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went wish a master lather of•sade Clarke. '^""
ad 6" °I Ilse SimmsLes' Chola at 11:ertleak. !eh A,...ein%
not recollect that polities B.r affairs oft:isle were the subject
iu ih•liberstsisto. Knew anise of the Prisoners except Wilson
▪ Garrison ; load swim I).irisain !afore. Knew nothing of
the Cato...greet pint till Wagon told hint. 115.1 served a fa•
leillr"r there or four years, and did owl knnothcir name,
in Priacr'a-sircri. Careeichsts-ktosie. 114.1 an order the
isfieres•nris of the Cato street aff•iir which be (-mild not eae-
ewle rorlfels how dutch was utilised; it was more than a
'Ns" "P" 'red to get *. or 30. fty it. Did not know the
same of may 'carnet in the hawse. 111.1 known Wilson a
Insig Shoe liefure he spoke of the conspiracy. He told wit-
nrll fr. 41.149.11, that a Krasilefaar'r servant, wbwe niaaser
was min, slopplicil the pirator. wish loo-
ney. Did nut p into she stable in Cssiu•strert when he
saw Harrison.

The Earl of Marroirby repealed hie imidenee.
Qamoioneil by Mr Cunmoon—Her Lordship had receiv-
ed intimation foe • considerable time itoireidi ill to the I um-
enstniestion made byhien, that some general plan fur at-
racklor Hinialrre was on fool.

Joh.; Baker, Lord Warr; vrby's butler, went over Idr rvi-
desire.

Jahn Monument repeated We eri.lenee. Cross-examined
by Mr. Cnrwenad. _ . _

Thomas Alontsfuent and George Coylock went through
their evidence as before.
The flouricoß G . declined troublinv. the Court
with the evideure of the people itt the neighbourhood of
Cato-street.

Gen. Thos. Jos. Ibrahim% went over his evidence •+ in ihe
first iriml.

Cruss•exuminrd by Mr. A ooLrittri—There were eight
emlb v. Nothing was saiJ by any of the unieeis exw Fit
himself. Ellis did nut say 01 Here's a pretai wrst of you."
Jas. Ellis, uY lauw.slreei 'Are, repealed his evidence.
Wm. IVealcutt. of 130w.eircel. Nixon, Champion, Wright.
Bruuks, Lee, and Captain Piuela , gave their evideuce
us brfure.

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- Legg, serjeasst in Ilse °serila, went with Captain
Fitsclarenri 's party to Catudorret ow the evening of 23.1
Fel.romy ; made the party advisee in doable quick time.
When he tame np, saw a mass preseistioir a pistol at espial..
Fliselsrence; witness laid hold of the pistol. crapplest with
the male, rind fell. The pistol went uti, end toes She moat
of wiiners. Told, Ilse of the Priomers, was the moo. Wit-
nem Favored how, arid delivered him to Ibt police officers.
Tr onion repealed his evidence.
Cruss-essmined by Mr A DOLPIIVI—SeareIo had bees
made after Palen. Witness had lint heard of any search after
Conk and Putter.

Tke Court adjure-lied st live minutes before eight o'clock.

FIFTH DAY.
SATURDAY. APRIL 22.

At ten minutes after nine o'clock, the Jury having been
previonsty ushered
mmer Imo was brought into the Court, and the examine.
not, of the evidence for the prosecution was resummi.
Bishop repealed his ev;druce.
Unitive* produced the nuns, ammunition, pike-staves,
Ac. nod described them all on the Int trial.

Morrison was rants, again, In priwe that sane orate swarth
wa► the same which he had sharpratal fur Into.
Taunton praisers] the baskets seized at Brunt's lodgings,
and the ammunition, take...slave% &c. found at Ts.lst'ss.
Huibarn, called again, proved that must of the Bre-arm
were loaded with ball.

Harrison, serjeaut of artillery, opened one of t:n• greaaJes,
awl de.cribed their contents.

Question by a Juryman—Could any one have made
thuve grenades who had•nol been connected with toe army!
—Witness replied, that the grenades darted altogether (rum
those used iu the army, winch were cast.irou ►hells filled
with bullets. There was rather suture purdcr in one of the
grercules produced than was generally used to burst a niue.
hub shell.

This closed the 4:111* for the provectition.
Mr evitWiinD ruse foe the defence. The conviction of
Thistlewood was in hare no influence iis their wind•. He
knew there wiitihi be ■ difficulty in radio,/ their winds of
she rfrics of such an impreseion It lay lerm heavy no him,
however, beeisase arise material differriare in the Iwo state-
ments of one 'worm.

The ArreßszT.GassaAL rose to object to this hest ea-
pressirto.
Judge DALLAS Would not allots any 'illusion to the pro.
ceediugs of the former trial. _ _

Mr. Cottooots respectfully apologised for having pro.
ceeded irregularly. He would lolly advise them shut the
evidence of this pitsureution was not the same by any means
as that gismo on the Ara trial. Ile 'Omitted that there was
convirtion of great mural guilt ; but the Jury root he con-
vinced that such guilt was the very guilt, and uu
charged in the indimaient. To ascertain the 'nolo or fallacy
of this he went into an examination of what the bpi
defioitiou of treason, and what ought to be the nature of
lb* proof of molt a crime. The country hail guile louder the
protection of the statute of Edward 111., which hail born
culled he Lord Coke " the blessed statute," until the middle
of the last reign, whim another Mamie of treason, which he
mooch hounded, was passed. The 38illoof George 111. mails
• Isitneulable alteration to the old taw of treason. 'lke
Solicitor-Ur-11-mi roc:mined that his tam ttepra.M=gterially
on the worst species of evidence, that of accomplices
Here wan one of the great evils isstroducoil by an alteration
of the statutes of treason. The statute of Edward 111. re-
quired the must obvious display of gouts, and that was
to be proved by the evidence of good witnesses. The new
statute, which brought conspiracies into the same predicts.
meut as the treasons of the old stalest', nude It
'Accessary to trust to sloe evidence of the basest
wretches in human neon. The evidence of guilt was clear,
but sot that part of the evidence which relates to the high
treason. Again he cautioned them against convicting the
Prisoner of "reason loetause he had embarked in °tilt, rr imes.
He ridiculed slot charge of overturning the Goveronsent
by such means as had been described. And this charge
depended upon the evidence of a man who came Lenore them
with the acknowledgment of having forsaken the religion
of his country and his God, and who had added to his other
iniquities the base crime of betraying his fellows. For when
• ',lan had gone the whole length of such a conspiracy as
Adams had entered into, it was in him the dregs of baseness
to betray his companions. He repeated his caution, that
they would nut extend the law of treason by construction.
Constructive treasons, he was sorry to say. were usually the
designs of bad Moroi to serve the purposes of had metre.
men. He r.. 4 Lord Hale's exposition of treason, which
ought to he definer, wry The Aerate Edo nrd• Thank God
that it was in the power of lorlef to rear a barrier against
the dangerous ilicamion of coestromive treason. If Crown
Lawyers shioulo bring cams of tresses' before them, nut sup-
ported by the statute of Edward, or the rases under it, let
the Juries, by their verdicts, as Lord tlale advised, rear up
a barrier agriust that most dangerous tide of power,
comae:relive treason. Adverting to the evidence of it,
Adams, who was, as he said, a self-convicted assassin, •
traitor to his King, rebel to his cavalry, an apostate from
lois religion, and our who Atoka his God, was it to be be-
lieved that elevea men were ter be convicted its a British
Court of Justice, and (if the law sboold be literally put in
force) enbjeciril to torture sod death upon the evidence of
such a wretch? The plea in support of sorb evidence
would probably be, that the witness should ba credited if
confirmed Ly other testomooy. Examine the characters of
Holden and Mum:meat, and they would be found as lime
deserving ut' credit as Adams. Yet these were the only con-
firming of the 'barge of tremolo'. Could an aggregate of
baseness supply the want of a maglecrediltle witness? They
had been asked why Patin and Putter were not called to dia-
prove Adams? II bud been admitted that there was guilt,
and that dime meu were implicated. Was it fsir to call on
the Cowart for the defence, to briag ~11 into Court, as tt
were, with halters shout their necks—men who would be
seised end prosecuted if they weuverrd into the Court? Re-
alm/tog the Ministers of the Kits( was never yrt coaelilered
as treason against the King. There was a party always ex-
isting ohusecomtant madeavoser was to deprive the King of
his Ministers and Ministers of their places. It was nu.'
treason to attempt the removal of a single Minister by force.
He called the foollmiNot evidence for the Prisoner :

Thomas Clambers levos,3, Heotheork•roort, Stroud. Hal
peso a maim of she saes of Adams is cowpony with oat fal-