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Andre !forum and Jean Basil, Arne Frisco pet-:I.
toners of war, were missing, and discovered to bilk
broken their parole and made their escape. -B,y the
evidence of Andre Hugues, who spoke by an inter-,
preter, it appeared he was a native of kinurdeartr.
in Fr ance.aud had been the Captain of a French ship!
captured by some English ct uisers; the other prison's/i
Were of the sarr.e description. On the 21tth OR thud
Defendant came to the lodgings of Bard, in Chester-1
.field, about midnight, or near one o'clock in thi4
morning, where, the witness then was, and brought
with him a post-carriage ; the three got into
and drove off for London ; Bazil got money from
the witness, and gave it to the Defendant, who de-
frayed all the expences of the joutney ; and upon::
their arrival at one Cl ty'sliouse,.in Adams's Mews,
Grosvenor-square, they paid the Defendant 14 or
In guineas tot h.s trouble. They *were afterwards
introduced at the Exchange, to two Dutch Jew
Brokers, who engaged to procure them a passage to.
the Confieent ; a:id the witness was adually on'
hoard a Prussian vessel in the river, about to sail for.
Rotterdam, when he was apprehended by some of-
ficers of the Thames Police. The prisoner, An-
toni Sativage, had arrived in town sonic days pre-,
viotte, and had ratted his escape so completely,
that he never WAS heard of since.
Mr. Comoros having cross-examined the Wit-
nesses, then took an objedion to the indidment, at
charging the Defendant with a conspiracy; where-
as, the only ennspirators mentioned along with
him, were the Isench Prisoners; who, .as such,
. were endeavouring 4* procure their return to their:
own' country. and this, therefore, coold not be Cons'.
starred in the law, as a crime in them. The De-
fendant consequently stood alone upon the evi-
dence ; and, in order to constitute a conspiracy, it
was neceisary to shew, that two or more persons
were concerned in the committal of some certain
offence against the law of the land.
Lord Ectte boa once allowed this objeCtion to
be fatal to that part of the Me for the prows-
tion ; but the following counts in the indictment,'
charged the offence generally, as against the De-
fendant, Weldon, alone.
Mr. Cut worm, then contended that from the esti-
dence it appeared, that the Defendant had neve-
seen the prisoners, until the moment of their d •par-
ture bore Chesterfield and, therefore, it was pro-
bable he might riot have known who, and what they
were.; and in order to find a verdict of guilty, :it
should be :hewn that he committed the crane wi:h
guiltya knowledge of the fact.
ord Eccr.seortaucita gave the learned Counsel
great credit far the cAlsjeCtions he had taken, het
thought, that from all the concomitant circum-
stances, the Defendant could not possibly be int)-
: rant of the situation of these persons.
'the Jury found a Verdict of Ge:lty, upon the '2d,
3d, and 4th Counts.
THE KING W. COHEN en 4 nP. vouttett.

This was a similar indictment to the ahnee,
again,t Isaac Alexander C,dien, and Jams De
Ycei •g, the two Dutch Jew brokers, before al-
uded to.
These Defendants were in a similar predicament,
as to want of Counsel, as the Vrmer.
The Defendant. Coln, applied in person to the
Court. to have C.:nrsel assioned him. He pleads I
poverryrsrayMN be lerti;;Ade a staterhen► of his
ease out as well as he could, for the instruction of
Counsel '
Mr. Dos A insure took upon him •to assist
them; and, as Andr: }fugues was the principal
witness, nearly the same facts as in the former
case were d;rchsed, with the addition, that after
the introduction at ahe Exchange, the witness
and lived neat door to the Defendant, in the
• City for some days, while they sought a vessel bound
fur the Continent. Andre wa, at last put on board
a Prussian shi:s, where he remained for some days.
The Defendant, C shen, offered SO guineas for his
passage to the Captain (although the usual rate
was only three or four guineas), but being employed
by Government in the Transport Service. he re-
fused to tale him without a certificate or passport
from the Prtissian Ambas.ador. He was then re-
moved to another Prussian vessel, bound for Rot-
terdam, %shoe the same sum was offered for his
passago, but he w.is immedi..tely afterwards appre-

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headed. _ _
Nlr. Dovstosoa made some oisj?etions on the
insuliiciencr ot the evidence, avre over-
ruled. Th: Defendant, Cohen, was then proceed-
ing to read his case without furth:r ceremony,
when
Lord LLLLACOtt4UCH told him, lie hail had
Counsel already assigned to him, though he sus-
pected he had ample means of retaining them in
the first instance. He must either leave bis de-
lenci to him or not, but his Lordship could not
suffer such it regularii y.
In answer to a goestirn from his Lordship, Mr.
Duna LIMON said, that them was nothing in the
D.fendant's case, in tag, on which he could rest
any dehice.--Verdid, Godly against both.