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eight skeleton keys, &e. Upon being asked alit was the
P.iiirre character in England,
Mr. Minutes objected to any evidence regarding whet
might he him character in F.ogland, u the Panel is tried unly
fur a crime committed in Semiarid.
The COURT thought, to entrr into any examination upon
Ant point crouM lead to an unlimited field of argument, and
therefore thought It to theyoutee with it.
• Pxambiation aniffirned —He fumed also a portmasitese,

which he opened, s*d which contained dirty lines., brio;
*nista, two of whprit had the initiqls J. M. Oa Mrs. 111'Cind
• beintiveissixlit in, Ireletatilled her as one whim he always
isiiiterstood to be the wife of Moffat.
Juba Vickery, smother of the liuw•alreet officers, remem-
• bers being employed in Mill with Lay/oiler, Campbell, and
.a 4,tiler from Darliantbn, In h for the robbers of the
Paisley Bank ; this lhey went to the house of Scoltork, in
Y..rtenhadt rnnrt•road • that they went also to a house in
'r Ci4ure's-fieMs, where they apprehended White, and took
t• urn his sense cold and silver, and a memorairdunvhook,
>•:nch, at ti,. oi►n request, he afterwards examined, and
foood II to contain a jotting of note', of what kind he does
nut remember, bid has. ropy of the memorandum he took
i,‘ the time, sod which was cured at his dictation, and has

his signature attacked Ito it.
M•NRIt., as Counsel fur the Panel, maintained, that
• • aithough it was competent fur a witness lu produce a duets.
• carol in his own 'hsuil•writing, yet after it has heels left in
(\sort, mid been is the Ihniol of another willies's, he can no
',jolter use it. That this was not using the document as a
• teliosient lestiniony.lo aid his own evience, but it was idol
used by the prosecution to aid the testimony of othes. The
saying it is laid on the table, and nut in the clerk's binds,
• lit a. mere evasion.
• The LORD JUSTICE CLERK said, the book here referred
to was I ron4ht in by Mr. Lavender, and left in the Court,
•aci.l this'ilse objection is founded the Court would °ore-
, :•fere•decide if it could mow be read.
•- Lord Helmand said, it appeared that if Vickery had
tortinglit the book down from London himself, he might have
'read it,' but In. hint it appeared of no consequence whether.
• it was read or not.

Lord SUCCOTH thought it was rather out of the usual
coo.se to read the mernwoodons. .

Lead Mgenown•es Houseful it was ; question of eunsi-
• durable doubt. It ibis book had been intrusted 10 the care
of bulb officers, it might be questioned wheth:r it night be
dransinitted from one to the other, hut in the present ease
be thought it an evasion of the common rule of law to
oilier it to be read. If the hook was to be used as; doe*.
meet in evidence against the Panel, it would be a different
?tong, hot there was nu mention of this book in the crimi-
nal letters, and the Panel must have every thing to be used
in evidence spinet him on his trial staled in his iodic too•ut,
,glint he say rot la say pert be takes unawares by the public
prosecutor.
The Lotto Juirnce CLISIX was of opinlor, that abbough
it was a principle of law that a witness be permitted to pro-
duce a document in support of his own evidence, yet that
it was improper for the same document to he again used by
souther witness. The Court sustained the objection.
Ift-exantined.—Ainnngsi the country liiisik notes in the
memorandum there was no reference be Minh, lu their tieing
Scotch Notes, but only /bat they were notes ut 101, 201,
'sail MI forth, amounting In upwards uf 14,0001
Athens knew the Prisoner aml IlutTcy White
long before the robbery of the Paisley Hank, and that they
were fur a lung heir intissiMe.
On the wife of Hieffe7 White being called,
Mr. Mettitte of le this witness heistg henget:lst to
the bee, on the ground of leer having heels riled informally,
lies rotation had nut been endorsed Icy a Magistrate of the
'sister kingdom, our was there nay authority given by any
jorastlietios in that country to serve the citation asithis Court
upon her, sod tkcre is no authority by whittles witness cats
be cited is England merely ley virtue of critaival tellers
issued by this Count, without the order of a judicature of
that revelry. The Learned Counsel then hooted Act 450 f
his late Mejeitty, to facilitate the apprehension of a prisoner
or witness who refused to obey a regular citation, winch he
maintained supported that doctrine.
The LOBO JUSTIca CLwatt maintained, that there wee
no regular or set form laid clown upon the fact of that Act,
how the eedspireea cc citation 'Wield he served wpm • wit.
'WU. It only requires to he served ; and if it be served, that
is all they have to attend to; and of the fact of 114 having
been served, there is sufficient evidence, and diet all which
sh4eld have Steen done has been dune. As to the endorse-
e on uf a :11a2istrate, refeirrd to tit the Art quoted by the
Lea, nett Counsel, it relates only to the form of citation *sen-
t "used in a previous seetiou of that Act respectiug 11w ap.
presensiou of erinatuals.
Lord MEADOWISASS related the fact of an attorney in
London baying lately been punished foe not °Bryn,* a cilantro
burn this Cowl, which was 111 the same form as at present.
The objection was repelled.
Mary Copley or White, widen of !harry White. knows
the Pi isuner and ferolewek. Hemenolwt• its Jolt 1813, being
sent for by her husband So come to Sciltockis house, and
on *preaching the door, she saw she Priessurr coining uut ;
she saw ise the beat. Scollock, his ssife, and Suer husband.
About two boors mot a half after the thin-street officers
Cattle us and took away' a porlmsulens containing two shirts
of the Prisenwr's and use of Harry French's. ller husband
sect her to kir. Nl•Csiors (the rewire) house soon afire
Hui, to till hum that be was Nut to pave tlw money bark,
but the Panel aoswereel tis skis, that it was Ma lair, as he
li.J already given it back: she asked tlhj he bad given away
the y? and he replied, that it was fur unearthing for
which be had beets out of else way fur some time, and to stop
any prosecution of she Bank against Fit ech, himself, and
her litettmed Knew a ournint lit 1811 1/r the acute of Aber-
slimes in the employment of a Mrs. Reynolds, in Lanai's,
with whom the Pi 'sinter hail IWII/K asked
u hat Mrs. Aberstiaw Vllll pain it gm a Call:1111 OCCA/11011 he.
twecn Reynolds and the Panel, the Cionsel for the Crown
objocted to the 1110,,1i011 011 1111• ground, that w hen two par-
(Orli lucre I.llllFtle 1-1-141111 CC of a bid, oho better id. till' Iwo ought
lu he brought forward. and Mrs. Keysiulds undoubtedly is a
preferable witiseer to Mrs. White, who e4VC only hearsay evi-
denee, and of fillies, shoeld 10,,r here cited by the on/vireo-
fur, If he wished to give evidence of the press tat fact. The
seke•ett•in ass sustained.
ll..nass ?Wavle', Attorney at Law, 11,11011011, was we-
trution•d with Huffey %Visite, and kin-a Firm Iv; keels, also
Mot the Prisoner was thilimete with Huff'. y White. Ills
several tinges had conversation the Prisoner Aunt Si,,'
varier my- of the Paisley bank ; that 10 t hive coot ei sat ions
the Pend stated to him that lie was cuure, tied wish Huff: y
Vtlile in the rubbery of the l'aiol.y batik, and hail Krum
w 9 it DOW. to save the lite of Hattie> White, and that the
proNti 011.01 was 011 that account ic he at :in veil He I,e-
-lc ves II 01.1 While was at this simile maps .6ni:ir.l for a
ia-
pilsi °Betio:. Ile ties er ml' sitionell to hew the es3rl moonlit
of what he had takes, from the hank. The Prisoner told
him Wei Issitc..y White amid French were acesomplicirs smuts
him its Si,. undies,. In 1812 the Pa %%MeV told him he had
..peueJ au an, "out w;th the hank iu Bernard-street. Being
*shed what IG.lshun was, he answered a Ilsacksiercuaels.
render; and On being flit ilwr asked if he was a bull-banker,
be replied he did nut kiwi., though he might, or there were
ninny gentlemen w ho followed that orcupalmn. The atwitter
msrat,d much laughter iii the Court.
William i;siebsin, liachttepeoaieb master in Loudon
k,;,isis the Panel; ',collects him giving loin chisel 114,Oftef.
to kit p for him at the Block-berse-yard; they writ awhile
amen to a public-horse is Arwinact.stiert. 'lke tows were
Paisley Delta to len putted, twenty penand, and five ponied
holes, with installer 1010(11. The Panel told him to keep
therri till be gave i liens up to save White's life, Who ICU sp.
prebei.Jed. That he kept than concreted up the chimney
iw tehsek moot of leis Wise, till they were' tube,. /TOM 'hien
by Wan' l'amifie. He was not in4whirsi she got them away,
hist she irknowledgesitifterwamia she pa them, mail his wit.
(mew deceased) told kin the sauce. licorice selsseeted to the
raielooer, that Holley White had Isuheb wee. used ill, as
They bail been cheated Of thrWalimis ift' the rotes, to which
she riael answered it write mobiely's
Scultuck„ .grate' tool Fochninth, Tottenham mitt-
road, Loudon. evolettee uf this witness was objected
to by the Counsel :wt the Panel, on lICCIOI/11 of the duet bay
tug take', place ti, lure the nlauu,, uf ter witness. TI e ob.
jet, est
.11111 Si 01011,, 11.01111 then' called, anti shown the bee of
blank and .itclencii keys allotted to by Ilse other wino-ens
identities it to be the ono which be sent to APCuul when in

Scotland, ImA recognises the key. to be of his erorkomtudirp.
Thal. at the order of M*Coul, he sent to hats to Glasgow •
box with Malik keys, and • while afire -Mahe Went him a
lePer with a drawing of i,blink' key,' after a •.different
inndel, which he ordered the witwest to make fur hien.
1.111% key he made, and seat l.is ma/Mine-to his desire,
awl awhile eller M'Cowl returned to Loudon with • wooden
model, iruierespoodinz to which he. mede.ataellter key, when
he retnrued again to Scotland; that 00010 nfter they 'Thwart'
I Freon Scotland, and said that dory boa dune Ow job, and had
brought a great quantity of ricsitcb notes, that they were
very heavy, and like brownanano that , would go
into the country mid smash them, by which they meant that
they would dispose of them. They said likewise, that be,
the witness, wonld be satisfied as In the payment for his
t ~,,, nle ; that when he asked t rerompence foe what he hail
dime, the Panel mid that be might watt, and be Was never
yet receiveteany 11110/111 Gots him.
The evidence fur the prosecution having been closed, and
the Panel's declaraiiim read—
The SOLITOttIir.XV.RAt. rose owl addressed the Jury. lie
wild that the criminal letters bring a two-bold charge against
the Panel, VII. of an room ttttt s theft. which theft wad seg_
gravateil by the charge of bring by habit mid remora into.
riot,. thief. This last charge, however, the Couri wool./
not stiffer to be proven, SS it embraced only the Panel's
conduct when in England, and had no reference to the dim
meter of the Panel in the country where he was tried and
committed the oiltmer ; tool though he was confident that
as much bad come mil its the course' of the eviiktice of She
coisiluct respecting Ibis rubbery, as nearly, if nut
altogether, made KM/4 that charge, still he wail not willing
110 lay any stress ilium it, or peeve the conviction of it tutu
their verdict. 11 was now malty years since the crime of the
Panel had beets committed; met notwiffiseantling 311 the
camps which during that time might naturally Wave existed
to obliterate the evidence orcessary fur the coeviction of
this crime, it was .tilt strong enough 111 entitle the Jury to
bring la *pitied the Panel's verdict of guiliy. The Learned
Gentleman then went over all She evidence, witness tatty
witnes),,, and pointed out to the Jury dime parts or their
testimony which were of greater weight, and which, being
linked with that of otters to She same facie and bearing,
upon the whole chain of evidence formed Pt/ strung a body I
of circumstantial 'woof, that the Jury could not hesitate for
▪ nioeneut as to what verdict they might to brine in.
Mr. M'N CIL then rose, and he begged the attention of the
Jury to a few statements for Ilse Panel. The case, he übserv.
▪ was sufficiently oppressive fur Slit. Panel. The issue .
of a former precedure its the Civil Court regarding hit
had the most inevitable tendency to prejudice the minds I
of the public and of the Jury against him The Imblic Pro.
seceded had here Wooed forward nothing but evidence, ;
which had been received in that Court, and was it likely that
the witnesses, whether they had given false or true testis
mono its that Court, would expose themselves by altering it !
in this one ? As to the merits of that evidence he would re- !
mark, that of all the Doles said to he taken by the Prisoner, '
1101 one of She Paisley bank had been traced to his posses.
sum ; there 11/.lfl ns evidence that the motley said to have bent
recovered by Mr. Likely was the money stolen ; there was
none of the gold or silver found noon the Panel, which was
stranzi he wall charged with coireying away lila of
it. He did not consider Scoltotk In be at all an sinew.
ceptionable evideoce, lint thongh he declared that he sent
certain blank keys to Glasgow, there 'was no evidence
that they were ever applied tte the Paisley bank, or did
really open that bank. There was a must extraurdinary j
rimmed:le ce he would call their attention to, and dist was,
that Mr. Templeton bail areees to the tate, and to every part
of it but the &some, whim were hrokeu open, and if that ;
individual wished ill have committed the rubbery, he muse I
have committed it its Ihe very way in which it was dune, and
it was as fair to pot the simpiews pf the robbery upset' him
as open the Pawl; mid it was very remarkable, that Me. !
l'empteton, who would lie a most important witness, has
been kept by the public Prosecutor wit of the way.
The Lome iiiSTICP emote, at great length and with
much ability, rerspilwlsted the evidence. Our limits will
nut allow us to give his Lordship's resnaike.
The Jury having room lied for a few minute's, returned • '
verdict finding the (hinge of habil and repute a thief net !
prove a against the Panel, tote of the particular charge of
theft and homehreabing proem..
His Lordship then, alter a twist impressive address, arm !
tenced the Panel to he execitted at G1611'111.0, upon the
•26th of July next. The Prisoner doting the whole iimr,
scented perfectly composed, and received his sentence with's
degree of elevatorsa which is seldom witnessed.

The Court was remarkably lull, and owing to the great
eruvuling at the door, the Court had repeatedly to salrriete
is order to obtain warner.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Fanubr, hum O.

ROYAL. ASSENT.

At • qua►ter before four o'clock the LORD
CHANCELII.OR, the Earl of SHAFTE•BURY, and
Viscount MELVILLE, took their seats Piton the
Woolsack as Ilia Majesty's Commissioners. mud
common ed the Gentleman U-her of the Black
Rod to summon the House of Common's to their
Lordships' bar fur the purpose of hearing the Coin.
siii-rion read for giving the Royal Assent to certain
Bills therein specified.
The Speaker of the Rouse of Commons, atiesi&d
by several Members. soon after advanced to the
liar, when the Commission being ►red, the Royal
Assent was given so the King's Bench Sittings
Removal Bill, and seven private Bills.
The Speaker and the Members set the House of
Commons theta withdrew.

On dor motion of Lord IttnEsnoLE, the Conrt
of Exchequer Regulation 8311 was read a second
tune, and ordered to by committed on Tuel3day

The E.rl of Stiorrosousv moved that their-
Lordobir, >hnuld adjourn to Monday.
THE QUEEN.

Earl GREY rose and isind, if he had seen the
Noble Ea! (Liverpool) iu hie place, it was pia in-
tention to have put a question to hirer, for the pur-
pose of obi i • ' g information relative to a painful
subject, the existence of which they must all de-
plore, and which occupied so much of the atten-
tion of the country. Ile would have asked him if
his announcement of his expectation that sock an
adjustment would take place before NI lay was
likely to be verified; unit if it was nut, whether rt
was his intention to make airy proposition to the
House ou the ►ubject ? If the Noble Earl was .
present, and answered bins its the affirmative. it
would he unnecessary for him to give nonce of what
lie considered ought to he suggested to their Lord-
sOtpe -an the subject. In the ithsetice of all infer-
motion as. to the inteutioas of the Noble E.nl, he
(moldered it would be his duly to .iihmit a 'novo.
sittou to their Lordships on ilie subject on Monday..
if ►t was slut usade minectspary by some prepay'.
team being imbamitted by, his Majesty's Alison/ten.
He agreed with every thing which had been mid
Ins Noble Friends, relotivelo die meeting of the
Secret Com.nittte bring postpo►tted frail time to
time; but I,e was of opinion. that after sisal bed
taken place elsewhere, that that Comitaittee ought •
never to sit, ay the I !mime or Commons hateCitaht ton
Cute last night, sanctioned by his Majesty'a Ministers,,
and carried by a large majority. After **chit reso-
lution having passed, if the Committee of their
Lordships met. it world be doing that which was
detogatery to the dignity of the Cream-. His Ma

tention,in {pinging their Lordships• attention to the.
subject, was► that they might•be able to ascertain
how they ought to come to the House prepared on
Mimilay.
The LORD CHANCELLOR TWA to put the 111H1.
tins) of adjournment.
La►l Gitwe ustivr4l,. that their Lordships should
.be summoned fur Monday.—Ordered.
Adjourned to Monday.

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