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- ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

Lord CASTLERRAGH wished to knowirom an H
nour.ible and Learned Gentleman opposite, what
would be the
,probable 'termination of the inquiry
at the Bar into the eficas of the Orders in Coun-
cil?
Ml'. BROUGHAM, replied, .that had he been al-
lowed to examine witnesses to-mortow-, (Saturday)
he thought he should have completed the task .of
examining the manufaa tiring wit nesses. He would
endeavour to do so this evening,_ if the prior busi-
ness before the House did not extend until a late
hour. There would then remain only, the witnesses
to the effeels Of the Orders in Council on mercantile
transa6ttons. These, he trusted, he would be able
to examine on Wednesday, provided the whole bf
the evening were allotted,tor that purpose. Theta
would then remain the evidence which.tbe Right
Honourable the Vice. President of the .Board of
Trade and his Hon. and Leal ntd niend might.haye
to tender' on the other side of the question.. If iitcy,
were prepared (as he trusted this notice wyuld
,pre-
pare thern). e:ith that evidtnce. If the House'woold
Slt fol.\ that purpose op Saturday next, he -.thought
that tiX case might- be: closed on that Satur-
day; or on the Monday or Tuesday following,—
Some• little time must then he allowed ler consider-
.ation, although he was by rio mean% willing to pro-
long ilie.call,which hung over,the House. •It yeas
his ...intention to bring toiward his general proposition
in the shape of an Addiess to the Regent, and
it occurred, to. him .that Tuesday, the ad
.of June,
would be the day which he would at present fix for
his motion. .

On the motion of Mr. Rosa, Mr. Kirkman Fir-
lay was ordrre.l. to attend this evening as a witness,
.to E c exantine..l`by the Committee on Lhe Ordesks in
CoubLii,

On the mntion of Lord CASTLEREAGH it was
dered, in3i at us rising it the House shiould adjourn
to NYLdi.esday. -

MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MR'. PgR-
CEVAL.

Lcrd OLIVE, in rising to,move for an Address to
his lloym Highness the Prince Regent, for a monu.
rnentsio the memory of Mr. Peicerat, dtu 1101
it necessary 10 apologise to the House for intruding
hi'rnseit Upon them, supported as he was by the uni-
vo.s,il abhortenee of the acA wfati.4lll:d
,t
Fionie'and the country of Hon. and L.nt.tet.l

amentel Friend. .Enconraged by this censidera-
t r. , he \N'oiltfl epture to state the motives by wfbieli
i.e. was tetluenced. He bad tried to- lratne m'o-
Ceu in ouch ,t way, as eta:repel any .oppotitiori that
pleal&a I, would go merely
stegaelest ne Right Ha3tr. Spencer Perceval hay-
1-e' in :the telirsci'etitious dikharge of his duty drawn
eleon himself the unrelenting animosity of an indi-
dual, by refusing to remunerate a private loss, by
a_ public gta t, had b,ecn. assaesinAted
_within the
walls of the House of Commons. He asked for no
opieien ea the politiCal merits of Mr. Pereeval. It
-would be highly unbecoming in him had he done
so. All he asked Was a commemoratien of his vir-
tues, f+ret a recored opinion of the atrocity of the
a& by which be had fallen. He only "asked the
Hon. Gentleman *opposite, to do that_ which, had a
similar accident happened under similar circum-
stances, to any one of them, he would most_cor-
dially and sincerely have done. 01 Mr. Perceval, it
might be truly. said, that he had injured no man,
and that he did good- to all whom it was in bis
poeer to assist. It perhaps might be permitted him
to s'av, that as long as a single virtuous feeling glow-
ed within his breast,. he should think of the crime
which had been perpetrated with the utmost ab-
horrence, and of the objetk of that cri.ne with the
utmost respea and veneration.
The Clerk having, in consequence of his Lord-
ship's request, read the resolutions of the House of
Tuesday last, , a
Lord CLIVE moved—
" That an humble Address be presented to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that his
Royal Highness would be graciouely pleased to order
a monument to be erected in the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster, to the memory of the
late Right Hon'. Spencer Perceval, First Commis-
sioner of his Majesty's Treasury, and Chancellor of
the Exchequer, who was assassinated within -the
wails of Parliament, as a Mark of the deep sense
which the Hou,e entertains of his public and private
. virtues, and of its abhorrence of the act by'which he
fell."
. Admirat,HARVEY seconded the motion. It ap-
peared to him to be.universally admitted, that some
durable public testimony was requisite to record the
abhorrence-of Parliathent of the late atrocious oc-
' CUrreace. What Parliament had done already would
not 'go beyond atheir own lives. He trusted, that
the decisibd of the House on the Noble Lord's mo-
tion would be unanimous ; otherwise justice would
• not be done to the public virtues of Mr. Perceval,
acknowledged as they had been from all quarters,
the sincerity of which acknowledgment he had no
reason to doubt.'
Mr. LAMBE, feeling as he did the mot sincere re-
gret for the late calamity, could easily conceive the
pain experienCeaby those who were intimately con-
: neaed with the eminent Statesmap of whom the
House and the country had been deprived. He
had concurred in :the former votes, not only for the
sake of
,Unanimity, but because Mr. Perceval had
died unenriched by his important office, and he de-
fied the tongue of malice to impute those votes to
any improper motive. It was with great pain, he
observed, that he had now a different duty to dis-
charge. To vote a public monument to an indivi-
dtial, was so clear a reengnitian of his public ser-
vices, and of the public gratitude due to him, that
having opposed most of Mr. Perceval's political mea-
sures, he could not, in the conscientious discharge
of his duty, agree to the proposition. Had he ever
been a supporter of Mr. Perceval's administration,
be, should not aave inclined to bring forward such a
proposition. He did not see any thing in the cir-
cumstances of Mr. Perceval's death, which entitled
him to such an honour, in preference to many to
whom it had not been granted; among whom were
Lord Godolphin, Sir Robert 'Waleole, Mr. .Pelham,
and, in Our own -times, Mr. Burke,' Mr. Windham,
and Mr. Fox.
Mr. FULLER observed, that if the persons just
• mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman bad been actu-
ally destroyed when- in the execution of their duty,
and that at a moment when they were engaged in
the public service, he could not believe that any
, House of Commons that ever'existed, would have
refused to ere& a monument to them.. Was a mo•
nument ever refused to the Captain of a ship, or
the leader of an army, who fell in the discharge of
his citify to his country ) Mr. Perceval, whatever
might be his political /principles, was at the moment
• of his death, in the discharge of a great public duty,
in which both sides of the House were concerned.—
He spoke th;s, as it struck him as a man. He had
supported Mr. Perceval's political measures,' when
living, beFease he thoUght they were right,.and not
because he
.had any patticulacintimacy with that
Gentleman. What was the objea to a great nation?
' All that was -asked, was a monument,- done by
Nollekens, who was the • hest sculptor, and who
' Would produce a very•elegant thing for 4000 gui-
, nets. When good .-men were suddenly taken
fromn 'us in such a way, there ought to be some pub-
-- lic testimony of their -woYth.' If the Hon. Gentleman
oppdaite or the Hon. Gentleman next; to him were
suddenly taken, away, although he was of velar dif-
fereot principles; he would be the first man to pro-
- pose a monument on the occasion. His. was unlet-
tered oratory, which Blair said, sometimes came more
forcibly than any fed oratory. He should feel gra-
% titie.d it the motion were acceded to, and he•was sure
• the country would feel gratified too.
Lord CASTLEREAG/1 declared, that if the.motion
included any political opinion,- he should think it a.
• most injudicems proposition, He should be very.
• sorry it were to go to the vote, if it were supposed ,
that he and his political friends were to derive any
triumph from its adoption. He shotald deprecate
' the motioa in that case as - turning the House and
the country aside from the consideration of all the
moral circumstances attendant on th'e transaaion.—
It was, however, precisely the same proposition as
centained in the original Address.; It merely testis
' fied the aohorrelice which the House felt for the
crime, and the respect which they entertained (a
relax( in wii;ch. his political adversaries had been
. rric.t forward to loin) for the virtues of his lamented
Friend. He should only vote as a memorial of the
hot rid ad.', and of the public and private virtues of
the individual who was the object of it, without
t he ,I:ghtest reterence to any political consideration.
Tie cireeimstences of the transaction deinanded a
ieeenanere rect.) Those circumstances were, that
a public sersant of the Crown perished in the ser-
- s ea, to ift Slate, and as in the.service. of ihe State,
not less in the service of Parliament, at the very en-
' t;etiee imu teet-esserittay. - He thotight they j would

be t-neA ffeglii;eril of their duly if they fails:) to
have as durable a record as thee art of man could
produce,to impress itself upon the eyes of the com-
miserating generation by, which they were to be
followed.; Thar H-onuurable Gentleman opposite
would net abandon a tittle of their political princi-
ples by acceding to the motion. If he thought they
would, whatever might be his private feelings on
the subject, his respect for them would induce hint
not to support it.
Mr. WHITBREAD shortly stated his reasons for
not being able to concur in the motion. He ac-
quitted the Noble Mover, and the Noble Lard, of
any intension to entrap into an approbation of Mr.
Perceval's politics, those who had been Mr. Per-
ceval's political enemies. - Indeed he knew. that it
had been the anxious wish of the Noble Mover,-so
to reduce the awed Of praise which the motion in-
Volved, as to concentrate all parties in the Rouse,
but this Was impossible. . To concur in an unani-
mous vote' for this monument, would be to concur
in an unanimous approval of Mr. Perceval's pub-
lic services (// cry of ko, No!) It 'could not
be otherwise. Even the gallant Admiral had
scarcely, commenced his speech before he -talked
of. the public services of Mr. Perceval. The in-
terpretation which- he (Mr. 'Whitbread) had given
to the vote, would be put upon it after the present
fieeting debate was long over, If the monument
was, erected in consequence of an unanimous vote
of the House, it would be said by posterity that
those who arraigned all Mr. Perceval's public mea-
sures had suddenly, abandoned. their politicel opi-
nions, and had concurred in granting tohis memory
a marked distinction due only to the icero who fell
in the cause of his country, or to the Statesman who
concluded his country to prosperity. He would not
trouble the House much longer, for, indeed, while
the grave of Mr. Perceval remained, unclosed, he did
not feel disposed to enter into any thirig like,politi-.
cal dispute; The House had already recorded their
abhorrence of Mr. Perceval's assassination ; they
had agreed in the eminence of his public and private
virtues, and, notwithstanding the durability of a mo-
nument, he trusted that the Journals of that House
would be still more durable. The page of history
would narrate the fact of their abhorrence. It would
be a consolation to posterity, that the same page
would convey the information that the person by
whom it had been committed was, as tar as the
subjea had- been investigated, unconnected with
any other. He hoped this would be confirmed.—
He should consider it. his. duty to take the sense of
the House on the motion. He had never, 'from
the first day, understood it to have been' the inten-
tion of Mr. Perceval's nearest friends to make such
a one. He presumed, therefore, that it originated
entirely with the Noble Lord ?• (Lord Clive bowed
assent.) It did honour, he must say, to the Noble
Lord's feelings; and he trusted that in what he had
said he should not be supposed to. have meant any
thing in the slightest degree disreapectful, either to
the Noble Lord or to Mr. Perceval's memory. His
opposition to the motion was founded on public
grounds alone.
Mr. CANNING, although he wished it had been
possible to secure unanimity on t he present occasion,
yet thought it but common candour to say, that the
Hon. Gentleman had stated his objections to the
motion in a way the least grating possible to those
who were friendly to it. He had recently induced
an Hon. Gentleman not to presa a motion for a
public funeral to Mr. Perceval, because he thought
that that motion might have been liable to the mis-
construction of comprehending Parliamentary ap-
probation of, 'Mr. Perceval's political principles.—
But, in his opinion, the present proposition was free
from that objection, for. care had been taken so to
frame ie that it should not convey to posterity any
sentiment a jot stronger than that Ixltch. the vote,
to which the House had unanimously agreed, ex-
pressed. The Hon. Gentleman seemed apprehen-
sive that when posterity contenapiated this monu-
ment they would regard it as 'a proof of Parlia-
mentary approbation of MrePerceval's public ser-
vices, and not as a national concentration of sor-
row. He did not think it would ever be so regard-
ed. He did not think so disparaging a sentiment
towards the Hon. Gentlemen opposite would ever
be entertained, as to suppose them capable, when
an obstacle to their ambition was removed, of heap-
ing tributes upon the dead which they refused to
the living. He did not conceive that. the result of
this .MOtion would be liable to any sucli, miscon-
sirnaion. He thought that the construction of all
who.might hereafter look upon the monument (un-
less indeed it were possible, which it was not, that
all historical records should perish, and that monu-
ments alone should survive), would be that political
animosities had been, as in faa they had been, sus-
pended, and thatall other considerations had tor a
time merged in the deeper feeling of sorrow for so
lamented an individual, cut off in a manner the
Most atrocious and almost unexampledr He con-
fessed that he should very much regret, if Parlia-
ment were' to pass lightly over an occurrence which,
as it had shocked the present. age, ought to be re-
corded in such a manner, as to excite the hOr:ar of
postelity. With that vietavealoee, and strialy limit-
ing his intention to that objea, he should most cer-
tainly give his support to the Noble Lord'a
.motion.
If the Gallant.Admnal had permitted his feelings
to betray him into an expression stronger than die
immediate circunrstanee allowed, that was no argn-
ment against the motion. - Even the honourable
Gentleman himself, at 'the moment when he was
most anxious to guard himself from any sup-
posed concurrence in the motioo, used the words
" public virtues," as applicable. to Mr.. Perceval,
and_yet those were tioteidentical words included in
the vote.
Mr. WHITBREAD and Admiral HARVEY CX-
plained. • •
Sir G. WARRENDER concurred heartily in the mo-
tion of the Noble Lord, without conceiving.that he
was-guilty of Any dereliaion of those political prin-
ciples-to which he was attached..
Mr. LOKCIIART was sure, that in acceding to it,
the House would only concur with all the wise and
good in the country. , •
Sir. C.' BURR:ILL supported the motion.
. Mr. C.-WYNNE objealed, that there-was no in-
stance on the Journals in which a monument was
voted to. the public and private virtues.of any indi-
vidual. That to 'bird Chatham was for acknow-
ledged public services, The present case was dif-
ferent from that of great naval or military charac-
ters who fell in the moment of victory, for by this
monument it was intended to coinmettaorate not a

trdnstiaioti of national glory and heroistii, btlt to

mark thefeelings of Parliament on a disgraceful oc-
currence which every one must shrink from the re-
colle&ion of. tri cOncluded , with moving; as an
Amendment, That the other Orders of the Day
should be read,,, in order to avoid coming to a vote
upon the subje t.
Lord Alturoll objet:led to the motion; on the
ground of the impossibility of separating the idea of
a public monument from an approbation of public
services. The 'provision which Parliament had al-
ready made, appeared to him to testify sufficintly
the feelings they entertained on the occasion. After
some tomplitnents.to the si.ncerity and integrity of
Mr. Percvval, and citing the insto,;ce of the murder
of the Duke of Buckingham, to whom no public
monument was voted, he concluded with declaring
it to be impossible for him to support the proposi-
tion of the Noble Lord.
Lord DYSART spoke in favour of the motion, and
contended, that it was not a question to be decided
by the weight of precedents, but that it sub nitted

itself to all. the honourable feelings of the human
breast. 'The character of the individual, and the
circumstances of the Aimes, called for such a mark
of their sentiments. He proceeded to make some
observations on the situation of Mr. Perceval's fa-
mily; the loss they had sustained, and the,virtues by
which he was distinguished, and expressed himself
strongly of opinion, that a monument should be
erected *to his memory.
Mr. WILBERFdRC\E heartily assented to the pro-
position,, though he- was far from thinking that the
glory of his-Right Hon. Friend should be looked for
in a monument. The place in which it would best
appear was the history of his country, in which he
would go down to succeeding generations as one of
its most upright Ministers and brigfitest ornaments.
With respect to the eieetion of a monument to his
name in Westminster Abbey, it were to be wished
,that many, whose memories obtained the same dis-
tint-tan had been equally deserving of it.
Mr. ELLA oT declared, that if lie could bring him-
self to give
.such a 'vote from private considera-
tions, he should not hesitate to give it to the
undoubted -virtues of Mr; Perceval, but that no
being the case, he was under the necessity of re.
fusing it.
The House then divided,
For-the Amendment -
kor the original Motion
Majority
The report of the resolutions on :the Prince Re
gent's Message. being re-committed,
Mr. Husxissorr proposed a resolution in the
Committee, granting to the son of Mr. Perceval
one thousand pounds a year, to commence from the
day of his father's death, and continue during the
lifetime of Mrs.. Perceval. The resolution was agreed
to, and the report ordered to be brought up on Wed-
nesday next.
The House then Went into a Committee on the
Orders in Council, and proceeded to the examina-
nation of witnesses, after which the House ad-
- iourned.

26
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OLD BAILEY, FRIDAY, MAY 15.

TRIAL OF 10HN BELLINGHAM FOR THE MUR.
DER OF THE RIGHT HON. SPENCER PERCE.
VAL.
Abput ten o'clock Sir.JAMES MANSFIELD, Baron
GRAHAM, .and Mr. Justice GROSE, entered the
Court : they took their seats on each side of the
LORDMAYoR,:and wereaCcompanied by the Duke of .
CLARENCE, the Marquis WELLESLEY,• the RECOR-
DER, and almost all the Aldermen of the city of
London. Besides the Duke of CLARENCE and the
Marquis WELLESLEY, we observed many other dis- .
finguished persons in Court. The crowd was so
immense, that no distinetion of rank was attended
to, and many Members of the House of Commons
were, therefore, obliged_to mingle in the throng.
Among the most prominent of the'Members were
`Lord LEVESON GOWER, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, .
General GASCOYNE, Mr, WILLIAM SMITH, Mr.
:VERNON, (son of the Archbishop of York) &c.
There were also present a great number of Ladies,
all led by the most intense curiosity to behold the
assassin, and to hear what he might urge in defence
or in palliation of his atrocious ad. . . -
At length Bellingham appeared, and advanced_ tt
the bar with a firm step, and quite undiSmayed.
He bowed to the Court most.respedfully, and even -.
gracefully. The impression that his appearance .
made, accompanied as it was by this unexpected and
unnatural fortitude, it is impossible for us to de-'
scribe. A mute horror seemed to sit upon every
countenance in the silence o: the first, few minutes ;
but the miserable cause of it looked altogether un-
consciotls of the effeel he had produced: . He was
dressed in a light brown surtout coat, and .striped
yellow waistcoat : his hair plainly dressed, and with-
out powder..
Before the prisoner was called upon regularly to
plead,
• Mr. ALLEY rose, and said, he had 'to-Make an
application for the'postponement of the trial. That
application was founded upon statements, which
went to shew that the prisoner could be proved to
be insane, if sufficient tirne• were allowed for wit-.
. nesses .to appear in his tavour.
Mr. ALLEY was here interrupted by the Attor-
ney-General. He objected to the (node adopted by
the Counsel for the prisoner in making" his objec-
tions. This was certainly not the, proper titne for
making speeches. The first wage of proceeding:,
was, according to all pradice, the pleading of the
prisoner to. the indictment.
Mr. GARROW agreed entirely with the Atiorney-
- General. He spoke after , the most mature consi-
deration ; and he was of opinion that there was, in,
' fad, but the one course which the Court could.
suffer upon this occasion.
Mr. ALLEY was about to reply,
~w!,;en he was
told by the Court that they would not bear him.
An application of this nature never was made be-
fore. How did the Court, e'en know, ;until the
prisoner pleaded, whether he was in Court or not,
or whether lie had Counsel ?
This point being thus ruled, the indictment Was
read, which contained three counts, and in the usual
,form charged the prisoner with the murder of the
Right Hon. Spencer Perceval.
- While the indictment was .reading, the prisoner
listened with ,the greatest attention ; and when the
I question guilty, or , not guilty was put to him, he
t. spoke-shbitly tb the following effect :—“..My Lords

t can pieaa to this inciiament, I east

state, in justice Co myself, that by the hurrying ori. 4
of my trial, I ani 'piked in a most remarkable si-
tuation. It so happdnit, that my prosecutors are ac-
tually the witnesses agaiiist rne. All the document
on which alone I could rest ttiy defenCe, have been
taken from me, and are now to ptziession of the
Crown. It is only. two days since I was told by
Mr. Litchfield, :the Solicitor of the Treatury, tei

prepare for my trier and.'wheni Asked filth --for
my papers, lie told me that they would, not be vett
up to, me. It ,is, therefore, my Lords, rendered
utterly impossible for me to go into my justifica-
tion ; and under the circuMstance in which I firA
Myself, a trial is absolutely useless. The part;
are to be given to me after the trial, but how .cati
that .avail me for my defence? I arm therefore;

tot ready for my trial."
The Court, however, insisted that he shoulj
dead to the indictment : and then, in a silbdueti
:one df voice; he said, " Not guilty I put thyself

upon God and my countrY."
Mr. ATTOR'NEY-GENERAL then rose and said
that, in answer to what had fallen from tliti
prisoner by way of complaint, he had to state, that
when the papers were applied for, although tbei
were refused, copies of them were.offered,-
was told that they themselves should be given to 11414

at the trial.
Mr. GARROW confirmed this stateinent.- -
Mr. Ai.LEY.—My Lords, it is now my duty, ag''
cording to the instructions I have received, to make
a regular application to you for the' postponement,
this trial. However unpleasantly I may feel mysel'. •
situated,—how ever to one's honourab
,emotions it may yet will never shrink froalc
my.duty ; and I now, therefore, have to corned:
that, the Jury ought not to be sworn in this case,
can produce affidavits that the prisoner at the bar e.
not competent to rational actions, that he is not in
state to meet this charge suijuris. The affidavits which
I have, state, that whatever the appearance of the
prissoner may be,—howevet plausible' that appear''
ance, he has been known by the: deponent to be ,
sane for years. The name of the person mak."„Fs
the affidavit is :Anne &nett, who states, that oef
was in Southampton, in Hants, when she heatd
this dreadful , business, and that she illStantlY I,?fr
tened up to London : that she arrived only 'ye4lec;
day, and has not had time to apprize many per°_,rl
of the trial, wh6; to her knowledge, could treo•
Aerial witnesses for- the prisoner : that; in parli6l
lare one Captain Batter could prove material fid:
tending to shew his insanity ; that she herself 114;ti'
no doubt but that the prisoner was in a derang,o
state of mind for a long time previously to- t f
murder2e The other affidavit was from one
Clark, of Newgate-street, stating, that ever sincet_he
prisoner came, ,2 years age, from Russia, he was .Z 4
ofiotind mind. Upon these affidavits he grourtle,
a.
his application for postponing the trial. It wes.irf,
nesS for him to enforce this application by. any 130
gunients. He was quite confident that it musttile
the \fish of every person, from the highest' tg.o
lowest, conneCted with the administration of jug' tlf
to allow this plea of insanity, if it could be j°.900
Etna fairly proved. He:hoped, therefore, that nee
might be granted, that it might be seen whet„;o '
those material fags te which the affidavit of
Bellett alluded, could be substantiated or not 41
denee. In justice to 'himself 'and his Le.4'll-,is
Friend, Mr. Reynolds, who was with him fief
defence, he had to say, that it was only yester
evening he received his iristrufflons, and that t/fee
(her ofehem had any personal intercourse with
prisoner.
Mr. GARROW denied that even this Was the 13
per stage of the trial for. the speech in defence $e
the Learned Counsel. This same thing 0,35 the
tempted in the case of the King v. Arnold, b°l 1,0
Court refused the application. He was sorry tio
the defendant's Counsel should have choso
particular time for making his speed]. sti/
Mr. ALLEY would not press his argument eye
the affidavit was read by the Clerk, though be st,
lieved the-constant praelice of the Court way
side.•
The RECORDER said, ',hat the practice 0. /sf
Court was not as it was stated by Mr. Alley.
affidavit otieht first to be read alone.
The affidavit was then read, and.
.he
Mr. ATTORNRY-GENERA I. argued against •dbel,
plication. If, in the case of the meanest indi‘l oslt
the Court could grant the application' upon ',so
an' affidavit A the present,: then he called 1-I?ci tt
them to grant it now : but he was confident, 'lots
,Was on the very face .of the affidavit, that the gel;
thing was trumped up as te contrivance to deliYob°
administration of justice. These persons,,
swore the affidavits, must have been seiecte%erfe.
the view to impose a false belief upon the 'di jee'
anJ to baffle for a' time the dread purposes °(osset:
tice ; and if the application were granted, a 5 (04'.:'
violation of justice could not in his creation be red'
tised : but who was this woman of Southan; 111°'
and this Mrs. Clark; or what did they says
prisoner bad been resident for four months jo
don before he perpetrated this act of morder;eo tai
was In the midst of a family. He was k°°6oo°',
meltitudes, and known, as it, appeared, as a l'ereaad:
no little sagacity, and of very masculine
ing; N'Vhy. were riot some of the persons who ills, it':
known him in London called upon for affidav'ej sty
stead of these women, about whom no onelliet'n
thing? hat reasons w ere here,evBn in these ate ,feery
alleged for a belief in the prisoner's insanity
cos.of;
were none : and again he should say, that tblottl'i'
fidavits were a mere flimsy contrivance to de teed
ends of immediate justice. He begged theer
to -recoiled the manner in which the prisoo,:ch
just addressed the Court ; and to recollect' 31 0 pfe;
studious anxiety which his Counsel hatreyed /0 tl"
vent him from addressing their Lordshipi- , tit
address their Lordships would see, as be 53`,.`e'totte
sistible grounds for refusing an application wer fie;
on insweity. If the Counsel for the .pri6°l,
tend that he is insane, why did they •1101
best judges in such a case—to the Sreat tee
Pei
men conversan On that malady--to
The Court might rely upon the judgment eel's° ci
who'were in the constant intercourse Wit?erce 3°,0
labouring under insanity, who had' expette",bot (1)1
knowledge upon that most delicate subject; eisclted
Counsel for the prisoner did not call upond;ps
men ; they thought, it seemed, the 81-ILer Old
these two women quite enough tor heir
these Iwo women quite enough t 1 1011 Y o+.
pose. The Court, however, wohld see the.!vdccor'"
the contrivance of this attrisupte and treat
'ascertain .of ottio

F 1

,a,

,m

-11 e aslant no inueug
from the Court : all he wanted was jus, ice and he
e=xercise Of their judicial discretion. It vas asked
Y the Attorney- General, why not bring forward
fiedical men ? la:answer he had to Sa,', that he a ri
1,4 i% Reynolds recommended an ap,,licarion to the
t 7.0 Gentlemen most conversant witty inseoity in
118 country ; and that one of hem stated the ira-
tesibility of ,his being able to attend this day, and
at the other returned no answer. It Wiii next
asked why not produce those who weeer best
tluainteel with the prisoner for the last four
o"Ms? The shortness of the preoaretnry titne
trial
, was an arist.ve‘r to that question : It was
on
'Y the evening before that he received his in-
struaions.
Their Lordships COUSUlted a few moments, and Sir
irlatsseteto deliVered the opinion of the. Court.
this
S3'd the Court would be most willing to grant
isils,aliplication, if it had been made upon grottudi
feestated particular material fads which could
iert be brought forward in evidence for the de-
-Icf the prisoner on account of the absence of
he ; hut there were no such grounds laid.
i,..e affidavits spoke about his being established at
illverPool,---his having been in Russia, 8,:c.; but
the Prisoner's were altogether silent as to any material fad in
1;1! Prisoner's favour. On the contrary, his having
_c,e.a established at Liverpool,—his having transact-
ou,ines, in Russia, must create a presumption
heat be was then, and until the last two years, when
returned,
of
perfea sound mind. As to the
seal:•ifer.in hich he spent his time since,—how he
-111131°Yed, who were his companions and con-
thltie-a-s'-'the affidavits were entirely silent. Bet
aset leestion was not whether he was once in such
butate as to have dune any outrageous a& of insanity,
Ae hwhether at the time charged in the indi&rnent
an sufficiency of understanding to make him
wosvverable for the ate he had committed. Every
at trlc,l in the affidavits might be perfe6ily true ;
thate sa
he time that was a clear as ylig ht,
has
at the time of theit commisss deed ion of this deed he
thes;na sound stand of mind. The Court refused
-tile 3'
Cra 'fury now began to be sworn ; but on the
A'4l7u challenging the first person who was named,
r; ALLEY contended, that the Crown had no
tightlyhs°,,challenge, without stating cause or no cause.
itaci '-'ARRow would by no. means consent to
len: 3 Practice.. The Crown had theright of chat-
tiuTle gtaterally. The Court were of the same opi-
Iv, a
the but Mr. Alley persisted in denying, that it
•
The nrratiice of the Criminal Court.
of ti "ecoitoot insisted that it was the practice_
B.le Coen
_using all the time he had known it.
Xllletr JAMES MANSFIELD.—That's enough; Mr.
beg must know the pradice of the Court, and I
will observe it in this as well as in any corn-
n ease.
kr, G
to stet "How —I defy the Learned Gentleman
sisit„-,e, one single case of such practice. Will he
the "is professional charader on the assertion of
liexistence of such practice ?
Tt;A:Lia.Y.—l never knew it othefwise.
tassel- right of general challenge, without stating
, being established, the Crown challenged se-
-141)e/sons peremptorily, and the following Jury
at length sworn
Abraham Lee William English
1)3°1.0 Heywood john Banks,
It°lllls Whittington Charles Russell,
..„,m1 Kennington, (amen Osborne,
10nias uggins, fames Keating. and
Zee Waters,
r George Gay ton.
ABatiTT then opened the pleadings, and dr
3tee°ll"Y-Geeeaee addressed the Court and t
anj tu the following effect :—lt is my melancholy
letrir:i'inful duty to state to you the details of the
it -d'" Intl der for which the prisoner at the bar
a 41e,--1 charged. That murder was committed upon
s-i'a. whose every ant, whose whole life, was such
it tv°a,ilare guarded him from such a fatal outrage :
virtlecoternitted against a man of such pure christian
41' it
fe) and
such exalted charity, that I am cony inc-
een 'agh of life were left him after the inflic-
be; t'L the deadly wound, his last breath would have
ta tina r Sent
the
in a prayer to the Almighty God
wretched creature who had directed
'molt's, this heart. This, however, Gentlemen, is
seti-1e time for the considerations of those virtues
tta'n adorned the nature of that great, and good
fro m°.whatever they were, they are now torn
us.-- their memory alone remains to console
it is But it is not in justice even to his memory,—
thai not for vengeance, nor through resentment,
t f °r
an
apply to you against the prisoner : I far-
pasr an instant, and do yOu forget, also, that it
"0 who lifted the arm of an assassin against Mr.
the-e/al's life—it is to satisfy the public justice of
ainecnitltrY,—it is to proted the public from being
ho to the perpetration and the disgrace of these
and detested crimes, that I stand here as the
ttiie2tler's public accuser. As to the prisoner's
life and manners, I have nothing to do with
axe„...trt. I have to do with. no part of his conduct,
IA7Pt whatever is connected with the ad for which
I% arraigned ; and, therefore, I shall go over
ise4l° much of his life as those transadions hap-
, sonu in which led to his fatal resentment. The pri-
%dr at)the bar, Gentlemen, acted as a merchant,
etahras considered of such perfect and sound under-
liutg, that he not only conducted his own affairs,
Sole
selected by others for the condual of theirs.
;le three or four years ago he was entrusted with
the°n'tnission to Russia by a house somewhere in
able ;north. The commission was. of consider-
Tot'utportance, and he went to Russia. He was
long in Russia, when, either justly or unjustly,
aet,'.iliplained• of the conduit of the Russian Go-
fern„ruent, to Lord G. L. Gower. It is unnecessary
viviil"le to detail the particulars of the conduct of
that lie complained ; but it is sufficient to say,
Lthen canto back to England, and returned to
mailllurauit of his mercantile affairs. So sound was
tllind, that he found persons ready enough to
htiii themselves of his abilities and experience in
thllis4l7l"%ertt entered, however, into his head, that
naent was bound to take cognizance of
ire ease must
and to remunerate him for the losses he
eth pretended to have sustained from that of Russia.o
11erekre aPplied to Ministers, who, according
Of hir usual practice in such cases, had the grounds
ties s 'Dpltcation examined ; bat it appearing from
irejuexatnination that his claims had no foundation
tlaensince, they were not farther attended to. He
• 41) a lad recourse to another contrivance :he drew
taajetition to Parliament, in the hope that he
eet
-.4lt'est a sufficient number of Members to
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sal
pool in 3 C citlia i. IDL.:VCI al •••••- - -
Claims unreasonable and unjust, shifted the thing from
themselves, and he at length applied to the Minister to
obtain :1i:; countenance to his petition, as, it being a
money withoUt that countenance it would not
be successfully introduced to the House. Mr. Per-
ceval, governed by those principles of justice which
always guided his condua, refused the pfisoner that
countenance which he required ; and from that
moment the desire of revenge seems to have enter-
ed into and to have engrossed his heart ; from that
!noment he seems to have conceived his resentment,
and to have marked out his victim. He has been
resident in London for the last tour months, and the
latter part of that time appears to have been spent
in preparations for his horrible purpose. He bought
a brace of pistols and ammunition. Ha got his arms
ready, and appears to have watched his best op-
portunity, He informed himself of the time
when Mr. PeKeval usually went to the House of
Commons ; he had an alteration made in his dress,
by getting an inside pocket on the left side of his
' coat for the convenience of containing his pis-
tols. On the day when the horrible deed was per-
petrated, he placed himself at the entrance of the
lobby in sti(‘!, a situation as was best calculated to com-
mit the crime he had in view, and also to elude the

..... _ • _
possibility of prevention ; there he waited the arri-
val of the of his malignity, and just as he :vas
passing, he discharged his piStol at him. The effett
of this shot was the instantaneous death of Mr. Per-
ceval. You will hear, Gentlemen, the details of this
tragical- event .fmril the witnesses; 'and you will
then have to decide, whether the prisoner at tha bar
be or be not a murderer—whether he be or nor an-

swerable for this horrid a&. You will not, however,
consider the ad in an aggravated point of view—as
the murder or assassination of the eminent M. Per-

ceval—but you will judge of it as if it had been com-
mitted upon the meanest man amongst us; and you
will judge of it, therefore, on its abstraEt nature, un-
surrounded by all those accidental circumstances
which belong to it, as against such a man as Mr.
Perceval. As to the faCt,. that will be put beyond
the most distant doubt ; and it remains, therefore,
for me only to allude to that attempt—that foolish
and vain attempt—which has been [made to-day to
impress upon your minds an idea or conviCtion of
the prisoner's insanity. Let us, then, consider
the question of insanity a little. Here is a man,
who, like others, has been always equal to the con-
ducting his own affairs ; who has always had the
management of his owe -earcerns. We see no in-
terterersce of any part of his family to deprive him,
as ae insane person, of that management. We
see bin; not on:y left in the tnanagennen: of his own
business, but even selected to conduct the business
of others. We see Fes., through his whole life,
without the ;east bleaa in his understanding : and
what colaur, thtreforn, aave eve acw to say, or to
pretend, that he is an: compqs mentic,that he is
not an accountable being, Thnse ,ahn make the
affidavits are unable toneny the be has not been in
the management of his own affairs and those of
others. Undaehtedly, could be proved that the
prisoner ead no ,mind, no imputation could be
made against him ia law, bersaaae the imputation
presupposes mind in the person against whom it is
made. If it could be proved, that there was an
absence of mind at the time that he committed
this act, nothing could lie against him ; but to-
day I am to learn, that the extraordinary wickedness
of the act is the very reason why the perpetrator
of it should not be answerable for it. Gentlemen,
I will put a case :—Suppose it had pleased Almghty
God to have arrested t.ie assasin's hand, just as he
was about to inflict the fatal blow, and that Mr.
Perceval had been thus miraculously spared to his
family and to iris country; if, on the morning of
the day in which he had beets thus snatched away
from the perpetration of his meditated murder, he
had made his will, and that the validity of that will
was afterwards disputed in a Court of Justice, on the
ground of insanity ; I ask, would any Court allow
the, legality of such a plea ?—Would not the gene-
ral habit of his mind, the rationality of his general
conduit, outweigh every consideration of insanity at-
taching to this one aft ? Would it not be said, and
said fairly, that his whole life being rational, it was
not right to conclude this as to he irrational because
it possessed an atrociousness which the mind of man,
in the highest flight of its wiekedness,would scarcely
dare to conceive,—an atrociousness which would be
conceived to be possible merely because it existed .?e--
Aie we to conclude, in fact, the prisoner to be mad
because he has clone act of madness ? If so, Gen-
tlemen, this very atrocious and extraordinarily
wlcked stet carries with it its own defence; and we
may do what we please against the justice of the
country, provided our conduct be sufficiently daring,
and boasts an atrocity beyond the wickedness of
common life. The question then is simply this :
whether a person like the prisoner at the bar, be at,
the time of the commission of his 'act, capable of
distinguishing between right and wrong. If he be
so capaWe, then the law is, that he is answerable
for his act, and criminally responsible for it. I think
it necessary here to distinguish between that civil
derangement which excludes a man from the ma,
nagement of his property or his affairs, and that
madness which renders a mart criminally unac-
countable to the law. A person may be in the
first situation, and yet not in the second. The
administration of his affairs may be taken from
him by the law; and yet he may have still
the power of jadging. between right and wrung
in criminal cases, and, be therefore answerable for
his criminal act. This is •the law as laid down by
all our best and wisest writers, and as preserved hn-
memorially in the practice of our Courts. Indeed,
all the cases which I remember speak this doe, rine ;
but there are two cases more prominent than the
rest, and these I shall quote to you." The Learned
Gentleman then went into a detail of the King v.
add the case of Lord Ferrars. In the first
case Arnold was accused of the murder of Lord
Onslow, in 1723 ; and the detence set up was, that
Arnold was out of his mind, and several witnesses
proved that he was to a certain extent incapable even
from his childhood; every act of his life shewing a
deficiency of understanding, and that he was not
capable of managing either other people's affairs or
his own. But it was proved that he had taken up a
causeless resentment against Lord (}.;slow—had made
preparations for the deed ; and it was held by the.
Judge, that notwithstanding his deficient under-
standing, if he was capable of distinguishing be-
tween tight and wrong, he was cleatly answerable.
The Jury found him pilty ticcordicigly, In the

of the murder of Mr. Johnson, his steward. He
had taken up an unfounded suspicion -rgainst him,
and had resolved upon pa.)ing the unfortuhate
man
to' instant death. He m4de prepirations, sent for
I)rn to his house, put every other person out of the
the way, took him into a private wom, and shot hH,
It was proved that he was frequently insar.e. ; that
many of his relations had died inane ; that his So-
licitor was so convinced of his insanity, that he
refused to a& for him. Medical men swore he was
insane ; his relations declared that they would have
taken out a commision of lunacy, but Were afraid
of their motives being misrepresented. His Peers,
all the Peers of the kangdom, declared with one
consistent voice that he was guilty, and he was exe-
cuted. These cases the Attorney-General applied to
the present, maintaining, that if even insanity in all
his other axis had been rnanifea, yet ti:e systematic
correaness with which' the prisoner contrived the
murder of Mr. Perceval, shewed a mind, at the
'late, capable of distinguishing right and wrong.
Here there was no deficiency, as in the cases he had
cited ; and therefore he must insist, that it the
Jury thought with him. they must find a verdict} of

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL having finished his
speech,
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH was sworn and
,examined.
—He is a Member of the Commons House of Par-
llams-it. On Monday last, he, in the discharge of
his Parliamentary duty, haopenad to be talking to a
Gentleman in the lobby of the House of Commons;
While in conversation with the Gentleman he heard
the report of a pistol; the report appeared to come from
the outside lobby-door;—he turned his head to. the
place whence the noise proceeded, and observed a
tumult. A dozen or more persons were about the spot
where the .pistol was' fired, and from amongst them
he immediately saw a person rushing hastily from
them ;—several voices at the same time cried out,
shut the door, let no one escape. The person who
came towards him looked now one way, and then
aunt her,—reeled forward by him, and then fell upota
his face. He thought when he was advancing,
that he was more like a person who was seeking
far shelter, than one who had received the wound.
Before he fell, he said a word or two indistinctly,
which he conceived to be oh! murder! or something
like it ; did not know at first who the person was—
thought him only slightly wounded—on raising him
up, found it was Mr. Perceval, but not till then.—
With the help of another, took Mr. Perceval in his
arms into the office of the Speaker's Secretary. His
face was completely pale. The blood came in a
small quantity (row the corners of his mouth. His
pulsation did not last long. His eyes, however,
continued open for three or four minutes ; he ut-
tered some convulsive sobs, and died before the sur-
geon arrived. Mr. Perceval was shot just at the
time that he was in the habit of going to the House
of Commons. The name of the person who assist-
ed him into the Speaker's Secretary's office with the
body was Phillips. '
Mr. LINN examined.—ls a surgeon, residin,c, in
George-street, Westminster ; was sent for on Mon-
day evening to the House of Commons, where he
saw the body of Mr. Perceval. He probed the
wound, which was above the nipple of the left
breast, and Was deep about five inches, going thro'
the heart. This wound certainly caused Mr. Per-
ceval's death.
HENRY BURGESS, solicitor, examined. —After
MrePcrceval fell, crying faintly " Oh ! Murder !"
he heard a person say, " that's the man," and saw
a hand pointing towards the fire place. The pri-
soner was-sitting on the bench near the fire-place,
in great agitation. He found a pistol either in, or
under the left hand of the prisoner, on the bench.
It was warm. He asked the prisoner-how he could
have committed such an a6l ? Prisoner replied—
" Want of redress, and denial of justice," or words
to that etiett. He asked the prisoner, had he at,-
other pistol in his pocket ? Prisoner said, " Yes."
[The pistol with which the shot was fired was here
prodoced.] :Saw that other pistol taken by some
person out of • his pocket. Heard the prisoner af-
terwards examined up stairs. The fads which he
now related, he related at that a ximioation. Pri-
soner correaed -the witness during that examination,,
in the following passage : " I wish (said the pri-
soner) to correct Mr. Burgess's statement in one
particulas, but I believe he is perfectly corrects in,
every other. Instead of my hand having been on
or near the pistoi, he took the pistol out of it."
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY.—Prisoner said
that he had no personal resentment against Mr.
Perceval : he said generally that he bad been ill
used by the Government. He could not tell whe-
ther or not the prisoner might hive escaped after he
had fired the shot. Prisoner was at first extremely
agitated ; but he, at his examination, recovered his
self-possession.
Re-examined for the Crown.—There is an officer
of the House of Commons just outside the lobby-
door, and the prisoner could not have escaped, ex-
cept by passing by this officer.
Lieutenant General GASCOYNE said, he is Mem-
ber of Parliament for Liverpool. He • went to the
House of Commons last Monday evening, •at five
o'clock, by desire of Mr. Perceval, in order to have
some conversation with him respecting a petition
from that town, which he had to present to the
House.- • Not finding Mr. Perceval come at his
must hour, five o'clock, to the House, he went up'
stairs to one of the Committee rooms ; and when
he had reached the room which was open to she
balustrade which overlooks the lobby of the House,
he beard the report of a pistol, and immediately
ran to the Gallery lobby, whete he heard an ex-
clamation of " close the doors." He then rushed
down stairs, and through the House into the lobby,
where he saw the circumstances described by the
first witness. A person near him, whom he
should not ktiow if he saw him, said, " that is the
man who fired the pistol," pointing to John Belling-
ham, whose person and name he knew. He was
sitting with one or two others on the bench near
the fire. Took him by the breast, and as he lift-
ed up his hand, it appeared he had a pistol in
his hand cocked. Therefore kept down his arm,
and Mr. Burgess took the pistol from under the
hand which the witness held. Heard the prison-
er say he had another pistol. Proceeded to search
' his pockets, but found no other pistol in the poc-
kets he searched ; but he found a parcel of papers in
his breast pocket, tied together with red tape. The
pressure was so great, around the witness, that,
teaming to lose the papers, be held up his hand high,

ouqe.

be
pri,,,oe.r

both hand;„ and told l!iin he could not escape, ay
he %v.-. wed known to C!e witness, h' was (1,.-
'l,..ronned he would never lose sight of him. The
priswler said that he had submitted. Some More

questioni. were• put io him by several other per-
sons, which he answered; but which
she wit-
nes; could not disti,,,Aly recollect ; and the prisoner
was taken to the bar of the Hou.e, in the custody
women, and from thence he was ordered by the

Speaker to be taken in custody to a tonal up stairs,

to be examined befOre the M.,gistrwes who attend-
ed. He appeared at first eKtremely agitated; but
afterwards became quite calm and collected. 'When
the witness gave his evidee befote the Magistrates,

the prisoner said, " General Gascoyne is too correct
for me to make any observations on his evict _nee :

he must have been less agitated than I was." He
certainly appeared to be at first in such a state of
agitation as any man,might be who was deteaed iu
aach a crime : but he afterwards seemed perfectly
calm; and as the witness had known him before.—
Witness can't recoiled precisely when he had seen
him before; but thinks it was at his own house on
the preceding Monday.
JAMES TAYLOR, a taylor, who resides at No.
North-place, Gray's Ina-lane, proved that he was

employed by the prisoner to do some work for him
in the way of his business ; and that on 25th of
April particularly, he employed him to make a
breast pocket on the left, side of a dark coloured body

coat, which he gave Lim particular direßion% to
make about nine inches deep, and gave him a piece
of paper about" that length, a a pattern far the
depth he wisked ; and desired hho to make the
pocket so as to be easily come at. He took En,rne
the coat on the follow►ng day, and gave it to the

servant of the. house in Millman-street, where the

ptisoner lodged. Witness Ile'si saw him about six
days ago, in Gray's Inn-lane: Witness then bowed
to hint ; and the prisoner said, he should shortly

have some more business tor him to do.
JOHN NORRIS said, that having daily occasion to
attend in the Gallery of the House of Commons, he
was on his way thithtq, about five o'clock, last
Monday evening; that he saw the prisoner standing
close within side one of the folding-doors opening
from the steps into the lobby, and that he appeared
to be waiting for some person. Prisoner stood at ,
not more than arm's length from any person passing
through the other opening of the door-way. The
prisoner seemed to him, as well a.; he could now re-
collect, with his right hand within the left side of
his coat-breast, and appeared to be in a state of ex-
treme anxiety. 'Witness passed on towards the
gallery; and, on his reaching the lobby of the gal-
lery, heard the report of a pistol. Toe Contusion
was so great below, that he could not afterwards
distiudly understand what passed ; but he under-
stood that Mr. Perceval was shot.

JOHN VICKERY, one of the Police Officers of Bow-
street, proved, that on the evening ot Monday last
he went to search the prisoner's lodgings in Mill-
man-street, where he found in a drawer, a pair of
pistol-bags, a small powder-flask, a paper wish some
powder, a ball-mould with some pistol-balls, a pa-
per containing some small flints, and a pistol key
for unscrewing the barrel of a pocket-pistol. Two
of the balls appeared to have been screwed into a
pocket-pistol, and he had no doubt but those bails
had bden cast in this mould.

Mr. V. C. DOWLiNG sworn.—Stated, that having
been in the gallery of the House of Commons, on
Monday evening last, a little after five, he heard the
report of a pistol, and he immediately ran down to,
the lobby. •He saw the prisoner, who was pointed
out to him as the person who fired the shot. He
immediately proceeded to search the prisoner, and
took from .his small-clothes pocket a loaded pistol,
which he now produced in Court. It was primed at
the time, and contained, as It did now, a charge of
powder, with a leaden ball ; and it wasfprectsely
like the other pistol now produced, which had been
discharged, and taken from the prisoner at the time.
He compared the ball with the bore of the discharg-
ed pistol, and proved that it exactly tallied, and hat
both pistols were marked with the same maker's
name. He had seen the prisoner several times
shortly before in the gallery and avenues of the
House of Commons 5 and he partieularly recolhcled
having seen him in the gallery, sitting some time by
his side within the last week, and having some
conversation with him.
Mr. NEWMAN, the Keeper of Newgate, and a
man named Bowman,'one of his assistants, proved
the dark-coloured coat, with the deep side pocket,
found in the prisoner's apartment in the prison,
which he wore for some days after his commitment,
and which Taylor, who searched theTocket, atter•
wards identified.
- The evidence for the Crown being now closed,
the prisoner was called on for his defence.
The prisoner proposed to leave it to his Counsel,
but was informed that they ',vete not allowed to ad-
dress the Court in his defence.
The prisoner then said, that the papers taken from
his person were documents absolutely neccessary to
his defence, and he claimed them from tl.e Court.
They were accordingly delivered to him ; and he
proceeded to address the Jury in a speech of
above an hour's continuance, interspersed with the
reading of those several JOCQUICtitS, and with his
own comments. He expressed his thanks to the
King's Attorney-General for tie resistance he op.
posed to the defence set up by his Counsel, which
went to prove that he was insane; because, it it
had succeeded, it would not have answered the pm-
pose of his justification. He returned thauks to his
Counsel for their zeal in his defence, and their in-
tentions in setting up such a plea at the desire of
his friends ; but neither now., ror at any time,
had he incurred the charge of insanity, with the
exception of a single instance in 11.wsia, when the.
pressure of his suffering's had exposed him to that
imputation.
As to the lamentable cafas,rophe for which he
was pow on his trial before that Court, no mart could
lament the sad event with deeper sorrow than he
did ; not even the family and nearest friends of the
unfortunate Mr. Perceval. If he had been capable
of taking away the We of that Gentleman with am,
deliberate feeling of malice propense, lie should de-
serve to be accounted the most atrocious monster in
existence. He disclaimed, however, in the most
solemn manner, any such motive of personal pre.
meditated malice towards-that Gentleman in parti-
cular ; and could only state, the uotbitunatelot had
I fallen upon him as a leading Member of that