The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-07 00:00:00

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ttlisrrm•oteritari,n; tul the cithirtt If rht 14te•rrial.
V.,rk,ltire, 4,llijoi,t niiother gtteac'i
frmii Tie fatpllize,reel. Nini)(l4:, hst rnr
which we Had itot rlorit in ()tit reipor 6f *yest er-
ti is

" teete to nines oCet:oirt! •with.tlle det.4l
irttP trial; of
th.,r we had nrit roo h, in oetr I ,•4r for re-
malk.. 'rho/ indepArigtitly of
the villaio trig wteobrys coitseilletire
mrv., to try r4(41(:',1 upon
the 114.4;yr:icy 4114 Woo were active in
britte.ine the inslirt:ents to trial, abundant martyr
for reflection, and for the exercise of the
stricte“ ce, io awarding a!zaiost the fu-
ture decigns of the Disaffected in that and other

" \Vhat we are about to state is the deepest
impoetAriee ; and iliont.o% it is diflienit to restrain
the boiling lodigwition nrrasiuned by the ceaseless
perversions of an unprincipled and sedition' press,
we shall endravntlr to ttev the subject with That
temper and moderation which its solemn import-
ance demands.

" From mtitives of the purest delicacy, and of
respect for the upright and IpartitA Judge who pre-
sided at' these trials, Ave intended to have carefully
abstained from all ~notice of, s fatal wisunder-
anding under which he laboured respecting the
exnminmiaus of Emilie of the witnesses, taken,
the earlier stages of the proceedings, by the Com-
MaOstrates.
". And the friends of the prisoners, we should
lave imagined, resting satisfied with the verdict
of their acguittal, would have been morer_,,Oxious
to enjoy that triumph in silent satisfaction, than

to recur, for the insolent purpose of insulting the
.Magiarraey and the Government, to that slippery
ground from which tl:e prisoners made, in the
words of the Judge, so " narrow an escape" with
*Bole necks.

" As they have, however, affected, in the midst
,of their real ioy, to " regret that the Judge had
wscasi:m to complain, in the presence of the Coin-
Magktrates,, that the Apositions of the
wttnesse had nor been returned to.bitn, as the
rtit'T of thy 11 a i s rAtcs required, till he bad made
paricular int-111.9r for ktl out selves
bmind to coin life the history ( f that nnfort u-
Date misnoderstandio4, part of ‘vlhicla, and the
most imoortant part, has been wilfully' suppressed,
by the iodivithols who have been so imprudent as
to ',ling it 'all before the Public.
" The Judge, then, tint .only elmplaincd, in the
presence of the Committing Nialii;rates ; he.dis-
tinctly imputed to them; rir+t only in their own
esence, hut i tha; of the Jury, and in onen
Court, improper motives, and an attempt, to deceive
the Joid,ze ! -We know not what were the feel nos'
of the active mod honourable Magistrates at the
tnnmvnt. Those of our Reporter trembled for
them, and for 'the character of the Magisterial ju-
risprudence of ihe country. _ _ _

" `But his fears were. it antly ..sipated by the
open and prompt conduct of the Magistrates. The
parties who have brought this unfortunate circum-
stance before the Public well know (for therwere
present in Court during the time) that the Com-
mitting Magistrates' immediately offered to give
explanations, on Oath, which would have satis-
factorily accounted, not only for any apparent it.-
revlarity in'the prpductiot) of the examinations,
but would have also accounted for the seeming
" discrepancy' between the examinations and
the evidence. One of the Magistrates, Mr. Allen,
was actually Sworn, and was about_ to .reply to
some interrogatories of the Counsel, when—
The Judge peremptwily refused to hear them !
" In laying this important fact before the Pub-
lic, we repeat that we have not the most distant
intention of imputing the slightest blame to the
Learned Judge, who, we firmly believe, being
under a misunderstanding, did that, and that only,
which his conscience, and a high sense of his
duty, dictated. Though it is our opinion, there-.
fore, that his refusal to hear the Magistrates-had
a fatal effect upon the prosecution, we submitted
in respectful silence to the verdict, rather than
the conscientious conduct of a Judge and Jury
should he called in question. With an indecent
and imprudent eagerness, however, the occurrence
has been dragged, in a partial and distorted shape,
before the Public, by those who ought. to have
heen for ever silent on the circumstances of the
late trials,'from which their friends made so narrow
an escape; and• we can, have no he,itation • in
saying that their motives, in concealing the fact
that the offer of the Magistrates to explain was
rejected, are as base, and designing, and wicked,
as has been their whole conduct, first in inciting
the &hilt d classes of the people to out rage, and
after-wards in !Awning incessantly to forward
their projects, by active assistance ; by denying
the existence of those projccts, white denial was
possible ; and by palliating theta, w.:2en they could
no longer be concealed. .

Thus far troth our own knowledge. We
have authority, opon which we can rely, for
stating further, that-the Judge (too late, unfor-
tunately, for public justice) was, after the trial,
satisfied that he had been mistaken,' and sent an
artology•to Mr. Allen, one of the Committing
Magistrates, for the expr:•s•ions he had used.
'' The mistake • was pm haps natural, and was
at all. events on the side of mercy, as was another
et-tor into which he fell 'ivi-th respect to the testi.
Dimly, on a most material point, of the witness
Wimpenny. In spite of rite assurances of the
Counsel for the prosecution, his Lordship per-
sisted in this mistake, till Mr: Gurney handed him
an extract of the evidence, verbatim, from • his
notes. We appeal, even to the Reporter of the
rcury Of for the accuracy of this statement.
'We happened to learn, on the. very day of the
trial, the real reason that Ilearnshaw was not
called to give his eddent7e. It was ascertained
that, be had been closetled, for a considerable
time,- with one of the Gentlemen eiry-loyed for
the 'prisoners ; and his Declaration proves not
only how airily lie hail imbibed his lesson, but how

accurately the CPLIIIteI tar the Crown had calcu-