The Sun.
London, England, 1816-03-29 00:00:00

TitIAL OF SIR it WILSON, &c.

[From a French Paper.]

Several questions of. law haling been proposed
by M. DUPIN, the Defender ot Sir ROBERT WIL-
SON, and Messrs'.•l3auca and nuTeinNsox, tl►ey
have been officially transmitted to London, and
answered by three English Lawyets in the follOw-
lug Letter addressed to Lord CASTLEiItPAGIL:•--'':..

" MY Lonn,—We have, had the honour 6f receiving the
orders of your Lordship by a letter from dated
the 7th, transmitting to us several papers from Sir .Charles
Stuart, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of France, re-
halve to the course of proceeding which it is proptised to
adopt against Sir Robert Wilson, Messrs. Brace andliutch-
knoll, and to which our attention is chiefly cal ts<l with re-
hition to the questions which conclude the Statement of M.
.Dupin. Your Lordship calls upon us to furnish the official
statement required in answer to these questions. Eager to
obey your Lordship's orders, we have the honour of observing,
that when a foreigner is accused of.a crime or offence, against
the law of England, he is tried according to the rules of that
law—his guilt or innocenqe is established according to, the
established maxims of the Y.nglish

With respect to the right of being tried by a Jury, com-
posed partly of English, anti partly of foreigners, this right
is secured to the accused by the Statute 20th Edward 111.
chap. la, and formally recognized by the Statute-Bth lieury.
VI chtqr. 49.

" When a foreigner under,accusatiOn is called upon to de-
fend himself against the charges brought agai..st him, he has
the right of demanding that the Jury by wbonOte is to be
tried, shall be composed half of foreigners, and half of Eng-
lish subjects. It is nut necessary that the foreigners should
be of the same/country with the accused; if, however, a suf-
ficient number of the same country are to be found within
the .Bailiwick of Officer charged with returning the Jury
Panuel, they are always ch•sseu preference. If it should
happerOhat there are not a sufficient number of foreigners of
the same conntry, with the accused, the nurub‘it may be com-
pleted by means of English subjects.
It is the Sheriff, or the Officer whose duty it is to return
the Jury Paunch, who also returns the list of foreign Jurors,
and he ought to take care to select twelve of every description,
in order that six of each twelve may he chOsen by ballot to
serve on Juries. lt,is not necessary that the foreign Jorylnan,
should have the sarue-qualitication with regard to property as
the English Juryman.. This is provided for by the statute of
Henry VI. to which we hate alluded.,
ei If a foreigner'and an Englishman are ineludad,,in the
snake indictment, and the former ►tcmands ,a Jury of: half
aliens).* he persons accused may be tried separately, in order to
secure to the foreigner the advantage of a Jury of half aliens,
and to the Englishman that of an English Jury.
" Such is the general principle established by the statutes
of which mention has been made. The,statnte, however, of
Ist Philip and Mary, chap. 10, which enacts that all proceed
ing,s in treason should he prOsecoted according to the Common
Law, has rvpeale the statute of latli EdWard 111. and taken
away this privilege of a Jury half alien's, in eases of high
treason. _ It is SU Stated in Lord Pleas of the 'Crown,
1, 'page Si I; and in the cases there idled.
" In all the proceedings which take place in England,
whatever may be their nature, it letters cir written p4ers in
a foreign language are prodneed, they are translated by an
interpreter, who is sworn to interpret,, id translate fairly and
truly.

" We believe we have answered all the (questions which
have been proposed to us in the' mare of Sir Hubert Wilson,
Messrs. Bruce and Ilotchinson and we' have the honour,
' (Signed) " CHiItIST. ROBINSON.
6.-IRROW.
" S. SIIENIERD!"
" Lord viscount Castlereagh."

A plan of the following sort would be as use-
ful and amusing, in London as in Bretagne :

" PARIS, MAP Lit 18.—A Prefect of Bretagne has employed a
eery simple method to demonstrate to.the people of his de-
Partnient the absurdity of the reports that were Circulated.
This Magistrate has.printed iiewspaper, in double columns,
under the title of "Journal of the ill-disposrd" (Journal des
Here are found all the ridiculous nests which
have hem circulated for these three months past, and which
were speedily to-be justified by the event, bu' have prvdiiceti
only shame to their authors and propagator. On ieeing
every
fpredictiun' Invariably falsified, weak minded people
blush at their own credulity, and finish by laughing at the
expence of these prophets, whose facts seem happily resolved
continually to give the lie.'-'—(Orock, Mara 24.)

THE PIItNCE REOENT.—In consequence of the
long indisposition of the PRINCE REGENT, and
the arrival of his ,Royal Highness in Lundon on
Wednesday night, Carlton Honse was yesterday
thronged from soon after ten o'clock till near six ;
the company %vas so numerous 1,1,t one time that
the doors of the Grand Hall were thrown open to
admit the inquirers. They consisted of the Royal
Dukes, the Cabinct Ministers, 84e. &c. &c., Thu
Regent gave long private audienc‘s to the Lord
Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Castle-
reagh, &c. At six o'clock his Royal Highness
went to dine with her Majesty and his Royal
.Sisters at the Queen's 'Palace, attended by fit
Betijamiu Bloomfield. In the etening her Ma-
jesty htni a select party at the Palace.
Thc Quesses visit to town, 00 Wednesday, was
chiefly for the [impose of receiving his Royal
:Highness the Pnmen REGENT, who dined at
Buckingham House yesterday. Her MAJESTY
returns to leitindsor for two, or three daxs, and
will,•be in town again early next week. There
will certainly be a Drawing on Thursday , which
is expected, to be very brilliant.

It is settled that Lord GRENVILLE is to give up
possession of Catuclford Millie on the Bth of
April next ; and Qll the 10th the improvements
commence ; they are to be complcte&by the
kith, the day of the- celebration ot, the Itoyal
Nuptials. The interior will exhibit a style of
magnificent embellishments highly- pleasing, at
once blending the nicht %yid) the ornamental.

The QUEIiN and PRINCESSES' rheNsts are in
runtiness for the marriage of the Princess ClfAn*.
LOTTE Of \VALES.

Prince tirtoPoLn of C0130171X0 remains at prigh-
ton another tortni;;ht.
Youlig NAPOLEOt.! iN to lie called in future 84' hi, .1
Scrent ifighneas Princo Francis Charin.".