The Sun.
London, England, 1816-09-25 00:00:00

TRI.-11, OP V.4UGII.IN ..IND DONELLY,
TW(FOF 'II4E, CoNiPlitATOltS.

This morning at • nim: o'clock the CoMMON
'EIt.iEANT and Mr. Aldenottq,AlNSLin enured
Co.irr, nod .soon after George.. Vaughan and John
Donelly were placed at the entrance of the Dock.

They were. then sbraighed, Donelly first, on the
ground of hisbeing. one of a gang who burglari-
°tidy enteted.the premises of James Yoole, in-St..
Georges parish Bloomsbury, tint! stealing there--
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trout several lards. of clotuh , his pt operty.
..George 'Vaughan was accused of being • acres-
bury to the crime for which the said Mildly
Was arraigned, in consequence of hisvounselling,
aiding and abetting the said Donelly, before the
perpetration of the crime, and also for harbour-
ing and concealing the said Donelly, after the
said crime 'was.committed., To the above charges
both prisoners pleaded not 'guilty.
fiekmnin Johnsen, another police Officer was
thematicr arraigned for breaking' into the house
all Mr. SnOwsill, and thence abstracting various
sums of money,.alld a quantity of-plate, his pro-

petty. . • '
At lOo'clock the Judges Arrived, when Vaughan
ant! Dondly %vete put to the bar. Vaughan ap-
pet4ed extremely indifferent, and during the triA
unit, notes of all the evidence, He was dressed

in a blue coat, black silk waistcoat, and blue pan-
talOons. Donelly seemed more dejected. He
was dressed in a brown coat, black waistcoat,
and light small-clothes.
Mr. HOLLAND opened the pleadings.
The ATTORN EY-GENERAL then stated the case.
He observed that it had been thought proper and
necessary that on the present occasion he should
have the honour of attending the trial, and of
stating to them the particular facts and Circum-
stances peculiarly characterizing this most im-
portant case. They had already heard from the
officer of the Court what those charges were to
ivhich this day their attention was to be directed.
01 the prisoner Donellv and his past lite, he at
plesent should say nothing; but there was an in.
dispensible necessity for him to point out 'to
them some features in the case of Vaughan which
'demanded their particular attention. In the cata-
logue of crimes which unhappily disgraced human
nature, every man knew there were some cases of
a more ag4ravated, others of a more mitigated
nature. 'I he province of a Jury, however, had
nothing to do with such a distinction of crimes,
for they had nitrely to hear the charge on which
the prisoner Was arraigned, to attend to every
cireuhtitance in that charge, to weigh the evi-
dence.bearing against the prisoner, to neigh the
evidence heoring for hint, and to return such a

verdict us lii God, their own consciences, and the
demands of public justice might seem satisfactory.
The col:skit:ration at whut punishment the Cause

deserved, whatever its nature might be, tested
with others, not 'with a Jury. In this particular
ease, it was painful to human feelings, painful,
in (act, to every friend of humanity, to think that
one, of, the prisoners, originally employed (and
he would add, long confidentially employed) in
the administration of justice, had abandoned in an
unguarded hour ov:sacred t rust reposed in him by his
King and country, and instead of the guardian of
public rights, become the protector of the most
abandoned class of society. Vatigitati, in conse.-
quence of his being recommended most strongly
to the notice of the police of the city and suburbs,
for his unblemished character anti uncommon assi•
dtlityla the discharge of all his duties, had been
appointed one of the officers of justice in the of-
'fice in Bow-street, which, as the Jury.and coon-
try well knew, was under the immediate superin-
tentlanee of Government. WS character and con-
d6ct, after a well conducted examination, seemed
so edinirably correct, shat his appointment to the.
office might jtibtly be deemed a valuable acquisi-
tion to the office in Bow-street. In Consequence
of a judgment which had'been given in aootlier
place, and which he was. confident had given un-
satisfaction'to all whO witnessed it, and
consequently to all the people of England;viTi-
cion hall been excited in the 'breast of a worthy

Magistrate'of Bow-street (whose amiable dispo-
sitions., and indefatigable exertions in behalf of
public virtue and public justice, were aheady too
well known to require being mentioned here),
that Vaughan had no doubt sonic intercourse, di-
rectly or indirectly, with those by whose criminal
intrigues the peace of the city and its suburbs had
been so repeatedly hivadet!, in the destruction ot
their property, and the danger to which their
persons were,exposed ; and that Vaughan had pro-
bably acted in conceit with such most diabolical
characters troM the hope cf sharing the- reward_.
th•tially given by Government to the foritimueAlis-
;coverers ot robbers. Already had rumours of such
a nature found their way to the Public mho!, and
already had public sensation to no small. degree
been excited. The minds of the present genera.,
lion had been carried back to thoie diggraceful
proceedings (alas ! too similar to the present)
which occurred upwards ot half a century ago ;,
and when, in human shape, there were wretches,
cold blooded wretches, found, who sacrificed their
fellow mortals for the insignificant reward. Vet the
public., remembering the awful example made in•
1.765, when a person guilty of the same crimes
‘vith the unfortunate men at the bar, hail become
Unhappily the violin of popular fifty while under-
going part of his punishment, rested in the firm he-
lief that that awful example had deterred even the
, ,
.most profligate from a rupetition tif such dreadful
and unheard of crimes. Yet, good God ! what un-
common, whit awful alarm, twist 'have teized
feeling to find the same crates repeated,
and repeated under a worse shaft. At that crisis
Who could doubt Coverantent Were boomd to tiP
its duty ? .Giver anent, aitonitheir that in the
present enlightened liberal ago men could be fOuntf
so totally. insensible to all that was dutiful, ge
ticrous,'or just, came promptly forwatd hod exa-
.
finned the case in all its difrevent:beitrlintsisfitl ra-
mifications. TlidSccretary of State for the Flume
Thltartment dint' his duty. He felt that''occur
retices. of 86 extraordinary a nature destfvell
equally extraordinary notice; and lie therefore, in
thu'OitniltsriitS vt his duty fo. the etsQaaled
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:114,euratei of exerPetit 11. p, hitless
06e Under Secretary of State, whose cli:staeYer
and talents cirrtaiu,fv rcviredtio Every
thing was sifted to, the bbtAtirn, and every inquiry
which ‘vas-poisifettc was gone into for the purpse
of satisfying the pid4le that wt'uld be dum,
to public. feeling .an.l Wrimg,
thing was left undone, no stone wa'skft
utttnria-
ed to do every thing for public ju,siici.. (11,1i-c the
Learned Gent.einao entered into a detail of the
case, viaich it is unnecessary to repeat.) Tim
lie certainly had t tight to detnand, that iu tine
regeitti to their sacred interests, t;ii;; ease shouhl
be brought before a public irif:unal. 'The tarts sit
the ease could be ail fully tionle,oitt It the s
itis-
faction of every Jury.. :He priiiioseil.f`o *call Bar-
rat, an accomplice of the prisoner (Vitagban) ;
but probably the Jury would, and they certainly
had a right to enquire, " is this witness to be be-
lieved, as certainly he must be a had characterl"
He requested them not to believe One word ,tif
what the accomplice would say, unless his el/i-
-deuce was accredited by other persons. But let
them remember, that an accomplice was never-
Owlets a competent witness, as had been, "satis.-
factorily shewn in the punishment lately'inflicted
on a Man who contrived a murder, and found an-
other to perform the murderous deed, and the
actual murderer escaped, while the contriver of
the murder was executed and hung in chains.—
(Here again.the Learned Counsel stated the. par-
ticithir points he was prepared to prove.) The
question solely for them to discuss was, .had
or had tint the evidence Barret was to -give been
confirmed by other evidence. It was not his
wish 'to draw one: single inference from that evi-
dence more than it could possibly bear. Ile
should certainly think it the highest and most
godlike part of his duty to meow:rend to a Jury
always to listen with caution to whatever an ac-
m coplice might state. In this particulate case lie
implored them to dismiss from their minds all that
they heard of popular opinion and popular feeling
on the question before them. If there was an
equal -balance of proof fur 110(1 agaiii,St Cie pri-
soners, he implored them to turn with a favour-
able ear to mercy.—He had no doubt, when he
contemplated the respectable Jury now assembled,
that in their verdict they would consult in such a
manner as should satisfy their own consciences,
satisfy public justice, anti consequently satisfy all
that anxiety which a British public had naturally
felt on the disclosure of such iniquitous scenes as
the present case, in its present aspect, had unhap-
pily developed.
James l'oole was then called, who stated him-
self to be by business u tailor and draper, and lived
in Everett-street, Russell-square. On the 15th
of December last, Vaughan, in company with
Barrett, about twenty minutes before live o'clock,
came to his house. it was at that time tor)

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'dark to work at hisin.siness. Vaughan said,
" My name is Vaughan, I am a Bow-strert offi-
cer," and gave \.vitocss his Curd. I-le added, "
know that your house is marked out to be robbed,
and I Hlll come, if you will let, we, to take the
men. 'lois. is Barrett, my brother officer. I
know they are very 'bad characters, and noted
househreakers; and it yen don't let us take theni,
they will no doubt come when you are fast asleep,
and most likely you, or some of your family,will
be murdered." By these persuasbias he consented
to do as the• officers advised him. The advice
they gave was to mark the cloth; which was al-
ready marked with a shop mirk, with another
Mark, awl to by it on the counter. Vaughan
took up the slicers and cut little pieces off some
calico, and put them on the counter after having
inked them. The officers came about half an hour
before the thieves came : Vaughan and Barrett
remained only a quarter of an hour in the house,
and then went out with the witness. The boy
carne into the shop while the officers were there,
in order to light the lamp ;, but Vaughan ordered
it to be put out, not telling his reason for, it.—
The prisoner, then desired witness not to bolt
the door, but to take *are .and fasten it on.
the latch, and to be sure . of. that. Witness,
Vaughan, and Barrett, went across the way to
a Mr. Anderson's, for the pnrpose of watching.
for ihe, th.eves. Young Mr. Anderson k,iew
Vaughan, and witness lett them there; but before
he quitted, both Barrett and Vaughan said to bin'
You may go Miner and mark any of the large
rolls of cloth, and put theM in the way, for"
added they, " you shall loose none." lie then
went home, took a candle, and looked, round the

shelves, but missed none. The candle was placed
in the back parlour, leaving no light in the shop.
He told his wife to sit by, if she thought proper,
and placed the boy upon the stairs facing the
passage dour, where he could nut be seers by any
one coming into the shop, klaving 4.1.:t1e these
preparations, he quitted the house; and, as he
was directed by the officer, put the door upon the
latch and %Vent out by another door. Witness.
%eds the second time hardly 10 minutes in his
house ; it was then a tew minutes past fiveo'clock

and tidying an appointment to keen in Mecklen-
burgh-s.quare; he went there,. and returned home
'in about ten minutes. Independent of any artifi-
cial light, there was light enough to distinguish
the face of a man when witness left his Shop,.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL, with the approba-
tion of the Bench, mentioned to the Jury, that in
consequence of the testimony of the last witness,
it was resolved to giev up the greatet.eharge of
burglary, ands to proceed only on the minor crime
of
_sterling iu a'dwelling,hottse.

Estitnination cootititVpi.--AVlien witne4s was
returning home, he sow twO turn ..eoining: not of
his shop, who turueti uttt to,beltowley OWi Boos,
Hemet Rowley with a woollen roll ttutlo. his oral
in liettiortl-street, ainti seeisig no ntlicer won* hint,
be turned round ontl roil after hint. • ilovitig got
close to hint, he threw the cloth,downittntler nit -
ness's feet. Notwitlistiintling
•hp pursued
[(tinier, otitl conglit ite;tr the VottottliLig !jars:
pittal. intaKtlintely ,trial +!.Jitie ty,
A nitin of tl.e Dante of L',ntl.ing 'w7es- ofturtv.tras.
ttiLen by the otIICI,S. Wit I,t I'llllol tie 11l tallet.
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tcnold thrre pieces of clotiftnising. Aou bout
eleven 'o'clock the smile night, 1' I-0n%14.01 nod
reit came ui alas to .11itliouse,?and 'having tol.':"
them flint.liC had Vato4litin
Volt hive spoiled the jai), by crying ''Sinp
for 1-knew...is-Wert' to- have:gone ,tolnue
Itturitt Ilie thie‘'es ditiltlinr the clOtb:" VottOttai