The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-18 00:00:00

that "Airs. clifro-ra said in the nicililinrr that she
thought Clifford gone to /rebind, Witness
i.l she did not I.:now that they had quarrelled.
Burke, called ligaiti said ti-ni-y wort
black breeches; and that Clifford did not speak
English.. 4.

Mr. V1)1)601; a surgeon; deptisNl as to tile Attottrids
found upon Clittord being the -cause of his death.
illiatn` A rin.i trorig;, one of the keepers of the
tfonse of Correction, produced the different decla-
rittionr: (4. licary, Nvliich.were read.
!Slattery swore) that, he eitthe to Lori-
before the Cliffordi ; knew Mrs. Clifferd In
and met her by'accident in London ; Clif-
ord only spoke Irish; they were not in the habit
Of quarrelling ; Clifford (Jim) skid, that London
the, not agree With him; and he would go inure
to Ile never saw Leary after so'e"
O'clock that erening, till he saw him at tfatton
Garden he went to bed at half-pa-tnine.o'clock,
and did not awake all. night ; Mrs. Clifford did
not speak to him.
7dr. ANDnLws•;-=':` My Lords) this is the ease
for the.privsectition
Mr. Just i eel-Iv:AT Prisoner, would you say
any thing hi your defence ? Now is your. time."
The prisoner handed in a written paper, which
Wag read by Mr. FITZPATIUCK. Its contents were
neatly as folloWs

" My Lord hinl Gentlemen of the Jury, I. hope I may be
permitted tie eve my defence rend, as I do not speak Eng-
Fish sufficiently well to address Yon—l tyttst,-Gentletnen of
the Jury, yoo will grant inthil..::,-eitce to my statement' of what
I know of this 5.4},1 busint.Ss--! Lire no • knowledge of the
murder of Clifford --and, ht,tieve I have, I. will not :IA
my life at your hands.---,.;tit, if ,L,Lr:' story appears more pro--
habit: than the mutcontw'eted evp.leirce,now before drat, and
if I ptnye part of, tile, laLtsrliy persons worthy of .credit,
shall look 'with confithince to your decision. My Lord and
Gentlenten of the Jury, I arts very lo.v in spirits, in consr-
nttence iaf my Mit having the same food and exercise used.
to have. Neil her. had lit friend, within a fow days, when
tone gentle...ton, Who thou glit'of‘ my cast, as I hope you will
do, cdo,e. for witvd en;ployed a Learned Ctsti isel for me.
Nly land and Gentlemen of the• Jury, I am a native of Ire-
land; and Edward Clifford came to me, as many others of my
c .+loe ct en have done, to inquire what he was to do. I gave
inui food," lodginl.;', and advice. Tirit is the wart have be-
haved to every ..body, and my countrymen love ins far it.
ant, notch respected among them ; nod because I can write
(toy lather hairing bech . a schotihintsterl they colt aIC
Lrifrii.---:My Lord and-Gentlemen of the Jury, I .tlid not so-
licit the company of Clifford, but he sought mini, that I
might. do,bint ROTiCe., I (Fla not kill. the man, nor did I
know of the affo iv till it. was 'done. 'What should I kill him
for I I had no lolling out with hint. Wottld I lino to do it
fur his money I It' l were, a thief, which I will shortly prove
I am nut, I might hare, robbed bh.n ; but such a thing never
enter l toy head. I would not even stacr strangers to to er-
reach each other. Those matter: lay whom I have bren
played, know that i never co:unt;tkil such thefts as' brick-
litytte 40)011yell'S are accustomed to. When 1 have bVerl
(11.1iStO j6i/i iU those I hare f‘eftiseil--4 have
informed my employe rs—amt they have di,“:.lotreil
n'o.rktuelt on that occontit. I a:a nor a thief; and if lam ac-
enscd of mnrder, it must s;tanil latter foo'ing ditto
the cleiire of i,,,,Atiol•fitoiNvst';ioo of the :property of another—
purtienlarly of oiwto \thorn I offered my frtendshiP• .1 a", it
poor on ; but I
1:e (-1.
Z.l seM !)
y t.hia
point osolmn)*
are better in the 'world. I much rilison to .com:;!:tin
of the newspapers, with v:,,l+eci, to the 'manner in which
my case wit misrepresentet!. Sly first conkss;on, Into-
hy the liovcruor of tltc Muse of Correction, you
are well red with. 'l'h.at coufevion Wat commented
on ia the public papers, other paragraphs were inserted
in it,.aod the writers bare. e,;erted thvlaselves to do. time
iin-
jury. This disposition in the new sp4eis has been very
!martini to are; }ltemise tvhat tilt`Vstated as '4u!,' contetsion,
was not my confession, nor an:, thing it. I Inure beets
very ill used by the • newipaocrs; not only by their calling
that my confesssion, whirl, did ni,t resemble it, but by then'
;dieting foots, and stating that the examination., from
'time to time, tended to prove Leary's .guilt; when, in
truth, they provcd no such thine:. One word toore,on fife
New-paper reports. “entlenten uf the ;fury, let.yoor don,
Sian pct on the evidence produced in Court. Ills
atii 1,11 yon, that As the only way in which you eau come to it
pi 4pl•r verinet of my fame. With respeo, to lay alleged coa-
t in 'confinement, yon will locoliect, Gentlemen, that
verdic,s have been paned On men, in consequence ottbc con-
duct of police tinkers, whose wiillinguesA
cannot tio disputed, which were afterwarOs deeply lamented.
You will perceict that I speali of the case.•of Holloway and
Ifuggerty.- It would ill'hecun me to blame those by wbont
they -tvres convicted, but I trust I shall be exeased by you
in calling your attention to their case. As toile three hain-
niers, the halfe, and the elird, which havellieen produced,
I; can, in a very few words, explain, satiffacturily utt
Itlttiuw about.tltem. The lari;e hanuaer is rho property of
my master. It wits in my possessibn Inu the Saturday:night,
after coining from the
,pay-table. Being the oldest wan in
the employ, the tools were carried !Mine hy me., But, know-
ing that Ncrs. flelstone was sick, dill not iike to disturb her,
by returning time hammer, as the -hole at the bottotst of the
shed,sthrough which such things Were usually pot, was
stepped up, amid, titereftireo I took ithome. lint that m:xpla-
ithtion was unnecessary as you were iitold, the small ham-
mer killed the mail. The shoentaker's hummer lay on the
hearth, not covered with coals, as was btiselynsserted by the
newspapers, for I had limit curls enough to cover it. Tile small
hanuner I had nothing whatever to do with. 'The knife, I
lielicVe, was t then from my apartment, for I hard it not in my
hands >itiee the time Clifford was in my retint. Several
persons were brought forward .to prove that was my knit,',
but they failed and I voluntarily acknowledged it to b.
a,ll look. ip my. ham( to examine 4,-1 think Clif-
ford put it into his pocket alter supper, on Sunday even.
iug. I lid only two other knives, one of t heat was used by
me—one by my wife—and the third, 'Which is the knife in
question, served Clifford.--Of tiff: cord,. I know nothing at
all—Claord might. carry apiece in bis pocket. It was ~,tld,
that there was blood upon my .coat,. harthis was p, oe,A to lac
false.- The racer., Cook and Thiaticton, boy:, things
about use, which net er took place—their I.inn:,i;.e to mu,
and their observations about me, were, I should be
hanged.-that I was done---tlmt. I camel nev,r nt—wh:cb
induced ate to sty to them " Yon scant nn life'--tike it;"
or, " you have my life 1.." It sic natural that I should thus
express myself; for it is better to the at once than live under
such horrors."

tlere concluded thiS desultory; anti inadequate
defence, after which the following witnesses were
called to the character of the prisoner.
Mr.H. 'Yard, a master bricklayer, was, first
produced. The prisoner had been fifteen months
in his service, :previOnsly to his living: with Mr.
J.Yellstone, nod he ha l a'.ways considered. Nun *is
well dkpased person.; nothing unruly or. iolent
in hi' divosition.
ich;ird Barnsley, a constable -of the saffron-
bill district, said he knew a great deal nhout the
Irish in that gnarter ; he was welhieplainteel with
the prisoner Leary, and always considered him as
the most roietest :nail he ever knew for. art Irish-
man.

•
William Dixie kept the One Tim •public-home
on Saffron-hill. The prisoner eras, ficquently
there ; he had never dicovered nny thing gnat--
relsome in his disposition ; on the contrary, he
was always tt peace-rmiker among bis country-
men, and when he could not succeed, he left
them.

Here the testimonies on behalf of the prisoner's
character concluded, when Ml. Justice fir.,vrit
summed up the cau.qe to the Jury. He previonsly
qbserved, that the deienee of the prisoner was a
very curious one, as it tended iu no tlllllllfier to CX.•
enlpate himself, but only to criminate another.—
His Lordship also recalled to the recollection of
the Jury what the prisoner lidd urged with regard
to the newspapers, and reminded them that it Was'
g
their duty it) keep their jud ment free Ifont rill
undue bias, and to deliver their verdict solely up-