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.SIIOOTINP AT IRRD PALIIERSTON.
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Dm a Doris wa. pal to the Ire raely in the moraine, and
, arraigned fur wilfully"tiiing a posiol loaded with powder and
I hall, on the Ath sit April list, at Dens y John Templerli.q.
rotwortowly'ealleaiewsl-Palturrstun, wills Intent to kill bins ;
sod also upon 211.11 her 'vont, 'for firing at ill! SAW 14/111
1 Palm, vite' witls meat to maim loins. Tht Prisoner was sk-
ifl.lll ty dressed Its Mark, and upon Mfr. 3hrlluii, Clerk of the
ArIA.OIII, reaoloti/ the isodieltmot to lolns ftor the phijair e of
pleading, he addressed the Coati in a 'disjointed dad novo.
i Isereat manner. As for as we could eulltet, what he meant
to advance was, float it was inspowtibte he could plead, be.
I raseAr his Silltrtillip :I/111 his wakes had heen so great. Ile
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had beta turned lam • vagabond from Ins regienetat, and
every body knew it. If he pleaded, was tried, aird found
italky, he should put OD end to his existence. At length,
burettr, imam the interfercuce of the gaoler, he pkdcd Nal
Maine
its Loose/other, however, of the Hate neenpied by the two
trials, which we give above, the trial of Davis did not cuot-
hte•ee till aloe two o'clock. MINA he was put to the bar,
sad trivets in charge.
Mr. liewtios.ws stated the rave to she lorry. The Primmer,
he ialmeaved, us the Joey bad already heart, stood charged
yraak an attempt to take away the life of I.4ard Viscount
PAhaerstim, by firing a pistol at loam. It would hyalite's
its 'videosa., that this was n deliberate and renparsivoked act
ins the part of the Primmer, to whom Lord Pisloserstuu had
Never dime any injury, but, on the contrary, was disporlif
to afford hill,
would admit. The present prosecati 0000 was not he-
ssitssaed by Lord Palate' stins from say misti've of asperity
to the Primmer, but from • seNse of that duty which his
Lordship owed to she public.
Lord P.ilsocamon beinz sworn, was explained by Mr. Bole
r.usa. He was am-eliding she steps leading to his office, ow
liar b;h of April lard, when he was fired at by a person he.
hilt) him. He hail only aerewded a few step• whea the shot
woe fired. He slid owl see the Krum who fired it. He
wen wounded sli4litly use the back. He went up to his
office, and a surgeon was snit fur. He bad never seen the
Primmer till be saw him at flames-minaret.

Cry/reexamined hi, .Vr. Bnoneetrx.
In the beginning of ilie":ear I Rl5, a retina, was made to
him officially, that the Prisms*, was in the 63e1 regiment
in the Xleiliterrantao f-he believed the peruse at the bar
was the officer so relented to bins. ll' the pistol was loaded
a ilk powder and hall, and had been presented in a proper di-
rectiou, the ball must have gone through him. He was
grazen in the lower part of the back, near the (wales. He
could not, of course, speak with certainty as to the direc-
tion iu which the pistol was presented. When the sergeoo
VIM he desired him to stop a abort time, before beexamined
the wound, he being then engaged ; he received a severe om-
ission, from which he recovered in shoat a week.
reason fur thielinig the ball took as
oblique direction was, that if tired in a straight directioa it
most bare gore through his bud;'. • bole was 10111410 is his
coat, sad a smaller one in his wiliskeat, and his braces were
also penetrated. He had •reatrtin to believe, that a ball or
something of the kind must have beets in the pistol.
William Hoare, a !less: tiger it the War Office, described
the Vei.otier's consists to the War Office on the day hi gees
lion. Shortly after he saw Lord Palmeratins enter, and at
that inonsent saw a flash of tire and heard the report of a
pistol, and at the instant Loot P. tittered a heavy groats.—
he ran forward, and saw the I'riouner with a pistol is bia
hand—the latter, wills an nor of satisfaction, exclaimed,' I
have killed him." He Aber said, " You know me, and you
"know my wrungs." Witmer* replied, "I do wt; who ere
yon, and what have you ilone'f" Mistime said, "Is not
that Lord Pahnerstou f" pointing upwards. Witamm re-
plied it was—the Prisoner said, " These 1 have AM him."
The Prisoner was instantly takes bold of, and be kt the pin-
to fall the barrel of it vies then warm, as if recant), ilk.
charged. On being asked if be bad soy other pistol, he said,
ti lone his lonelier he bail not. The Prisoner 'was lien sent to
Tothill-fields. here witness produced the pistol, which Mae
Prisoner bad discharged.

Cross-examined by Mr. NOUTON.
Did not see the Prisoner distinctly. 111161 after be sew the
flash of the pan MI the wall. From the manner in which the
Prisoner stood towards Lund Palmerston, the pistol-108
might have gone through his Lordship's body. The Prisoner
betrayed nu symptoms tit' say wish to escape.
Thomas Scoweroft, • soldier in the Life Guards, was gin
ditty at the time this happened in the Hurst Guards, nod
saw the Prisoner enter through the stair-case, leading to
Lord P•lmetstus's (Mite. lie saw his Lordship enter the
place shortly after the Prisoner did, and he then distinctly
sow the Prisoner's grin raised, and heard the pistol go Of
Liestenatit Colonel Bird, of the West Middlesex raids,
was at the Horse Guards un this day ; just at the moment
Lunt Pstiserstion enteral, he heard the shot, sod his Lurd-
sbitrs exclamation, as if severely hurt. Witness ran up
stairs, and saw lord P. assisted into his room, and imme-
diately ran down to look after the Prisoner, whim be pee-
viuusly left in the restudy of the Messenger. On thus com-
ing duwa serin to see if he was erenrr, he asked him," In
God's name! how could you have done this!" The Prisoner
answered, " Because be has killed Inc."
Henry Emmett, a Clerk in the War Office, produced
pistol-ballet which he picked up us the Ant landing of the
stairs, a few moments after the shot was fired ; it had the
appenranee of brin¢ greenfly fired. He sent the bullet is by
Doyk, the Head Messenger to Lord Palmerstuu; it was out
of his possession, but not the whole time, since. To the
hest of his judgment, this was the bullet—be knew it by the
shape.
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Mr. AOley Cooper, the eminent Surgeon, immediately at •
tendril Lord Palmerston, on being informed of the occur-
;eruct. He found his Ladshipwritiug, and he veiled until
he had mated a written paper. He then proceeded to ex-
amine, and found a large lode in his coat, a smaller in his
waistcoat, one in the brace, the shirt tore, and a trontusion
in the Lark, at the right side, about the size of the extre-
mity of the little linger, and sus rouuded by the appearance
of a larger bruise about the size of half* crown. He could
nut it test decide, whether there was a wound or a simple
contssiou, but after a short examination, he congratulated
his Lordship on its being only the latter. His decided opi-
nion was, that the smaller bruise was occasioned by a ball—
Then was too perforation. Lord Patin( Futon had certainly
been in considerable danger—it was quite miraculous that
his Lordship ems ant killed.
William Gilmore, a Queen stporre Officer, went on the
retinue of the Mk of Apeil, to 31, George-street, Chelsea,
where the Prisoner said be lodged, tool (wood there a box,
the key of which be gut, and opined it. It contained va-
rious papers, a pistol, some powder and linnets.
Lambe, a pasnbroker, p,uved that the Prisoner
redeemed the pistols in Court firms his Other, on the tills of
April. The pistol found by Gilmore, On• bilker, ill the
Prisoner's bolt, was the fellow to that picked op at the Horse
Guards.
It WAS proposed to whiner in evidence some of the papers
which were in the box, but this was over-ruled. The chief
paper in the box was a punted account of Bellingliun's
trial fur the murder of 4r. P. revisit, prefaced by a plan of
the lobby of the House of Commons.
The case fur the prusernfiusi being closed, the Prisoner
111/.14 called upon for his defence.
The Prisoner, in a very cool manner, mild, " Certainly,
Sir, I have a great deal to say about it, but I wish I could
be silloaril to do MI through others—through my Cuuusel or
Attorney—it is not fit to he said here."
Me .Ite.ticv Yunr Counsel cannot speak for
you— hey can roily examiue such oitiresses as you may
have to call, and slow is OW time for you to address the
('oust io your &feller. You hare beard the uvula:Lice fur the
proseriviiiiii, what I tsar you tu say in reply'"
The Prismier—`• Sir, there arc many pi non' who ten
two, to ley insanity. 1 aids to ahrw that it was the Cause
of my bring wilt home frusu coy regiment in America, and
of thy lirtez put solder else erne of the Medical hoard at
York flospitsi. Dr. Parslor 11111 prove all this.--Ise eau bear
• convoilloz pima as to my insanity."
Mr. Justice Itlaot.vv---.• 11011 say there are some persona
who can bear Sisiiiiirmy to your nisanity at acme former
period.; is that what you entail to say r
The Prison. r—.• its, the Adjutant-Getteril and Lord
Piano, non know it. laas r. inied aedu 111.1, S hen utter ra
got them at the War Office. I wrote man) letters and could