The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

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MONMOUTH .1, UESDAY EVENING.
This morning the Court sat at the usual hour, and the
.irisoner William Jones was placed at the bar.
The Attorney-General said, that he was glad to inform
he Court that his Learned Friend, Mr. Rickards, ep-
os ared for the prisoner ; it was therefore requisite that he
should be assigned to him.
The Court having assigned Mr. Rickards as counsel
for the prisoner,
The Attorney-General proceeded to open the case. The
,:ase was nearly verbatim the same as the preceding two.
WEDNESDAY.
At nine o'clock this morning, the Learned Judges took
heir seats, and the prisoner William Jones having been
?laced at the bar,
Mr. Rickards proceeded to address the Jury on his be-
half. He delivered an able speech, and after the reply
.f the Attorney- General, and the summoning up of Mr.
Justice Williams,
The Jury having retired for twenty minutes, came into
court, and having answered to their names, and being
called upon by the clerk, returned a verdict of Guilty, with
s recommendation to mercy.
The prisoner was very little moved by the verdict.
The Attorney-General moved the Court that Charles
Walters, .14.nkin Msrgan, John Rees, Richard Bonfield,
and John Lovett, should be brought to the bar.
Mr. Stone said, that he, together with his Learned
Friend Mr. Skinner, were assigned as counsel for the pri-
ioners, and begged that their pleas of ” Not guilty" might
oe withdrawn.
The prisoners were then placed at the bar, and pleaded
" Guilty."
Lord Chief Justice Tindal—Let them be brought up to-
morrow morning for sentence.
The Attorney- General then said, that lie should not offer
any evidence against the other prisoners who were charged
with high treason.
A Jury was then empanelled, and the prisoners wet
declared Not Gulty.
The Attorney. General then moved that Edmund Ed-
munds, James Aust, George Turner (otherwise Cole), and
Solomon Britton, be placed at the bar, which being done,
he stated to the Court that it was not the intention of the
Crown to proceed against them ; upon which a jury was
impanelled, by whom, as there was no evidence offered,
they were declared Not Guilty, and dismissed from the bar
The J ury were then discharged, and thanked by the
Court for their attention.
Upon the removal of the prisoners who had pleaded in
the cases of treason,
John Partridge, George George, William Shellard, and
the whole of the remaining prisoners were placed at the
bar, charged with conspiracy, riot, Sze., and having pleaded
not guilty," they were allowed until to-morrow morning
(Thursday) to consult with their professional advisers as to
whether they would now take their trial to traverse them
to the next Assizes.
Thomas Edwards, Wm. John Llewellin, Job Harris,
and Joseph Coles, were then placed at the bar, charged
with conspiracy and riot, and severally pleaded " Guilty."
—Sentence deferred.
The Court then adjourned to nine o'clock on Thursday
morning.

S NTENCE OF DEATH ON FROST,
WILLIAMS, AND JiINES.
MONMOUTH, THURSDAY, JAN. 16.
It being understood that sentence would be passed
upon the prisoners this morning, the Court was crowded as
soon as the doors were opened. Previously to the Judges
corning into Court, Frost came to the front of the bar,
and entered into conversation with Mr. Stone, the Coun-
sel ; with his attorney, Mr. Geach; and with Feargus
O'Connor.
At 9 o'clock their Lordships took their seats, and Frost,
Zephaniah Williams, and William Jones were ordered to
be placed at the bar. Frost's countenance portrayed the
411111 C calmness which characterised it during the trial ;
Williams appeared low and desponding; and Jones had
lost that air of levity and carelessness which he bad pre-
viously exhibited.
Mr. Bellamy then addressed John Frost.—" You have
been indicted for the crime of high treason ; you were ar-
raigned upon that indictment, and you pleaded not guilty,
ind for your trial you put yourself upou your country,
which country pronounced you guilty. What have you
to say why the Court should not pass judgment upon you
to die according to law ?"
Mr. Geach then rose and said, that in the absence of the
Counsel who had been assigned to the prisoner, he was
obliged to make an application to the Court. He was
only that moment aware that Mr. Frost was to be called
up that day for judgment, as the Attorney-General had
given them distinctly to understand that sentence would not
be passed until after the point of law had been decided.
The Lord Chief Justice—The Attorney-General could
not have had any authority for so stating, and I am quite
certain you must have misunderstood him.
Mr. Geach said, it had been a communication made to a
gentleman at the bar. There was a ground upon which
they had intended moving the Court in arrest of judg-
ment—namely, that upon the Jury who tried Mr. Frost
there was one person who answered to the name of
Christopher John, No. 132 in the list. Christopher John
was in the summons which had been served on that per-
son, and he had answered to that name, took his seat,
and returned a verdict. The real name of the jury-
man was John Christopher. There was in the same
list a person of the name of John Christopher, No.
38 in the list, the real name of each being John Chris-
topher. They had obtained information of an extraordi-
nary nature relative to a person of the name of Christo-
pher, and had arranged that he should be challenged,
and it was so written in a list which had been prepared
before the trial. They had caused all possible inquiry to
be made as to Christopher John, but could find no such
person, and as in the list their objections extended to 160,
they did not think themselves justified when the name of
Christopher John was called in making any objection to
a person in respect of whom they could obtain no informa-
tion. He bad this morning brought that Juryman into
the town, and he stated distinctly that his name was John
Christopher, that he was the son of Thomas and Hannah
Christopher, that lie was christened in that name, that
he had never assumed any other name, and that he had
lived in one parish nearly all his life, and had never heel
called by any other name.
Mr. Baron Parke—lle does not say that he was not
known by the other name.
Mr. Geach said, he stated that he believed if applica-
tion had been made for him by the name of Christopher
Jahn, no one in the parish would have pointed him out as
that party.
The Chief Justice—He answers to that name in the face
of the whole county, and came here in consequence of
being summoned in that name.
Mr. Geach said, that the Jurcr went on to state that he
could neither read nor write. He therefore could not read
the summons, but he mentioned the circumstance to the
bailiff who summoned him, and he told him it made no dif-
ference.
'The Chief Justice--At most it is only matter of chal-
lenge ; there is a case expressly in point.
Mr. Geach said he was not prepared to argue the case,
and the Counsel who had been assigned to the prisoner
having left, he therefore could not appear by Crunsel.
The:Chief Justice—lf there had been anything in the
objection, we would have assigned other Counsel ; but
there is a case called " the Jury case," which had better
be read publicly.
Mr. Baron Parke—There is a case expressly in point
in 12 East, 229.—" After the business on the Crown side
at the Summer Ass.zes for the county of the town of New-
castle was finished, it was discovered that Robert Curry
who served upon the Jury, bad answered to the name of
4 Joseph Curry' in the sheriff's panel, and had been sworn
by that name. Upon further inquiry, it appeared that
there was a person of the namo of Joseph Curry belong-
ing to Newcastle, but not at that time resident within
the town or county ; that Robert Curry was qualified
to serve on juries, and had been summoned by the
bailiffs on the Crown side as a juryman at this assize
All this was mentioned to Mr. Baron Eyre, who, con-
ceiving it to amount to nothing more than a mere misno-
mer in the panel of the Jurymen intended to be re, urned,
and who did serve, and that it was but cause of challenge,
which upon being stated would have been instantly re-
moved by altering the panel, and that after judgment it
could not be assigned as error, did not incline to interpose
upon the ground of a supposed irregularity in the pro-
ceedings; but Mr. Chambre and Mr. Villers (counsel)
having afterwards in the Nisi Prius Court for the county
of Northumberland stated these facts to the Baron, and
pressed them as amounting to a mis-trial, the Baron
thought fit to respite the execution of a convict for for-
gery that he might have an opportunity of advising pith
the Judges upon this occurrence. On the Ist day of
Michaelmas term 1783, the Judges were unanimously of
opinion that this was no ground of oljection, even if a
writ of error were brought, much less on a summary
application."
Mr. GEACII observed that that was not a trial for

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treason.
Mr. Baron PAR/Cit.—The only time you can take the
objection is before the juror is sworn.
.Mr. Bellamy then addressed Zephaniah Williams and
N'V illiam Jones in the same manner, but neither of the pri-
soners made any reply.
Proclamation was then made for all persons to keep si-
knee while sentence of death was being passed upon the
prisoners at the bar.
The three learned Judges having put on their black
caps,
The CHIEF JUSTICE addressed the prisoners in the fol-
lowing terms :--John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, end
William Jones,—After the most anxious and careful in-
vestigation of your respective cases before juries of
great intelligence and unexampled patience, you
stand at the bar of this court to receive the list see-
tence of the law for the commission of a cr me
which beyond all others is the most peraicious in ex-
ample, and the most injurious in its consequences to
the peace and happiness of human society—that (,f high
treason against your Sovereign. You can have no just
ground of complaint that your several cases have hot met
with the most full consideration both from the Jury and
the court ; hut as the Jury have in each of them pre--
nounced you guilty of the crime with which you have neon
charged, I should be wanting in justice to them if 1 did
not openly declare that the verdicts which they have found
meet with the entire concurrence of my Learned Brethren
and myself. In the ease of all ordinary breaches of the law
I the mischief of the offence does for the most Fart termi-

nate with the immediate injury sustained by the indi- %
vidual against whom it is levelled. The man who f
Plunders the property, or lifts his hands against the
fife ,e'' his e:sishbour, does by his guilty act inflict in
that particular instanre, and to that extent, a loss or in- $
jury on the sufferer or his surviving friends. But they who
by armed numbers, or violence, or terror, endeavour to put
down established institutions, and to introduce in their*
stead a new order of things, open the wide floodgates of
rapine and bloodshed, destroy all security, and property,
and life, and do their utmost to involve a whole nation in
anarchy and ruin. It has been proved in your case that you
combined together to lead from the hills at the dead hour of
night into the town of Newport many thousandi of men,
armed in many instances wit L. weapons of a dangerous de
acription, in order that they ni)6dit take possession of the ;
town, and supersede the lawful uZithority of the Queen
therein, as a preliminary step to a roe:0 general insurrec-
tion throughout the kingdom. It is ovrits?; to the interposi-
tion of Providence alone that your wicked designs were
fiustrated ; your followers arrive by daylight, and after
firing
upon the civil power ;:nd the Queen's troops. arc by
the firmness of the Maeistrates, and the cool; e and deteen
bravery by
cf a small band of soldiers. defeated and disperses:J.
What would have been the fate of the.peaceable and unofe
fending inhabitants, if success had attended your rebellious
designs, it is useless to conjecture: the invasion of a fo-
reign foe would in all probability have been less destructive
to property and life. It is for the crime of treason, com-
mitted under these cire'imstances, that you are now called
in.on Yourselves to answer; and by the penalty which you
are about to suffer you lio:d out a a awning to all your
fellow-subjects that the law of y :nu country is strong enough
to repress and to punish all attempts to alter the established
order of things by insurrection and .raved force, and that
those who arc found guilty of such treasonable attempts must
expiate their crime by an innominious death. Jdo therefore
most earnestly exhort you to employ the little tiele that re-
mains to you in preparing for the great change is
cloth
await you, by sincere penitence and fervent prayer, febT, al-
though we do not fail to fortvasd to the proper quarter
that recommendation which the Jury intrusted tfl 111,, We
cannot hold out to you any hope of -mercy on this side_tne
grave. And now cloth nothing more remain than that last
he •
Court pronounce (to all of us a most peinfel duty) the
Sentence of the law, which is, that eachuf you, John Frest„,
Zaphauiali Williams, and William Jonas be taken bench
to the place whence you came, and be thence drawl, on. a .
hurdle to the place of execution, and that, each of y4)c, be
there hanged by the Deck until ycu be dead', and tbat enter-
wards the heed of each of you shall be severed from ilia
body, and the body of each, divided into four quartera,
shall be disposed of as her Majesty - shad think fit, and
may the Lord have mercy on your peels." • - •
-
ns of
Frost rat ed his eyes during the latter put of the set
s•
but the other prisoners 'did, not show any sig
emotion. They were then removed frore'the bar.
Mr. Bellamy directed Charles Walters, Jobn Lovell,
Richard Benfield, Jain Rees, and Jenkin Morgto to be
placed at the bar; and be asked them severally whether 1
they had anything to say why the Conti 'should not give
them judgment tobell.e. accordingeto law?
These are the prisoners who yesterday pleaded Guilty.
Several attorneys who were concerned for.. them spoke to
them, apparently explaining to them that the, sentence was I
a mere matter of form, and wouldriot be carried into effect.
The Chief Justice then addressed them—Charlss Wal-
tcrs, John Lovell, Richard Benfield, John Rees, and Jenkin 1
Morgan, you stand convicted, upon your own confession, I
of the crime of high treason—a crime against which the
law has denounced, with unsparing severity, the punish-
ment of death. As your eases have not proceeded to trial,
it has become our duty to refer to the several depositions
which have been returned to us, in order to ascertain the
facts and circumstances with which each particular ease was
accompanied. Upon ti:at investigationunhappytat;diff.'rs personsain-st
whom the sentence of the law has jug been passed, that,
although you arc undoubtedly guilty of the crime of treason,
by being found present and aidirg them in their wicked
designs, you are not the leaders and contr vers of the
treaeon, but some of you at least the ignorant and deludwe
ed
followers in their traiu.
Under these circumstances
shall ourselves make such application in your behalf to her
Majesty that mercy may be so far extended to you that
your lives may be spared, anti we have raason to hope that
such application will be attended with success. At the
same time, looking to the active and prominent share which
each of you has taken in the lawless` proceedings at New-
port on the fatal 4th of November, 14 e cannot hold out to
you the hope of any further mitigation than that you must
be prepared to leave your native country, mail probably
the remainder of your lives. For the present; and
on with
of
the object of obtaining such mitigation of the exec'
your sentence, it is our duty to pass the sentence required
by law. liis Lordship then passed upon the prisoner* the
same sentence as in the former case.
The moment the Judie put on the black cap e'ca
covered his face with his hands, and did not look up till he
was removed from the bar.
Mr. Baron Parke then intimated that he should prc-
coed with the minor canes in the next Court.
The Chief Justice, addressing Mr. Owen, said he was
about leaving the town, and he would therefore mention
that it was very likely that the objection which bad been
raised for the consideration of the Judges would be argued
next Saturday week, and, if applicatioe was made at his
chambers, a copy of the case would be furnished, in order
teat the Counsel for the prisoner; might have every ad-
-re afforded them for preparing th... eireee .argument.

INOVRelain _
NIONEY MIRKET and CITY NEWS.

THURSDAY EVENING.
HERALD. —The Queen's Speech ;lac very natu-
rally been the chief subject of interest in con-
sequence of the very peculiar circumstances nu:4'1'711.16
it was communicated ; and we have reason to bc.:eve,
from what we have seen and heard this afternoon, not
no body of men in the kingdom can exceed the citizens
of London in their desire for the future happiness of
her Majesty the Queen.
With regard to those portions of the Royal Speech
which do not refer iu any way to her Majesty's mar-
riage, there have been nothing more than the usual
common-place observations. The Speech, as usual,
betrays no more of the secrets of the Cabinet than
possibly could be helped ; and it is complained that
her Majesty's Ministers have most carefully slurred
over any pos.:tive information as to the means the Go-
vernment purpose to take for the restoration of our
commercial relations with the Chinese. The allusion
to the movements of the Chartists is considered to be
very slight, and almost frivolous ; little snore, however,
pretenders have been expected from the dictation of such
pto ability as those who at present arc in

power.
The great object of interest, after her Majestys
speech, has been that of the long-looked-for Message
of the President of the United States to Congress, and
a copy of the Treasury Report on the finances, which
was laid upon the table of Congress, but of which the
only copy has been received at the North and South
American Coffee-house. The latter document, how-
ever, is far too lengthy, and its technicalities too im-
perfect, in consequence of hurry in printing, to permit
us to comment on any of those points which bear upon
the commercial and monetary condition of the United
States, or their influence upon our commercial affairs.
Of the Message, the letters from New York state
that it is just what they expected. liere, on the whole,
it is considered favourable, but the referenc t o the
boundary question is rather positive. The greater part
of this Message is burdened with the currency
system
and Mr. Van Buren's hobby,— the sub-treasury scheme,
followed up by denunciat ons of the United States
Bank, and all banks whatever ; but in conclusion the
President expresses his opinion that the troubles in
Canada are at an end : many here hope that these
opinions rill turn out correct.
The Philadelphia Courier has put forth a portion
the
f
the evidence of Thomas Dunlap, Esq., President of
United States Bank, in a certain trial, " The Common-
wealth v. Rice and Warwick," which explains the con-
nection between the United States Bank ha New York
and the United States Bank in Philadelphia.
Mr. Dunlap states that the United States Bank
in New York was founded under the general banking
law of that State, and is conducted by private indivi-
duals ; that the United S:ates Bank iu Philatietphia
acts merely as agent to the United States Bank of New
York, which, in return, acts as agent in New York for
the POiladelphian Bank.
Tile commerce of the United States wi:s very dull,
and money rather scarce in New York.

SU N.—The Queen's Speech absorbed the principal
part of the conversation in the City this afternoon. It
was communicated first to the North and South Ameri-
can Coffee-house, and other principal places of resort, by
the appearance of 'file Sun Evening Paper, which
was in the hands of merchants and others before half- '
past two o'clock. The temat ks on the affairs of China I
caused the greatest controversy. The question was asked !
generally, is war intended or not ? On this point being
answered will depend immense fortunes. If a blockade
or an open war is intended against China, Teas must
rise greatly, and the tenor of the Speech inclines people
here to believe that coercive steps will be adopted
against the Chinese.
The Message of Van Buren, by long delay in its ar-
rival, appears to have lost its interest ; and Rs to the
bug-bear of the night before last, of a Chartist rising in
the City. no one has thought of it to-day.
The Fun Is left off heavily after the settlement of the
Account. The Queen's Speech had a slightly injuri-
ous effect on the Market. Consols for Money fell to
90k 91 ; and for the February Account to 01*
i ; Ex-
chequer Bills left off at 8 to 9 pt cm.
Spanish Stock was improved br the Qoeen's Speech,
as it adverted favourably to the affairs of Spain. This
Stock closed at 2.3 i, and Portuguese at 34i.
rf
There was no other alteration in the Foreign Bonds
this afternoon requiring notice. Great wo'ern Rail-
way Shares have risen to 3 prem. ; Brighit:a to II
discount ; and Blackwail to I* discount.

THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.---A ebmvlete
history of the Queens of England has long beim a d
sidene urn in our national literature, and we are happy
to learn that it will at length be suPplied, under circum-
stances which matre an adequate performance of so
delicate and ditlieult a task. When it is considered that
a history of this nature necese,ar;ly take a th
at
rather than a po/ii;ea/ furnt, BA' that its materials
(especially in the early parts of it.) are More full of
romance than all the fictions of the poets, Miss Agues
Strickland's work cannot fail to excite universal in-
terest and curioilv. We observe that,
of this, it is to be published olurne by volume, and at
\ a price reudericg it accessible to almost all FIaSS"
irr anticipation
, readers.