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anaer's ease, marl allow Mini all ponsilile indult/epee. If it
.cured the Grath-lona of the Jury ihan Cure, the Court weals*
ad oars mold the usiirisiat.
The Forrows• of the Jury said, that his heather Janus
were 'of opinioa that their townewieate aught limit to be
consulted for • ratiatent in a caws of saes impertaore.
The Cotter JVCTIOE Maui, las reply liar such as he dwelt*
have expected fru. mew of their geese aced resprclability.
Oat of the Jurors wished to kilow if they were bewail to
receive the evidence of Dwyer?
The Came Juretcs sand that wee net the peeper time fur
coosideriag each a garatioa.
The Court atomised at a snorter past sib o'clock.

THIRD DAY.
WIDIMIDAT. APRIL 19.

The Judges took their seats at the wool hoot. &MIMI
dodisrgoiehrel promotive wen on the ioneb emoot deem
were, the Marquis of filthily, lbo Earl of Yeeloootb, Lwd
Kensiogioo, Sir Waller Scott, Ike dielialfuldwd Peet* ec•

After an offer by the Crown to produce Myer James as
• witness, at the wassestion of a Jorge o• the preeediog ,Jay.
mid • reseal of the offer o• the port of Mr. *Dot-rims.
the latter consoseseed his address to the Jury o• behalf of
the Primaries, at • quarter past •iae o'clock.

Mr. Amotatus consuseueed his speech by anodise to
she remark of the Attorwey.Cemsera, that this was • most
question—important indeed it was, sad Ware it
the situation of all former Primmers for the same offeace
was as nothing, compared to the shjectoese of the unfair-
wale man at the har. He had known many trials for high
treason he in issue of them was a Prisoner ever before se
dreads:l of all Cieuesel and suppertoind so utterly thrown is
charity fur his dehisce*. the unhappy man who stood be-
fore them. To say that ha had against him all the force of
talent and all the is bsese• of reputation, was to say nu.
thing; fur site Crows, on sorb tweasiuma as the meows, bad
undoubtedly a right to the best services of its best servants;
hot ea all previous occosioas that he resollected, eminent
professional men had volunteered for the Primmer-abed
mine to the iris', timely sad effeetaally prepared few his
defesice. Different,inderd, was this Prisoner's emu, for it
was say on the eve of his trial that he obtaleed his (Mr.
Adolphus's) very feeble aid. Oa the Thursday be was
Aral applied to, on the Friday he was asameldsbly ahead
from town, sod on the Saturday eveaing be mil received
his instrattions to deiced • primmer whose trial was cam-
emoted oe the Collaring Monday. Other Prisoners had had
their vertigoes. This oulteppy man was deserted, no voice
wee raised in his fottowe, no efort made in his behalf. He
(the Learned Counsel) had received no advice wpm the face
of the earth to assist him is frsetiog the defeace, save the
iostructioas of the respectable Solicitor (Mr. Homier), who
had gratuitously taken up the case. This trial, indeed,
premed more heavily wpm the nafortenate Primmer, than
any former one within his recollectiow. Oa all precede,*
ureasims for high treason, • verdict of acquittal seat the
Prismer heat the dock, free top where he liked; wet bp is
the present case, fee this wretched atm was so oahappily
ciresonstasiced, hat other indicieseats if be escaped the
present, still hang over his head—use ior the limey charge
of murder, another fur the capital offence of shooting with
intent in kill; so that perils of all kind environed him, mid
reduced him, as it were, to the melancholy choice of mai.
dieing, whether it were Wier fur bins that the Orme of the
executioner should end with the execution, or whether his
body aboold be baked to pieces for the Crown, or be hooded
over to the dissecting knife of the surgeon. lie did not
mean to say, that the peaalsies of the law should hall be.
came a Primmer placed spun himself evaiplitated medics.
meats, sad he wily referred to bin inelatichely situation, to
chew the deep claim he had epos she Jury to dismiss from
their minds, as far as it were possible, all those prejudices
which it was natural they should have imbibedagalast a Pri-
mmer who Mood before them so heavily charged. Neentreated
thews, for the sake of the ademaiistration of jails"-, to hook
at the unhappy awn as merely chested with the ail" "
high treason, sod as iiscosoected with any other isdiclowat
whatsoever. He would observe, that situated as the unhappy
WIN was, his case less concerned himself than it did the Stale
and posterity. It vitally concerned Owlatter, for if they be.
tiered the main 'widener given against the abject mod for.
lorn isms at the bar in this case, is would not in future be
alone applied to persons equally isolated, but it might Gad
its way against persona of a higher sal much more different
eireumstaacer. Against sorb a liability it was their duty to
protect society. A trial for high iroMOINS was I. itself SO
awful discussim ; in that alone the ling I. person, repre-
sented by his are °Metre, was arrayed naiad the *ob-
ject in awful strength. He had already misted his now.
pared, way, unhappily Cu. the Primmer, its which be had
accepted she airier of his Advocate; he neither sought the
office, nor rejected it when he was applied to. He held it
nut proper fur professional men to refine their aid, more
particularly when applied to un the plea of humanity, en
any grossed that related to the nature of a Priemer's
situation, or the prejudices or poser that were drawn
up against bins. The personal opinioas of as Myst-
este on political point!' should never iota into his
views 'rhea called awns to discharge a professimmil
duty. He (Mr. Adolphus) might at se ecestoluo like
the pretest be just permitted to my. that on so period of
his life had he ever bees inseam( to any one of those pro-
position or coosirimations whit* had a tattiest" to being
fast danger, or eves call in question, the Negligee, of She
comatitoted seilorities of the Slate. He was not one of
those who saw the oecesait., of proposing say of those
changes which west to unhinge the frame of the Conmita.
lion. He came Item before theta an unfeed advocate and
marely alluded to his opinions lest ii might he supposed:
party feeling or personal pajoilice could is any way iudn.
race his conduct in Coors. The has of dames which
be had to tektite the present oression eras a wore 'Mikan
me Men ever before fell Si. the lot of any Advocate. To
have meditated or beau privy to any plot to aameeinete
those 01100011111 permits who were tidbit by the King so the
adosisietratioas of politic allairs, was a crime which an Pei.
mum atoll militate; the blood of wise from at suds a pro-
ject ; kis joriguseat revolted at it ; f.. hugs of hamar rase
at the Wee menthol of it; bet all these eaterel nod
just sesiestioas ought ant to be suffered io operate until
, footed guilty. keitier
• proved, believe

the glower was proved, sod the neon
ought they, if such \riotous charge, were ruin
That because ■ man woe a nourerer, and had .dialled ihe
anallaninatioss of bin Majesty. Ministers, he wag therelere
a traitor, end had bees engaged is lends; war or
rebellion against be Kin. ' The present Primmer mist be

proved to have su levied- war, sal metal to depose the
• Xing. befirredber epi dud him itniikt Millet &Wielders**
which he was raw se trial. The indiction,' coalsiard four
cheerier counts, to each of which there were several overt
acts. They would have Grit to consider whether it was
proved he had attempted to depose his hilejeary from his
style aadadignity as Sovereign of them rimless; the other acts
of caulker, to assasisate the King's Ministers ceSld lave
so operation as against the Primmer sit this damsel widen
the Jury were satisled• he also intended to key war "sad re-
bellion is the country. To assassinate or cannemplate the as-
sassisation of the King's Miaisterr, was wet is itself
an act of high termini. The evidence that comsected
the Prisoier wish treasonable acts was abeolalelz Were-
Bible, end came from each mouths as ought never place
a man's Ilk is auger. This ',Waste they blew come from
an accomplice, who represented himself as having bees
deeply implicated In the crimes he came forward to describe..
Adams was that accomplice, and if he were takes opt of the
ease, the prosecution fell to the grimed. The evidence of
an accomplice ought always be received with simpieson,
sad unless it was corroborated by isidirmotable teetiminey
in all its parts, a Jury were booed not to give it credence.
Hers the Learned Gestleman cited the description by tbs
present Solicitoremend, when he was of Counsel for
wan, Thistkwesid, he. when fornseely trial for High
Tremolo, of the aharocier of en seconiphee's
and of the degree of credit which a dory ought. to at-
tach to it. That Leaned Gentlesisa had la isagolge far
beyond his (Mr. dilotpiwials) power to use, Well oasid, that
the story of as amaroptlee was never slim:ether pure in-
radios, it was always dore-tailel in wish some ports whirls
had fonarlstioe in fact, them wan uoiforisik souse retirreice
to occurrences that hod lahn. place, or else the ajpry cupid
sever be attempted to he imposed urns she re4etitis of a
Jury. The Leaned fkilkisau then riwaiiiirlated the ini-
tiate, ONO by the acesimplke Arks* Mid &Wilded that a
Jury could wit give it credence for a moment. From the