The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-12 00:00:00

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bet of his watch correctly, but the neki morning
having procured it from the watchmaker, he amend
ed his toriner, statement. He also stated that the
night was not rainy, though there had been some rain
-in the course of the afternoon. Had heard of a
reward from the prisoner's wife of 401. for the
conviction of a highwayffian, but did not believe it.
The prisoner's lodgings were searched, but no pro-
perty belonged to him was found.
John Kirby, was at Mahon on the 11th of
Odober, and on returning towards Castle-Howard,
Qll the same road as stated by the last witness, he
saw the prisoner at the bar, between seven or eight
o'clock in the evening, about a mile from Malton
had an opportunity 'both of seeing him, and hearing
him speak, and was sure the prisoner was the person
he met. Witness described his dress in exactly the •
f.aine terms as the proceeding witness. On the
following Sunday he went with Allen to see the
prisoner, 'who was in custody at Jatues,Davison's.
Witness underwent a long cross-examination, but it
did not materially vary from the preceding state-
ment. Witness said he had not told any person
he should not know the person who had robbed him,
but on the contrary always said he should know him.
Thomas Milner stated, that he found in a stack of

hay on the road from Malton to Hildenly, a red
jacket, light-coloured trowsers, and a hat cut away
to resemble a soldier's cap, and which he produced
in C6uit. Some evidence was given respecting the
alteration of the play, and the account which the
pri.oner gave of it,' which we have introduced into
Allen's evidence. The-person with whom he first
took lodgiogi at Mahon, proved .that he left them
the morning of the 6th of October, saying he was

going to Will:,
James ...Davison stated; that he was a baker at
'Mallon, and that the prisoner and his wife came to
lodge at his house, on Friday the 6th of October,
bete be lodged t ill he was apprehended. On the
the night el the IWI of October, prisoner went
out, sad nig he was going to the play. The night
%t as dark' and hazy after eight o'clock, and in his

okrailun, there %% as not light to discover any thing.
The prisoner went -out annul halt past sit- o'clock:
No - secrecy was, observed as to the prisoner's
lthigitt.
i - ne prisoner, being called upon for his defence,
, proo,,ced a written paper, which he requested leave
to,: read, and which he rrad or . •rather recited

in an impressive manner; tl►is defence occupied
more than halt an hour in the delivery. He be-
gan with lamenting the extremely unfortunate si-
tuation in which. he was placed; d.preCated the

effects of that prejudice which had been artfully
excited against him, and' protested his entire
innocence of the crime with which hestood charged,.
which he imputed to interested perjoryz He thin
entered into a history of his life previous to liis appre-
henSion, from which it appeared that he was educated

as an attorney's etc' k, but from some cause hod been.
ILI Own out Of employment, and that he lald gone to
Mahon to procure employment in his profession, or io

set. up a must: shop, as ne might deem it expedient;
but the near approach of the fair being represented
as unfaitourable at that moment for any steps .to be
taken, he took a temporary lodging, which he after-
wards exchanged for, a more convenient one ; at:d
that at the time the robbery was alleged io be corn-

mitted, he was at the theatre : he then recited the
alteration which had taken pbec in the pettorturee,
which he adduced as a proof of his being there. Ti.e
prisoner made some strong observations on the inac-
curacy of Allen reipecting the number of hiS watch ;
the declaration that be had made, that he did nut
know the prson who had robbed him, and his say-
ing, though. he could distinguish the voice of the
person who had robbed him, he could not tell whe-
ther it was the voice of a South or a, North countiy-
man,. only that it was a base voice; " which, whe-
ther it be ornot," said the prisoner, " the Jury and
Court can best determine." In the course of his
defence he introduced the following pasiage from
the defence of Eugene Aram
" Permit me here, my Lord,' to call upon ma-
lignity itself, so long and cruelly busied in this pro-

secution, to charge upon me any immorality of
which prejodice was not the author. No, my
Lord concerted not schemes of fraud, projected
no violence, injured no man's person or property.
And I humbly conceive my notice of this, espe-
cially at this time, will not be thought impertinent,
or unseasonable ; but, at least, deservilig some
attention :—Because, my' Lord, that any person,
after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking_
and acting regularly, and without one single devia,.
kin 'from sobriety, shOUld" plunge into the very
depth of profligacy preeipitately and at once, is al-
together improbable -and onprecedented, and abso-
lutely inconsistent with the course of things. Man-
kind' are never corrupted at once; villainy is always
progressive, and declines from right, stsp after step,
till every regard of probity is lost, and -.every sense.
of moral obligation totally perishes."
The prisoner at .the conclusion reverted' again to
the prejudices which he supposed existed against him,
And said, " Whatever may be the private opinion of
any persoh of George Wardle Dent, I trust you,
Gentlemen of the Jury, will not convict Mc upon
:evidence which Would be thought insufli,lent any
other case. To strain a point to save a prisoner, may
result from the liest of feelings; but to strain a point
to convict, to dist roy, is a degree of cruelty of which
lam sue you: are iocapable. Whatever be your
vet ict, I snail Lobtnii to it; and if it should consign
me to infamy and to death, and
,my wife and helpless
and tinprovlded ofripring to utter ruin, 1 shall bow
to the .4 ill of Ilvaren. Yet surely even then some
one will driip the te• t. of sympatliy over mY untime-
ly and unmet ited.fzue ; and it may then be discover-
- ed that I have fallen a victim to interested perjury.
But, Gentlemen, I ant tco full of confidence in
your justice and discrifnination to anticipate so fatal
a result. I leave my life in youi hands, knowing
that ob will pronounce upon my case 'with that
tender caution which good men always feel when
they are to pronounce on the life of a fellow crea-
ture."

Ann Bentley was called, on the part of the pri•
soner : she stated, that John Allen, the prosecutor,
said,. in her hearing, that he could not swear to the
prisoner by any thing except his voice. /Kirby,, the
other witness, was also present, but said nothing
upon the subjet,t. Witness came with the prisoner's
wife to York.