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CoIIO.VER'S INQUEST.

Last night, at half past sit o'clock, a Coronet's
Inquest WAS held on the body of _lwo Bonny. the
untoitunAte woman who was found floating in the
New River, on Wednesday morning last.
The brother to the deceased first came forwards
and said, his sister, Anne Bonny, had been a mar-
ried woman, and had five children, one of which
was at present alive. Her Irish in I had parted from
ner about five years since, bat he net having seen
the deceased for some months back, nor even the
uody since it was taken out of the water, the Caroller
did not think it necessary to examine him on oath.
The next witness called was Charles Kirwnod, a
lad of about sixteen years of age, he deposed, that
he was, on lVednessiay morning List, between five
And six o'clock, with his fellow-Apprentice, fishing in
the New River, near the bridge at Sadlers Wells.
He observed something like a bundle of cloaths
floating on the water, and called to his companion,
who, on coming up and examining, minutely, saw
the back hi a person's head. They at first sent a
dog in for the pat: pose of getting her nearer the bank;
but that plan not succeeding, they procured a pole
with some nails in it, with which, and.by the assist-
ance of the boys' master, who chanced to pass, tLey
brought the body to the bank. She was dressed
very well, but her cap and bonnet had fallen off ;
had rings in her ears, and on her fingers; in her
pocket were found a shilling, a pocket-book, and
some trifi.ng articles. 'Che witness thought she had
a bruise on her left temple, and another on her
cheek ; but they did not appear as if they were the
cause of her death. He intorm:d the parish officer,
who had her conveyed to St. James's church, and
p'oted in one of the vaults.
SYsaiiAlt Thorn, a sieve maker, in the Curtain
Road. deposed to the person of the deceased; s!ir
had lived with him as house-keeper, Is t ,t-nut
months since, and he war obliged to part from her
on account of her being almost continually intoxi-
cated. After she left aim, s'ite worked at the tailor's
business, and. he believed, was conneeed with a
journeyman tailor, of the name of Oakley. After
seeing the deceased on Wednesday evening last,
the witness went to Oakley, and asked him, whether
ie had seen Ann Bonny lately, and how sh t WAS ?
Oakley, being then not vety sober. said he had seen
her not long before, sad that she was then very
well, as he had appointed to meet her that evening.
Thorn then told him that she was dead ; but he
would not believe him. The neat morning the
witness went again to Oakley, and begged of him
to endeavour to find out Anne Bonny, as, unless he'
could produce her before him, he would not be-
lieve ; hut that it was her body which was lying in
the vault of the church. Oakley then went out;
and after being away for near half an hour, he re-
turned, and said, it was true enough she WAS a
corpse at Clerkenwell.
William Oakley was then called, and said that
he had known the woman for some time; the last
time he saw her Was on Monday last, when he met
her in the street, and she appointed to meet him on
Wednesday evening. He then related that the other
witness had come to him, and said his reason for
saying she was well was that he had seen her so
short a time before, and that she had promised to
meet him that night. The nest morning, when
Morn came to him, he went. according so his wish,
to a house of call for tailors, where she used fre-
quently to be, and was there informed that she had
disappeared on Monday, and was then lying dead at
St. Jaynes Church.
Thomas Jackson, a hair-dresser, living near the
witness Thorn, said he had seen the deceased about
three months since ; she came into his shop to have
her hair cut, and was at that time a little in liquor,
she several times altered her mind about the tom
she would have her hair cut in, and after getting
some gin and water. said Thorn had not treated her
well, and sbe was resolved to put an end to herself,
and told hirre he would hear of her being drowned
in the Nest Ittwer before it was long.
The brother tie the deceased again came forward,
and said lie hetY.e.o. the body of his sister ; it ap-
peared to hien that some violence had been used w'th
her, as one of her eyes was nearly out of the so..kets
he therefore waked to know whether Any thing np-
peered in evidence which would warrart a suspicion
of such a nature ? rhe C:, sruner informed him no
thing had come out in evidence, and that the present
appearance ot the deceased wigs the effefl of time, as
it was not owed that any material marks of violence
appeared when she was taken OW; of the water.
Ihe Coroner then briefly observed on the evi-
dence to the Jury, who, in a short time, returned a
eedia— Fatidnd ar,*-tied; goie Cease link,issm.

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Fifty Pounds given by the ci i (.1 York. achle.l to st
S.ihscription Purse, for live year olds, Bd. 71b.
Vtair miles.
Mr. bh. re•grom, by KinK FYreu4 . • t
Lard Strath•naates Lime nbranc-r. P.f.l•nr . . t •
hurd Foram, lu.rat's Ley Maly, P.,:a . . S.
Duke if.A.,siltsga's eh h. by . . . 4
High odds against the winner: 4 food race.
Sweepstakes" of SORB each, h. ft. f r colts Est.
and fiiiies 7st. 131 b TIM., miles.
Lohd rataYil:sattia bay c,lt, by 4:l‘. fe:yr . t . .
Sr M. .1 Sykee4 S.. Lamy:el-Y. by 0 'nilf • • g
Wehtwortis'• lippeht ~, sinca..sc.,c•es .
Irrd Ccsailhant's dseir hn e by •isre nernei,in .Pd
‘ir.T•Xabi'maa'Y b.:lll...filte. (lit, dam us Young Mark p(11
4 n.. 4 5 to 1 against the winner.
A Sweepstakes or fisslgs each h. ft. colts Bst. CIF.
Bst. Three miles.
Sir II T. Vane's ea't, hi S.. w .9ossisseer.
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THE EAR', OF JERSEY:
Thursday morning died. gt Timbridge-WeU4
aItORGC Ike,SY V:l.Litits, Ear) nt JeTs..y,
Vtl. ars of Dartford, and Darin of 1100, m Kent,
and Viscount GN Ar, DtSoN, of Ireland. H., ..c.rdi•
shi? was in his 71st year. He was on a •i:it to
Viscount and Viscountess Vtt.stalts, at their h
Prospeet Lodge, and had accompanied them that
morning to the Wells. Upon his return from the
walks to Prospea Lodge, after dristki:g the waters,
be /Al down in a fi• and instantly expi.ed. e
body of his Lordship was taken to a lodgi 14' house
in Vale Royal, where it at .present remain.. His •
Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by
&react, Viscount VlLLiene, his eldest *or, who
married Lady SARAH Yana. His Lordship has
lett another scr," the H"nouyable A use
ousrcs Heise v, in t/;...asusy, who, June 4. 19
by His NI AJLAT Y's aultotity, assumed and tcrk the
surname of MASISILI., pursuant to the will fLo VISA
B , late Baroness VIIMION, and a son, born
in I 7 fS. H s daughters are: Lady Wis. R. itELL,
Lady Amite WitslaM•le, Lady P•at r, Lady S.
&saucy, Lady Femmes PoNsmsav, and Lady
11•RRILT, unmarried. H;s Lordship married the
beautiful Miss Fa•nces fwiststa, heiress to the
Rev D tlor PHILIP Tvirsosu, late Bishop of Rr
steo4 in Ireland, who survives his 1./mdship.

VISCOUNT diVONMORZ.

Died on Monday morning, at his.house at Forty-
field, near Ita..hfainharn, Ireland, the Hoe. BAK sty.
Lord Viscount Nvosi %soar, Barm wafer I m
Chief Baron of Majesty's C. gr! o; Es&
and Registrar of the Hiatt Conrt r.f
Ireland. His Lordship was calk., w tae fiar the
year 1764, and appointed Attorney-Cereral ice
1782; lions' which office. upon the d a cf Inet
lamented W•LECII Hussar Bs; atm: he was 23..7
vanced to the Chief Scat on the Exchequer Benc4,l
in the year 1783.
His Lordship was, we believe, near seventy yenrt
of age. He rose to his high rank and statien by-
mere force of talent, having been one of the ale's!
accomplished scholars, profound lawyers, and e:.-
qu..,nt orators that ever adorned the Irish bar, cc the
Irish senate. •
His Lords!-dp is succeeded in his titles by the lion.
t LLIASt YELVER I ..)K, now Lard Viscount Av.) s-
.4jltE, who is ma: r.ed to M•ay, eldest daughter sf
JOHN READ, Esq. c i Fireharn, Haml.shire.

A letter received in town last night, from an niS•
eer on board the DiLgenes s'oNs of war, off Boo-
'esne, states, that's division of the French f!rtilla
came out of that port on Monday. and eugagea our.
cruisers. The thickness of the f•g and smoke pre-
vented us from capturing two of the enemy. Ano-
ther affirm took place on Wednesday, in which the
rudder of the DifiLrerice was struck by a s.hell, her
foretop and main brace shot away, and one of her
midshipmen killed.
'1 he success of the present Lottery chews what
may be done by an ingenious and judicious arrange-
ment of Prizes ; for, indep:ndent of its having an
equal number of Capitals, with Lotteries that have
contained five nr ten thousand more Tickets, all the
Blanks, for several days, will be entithid to Wen
Pounds each. It seems to be the general opinion,
that the whole will be sold before the Drawi-.g com-
mences.
We received yesterday, a letter froth a gentle•
man, at Chesterfield, desiring us to contradict, in
the most positive terms, the account given in this '
Paper, of three French Generals. p-isoners of war,
at that place, having been stopped on the lath
instant, by three fellows, armed with bludgems,
and robbed, no such event having taken place.
The paragraph, we believe, first app.ared in a
provincial Paper, and was thence copied hues the
London Prints. 'the falsehood certainly did sot
originate in this Paper.
At the late assizes held at Exeter, a cause was
tried before Sir Samoan Lt 81, AMC and a special
jury, 'Arch considerably interested the inhabitants,
of the county in general, and of the northern part
of it in particular. It was brought by Roacar
Ncw CON INC ILDON, Esq. against Rico site Iscti.
Dom EL: av. Esq. and others, on a charge of falsely
and maliciously, and without any reasonable or
probable cause whatsoever, indiaing and causing
and procuring him to be indifted for perjury. The
bill of Indian-rent was found by the pan! jury at
the last Epiphany Sessions, and two f the De.end.
ants, Hitt and Wit Li A sts, were examined At wit-
nesses in support of it. Sion aver, however, the
finding the bill, a defeft was discovered in it, and it
was therefore deemed advisable, for the purpose of
resenting expence and trouble to Mr. lac 11.1,011.
to abandon the prosecution, and give him notice of
it; and the great question in the trial was, wheti-er
there was a probable cause for suopsfling the Plain-
tiff to have been guilty of the perjury or not and,
after a full hearing. a false swearing was most clear-
ly and satistetorily roved. The Learnad judge
dires!led a nonsuit, by which die pntlenirn who in.
stunted the prosecution for the perjury have been
relieved fcom th- imputation rhtown on their chi.
ra&ers, of their ha.. :it wantonly and without e
probable cause, instituted so setione ischarge. The
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danages were laid at 10,0001.

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COURT If.4RTIAL.

Qop.sTIONILD by TUE PROSECUTOR.

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INK-settings at a Ctneral Court Martial, hit lat Hun, Ant 2,
1845, II Atte of a Warrant to Lieutenant General Vest.,
comminuting His Maje,ty's Forces in the Yorkshire Distrift,
for the trial of E ,sigi! Dadlc, of the ca Royal Lincoln Mi-
litia, irpqn A Charge preferred against hint, by Colorist
commanding the ad Royal Lincoln Militia.
14t11111ERI
Lord Visc.nint CRANLEY, Preiirtent
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David Rae, Royal West Midellese:
Major W. Bird, Royal West Middlesex
Major Holbetch, lst Warwick
Major E. Bayley, Royal West Middlesex
Captain J. Taylor, Royal West Middlesex
Caputo T Townshend, Ist Warwick
Captain N. Binlev, 2d Royal Stirrer
Captain E Wtngheid Dickinson, Ist Warwick
Captain 2d Royal Surrey
Captain C.O. lit Warwick
Lieutenant R Cotor, Royal Went Middlesex
Lieutsnaot W. Maddock, Royal West Midd.oleit
Lieutenant W. Syr/1,4)u, lit Warwick
Lieutenant S. Rohinurn, Yd Warvrieft.
The members being me:, and seated according to
seniority, the prisoner and audience admitted, the
warrant was riont, empowering Lieut.-Gen. Vyse to
assern:At! the Court Martial, together with his order
kr that purpose ; also the deputation to Capt. T. W.
Vaughan to ael as Deputy .rndge Advocate; the
members names were then called over; the prisoner
ohjesctin7 to none ; the cnurt was sworn, as well as
the Deputy Judge Advocate. The charge was
then read :

Fix improper awl tingentlereanlike eondinfl, and enhecom.
ing ..n officer, in outing latignaye against the Colonel and Lieu-
teitalt-Coloncl of the regiment, on tlis 14th June, ISO, tend-
ing to su►vert all order and military discipline.
(Signed) N. KING,
Commanding the Third Royal Lincoln Militia.
To this charge the prisoner pleaded Net Guilty.—
Colonel King was then called upon, who produced
a paper, which was read and delivered to the Court-,
of which the following is a corred copy :
Little did I expect, and less could I wish, to have appeared
before this Court, in the pro-crution of an officer is ray own
regiment. To extenuate the vrmrs of the iinfoitunate, and
even to forgive hiding injuries, is a lesson which we are taught
by humanity to adopt.
But when the character is attacked, not by an avowed end
open enemy, brit in a save: and clandestine manner, it would,
when discovered, chew a pusillanimity to overlook it, as also a
emiseiousnes. of deserving it.
If indulgence has the power of creating respect, er the mad-
leetion of past favours of producing rat node in the heart, very
different treatment I might expect to have received_ Should it
he urged by Ensign Dadky in his deft nee, that his confinement
has been severe, the severity amm from the iniuppliceticas of
ithr indulgence unfelt had been granted, fitr, instead of walking
Got for his health, whien be 'solicited, he was seen at a place of
public retort.
The irreguMrity of his conduct justified the act. Ily the or-
der of the different General. of each garriwm, Ensign D.leey
was put underelOse anted. If then, from the evidence r loch I
shall produce before the Costa, 1 eau sufficiently establish the
charge preferred against him, 1 trust you will do me the Ito.
Da;ir lo acknowlege !. re acted from a duty I owe to the
gerri:e, as atm for the vindication of tar own character and
Conduct. _

Colonel Kin.; then stated to the Court, that on the
14:h ofJune, be heard from Lieutenant Pitchford,
that, at Lieutenant Walpole's Lodgings at Beverley,
Ensign Willey had used very disrespedful language
towards Wood King, the Prosecutor, and the Lie.s-
tenant-Colonel. calling them two d—d scoundrels ;
in cqnsequence of which the Prosecutor sent for En-
sign Dadiey, .n order to put him under attest, or
give him tk I.berty of leaving the regiment. '1 o
substant.: !e Ole charge, Colonel King called upon
4.acutunant Thompson, w:to was duly sworn.

Q. Were you at Lieutenant Walpole's lodgings,
at Beverley, on the 14th of.lune A. I was.
Q. Was Ensign Dadley in company with you ?
A. He was.

Q. D;J you hear him mike use •f any disrespeet-
ful language against Lieut.-Col. Brackenbury and
me ? A I conceive I did
Q. Please to state to the Court what that language
was ? A. I heard Ensign Dadle; say, that they
(i. e. the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel) were two
scoundrels.
CROIIII-ERA MINCD lIV THE PRISONER.
Q Have not you, since I have been under arrest,
declared to.se*eral cfficers of the regiment, that you
never heard me speak disrespedfully of the Colonel
or Lieutenant-Colonel, or any other officer in the re-
giment ? A. Not to the best of my knowledge.
• Q. Were you not asked, when you left Mr. Wal-
pole's quarters, on the 14th of June, what conversa-
tion had passed there, and by whom were you asked
that? A. I was not
.; not at that time.
Q. Did you not say so at my quarters on the 14th
of June, in presence of Captain Preston and Lieute-
nant Walpole ? A. I said I was asked, but not at
that time.

Q. Who -mas it that asked you? A. Col. King.
Q. Have I ever endeAvomed to excite in your mind
s disposition to subvert order and ? A.
Not at all.

The Court having no farther questions to put,
Lieutenant Pitchford was duly sworn; but his evi-
dence being only hear-say, was obje9ed to by the
prisoner, and the objection waS allowed by the
Court.

LIZUTINAIIt IVIILPOI.2 ani.• SWORN.

Questioned by Prosecutor—Was Lieut. Thomp.
son At your lodgings on tht 14th ofJuaa last? A.
He eras

Questioned by the Court—Was Emir' Dadley
in company with Mm at that torte t A. Hr was
there.

Q. Doting the time that Ensign Dadley was
these. did you hear him make use of any disrespect-
ful language against Lieutenant-Colonel Blacken-
bury and Colot.el King? A. I cannot call to my
recollection Lieutenant-Colonel Brackenbury's name
or Colonel King's being mentioned in any respea,
*wept as to the =star rolls.
Q. Will you relate what that conversation was, as
In the muster rills? A. To th' best of my recol-
109ion, Ensign DaJley said, that probably Colonel
Yirg might be in a predicament about the muster-
/Zs being altered.

Q,,estu‘;r,,d by the Prosecuto: —Did you never in-
Inrin Mr. Pitchford, the that

Colni!el Thickettbtry twct seouttdmHs ? A. I act Sit
Questioned by emit—Ha...l that expression been
made use of, could it have passed without your.
knowledge? A. Possibly it might.

ceoss-ax Astiuto Dv raitDitet.
O. Do you conceive that the language I used re-I
lative to the muster rolh could possibly be con•'
strued into peaking disrespeetfully of the Colonel
and Lieutenant•CDAnel of the regiment, or an in-
tention to subvert order and discipline is the service?
A. So far as my opini in leads me, I do not.
Q. Have I ever endeavoured to excite in your
mind a disposition to subvert order and discipline
A. sever, to my recollation.
Q Since I nave been in arrest, have you not
heard Lieut. Thompson declare, that he had never
heard me speak disrespeelfttlly either of Colonel
King or Liitit. Colonel Brackeubury, or any other
officer in the regiment? A. Repeatedly.
'lhe Court having no further questions to ask ;
LIEUT. PITCHFORD, WAS AGAIN CALLED, AND DULY

SWORN.

Questioned by the Prosecutor—Did not Lieut.
Walpole inform you, at your lodgings, that some
strange conversation had passed on the 14th ef June
at Lieut. Walpole's lodgings, at Beverley ? A. He
did.
Q. Did that conversation tend at all to the muster
roll, being altered ? A. I do not recoiled that
it did.

Questierted by Court—Can you bring it with any
precision to voter memory, whether such a conver-
sation htok piece or not? A. lam positive, to the
bet of my recolletlion, that nothing was mentioned
respeaing the muster rolls or pay lists.
The Prosecutor hating no further evidence to
produce in support of the charge, the prisoner was
put upon his defence, when having requested the
indulgence of the Court till Monday n, at. to enter
upon his defence, from the absence of necessary as-
sistance, the Court agreed to adjourn till Monday
neat. To which time it adjourned accordingly.

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The Court having met pursuant to adjournment,
the P:isoner entered on his defence, which be read,
and delivered to the Court.
The following is a correa copy :
"My 1.-. rd President, and G ittlemen ui the Court,
" I now appear before you. under a criminal trial,
for a supposed verbs/ e9eeer, after having suffered
six %eerie confinement, of unexampled rigour, and
attended by every indignity that deliberate disdain
could devise, or silent scorn Wild. I humbly trust,
however, that these embarrassing and appalling cir-
cumstances will nut be suffered to operate to my dis-
advantage in tire minds of any of the Court. lam
persuaded that my story cannot be heard at such a
tribunal with a cold, or unwilling ear.
" Here, at least, I can have no personal indignation
to encounter. You, Gentlemen, and I, as, indeed,
is absolutely requisite in both our situations, are un-
known to each other; but I hive already observed
enough of the liberal attention, and candid judg-
ments of the Court, to rest assured, that my defence
is ill he impartially estimated.
" I believe I may venture to assert, that, through-
out all the proceedings of British jurisprudence, no
instant can be produced, in which any Prisoner has
ever before been required, in any Criminal Court of
Justice, to answer to a charge so vague and inde-
finite: and I have good authority to confide incon-
trovettibly, that I was not bound to answer to a
charge so shaped and expressed.
" Conscious, however, of innocence, in the strip-
es' sense, and persuaded that it was not in the power
of the Prosecutor to substantiate his charge, in any
degree, by evidence ; from the first intimation which
I received from the l'rosecutor, of his design, as
ex ores ,ed by him in hisown statement to the Court,
when lie sect fur me, and acquainted me that he
slmald immediately put me under an arrest, nr that
I should then leave the regiment; I explicitly de-
sired to know the express language that was charged
against me, and declared my earnest wan to be
confronted with my accusers ; I disdained to aban-
don my duty, or to shrink from investigation, and
thus to prove myself a recreant and a criminal.—
After the excessive, severe, and unexampled re-
straints, and accumulated indignities, which I have
so long endured, upon so flimsy a charge, I was
eager to lay before the Court an undisguised narra-
tion of the whole series of my sufferings, as well as
the futility of my alleged offence ; f determined
not to shield myself under any legal objedions, and
was eager_ to meet the Prosecutor on his own ground.
" The crime charged against me is, that of
" using disrespeelful language against the Col. and
Lieut.-Colonel of the Regiment, tending to subvert
all order and discipline." There is this glarin; ab-
surdity in the charge, that it pretends to ascertain
the tendency of the language supposed to have been
employed, without ascertaining the language itself.
Witnesses were, therefore, to be produced to prove
to the Court, that 1 had used language of a certain
alarming and dangerous tendency. ft was then a
tendency to a crime, which wa., iu fate, proposed
to be proved against me. This tendency, however,
was positively, and distinctly disproved, by each,
and all of the Prosecutor's witnesses, on their sepa-
rate cross examinations.

rr One witness, Lieut. Thonspcon, and only this
one, conceived. whilst he was in Court, that on the
14th of June, he heard me apply the single epithet,
scoundrels, to the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel ;
but he did not think proper to state to the Court,
what the occasion was, which produced the epithet,
or a single syllable of the context of the discourse
with which it stood conneded. If the Court cov:ld
conceive, with the witness, that such an epithet had
ever been by me used, without any contest, 01 any
cause then exiting to produce it, ao con'Arudion
wherever could possibly be put upon
,;it. As it
stands in evidence it is pettedly isolate4t salt! nuga-
tory. At first sight it might appear o.! tremendous
import; but, it ss ill be found, upon ticcurate investi-
gation, to be incapable of any meaning except one
purely ironical. It is certain, rk.at the inaccuracy
of this witness'- '
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other officers of the Regimente whom T shall ealll'
upon as witnesses, 4 ill also praveqbat they nave
heard him make the same declaration.
" After the view which I have taken of the Prose-
cutor's e-idence, which does not include the smallest
tittle of matter, besides what has been noticed, re-
levant to the charge, I might safely close my de.
fence ; but I feel it a duty incumbent upon me, both
as perspnally eggrievod, and as interested in the ex-
position of excessive cruelty and flagrant injustice,
to lay before the Court a statement of the rigours
of my arrest and confinement:—Rigours which, I
may venture to affirm, without fear of refutation,
have never before been equalled in His Majesty's
service, under similar circumstances.
"A discretionary power, I admit, is invested in the
Commanding Officer, both as to the nature and de-
gree of arrest, under which a prisoner may be
placed, pending his trial by a Coutt Martial. That
power, however, like all discretionary power, has its
limits, beyond which prudence and humanity will
nor, and rashness and malevolence, without being
liable to the censure of superior authority, cannot,
pass.
" The abridgment of liberty is, in itself, no incon-
siderable species of punishment, particularly when
agrravated 4y indignities and severity.—The hu-
mane principles of British jurisprudence, and the
praftice of Martial Law, absolutely require, that
the duration of restraint, previous to trial, should
be as short, and the degree as light, as the circum-
stances will admit. The British Law positively
concludes every man innocent until he is found
guilty Ly his peers : we are, therefore, bound to
exert every precaution to avoid punishing the inno-
cent. Widely different has been the tendency of
the measures which have been adopted by the Pro-
secutor, in the present instance. He has evinced no
rebid:nee to employ unusual force, and to multiply
restraints and indignities against me: he refused to
regard the most powerful plea of humanity ; and
debarred me of those indulgencies which my wants
and my health imperiously claimed.
" As tile charge against me was personal, and the
injury alleged private and verbal, delicacy might
have suggescal mild, and prudence should have for-
bidden rigorous treatment : but the indignation and
resentment of the Prosecutor were not to be regu-
lated by the standard of the ordinary feelings of
mankind, or customary Triodes cf proceeding.
is When first the accusation was announced against
me, 1 was immediately ordered into dose arrest. In
a few days after, when I had obtained liberty to
walk out for two hours in a day, I was again con-
fined to my quarters, on a false pretence of having
broken my arrest ; one centinel was placed at the
door of my lodging, and another appointed ao fol-
low me about the interior of my dwelling, and to
remain with a drawn bayonet at my chamber by
night ; guarding me like a traitot to my country,
or a prisoner accused of some mo.: heavy felony :
—an indignity to an Officer under no capital charge,
which, I believe I may venture to affirm, unparal-
leled in tyre service. In the whole, it is strikingly
apparent, that I must already hamenshired no tri-
fling punishment, under the moors lend contumely
of such a confinement, continued for the space of
six weeks.
" My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Court, the case
which I have stated is no exaggeration. It may
doubtless appear extraordinary tomtit of honour
and humanity ; but I shall be able to substantiate
every fad I have related, by the testimony of ho-
nourable witnesses ; and produce, if requisite, the
most satisfaitory evidence in refutation of the a,per-
sions attempted to be fixed on my honour and cha-
rader.

s• I beg to offer my acknowledgments of, and to
express the grateful sense which I entertain, for the
patient and candid attention which I have received
from the Court.— I appeal to the hcnour, the jus-
tice, and the humanity of the Court, for redtess ;
as Gentlemen, and as Officers, you will shield me
from indignity, and afford the completest lustration
of my fame."
The Prisoner then called upon Capt. Preston,
who Was sworn.
Questions from the Prisoner, put by the Junes
ADVOCATL
Q. Have you at any time, and when, had any
conversation with Lieut. Thompson, respeeting the
charge exhibited against the Prisoner ?--A. I had
conversation with him upon the parade ground, and
at other times, respeding the charge.
Q. Have you heard him say, whether he ever
heard the Prisoner speak disrespalfullY of the Co-
lonel or Lieut.-Colonel of the Regiment?--A. He
has said in my hearing that he never heard him
speak disrespeCtfully of the Colonel or Lieut.-Co-
lonel,or any other officer of the regiment.
Q. Did he not inform you of Lis having been
summoned as a witness to this Court, and that be
knew nothing of the matter?-..:t.
Q. Were you not one of the party at Mr. Wal-
pole's on the 14th of Jur.e ?--A. I was.
Q. Did you hear the Prisoner at that time make
use of any disrespeetlul languageagainst the Colonel
or Lieut.-Colonel, ?--A. No, I did not.
Q. 11 any such language had been used. were
you in such ia situation as that you must necessarily
have he. it ?—A. Yes, I think I certainly should
have heard it.
1-16 w long was I.ieut. Thompson present at
Walpole's on the 14th of June?—A. I should
...oppose about half an hour.
' Q. Have you at any time heard the Prisoner use
any language, tending to subvert order and dis-
ciplinel.-.A. Never.
Q. Are you frequently in his company ?--A. Yes,
very frequently.
Q. What is your opinion of the general character
of the prisoner, as a gentleman and an officer ?
A. I look upon him with the highest esteem, both
as a gentleman and as an officer.
The prisoner having no further questions to put,
the witness was cross-examined by die prosecutor.
Q. Did • hear •• 4th June, at Lieut.
sir iversation relating to
•Id about muster
attested, or to

introduced ?
by me, and the

made use of by
or Lieutenr tit-

Colonel on that occasion ?—A. ny in a smallest degtee.

CAPTAII. .MORRIVIN SI,M7(
Questions from the prisoner, put bybe Judge
Advocate.
Q. Have you, or have you nnt, at any tirne
heard Lieutenant Thompson de. lare, that he nevo heard the prisoner speak disrespectfully of the Colo,
nel or Lieut.-C.)l.)nel, or any other (Am) of the
regiment ?--A. To the best of my lawn-ledge, ,
have.
Q. Was that since the prisoner has been in arres!
—A Yes, it w
The prisoner having, ) further q testions to
the witness withdrew.

Lieutenant Evans, and several other witnesses far
tLe prisoner, not having arrived, hut ssh un the Court
understood ta be on their way fro 71 Beverley, tlte
prisoner declined waiting. and closed his defence.
The proceedings and sentence have been sent tfp to
be laid before His Majesty, but the final resuit
not yet known.

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conversation had taken place, on the 14th of June, want of memory when out rrf it, has rendered his Walpole's lodgings, any conversation
at your lodgings, and that you (the witness) did not testimony in the present irfaitauce, altogether un- me ?—A. There was something said ab
those to enter into it ? A. I never mentioned er•rds worthy to be depended up/On in Any criruinal Court rolls being altered, after they were aft
th Mr. Pitchford to that effea ; or more than that of Justice. :hat circa ; that is all I recoiled.
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