The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-28 00:00:00

iIiGH TREASON.

HICKS'S HALL, CLERKENWELL, ..klmicti 27.
tFurther Parliculars.l
This being the day appointed for opening the
Special Commission which has been issued for the
trial of the Conspirators engaged in the Ca-to-
street plot, the Officets of the Crown attended in
this Court at nine o'clock. The gentlemen who
were summoned on the Grand Inquest were also
in attendance.
The witnesses for the Crown, about thirty in
number, were placed in a room by themselves,
preparatrny to their being taken before the Grand
Jury. Those witnesses who themselves stood
charged with being parties to the conspiracy were
in Separate.rooms, tinder the charge of constables.
Among them were Monument, who, it will he re-
collected, was committed to the Tower ; and
Adaws, who remained for some time a prisoner
in St. Martin's watch-house,lmt was afterwards
coniinitted to the /louse of Correction in C4.ld-
batii-fithis. This man, ever since his apprehen-
sion, has been labouring under severe indis-
position.

'n:epike•handles, antis, -pistols, 'words, gre-
nades, dAggers, ammunition, am! other articles
wirer! on ;h., persons of the priSonetS, and in tato-
stleet, at Brunt's lodgings, and ,Isewnere, %vete
tit positctl in the office of the clerk of i-dicttnen's.
When collected together they I,rrsented a formi-
dable appearance.
At ten o'clock the ATTORNVY and SOLICITOR..
CENEHAI, entered the Court, and took their seat
at the Barristers' table. In a few Minutes after-
wards Chief Justice A 13BoTT and Chief Justice
DALLAS. together with Mr. CuNsT, and other
gist ra e , whose ti.tmes were mentioned in the
Commission, cause upon 'he

Piochnnoion %ots 'hen uta►le for silence while
the Commission teas rend, 11r. DEALTHY, ooe
of the Cleiks r,f the Crown Office, innnediately
tea,: i he Commission.

The names of the Gentlemen summoned on the
Grand Tory were tlic,) called over, (for which see
yesterttay•s SUN,)—....nieSe. Geofletnen having been
bworn by Charles Abbott, Esq. Marshal to the
Commission, proclamation was u►ade for silence
%bile the Charge was delivered.
The Lord Chief Ji'stice AB3OTr .then delivered
Lis Charge, to the effect following :

" Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—We are assembled on
this occasion, under the authority of his Majesty's Special
Commission, for the purpose of bearing and inquiring into
c. rtain bills of indictment, which •will be laid before yon,
charging certain persons, first, with high treason: secondly,
misprision of high treason; and thirdly, to inquire touch-
ing the wilful murder of Richard Stuithers, and any other
crime or offence touching the death of the said Richard
Stint hers, and any other offeucc or offences against, touch-
ing, or concerning the persons of Frederick Fitzclarence,
Wm. James Ellis, John Surman, William Westcoatt,

Tim. Chas. Brook, John Muddock, and Benjamin Gi 1, orauy
of them, contrary to the form of an Act made and passed in
the 43J year of his late Majesty, intituled an Act for the
further prevention of malicious shooting, or attempting
to discharge loaded fire-arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding,
yoisoning, and the malicious using of means to procure the
miscarriage of women, the malicious setting fire to buildings,
add other offences therein mentioned ;-----and, Gentlemen, it
has become my duty to offer for your consideration, some re-
touching the offences charged against the parties in
he bilis of indictment, which shall non' he presented for
your deliberation. Gentlemen, the clauses upon which the
charges of high treason in those bills are founded, are to be
found in the Statute of the 25th of Edw. 111., and in another
Statute of the 36th of his late Majesty. By the first of
those Statutes it is declared to be high treason, when any
person dot!) imagine or compass the death of the King;
and by the last it is enacted, that if any person shall
compass or imagine the death of the King, or shall at-
tack the person of the King, or attempt to depose him
from the Crown of these Realms, or shall levy war against
his Majesty, or attempt by force to oblige him to change
the measures of his Government, or shal by threats or tu-
mult attempt to overawe kis Parliament in their proceed-
ings,
each of the persons so offending shall be deemed guilty
of high treason, and suffer the penalties incurred thereby.—
You will, therefore, Gentlemen, deliberately inquire, whe-
ther the charges submitted to your consideration shall
be proved to your satisfaction, imputing to the parties
the crime of imagining and compassing the King's depth,

or intending to imprison his person, or depose hint frora the
throhe of these realms, or levy scar again3t him; and
,it may
be necessary to observe to you, that it is further enacted by
the Statute last mentioned, that if a party shall express his
opinion by writing or printing in aid and furtherance of such

treasonable purposes, he shall incur also the guilt of Big

Treason ; for the law has provided, that in cases of this na•
titre, the intention shall constitute the crime ; but it does, at
t lie same time, require, that the guilty intention shall be ma•
nifestcd by some act of thy party to evince his criminal pur-
u,se.

" Before the passing of the late Statute, according to the
opinions of all the most eminent text-writers upon the sub-
ject, it was held to he the law of this land, that all persons
guilty of overt acts for compassing or imagining the King's
death, were guilty of high treason ; and by the late Act, any
attempt to restrain his person, or to levy war against him, or
to oblige him to change the measures his Government, is
high treason., It may be also requisite for we to state to you,
that it is by no means necessary, in order to constitute the
levying of war, that the parties should appear in open array
of arias. Rebellion rarely makes its first appearance by a
display of military force ; but begins by secret preparations,
and proceeds by degrees. But, as I•have already stated to
you, any attempt by force, to overawe his Majesty or his Go-
vernment, is of itself an overt act of treason, and all the
parties acting in aid of such a purpose, are equally guilty. In.
this crime the law allows of no accessaries, for all parties so
offending are deemed principals."

His Lordship having laid down the law as affecting high
treason, next proceeded to define misprision of treason as a
wilful concealment of any treason existing against his Ma-
jesty; but, in order to constitute the guilt of this crime, by
which the party offending incurred the loss of his estate and
property, and other heavy penalties, it was necessary that h,•
Should actually know of the treason existing, for mere hear
say, without further knowledge, would not expose him
to the penalties of concealment. 11 ut every loyal subject
would feel it his duty to Communicate to the next Magistrate
every thing which came to his knowledge respecting such

treason, in erdc► that measures might be tak,a to bring to

justice the parties coneeined.
-His Lordship next proceedid to define the law as it ;Af-
fected the other triunes ch,ivged in these tills of indict-
ment. First, with respect to -the tanrder of iSmil hers, for
the law protected no house except a dwelling-house against
the forcible entry of the officers of justice fur the appre-
hension of partiee charged with felony; but, in this case,
it would appear that the parties were assembled, not in a
dwelling-honse, but in the loft cif a stable in an obscure
street, and that the Officers upon their entry announced to
the parties 'the-object of their coming, and called upon
them to surrender, which they refused to do, and% as it was
stated, bred their pistols and presented their weapons against
those officers in resistance to them, while in the execution of
their duty. The law considered this an act of unlawful
resistance. If any Magistrate or Officer of Justice called
upon the persons so assembled to surrender themselves
to justice, in any tone or language that was audible and
intelligible, and that the parties refuse and resist by force,
if any death shall acctuc, iii consequence of such resist-
ance, it was murder in the eye of the law. The next
point respected the discharging of fire-arms against the se-
veral partivs who were aiding and assisting in the appre-
hension,of those men ; and this Act, by a Statute of his late

Majesty Lord Ellenhorough's Act) wade it a capital offence
for any one to shout at, or wound, any pergon whatsoever iu
such a manner that if the parties so shot at or wounded
should die, the offender might be convicted of wilful murder.

His Lordship concluded by desiring the Jury to inquire with
the utmost calmness and deliberation into the nature and cir-
cumstances of the charges before them; to dismiss from their
minds all impressions which might hare been made by pre-
vious rumours; and he had the In!lest persuasion that their
decisions would he corerned (►y the dictates of their own
hearts and consciences.

The .Jttry then retired to their room, and pro-
ceeded to examine wit hesses upon -the indictments
whien were r eferred before them. The Judges
continued sitting in Court for upwat of hour,
when the Foteman and a tew other Members of
the Grand July returned, and an arrangement was
made that their Lordships should resume their
seats at 12 o'clock to-morrow, and that the Grand
Jury were to assemble at 10 o'clock.—Chet fol-
lowing witnesses were in attendance :
The Ri4ht lion. N. Vansittart, R. Baker, Esq., R. Birnie,
Esq., Capt. Fitzclarence, Monument and Adams (in custody),
uthven, Ellis, We3teott, Lee, Brooks, Surman, Wright,
Taunton, Bishop, and Gill (ollicert); Serjeant Legg, John
Mudd.ck, Jonathan Curtis, Joseph Basey, Joseph Rivell, and
Joseph Edgar (soldiers) Joseph Hall, Thomas Drover, Thos.
Hiden, Jos. Harry Price, Emanuel Francis, James Pocock,
James Munday, Richard Monday, George Pollock, Mary
Rogers, Eleanor Walker, &c.

Soon after 12 o'clock the Judges lett the Court,
and at halt past 12 the Grand Jury, having then
been a considerable time in deliberation, proceed•
ed with the examination of witnesses,
Air. Bouchier, one of the Solicitors to the
Treasury, was the first witness examined. lie
was only a few ninnies before the Jury.
Robert Adams, the cx•Oxford-Blue, and an
accomplice of the conspirators, was next called.
He was brought from the House of Correction,
where lie has been in confinement since the fin 4
examination of the conspirators before the Privy
Council, in the custody of Mr. Adkins the Go-
vernor, and the ps. incipAl turnkey. lie Was three
hours under exatitination. He appeared pet fee. ly
cool and collected when he came from the Grand
Jury Room. His general appearance is much im-
proved since his apprehension.
The Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart. Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, was the third witness.
The Hun. Gentleman, together with Capt.
Fitzelarence and other witnesses of the Superior
order, was accommodated with a private room
while waning the summons of the Grand July,
lie was not mote than ten minutes under .exa-
inination.

Joseph Baker, servant to the Earl of Harrowby,
and 14 other wi,nesses, were then examined in
ioccession. Amongst them was John Monument,
one of the eight committed to the Tower on the
charge of high treason ; he was brought from the
Tower in tile custody of two Yeomen of the
Guard, and several officers, and was kept in a
private loom, attended only by the Yeomen with
their swords drawn, during the day ; he seemed
very uneasy, and continued pacing the room about
the whole time that he remained there; he is pale
and dejected, and appeared to be by no means a
witness. After his examination, which
lasted nearly an hour, he was conducted back to
the Tower in the same custody.---:Adams was also
taken back to the House of Correction.

There were several women among the persons
examined. They were of respectable appearance.
Two boys were also called.
Cap'ain Fitzclarence was the last witness call-
ed, and at six o'clock the Grand Jury adjourned
until nine o'clock this morning, when they will
proceed with the investigation, and most prolmhly
come to a decision early in the day, there being
only 14 witnesses remaining.

THE WOOLWICH MURDERS.—Further Paricu-
lars of the Apprehension of the supposed Mur-
derer.—We have since learnt that the other
watch is marked John Sampson, London, 588,
and the seal has the motto " Entre Nous." The
prisoner is very ill from the blows and hurts he
received : it seems the small part of: his back is
much hurt, as when all were struggling together
they tell over a form, and he was under. We
have also learnt, that when iu France be seduced
a young English girl from a boarding school, and
having procured an accomplice to officiate as
Priest, they went through the marriage ceremony.
The girl is of a respectable family, said to be of
Southampton. He persuaded her that marriages
in France were solemnized any where, provided
the Priest attended, and the mockery took place
in a billiard-room. He sent her to. Southampton
when he last came here, and it is said has made
her handsome presents , to ascertain what these
were, Mr. Hunt was dispatched this morning. It
is reported, that when in Sicily, in the Artillery.
he was tried on a charge of murder, but was ac-
quitted. During the. whole of this day be ap-
peared much affected with his sit nation, and is
constantly shedding rears,—(Hampshire Chronicle.)

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LONDON,
TUESDAY, 111.4RC11 28, 1820.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Saturday last. In the Chamber of Peers on Fri-
dAy , the discussion was continued on the projet
respecting Individual Liberty. Three Peers were
heard against the projet, and six, including the
Minister of the Interior, and Marshal the Prince
of Echmuld (llavotisT) in favour of it. The
Chamber divided on a motion for closing the
debate, which was negatived 79 t•. 77. The dis..
elusion was then adjourned till Saturday. In the
Cimaniher of Deputies the discussion of the projet
respecting the Journals, was at length closed with

the 'exception only of the summing op of Me
Reporter of the Committer, which was deirried till

Sai

There is no frtrther news in these Journals from
Spain, except a statemen't that the General CatleS
are to assemble at Madrid about the 15ib

and a notice art Circular issued by the ;Minister or
Finance, permitting the flee exportation without
any dwy, of all kinds of grain, pulse, and dried
fruits, brandy, wine, vinegar, and liqueur's. '1 he
fullowiog are extracts :

" MARCH 25. The King yesterday
transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu,
and afterwards with the Minister fur Emeign
Affairs.

" Thursday, at half-past nine in the morning,
three gendarmes conveyed Louvel from the Con-
ciergerie to one of the Saloons of the Palace,
where he was interrogated by the Comruhsion of
the Chamber of Peers till two. They then inter-
rogated a Proprietor of Tours, aged 70, who at..
rived in the morning, accompanied by a Briga-
dier of gendarmerie, in a public carriage. He was
afterwards set at liberty.
" 1t is said that M. de Serres, the Keeper of
the Seals, will return to Paris in the course of the
moot!) of Apa

‘1 The stones of th: clench of Sandi, and of his
being conveyed from IVlanhtiru to Mayence, are
eqii4lly void of fonndaiion.

Friday ....

FIVE PER CENTS.

74 f. 40 c.

DEFERRED STOCK
Of the 22d March, 1817, lOO f. 25c.
224 March, 1820, BB f. 20 c."

[Extract of a Letter from Curaqoa, 15th Feb.]

" The Governor-General of Carraccas has this
moment an iced here front Laguira, in an open-
boat. We cannot conjecture the cause of his ar-

rival."

[Extract of a Letter from Demerara, 20th Dec.]

" For these last two months, the yellow lever
has raged here with great violence. So great has
been its ravages, that the number of deaths have
averaged from eight to ten per day; but am happy
to add, its fury has considerably abated. Num-
bers of Europeans have fallen victims to it."
[Extract of a Letter from Angostura, Dec. 161

" Government having purchased the American
brig Ellen, of Philadelphia, has fitted her out
for sea ; she carries sixteen 18-pounders, and 160
men, and is now cruizing off the Bar, for the
purpose of protevting the trade, which becomes
every, day mote important. The number of ves-
sels, of all nations, since the Ist May to the 141
instant, is t, 7 , among which ere three ships from
&gland, with troops, military stores, and cloth-
ing for the Legion of General Deveßaux.

"The brigade of Light Artillery will leave this
place immediately to join MARINO at San Diego.
At Laguira a British 74 was lying, for the pur-
pose of conveying back the trade to this l►lace.---
By this it seems that matters are not altogether
right there, and that the martial tocsin blazoned
from Angostura is already dreaded in the province
of Carracas."

The space occupied by the Trial of Mr. llutsr,
&c. &c. has prevented our making any remarks
on the triumph of Radicalism in ;he City of West-
minster. 'tile deplore the event, because it must
tend to the degradation of Parliament, and to
4nitnate the hopes of pseudo Reformers and real
Traitors. It is diigraceful to the higher orders
of the Electors that, if they did not approve of
Mr. LAMS, they should remain in a torpid and
pernicious indifference, suffering their City to be
ihrown into the bands of vile Jatobins, who aim
st the possession of 'legislative power, at the

•►s eof r;:ln to their Couutr ee.a t;estry
hope that the Electors of Middlesex will avoid
this disgrace, and not return the Cue/iiioni3ts,
BYNG and WHITI3RIIAD, the mere organs of
the Baronet, who wants to domineer over the
County is well as over Westminster, which has
now fallen a prey to wild Levellers. Mr. MaerAsii
is a man who will do honour to the County and
to the Conntiy. lie will resolutely defend Trig
CONSTITUTION, as it stands, from the encroach-
ments Of Power, the violence of Faction, acd the
temerity of lonovation. It is pettedly ludicrous
to see the juvenile Candidate, Mr. WHITBRECADe
a youth wholly unknown to the County, come
forward and untold his political Creed, as he can
!ive no foundation in experience for what be
says, and probably only details, like a parrot,
the words put into his mouth by the Baronet,
who wants to grasp all the force of Middlesex and
Westminster, that he may intrude whom be
pleases on the Representation of both. The
Electors must forfeit all claim to common sense,
as well as to justice and gratitude, if they can
overlook the solid pretensions of Mr. Meeersu,
founded upon lung and faithful service. if that
Gentleman were not animated by a true l'ove of
his Country, lie would not sobmit to the vile
treatment
,of the despicable I uffians who eve, y
day insult him en the hustings. But be enjoys the
triumph of seeing those scurrilous vagabonds heap-
ing their applause upon his opponents, applause
which every WWI with the least degree of rational
pride would disdain. Mr. BYNG, conscious that.
be leany line no substantial claim to the favour
of the more enlightened Electors, has entered
into a compromise with the Burdett Rodicabr,
and obviously throws off the mask. of pretended.
Ilhiggism, which he had so long worn. Bet the
Baronet sees through the flimsy pretext, anil wilt
only use hint for the present occasion, and cast him
off when other such myrmidons as Hnertoose and
‘l7l-IITBIIBAD shall come forward. It is perfect affec-_
tat ion and hypocrisy in those who beg that Mr.
A1E1.1.1511 may be heard, because they know that he
till Iliaiotaial those constitutional principles, and
avow those loyal sentiments, which cannot be ac-
ceptable to a seditious mob, and who therefore
will be sure to overpower him with factious out-
rage. But there are still voters sufficient to
rain the honour of the County, and we hope that
they will come fOrward and support in Mr. Mue-
r-rem, a Mall independent in spirit, principles, and
fortune, against the Candidates' who avow their
wish for Annual Elections and Universal Suffrage,
though they daily see the practical effects of such
doctrines in the hideous yellings of .a senseless
mob, who, if such doctrines should-prevail, would
at length reduce all honest men to despair, and
leave the Countre a! large to confusion, and alI
the [imams of rebellion, cernage, and anatchy.'

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—TENTH DAY.
At twelve o'clock this flay the (lumbers were
,as follow :

Byng 37,00
Whitbread
Mellish

KING'S THRATRR.-- Dors Giovanni ;t per-
formed for the first time this season On
before a crowded audience. AMBRnGETTI wa., itt
admirable spirits, and was much applauded. BEL..
LOCHI also Shared abonflantly in popular favour.
Madame GATTI being indisposed, her place
taken by Signora Moat, (not Madame MARA, 'o*
stated in a respec:ahle Morning [paper), and ac—
quitted with great efft•et in acting as well as a singer.
The boxes were filled with elegance and fashion,
and made a brilliant appearance, which triumphed
over the general solemnity of sables.
VOCAL CONCERT.—We had no opportunity of
noticing the third Performance of this Conceit,.
which took place on Friday last. it was very
well attended, and the whole was a delicious,
treat. A p,rinted paper stated, that Madame
was still too unich indisposed to appear on.
that occasion. •

• BRIGHTON, MARCH 26.—This town has once
more to pride itself upon the presence of our
ex-
cellent and beloved Sovereign. His 11.1sJitsTr
returned to the Marlborough-row part of the Pa-
vilion ,Palace yesterday, accompanied by• Sir B.
BLoommttn, at three quarters past five o'clock
in the afternoon. There vas no escort, nor pa-
rade of military. His MAJaSTY entered the town
in the same unostentatious and private manner as
usual ; anti his .arrival was presently announced
to the public by a cheerful peal front the climCb.
bells, and the British flag yeas again hoisted upon
its venerable tower.

• The Duchess of Kent continues in seclusion a
fient,ingion Palace.
Prince SkrttutA, one of the roost illustrious
families in Poland, is flu ived ar Grillion's Hotel,
Albemarle-street. Ilis litgiluess is come into,
this coun!ty to visit tie three Vtngdoms, its pub-
lic in:tilalions, manufactories, &c.

Lord DUNDAS is ar hip Lordship's seat in Yolk.-
elire, in his usual State of health,

The Earl of 1-liartwooD, we are concerned to
stare, is seriously indisposed, at his house
F4* e wood • place.
The SPANISH ANIP.A.FSADOR, at Paris, is ex"
peeled to celebrate, by a grand illumination, the
4,:evl),ADce of the Constitution by his Gai-HoL.IC
MAIESTY.

At a (patter past six o'clock this evening, £I
moon ',mitt; rise eclipsed, and continue so t!.}s'4
seven o'clock.

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