psalm sad 1111 into
ht enahruie. The offeet t Ora soon nada this way