The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

MONMOUTHSHIRE TO WIT.

NAMES OF THE GRAND JURY TO INQUIRE FOR OUR
SOVEREIGN LADY THE QUEEN FOR THE BODY OF

THE SAID COUNTY.

Capel Hanbury Leigh, of Pontypool Park, Esq.,
Lord Lieutenant ; Sir Robert Edward Henry Somer-
set, Knight, commonly called Lord Robert Edward
Henry Somerset ; the Right Hon. Granville Charles
Henry Somerset, commonly called Lord Granville
Charles Henry Somerset, Sir Fitzroy James Henry
Somerset, commonly called Lard Fitzroy James Henry
Somerset ; the Hon. William Rodney, Bart. ; Sir
Edward Harrington, Bart. ; Sir Samuel Fiudyer, Bart. ;
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart, ; Sir Digby Mackworth,
Batt. ; Sir William Pilkington, Bart. ; Sir Thomas
Molyneux, Bart. ; Sir Benjamin Ball, Bart. ; Richard
Amphlett, Monmouth ; Joseph Batley, Nanty Glo ;
Colethurst Bateman, Bertholley ; Richard Blaketnore,
The Leys; Samuel Bosanquet, Dongestow ; John
Buckle, Chepstow ; Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Donee-
stow ; Crawshay Bailey, Nanty Glo ; Joseph Bsyley,
jun., Nanty Glo ; Francis Chamber, Llanfoist ; William
'Clifford, Pengstone ; Henry Clifford, of Tame ; Wil-
liam Curre, Ilton Couat ; Phillip John Duserell, New
land ; Christopher Davies, Derwyn Cottage ; Joseph
Davies, Tyesha Beduas ; Kingmile Evans, The Hale ,
Edward Frere, Llanelly ; Thomas Fothergill, Caerleon ;
William Goodrich, Energlyen ; John Gwynne, Gwern
Vile ; John Gisborne, Brenderry ; George Golding,
Trewyn House ; Samuel Homfray, Bedwelty ; Thomas
Hill, Blaenavon ; William Holies, Sherenewton ;
George Hall, Belmont House ; James Hunt, Snatch-
Wood ; Summers Harford, Sirrbowy House ; Charles
Lloyd, Harford, Ebbw Vale ; George Jones,'Manedee ;
James Jenkins, Chepstow ;John Jones, LlanarthCourt ;
Phillip Jones, Llanarth Court ; William Jones, Clytha
House ; Edward Jones, Llanarth Court ; HenryWyborn
Jones, Llanarth Court ; John Jenkins,Caerleon ; Warren
Hoodman, jun., of Chepstow ; Charles Lewis, St. Pierre ;
Rowley Lascelles, Tredegar ; Thomas Lewis, St. Pierre ;
Charles James Lewis, St. Pierre ; -W m. Hunter, Little
Upper Pant-y-Goirtre ; Chs. Morgan Robinson:Morgan,
Tredegar ; George Gould Morgan, Tredegar ; Charles
Octavius Swenerton Morgan, Tredegar ; William Mor-
gan,Pant-y-Goirtre House ; John Moggridge, Gabalva ;
Charles Marriot, the Fort ; Matthew Moggridge,
Woodfield ; Edward Graham ; Francis Mecdonnell, of
Usk; Iltyd Nichol, of Usk ; William Needham, the
Varteg ; Thomas Oakley, Lydart , George Ormond,
Ledbury ; John Partridge, Monmouth ; Henry Pocock,
Beech. hill ; Thomas Perry, Peneold ; William Phillips,
of Whitson ; Joseph Price, Monmouth ; Charles Har-
rison Powell, Monmouth ; George Rook, Bigswear ;
Thomas Reece, Usk ; John Etnerington Welch Rolls,
the Hondre ; Jelin Roberts, Ciedden; John Lucy Scuda-
More, Kentchurch ; Edward William Seymours, Port ,
Mawr ; William Richard Baker Lorwth, of Skenfreth ; '
Charles Kemys Kemys Tynte, of Kennisbly : Char-
les John Kemys Tynte, Kennisbly ; William Vaughan,
Courtfield ; John Francis Vaughan, Courtfield ;
John Upton ; Nathaniel Wells, of Piercefield ;
Ferdinand Hanbury Williams, of Colebrook ; Henry
Wise, of Culdicot ; Richard Willis, of Monmouth ;
Edmund Williams, Maesywddyd ; George Gettong,
Newport.
The following gentlemen are not in the Commission
of the Peace :—Edward Harris Phillips, Pontypool ;
David Carruthers, the Grondree ; John Lllewellyn,
&bercarne House ; Thomas Browo,Aberusttruth ;*John
hussell, Aberustruth ; Thos. Cooke, Newport ; William
Morgan, Llanewnorth ; Thomas Hooper, the Priory ;
George Brown, Aberustruth ; 'Joseph Beaumont, Llan- I
arth ; Thomas Davies, Llangattock ; Qsman Wyatt,
Troy House ; George Smith Kearnett, the Rectory ;
'Philip Ambrose, Landegveth ; John Slynny Alfrey,
Malpas ; Edward. Thomas Alfrey, Malpas ; James
Aihwell, Lanover ; Joseph Pumphrey Austin, Gross- l
Mont ; Samuel Babington, Monmouth ; William
Baker, Langstone ; Robert Parker Boyd, Dux- 1
ton ; Samuel Brooks, Peenham ; John Brewer, 1
Aberustruth ; Lewenniale Scarpe Brown, Chapel Hill ; I
John Butler, Caerleon ; Oliver Chapman, Chepstow ;
Edwin Carter, Chepstow ; Samuel Churchill, Lien- 1
Itowell ; George Cobb, Monmouth ; James Cordes, I
Malpas ; James Drake, Chepstow ; R. Howell Fleming,
Landigo ; John Fletcher, Llanbaddock ; Richard Fo-
thergill, Caerleon ; D. Fripp, Chepstow ; Thomas Gra-
trex, Monmouth ; George Harcourt, Rockfield ; Henry
Montonnia Hawkins, Tredmarnock ; Weldon Hill,
Abergavenny ; John Hodkioson, St. Mollos ; Thomas
Hughes, Newport ; Wm. Hughes, Llantillo Lressenny ;
Stanhope Hunter, Llantillo ; James James, Priory Usk ;
John Jenkins, Ponthier ; Frederick Justice, St. Wool-
las ; John King, Portskewrth ; John Laurence, Llaw-
eeelwa : John Lewis, Rogesstone ; Samuel Llewellyn,
Abergavenny ; Martin Morrison, Newport ; Thomas
Paythesus, Llanuenarth ; David Phillips, Llanbolleth ;
William Phillips, Golynos ; Thomas Powell, the Geer ;
James Proctor ,Chepstow ; Robert Wrottesly Purchase,
Landoss ; George Reese, Kemys House ; Henry Ro-
berts, Monmouth ; George Rollings, St. Alows ; Richard
Salmon, Chepstow ; William Steel, Abergavenny ; John
Townsend, Chepstow ; Thomas Tredon ; Thomas Ven-
nor,' Llanellan House ; Thomas Wakeman, Llantillo
Lressenny ; Henry Francis Bearsley, Llanhannock ;
' Robert Wheeley, Llanfoest House ; Trevor Adam
Williams, Llanhennock ; John Adams Williams,
Llangibby ; Edward Adams Williams, Llangibby ; Wil-
liam Williams, Newport; Thomas Williams, Newport;
Charles Williams, Pontypool ; William Williams, Aber-
baden ; John Hodges Urnsloe, Trellock ; William
Wood, Abersychan ; William Wryght, Clytha ; James
Garworth, Hadnock ; Edward Bayntren Yescombe, the
Arlene.
A considerable proportion of the above were in at-
tendance, and answered to their names when called upon.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, addressing the Grand Jury,
I said, 44 Gentlemen, I am extremely happy to find so
large a number of the gentlemen of this county ready
to perform their duty on this most important occasion."
The following gentlemen were then sworn on the
' Grand Jury :
Lord Granville Somerset, M.P. Foreman.
Hon W. Rodney.
Sir B. Hall, Bart , M.P.
W. A. Williams, Esq., M.P.
it J. Blewitt, Esq., M.P.
K. Hamlyn, Esq.
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P.
• Richard Blakemore, Esq., M.P.
Francis Chamberleigh, Esq.
William Curry, Esq.
Frederick Buchanan, Esq.
Joseph Davies, Esq.
John Gisborne, Esq.
Samuel Homfray, Esq.
John Francis Vaughan, Esq.
John Jenkins, Esq.
Thomas Lewis, Esq.
Charles Octavius Swithington Morgan, Esq.
Charles Marryatt, Esq.
Francis Macdonald, Esq.
William Needham, Esq.
C. H. Powell, Esq.
J. E. W. Rolls, Esq.
Upon the Grand Jury being sworn, silence was pro-
claimed, and
Chief Justice Tindal proceeded to address them in
the following manner :
My Lord and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,— Her
Majesty having been pleased that we should be assembled
this day, under commissions issued, not for the holding
of an ordinary Assize and gaol delivery, but on a spe-
cial and extraordinary occasion, it has become my duty
to lay before you the nature and description of the
offences to which those commissions extend, the class
and character of the cases which will probably be
brought under your investigation, and the law which
will apply to such cases respectively. It is not my
intention, nor indeed have I the power to detail or
comment on the circumstances of each particular case
upon which you may be called to inquire. Undoubt-
edly it will be more advantageous on the present occa-
sitm, where the committals are, unfortunately, very nu-
merous upon charges of the highest crime which can
affect society, that you should receive only a general
exposition of the law, which you may yourselves apply
to the circumstances of each individual case, rather than
that you should be embarrassed by any previous minute-
!'Bll of detail of the facts attending each particular case.
By such a course, as it appears to me, the ends of justice
Will be attained with more complete certainty, and with

greater satisfaction, both to yourselves and:to the public
Gentlemen, with the very limited knowledge which I
possess on the subject, it could not be expected, neither
would it be proper, that I should attempt with any mi-
nuteness of description to enter into the history of that
transaction which has formed the occasion of our being
convened together at the present time. Indeed it is
so desirable that you should approach the performance
of your duty, without any prepossession in your minds
as to the facts which may be proved before you, that I
shall purposely abstain from saying more than that it is a
matter of public notoriety that disturbances have recently
taken place within this county, of such description and
character, and of such magnitude and extent, as to render
it highly probable that, amongst other charges, indict-
ments for high treason will be preferred against some
of the parties, who are supposed to have taken a share
in those proceedings. It will, therefore, be my more
immediate duty, on the present occasion, to call your
attention to the charges which will in all probability be
brought under your investigation founded on this
transaction ; to expound to you, so far as I am able,
the law which defines and applies itself to those seve-
ral charges ; to explain the proof that will be necessary
to constitute the offence imputed by such charge ; and to
add such observations relating to the nature and quality
of that proof as will enable you to come to a just estimate
of its weight and sufficiency in support of the charges
brought before you, and thereby to arrive at such con-
clusion in each particular case as justice and
reason require. The Commission of Oyer and Ter-
miner, one of the commissions under which we sit,
is in it,elf general and unlimited in its terms and
extent. It comprehends within it all treasons,
misprisions of treasons, and all felonies, and
misdemeanours whatever. But., as the only cri-
minal charges that are prepared to be brought before
you are those which originate from, or are connected
with, the disturbances above referred to, with respect to
which there can be little doubt that presentments for
high treason will be brought forward, my duty will be
in the first place to offer you such remarks upon the
law of high treason as may assist you in the per-
formance of the important functions you may be called
upon to execute.

Gentlemen, the crime of high treason in its own
direct consequences is calculated to produce the most
malignant effects upon the community at large ; its
direct and immediate tendency is the putting down the
authority of the law ; the shaking and subverting the
foundation of all Government ; the loosening and dis-
solving the binds and cement by which society is held
together ; the general confusion of property ; the in.
volving a whole people in bloodshed and mutual destruc-
tion ; and accordingly the crime of high treason has
always been regarded by the law of the country as the
offence of all others of the deepest dye, and calling for
the severest mem.ure of punishment. But in the very
same proportion as it is dangerous to the commuity,
and fearful to the offender, from the weight of punish-
ment which is attached to it, has it been thought nee-
cessary, by the wisdom of our ancestors, to define and
limit this law within certain express boundaries, in
order that, on the one hand, no guilty person might
escape' the punishment due to his transgression
by an affected ignorance of the law ; and, on the
other, that no innocent man might be entangled, or
brought unawares within the reach of its severity by
reason of the law's uncertainty ; and accordingly in the
Parliament of the 25th year of King Edward 111., an
Act was passed, entitled, " A Declaration which Of-
fences shall be adjudged Treason ;" and upon this an-
cient statue expounded. and in some degree enlarged,
by a statute passed in the 36th year of King George
111. stands the law of treason at the present day, so far
as relates to any of the cases which can by possibility
be made the subject of our inquiry. The statute of
Edward 111. declares that it shall be treason " when a
man (loth compass or imagine the death of our lord the
King" (within which designation a Queen Regnant is
included), " or if any man levy war against our lord the
King, within his realm, and thereof be proveably
attainted of open deed by the people of their condi-
tion." The statute afterwards dec'ares it to be
understood, that in the cases above rehearsed,
that ought to be judged treason, which extends
to our lord the King and his Majesty ; by the
more recent statute of George 111., temporary only
at first, but afterwards made perpetual, it is enacted,
" That if any person shall, within the realm or without,
compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or de-
struction, or any bodily harm tending to death or de-
struction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint
of the person of the King, or to deprive or depose him
from the style, honour, or kingly name of the imperial
crown of this realm, or to levy war against his Majesty
within this realm, in order by force or constraint to com-
pel him to change his measures or councils, or in order
to put any force or constraint upon or to intimidate or
overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament,
and such compassings, imaginings, inventions, devices, or
intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or de-
clare by publishing any printing or writing, or by any
overt act or deed, every person convicted in the man-
ner therein declared, shall be deemed and adjudged to
be a traitor."

Gentlemen, it cannot have escaped your observation,
that in the statute of Edward, the substantive offence
of treason thereby declared, affecting the- life' of 'the
King, and in the latet statute,' the subittthtiveofrenee'of
the several treasons thereby -created,` ''Cansiitt the
compassing, intending, deviOng, and iinaginink the per-
petration of the several acts therein specified not in the
commission of the acts themsClves. But inasmuch as
the wicked imaginations of men's hearts are known
only to the Supreme Being until they are evidenced to
man by outward acts ; so the former statute has re-
quired that, before any one should become subject to '
the penalties of treason, he shall be thereof prove-
ably allocated " of open deeds ;" and again, by the
later statute, it is enacted, that before any one falls '
within its penalties, he shall express, utter, or de-
clare such his compassings, imaginations, and inten-
tions, by publishing some printing or writing, or by s)tne
overt act or deed. These overt acts, therefore, so
required by the statutes, are the means by which the
particular treason has been attempted to be carried into
effect ; they are the instances in which the guilty party
has endeavoured to complete the treasoaable design ;
they are the indicia, or proof, of the treason, not the
treason itself. It is obvious, therefore, that these overt
acts will be found to vary in each particular case.
Where the object of the treason has not been actually
perpetrated, combinations and conspiracies to carry it
into effect ; meetings to propose, to plan, to mature, or
to accelerate its completion ; the inciting and procuring
others to join such combinations ; the knowingly ma-
king, procuring, or furnishing arms and ammunition,
money, or other necessaries, to insurgents, for the pur-
pose of accomplishing their treasonable designs ; the
administering illegal oaths to bind men to aid each
other in such treasonable designs ; all .hese, and many
others of the same stamp and character, might be sug•
gested as instances of overt acts of the particular class
of compassing or devising to which they apply within
the meaning of both the statutes. And, gentle-
men, as the proof of some overt act or acts is absolutely
necessary to support the charge of treason, whatever it
may be ; so must the proof be confined to those specific
overt acts which are charged in the indictment, and no
other, in order to give the party accused an opportunity
of knowing the real charge which is made against him,
and to enable him the better to prepare for his defence,
for the overt act is that to which the prisoner must
apply his defence. And still further, with respect to
those overt acts, it is to be observed that in favour of
the party accused a statute was passed in the reign of
King William 111. (7 and 8 William 111., c. 3.) which
enacts that no person shall he indicted, or tried for high
treason, whereby any co; ruption of blood ensues, but
by, or upon the oath of two lawful witnesses, either
or both of them to the same overt act, or one of
them to one, and one of them to another overt act,
of the same treason ; and various other advantages and
privileges have been granted by the Legislature, from
time to time, in favour of persons accused of high
treason, and which does not belong to persons charged
with other crimes and offences. Having thus endea-
voured to explain to you the nature and property of
these overt acts, which must be alleged in the indict-
ment, and by what evidence they must ha supported, I
proceed to call your attention to the different heads or
classes of treason, which may be law in the indictment
against the accused. It is not impossible that one charge
of treason may be laid in the indictment, to be the com-
passing and imagining the death of our Lady the Queen,
and various overt acts may be stated in support of it,
and perhaps, amongst the rest, the levying war against
the Queen in her realm, which has been held by many
decided cases to be an overt act of that species of trea-
son, as well as a substantive treason in itself. But as
there can be no reason to suppose that any direct or
immediate intention of injuring the sacred person of the
Queen can by possibility be surmised to have existed
on this occasion, it will he unnecessary, as it appears
to me, to occupy you with any observations on this
head of treason. I will proceed, therefore, at once to
the only branch of treason which can apply to the cir-
• cumstances of the present cases, that of levying war
against the Queen in her realm, which, as before ob-
served, is a direct and substantial branch of treason un-
der the earlier statute ; and the bare compassing and in-
tending of which for purposes, and with the objects
mentioned in the latter statute is made treason by
that statute. And, in considering the limits and boun-
daries of this branch of treason, we are not left with-
out lights to guide our steps,
so clearly has the law
been laid down by decisions of courts of law,
ancient times, and the exposition of those text writers on
the subject, who have been held in the in. more
greatest veneration
both by their contemporaries, andnbaymepsosotferiLty,radmoasetf
whom I shall only refer to the
Justice Hale and Sir Michael Foster. I shallo proceed,
therefore, to call your more particular attention to some
instances in which the law has been declared and settled
upon this head of treason, the better to enable you to
apply the evidence which you shall hear to the several
indictments; and for this purpose I cannot do better
than avail myself of the very words of Sir Michael
Foster upon the same subject (Dix on Treasons, ch.
, 11). It has there been laid down by undoubted autho-
rity.tbat if a large number of persons assembled toge-

ther, whether armed with military weapons or nut, en-
deavour, by dint of numbers or superior strength, to
effect any object or matter purely cs.f a private nature—
as for example, to prosecute some private quarrel, or to
take revenge for some private injury, to destroy some
particular inclosure, or to remove some particular nui-
sance, or generally to accomplish some end, in which the
particular parties assembled together had, or supposed
they had, any private interest ; such acts of violence and
aggression, however, the author of them may be punish-
able as for a high misdemeanor, do not amount to a
levying of war within the statute of Edward 111. But
every insurrection, which in judgment of law is in-
tended against the person of the King, whether to de-
throne or imprison him, or to oblige him to alter his
measures or government, or to remove evil counsellors
from about him, all such wrongs amount to a levying of
war within the statute. So insurrections to throw down
all inclosures, to alter the established law and change re-
ligion, to enhance the price of all labour, or to open all
prisons—all risings in order to effect these innovations
of a public and general concern, by an armed force, are,
in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of
levying war : for, though not levelled at the person of
the Kiag, they are against his Revel Majesty, and, be-
sides, they have a direct tendency to dissolve the bonds
of society, and to destroy all property and all Govern-
ment, too, by numbers, and an armed force. Insurrec-
tions, likewise, for redressing national grievances, or for
the reformation of real or imaginary evils of a public na-
ture, and in which the insurgents have no special inte-
rest—risings to effect these ends by force of numbers
are, by construction of law, within the clause of levying
war, for they are levelled at the Ktig's crown and
dignity ; and, accordingly, it was held in the time of
Queen Anne that a large body of men tumultuously
rising and assembled together for the avowed purpose of
putting down all the meeting-houses of Protestant Dis-
senters, and proceeding to pulldown several, till prevented,
by force, "brought the parties who were guilty of that
act within the branch of the statute of levying war against
the Queen ; and in a more recent case, where a riotous
multitude, headed by Lord George Gordon, and acting
in concert, with the declared design of pulling down or
destroying an chapels belonging to those of the Roman
Catholic persuasion, proceeded to put that design
in force, there was no doubt but that the facts,
if proved against the parties accused, amounted to
the offence of high treason, by levying war against
the King. Gentlemen, an assembly of men armed
and arrayed in a warlike manner, with any treason-
able purpose, is a levying of war, although no blow
be struck ; and the enlisting and drilling and
marching bodies of men are sufficient overt acts of
that treason, without coming to a battle or action. And
if this be the case, the actual conflict between such
a body-and the Queen's forces must, beyond all doubt
amount to a levying of war against the Queen under
the statute of Edward,and to the offence of compassing or
devising to levy war within the statute of Geo. 111., pro-
vided the design, and object,and intention of the Fifties be
such as is specified in that Act. And, as has already been
adverted to, it is quite unnecessary to constitute the
guilt of treason that the tumultuous multitude should
appear to be accompanied with the pomp and pageantry,
of war, or with military array. Insurrection and re-
bellion are more humble in their first infancy ; but all
such external marks of force will not fail to be added
with the first gleam of success. In case, therefore, any
indictment for high treason should be founded on the
levying of war, or the compassing or intending to levy
war against the Queen, you will in the first place direct
your attention to the evidence which shows the object
and motive of the rising ; whether it was to effect
some general and public end, in which the whole
community are concerned equally with the insurgents—
such as the introduction of any great change or inno-
vation in the government, or the laws of the land, by
dint of numbers or violence ; or whether it was con-
fined to the effecting of any private, or local, or particular
object ; and it will be convenient that you should
in the next place advert to the overt acts alleged
on the face of the indictment, and then determine for
yourselves whether they, or any of them, are proved by
two witnesses, in the manner before adverted to ; one
of such overt acts being of necessity to be proved to
have taken place in this county in order to give you
jurisdiction. Gentlemen, it may be proper to inform
you, that in the case of treason the law knows no dis-
tinction between principal and accessory. All who
partake in the treason, incur the same guilt, and are
liable to the same punishment. The treasonable design
once established by the proper evidence, the man
who instigated, incited, procured, or persuaded others
to commit the act, though not present in person
at the commission of it, is equally a traitor to all
intents and purposes as the man by whose hand the
act of treason is committed. He who leads the
armed multitude towards the point of attack, and
then retires before the blow is struck ; he who remains
at home planning and directing the proceedings, but
leaving the actual execution of such plans to more
daring hands ; he who, after treason has been com-
mitted, knowingly harbours or conceals the traitor from
the punishment due to him—all these are equally guilty
in the eye of the law of the crime of high treason. Gen-
tlemen, I am not aware that any case will be brought
before you where the charge will be that of misprison
of. treason. If such, however, should be-the case, it will
be unnecessary to say more upon that species of offence
than that it presupposes a treason to have. beesestetually
committed by others, and that the person charged with
the offence, knowing both the traitors and, the treason,
but without either himself consenting or being a party
to the treason, has refused or neglected to make a full
and fair disclosure of such his knowledge within conve.
nient time, to a magistrate or some one in authority, it is
sufficient to describe the offence without any further
discussion. Gentlemen, it is very possible that bills of
indictment may be brought before you, charging the
acts of violence committed by some of the indi-
viduals who formed a part of the assembled mul-
titud?, as felony only, not as treason. For he who
shoots, or attempts to shoot or wound another, is, as you
well know, under certain circumstances, guilty of felony,
notwithstanding the very same act, when corn-
sidered with a reference to other circumstances, may
amount to the crime of high treason. Again, bills of
indictment may be preferred against some who partici-
pated in the unlawful meeting, but to a less degree,
charging thein only with the offence of riotously and
seditiously assembling themselves together. But with
respect to such charges, gentlemen, conversant as you
arc in the laws relating to offences of that nature, I hold
it to be unnecessary to offer a single observation. Gen-
tlemen, I fear I have already trespassed too long upon
your attention, but the importance of the subject, which
I have felt incumbent on me to discuss, in reference to
the just performance of the duties on which you are
about to enter and the rare recurrence (for which we
cannot be too thankful), of any occasion which calls
for such discussions, must plead my excuse. I
cannot, however, conclude my observations without ex-
pressing the sincere regret and pity which I feel, not
alone, I am sure, but in common with yourselves, and
with all other men of sound principles, on the occasion
of the recent disastrous occurrences ; I would add also
my most earnest hope that it may be found in the re-
sult that the great majority of those who may have
been involved in the guilt of these transactions, have
been misled by the arts of wicked and designing men,
and have thus sinned through ignorance and blindness
rather than from premeditated guilt ; and I can sug-
gest no remedy which can be applied successfully to
counteract a state of mind and feeling so un-
healthy and diseased, and infecting so large a
portion of the community, except the diffusion
amongst them of the benefits of religious instruction
and of a sound religious education amongst the ris-
ing generation ; so that as the younger part of the
community advance to manhood, they may feel the con-
viction of the wholesome truth that they are bound to
yield obedience to the law of their country, not from
the terror only which the law inspires, but from a much
higher and more binding motive, the fear of the
Almighty, and from the thorough belief that the powers
which be are ordained of God. Gentlemen, in conclu-
sion, I entreat you, that in approaching this investiga-
tion, you will dismiss from your minds all which you may
have heard upon the subject before you entered into
this court ; and that in the performance of your important
office, whilst you will rejoice when the weight of evidence
is so light that you can, consistently with your duty,at
once dismiss the party to his liberty arid his home ; you
will at the same time, watch over yourselves with jea-
lousy, that you will weigh the evidence brought before you
with a firm, steady, and uncompromising mind, looking to
the performance of your duty, and to nothing beside,
and utterly regardless of all consequences which may fol-
low from the performance of it. Gentlemen, my Learned
Brethren and myself will be at hand whilst you are en-
gaged in the performance of your arduous labour, and
ready at all times to lend you our assistance in case any
doubt or difficulty as to the law should occur.

It was very remarkable in the Court, that the portion
of it which was allotted to the magistracy, the officers
of the army, the gentry, and the professional persons
was quite crowded, and that which was allotted to the
poorer classes of the public did trot, I am sure, contain
more than 150 persons.

Up to the moment of dispatching the express, no
bills have been found. It is expected that the bill
against Frost will be found to-morrow.

Yesterday evening, about five o'clock, Mr. Fare-
brother, land steward to the Marquis of Salisbury, left
the Cross Keys Inn, St. John-street, Smithfield, on his
return home to Hatfield, driving a handsome and fa-
vourite bay horse at a very steady pace, when he was
met by a man having the appearance of a costermonger,
riding in a small cart, driving furiously, and on the
wrong side of the road. The shaft of the costcr-
monger's cart entered the chest of the horse, when the
poor animal fell instantly, and died in the course of two
hours afterwards. The man was taken into custody.
THE CONVICT LEES.—The warrant for the
execution of Lees, the murderer of his wife, was re-
ceived at Newgate yesterday. It is ordered to take
place on Monday morning at the usual hour. The con-
vict, on being apprised of his fate, appeared as indiffe-
rent as possible.