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London, England, 1803-11-08 00:00:00

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CARRICKFERGUS, MONDAY, OCT. 24..
ANtireetu lidvntrri, of Carmoney, in the County
of Antrim, was this day cried upon an Indidment,
for High Treason, consisting of two Counts, one
charging the Prisoner with compassing and ima.
gining the death of our Lard the King, and the other
for levying Waragainst him, in Ireland, on the 23d
of July last, at Carmoney. 'ln support of the first
Count, the Indidment contains six overt or open
Ads; the first for meeting, consulting, conspiring,
and agreeing to and with divers false traitors iv,-
known, to raise, levy, and make a public and :cruel
Insurrection, Rebellion, and War. against the King.
Second, for publishing that there would be, on the
23d of July, I,t great insurrreetion and rising of men
in arms in Ireland, against the King and his Goa.
vernment. Third, for summoning and dire Ling
divers subjeda of the King within Ireland, to go
out and meet and join in War and Insurredinn
Against the King, on the 23d of July. The Fourth,
for having in his custody a printed PapEr, purporta
ing to excite the People at Ireland to ads of Trea-
son and Rebellion, and open War against
.the King.
The Fifth, for propagating and posting'; and the
Sixth, for posting up and proclaiming the: same
Paper, ailedging that it was an Address from Thomas
'Russell, a false Ttaitor, to the Men of fretantl, ;toil
containing Orders for the carrying on ast. a Re.
hellion and War against the King,.
The Right Hot 4 the ATTORNEY CFNFRAI., in an
elegant and appropriate Speech, which we arc
at this time, ptcpared to lay before oar Readers,
opened the Case, on the part “F. d. Criovn ,
which Le produzed four Witnetses, ramely,
Edward Wilson, Lieutenants Brady and Coultmao,

and &rjeant Thomas Ittee, to prove the Rising and
U`thellitewhich took place in Dublin, on the night
rif tLe 7.t1 cf. July last the pdrtieulars of which
have nee!, often detailed on the Trials which.to,k
place there.
John Machonky, of Carmoney,
knOws the Prisoner—that he heard of the intended
'rising about the middle of Saturday 'the •23d Of
July—that the Prisoner told him thete.was to he
a turn-out that night, but the Witness did not thus
understand it.' he Prisoner kohl him that the
People were tog to Broughshane ; that a Gene.
rat was to command themthat Belfast would be
taken 1w the People, who were to go to Bdfast
first.—Witness said he saw Prisoner on the road
D4,vid Brown's hOuse,ablut nightfall on Saturday,
when be produced a Paper, a part of which the
Prisoner read—the witness reconciled it began
4,‘ Thomas Russel, General; Commander of the

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Northern Distrid :" that part lvas in large letters,
other parts were in smaller letters. There were
five persons present when the Prisoner read the
Paper (who have since fled) -to whom he said
that there was going to be a turn.out that oight—
tharrthe People were to go to Broughshane, and
were to take Belfast that night—in shout ten mi-
nutes the party separated, and then Prisoner came
into the house of •Joseph Ireland, and asked the'
loan of a jacket, which he got, and said he was
going to turn out. The Prisoner asked the Wit-
ness would .he go, but Witness would not, as he
did not think it was a good end ; the Prisoner
then•went away, and Witness saw him again on
Sunday morning following in Alex. Montgomery's,
. where lie gave a printed paper to William Greer,
who read it. The Prisoner allowed (i. e. said)
Dublin, Cutk, and L'...nerick, had been taken the
night btfore.
On the eross.exattiniition this Witness said, he
came from the goal to give his evidence ; that he
had been ten weeks in custody as a Witness ; that

he did not know how to read; - he knew his
letters, which be was called on to repeat, but
did not.
William Geer, of Carmoney, said, he saw the
Prisoner a little after sun-set, on Sdturday even-
ing, the 23d of July last, at Samuel Thompson's
house,. at Carmoney, with a paper in his hand,
which he posted on Thomf,son's house, where no_
tires are usually posted; the paper began in
,large
letters-7'b,2,nasßussel4• Member of the Provittoh...l.
Government, and Commander in Chief °fib, North-
ern Dilir4g. [Here one of Riissell's—Prociaina.-'
tiuns was produced to the Witness, he had formerly
seen it, and marked it, and he said it was in sub'.,
stance the same with that posted by the Prisoner on
Thompson's house.] This Witness said lie got up
early next morning to read the paper posted ; said
be saw the Prisoner on that morning at Alexander
Montgomery's, and told him he got up to read the
paper, when Prisoner said to him, lie could give
him another of them, . and accordingly took one
out of his pocket, and gave it to the Witness, who
read it all, and returned it to the Prisoner it wls
the Kafue in substance with that pioduced in Court. •
On the cross-eitimination this Witness said, it
Was so (link when
,the paper was posted, that he
could not read the paper, except the large letters ;
,said he knew the Prisoner for six years ; saw no
appearance of a turn-out on Saturday, anti did not
ask the Prisoner where or how he got die printed
paper.
Samuel 'Thompson, of Carmoney, Sexton of the
Meeting.house, saw the Prisoner at the Meeting.
house on the evening of the 23t1 of July Jost, .with'
a paper in his hand, which he saw him post up on
the Witness's house, in presence of Vim. Greer;
the Witness asked the Prisoner what that paper
was ? who replied, that Witness would see on a fu.
ture day what it was, and perhaps tomorrow; the
Prisoner talked something of Rebellion ; Thomas
Russell was the first line of the paper, then folios+ ed
either Member, or Commander of the Northern
District.
John Smith (a boy of about t s years old), of
Carmoney, swore he saw Prisoner post the paper •
on Thompson's house ;, Witness went up and read
some of the- large letters; does not tecollea any'
but the name of Thomas Russell, which was at the
top of it.
johsi.Chilre, a painter and glazier, who'svorked
with GrilitSll4W tin the 23d July lase; he

haW, lllCPri,,otter thAt Saturday, between twelve
at.d one in the Widow Douglass's, at Car.
, money.; the P' isoner came out of a loom into the
kitchen where the Witness was;, P, vier had a
paper in his liand„.which he gave to Samuel M'Clin.
tack to read,. who read it and returred it to the
Prisoner; who gave it to the Wittielst desiring hith
for 'read ;Witness held it up as if to read, thotigh
he could not, but was ashamed to say so ; Witness
gave it back: to the Prisoner. The Witness, at the'
desire of Prisoner, went with him to Widow,
Gardiner's ; after they arrived there eleven or twelve
men came to the house, some of them had pikes,.
and stone inusketol they drank some rum, and said
they were going . to. Broughsbane .to the encamp..
ment ; the Peisoner went out among them, and con.
versed with them; Prisoner then had either a stick
or bayonet in his hand ; these men took this Wit.
ness and M'Clintock, and said they must go to the
encampment, but they did not attempt to force the
Prisoner, but asked him was he not going.; he said
he would be after them direlly ; the Witness and
M'Clinrock afterwards escaled from the Rebels be.
fore they reached Broughshane.
Andrew Moreland lives near Carmoney Meet.
ing.house; beard, on the evening of Saturday the
234 of July, Oa: there would be a turn-out on that
eveoihg, and in consequence he and Ws family left
his house; he staid the greater pit of the night in
the fields, though he was in very bad health ; he
returned before day-light next morning ; he said
the Prisoner came into his house between four anti
five o'clock on the 'Sunday morning ; the Witness's
wife asked the Prisoner what the noise was about"
the turnout; the Prisoner' took a paper out of
his pocket, and said acre was a paper he had
taken down just now, and read it ; Witness taw
the name of Thomas Russell at the head of it, in
Lige letters ;• the Witness's wife or daughter-in:.
law, a ,ked the Prisoner if they would be forced to