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MADEMOISELLE RACHEL.—The old play of Ariane
is to he revived this evening at her Majesty's Theatre.
The part of Ariane is, no doubt, eminently fitted for the dis-
play of this great tragedian's powers. She appeared in it for
the first time at the Theatre F■ancais only a few weeks ago,
and the whole of the Parisian journals eulogised her highly.
As her engagement is limited to but six nights, no repetition
of this striking character will take place. :Mane is the pro-
duction of Thomas Corneille, a poet, who, though far below
the level of the great Pierre Corneille, has always held a high
place in French literature.
TILE LEICESTER COMPLETE SUFI'R \GB ASSOCIA•
Fitom A CO KnesPONDE )- This Association
have resolved that discussions on political subjects shall take
place at their monthly meetings. This Society, though not
very numerous at present, cannot be despised by the Whigs,
consisting as it does, chiefly e f electors, and having in its ranks
some gentlemen of eminent talent. It is the full determina-
tion of th:e Societ; to support no candidate who will not vote
for the grand fundamental principle of the National Complete
Suffrage Union, viz , the extension of the Suffrage, as a right,
to all male adults, unconvicted of crime.

Miss Marston (cousin of Sir Robert Peel), Major
Weyland, Lady Johnston, Dr. Kaempfer, Dr. Conquest, br.
Parkin, Rev. E. M'Ali, and Sir Joseph Radcliff, were among
the fashionables that left the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, for
Antwerp, this day, in the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's British Steam ship Rainbow, Captain J. Fife. Sir
William Ray and Colonel Grey, left by the same Company's
ship Soho, fur Antwerp, yesterday.
Irt C:I PI, Ay s.—Buutie has made another addi-
tion to his attractive and characteristic performances. Monsieur
Rigout', alias La Pere Turtutuiu is the old man he now enacts,
who is indebted for the latter nickname to the frequent use he
makes of i', The infirmities of his old age he solaces with a
turlututu; his indigence he soothes with a turlututu ; his de-
feat of the knavery of the mayor, who has wrongly possessed
himself of his estat,s, Is marked by the same jocund ejacula-
tion: and a final turlututu celebrates the felicitous bestowal of
the hand of the injured lass on her worshiprer. He was loudly
applauded.
Lord Edward Somerset and suite arrived in Lon-
don yesterday morning, from Antwerp, by the British ship
Wilberforce The pa,sage occul ied 01.17 eighteen hours.
- A inarrive between the Prince de Carini, first
secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador, with Mlle. Lamblin,
a young and beautiful French lady, was celeb' ated on Saturday,
at the chapel of the Embassy—the Pope's t.nncio giving the
nuptial benediction. A splendid dejeuner was given on the
occasion by his Excellency the Duke de Serra Capriola, after
which the bride and bridegroom set off for the country.

•
The indictment having been again read, the question '• Are
you guilty, or not guilty ? " was put to the prisoner, when he
replied in a low but distinct tone, " Not guilty."
The Jury was then empanelled, and having been sworn,
The ArroitN Er-GENERAL ruse to address them on the part
of the Crown. He said—May it please your Lordships, gentle-
men of the Jury, it is my painful duty on the present (steads's'
to state to you the circumstances under which the prisoner at
the bar stands charged with the crime of high treason. A more
important insestigation could not be submitted to von. The
crime which the prisoner is charged is the highest known
to the law of this country ; and I believe in every civilised
community the crime of high treason is eensidered as being
at the head of all other offences—that it is more atrocious in
its nature than any other crime, on account of the extensive
mischief and misery it may entail en the community if
the attempt to commit it is attended with success.
Gentlemen, the accusation of high treason is founded
upon an ancient statute, by which an attempt upon the life of
he Sovereign constitutes the offence of high treason, even in
intention. This trial takes place under a more recent statute
by the provisions of which, when the overt act is a direct at-
tempt upon the person of the Sovereign, the trial is directed to
take place accer,iing to the ordinary forms when a subject is
similarly attacked. Gentlemen, the deep and important in-
terests involved in this question induces me to call upon you to
pct form on this occasion a firm, a faithful, but a fearless dis-
charge of the duty cast upon me- I desire that you may forget
every circumstance that may have been impressed on your
minds or caned to your attention before entering that box. 1
request of you to learn the law from the Judgeapresent ; to take
the facts from the witnesses who will depose to them; to listen
to the arguments presented to you on the other side; to exer-
rise your own unbiassed judgment upon the circumstances of
the case, and ultimately faithful'', to discharge the great
duty cast upon you ; to -0 justice between the public
and the prisoner at the bar, whether that justice he
to acquit or to find guilty. Gentlemen, the deep in-
terest that a question like this involves, induces me to
ask at your hands a calm, dispassionate, impartial, and
deliberate review of all the circumstances, and I must also ask
you, on the other hand, to arm yourselves with that fearless
manliness necessary to discharge the duty cast upon you. If
in your judgment the Person at the bar be innocent, so find
him by your verdict; but if in your judgment he be guilty,
shrink not front the manly performance of your duty, but pro-
nounce a verdict against him carefully. Gentlemen, avoid any
prejedices that may operate against him, but as carefully for the
public interest guard against, any
weakness in his favour. Gen-
tlemen, on Akenday, the 30th of May last, about the hour of
six in the evening, as her Majesty was returning from her
accustomed ride to her Palace, midway between the entrance
to the Palace and Constitution-hill, a loaded pistol was dis-
charged towards the carriage in which the Queen was sit-
ting ; according to the evidence of several witnesses, a dili-
berate aim was taken at her Majesty, and the pistol was dis-
chargedat the Queen. The iodividual who discharged that
pistol was, beyond all Could, the prisoner at the bar. I do
not collect from anything that has transpaa d, that there is to
be the slightest plea in defence on the ground of insanity. I
collect from all that has passed before this moment, and all
around me at this moment, that it is to be admitted
that the prisoner is, and was, at the time of committing the act,
in the full possession of his reason. As I understand, no de-
fence is to be set up that he was not accnuntaVe for all his acts,
that he had not the means of knowing the consequences of
what he was doing, but that• ho was a sane person, is re-
sponsible to the country and to justice for the deliberate
act of which he has been guilty. The solemn inquiry you
are called upon to enter into—and a more solemn or se-
rious or.e cannot be propounded—is what was the character
of the act, and what is the construction to be put upon his
conduct in committing that act, which, beyond the
possibility o" denial or doubt, the prisoner is proved
to have committed by a multitude of witnesses. Gen-
tlemen, in the first place, the weapon he used on this oc-
casion was in its nature deadly and destructive. It was un-
sionbtedly charged with some material of mischief. It was aimed
at the pet son of the Queen, a spot was selected that would place
the person as near as possible within reach of her Majesty's person,
and, unlike what occurred on former occasions, a spot was
selected, net opposite to the wall, but from the wall, and the
pistol was discharged towards the open space on the other side
of the road. The prisoner placed himself in a situation as not
likely to be interrupted by bystanders ; and, above all, it must
be recollected that this was not the first time the prisoner had
attempted to do the mischief, which he seemed determined to
effect, for, Gentlemen, on the day before, as her Majesty
was returning from the Chapel Royal to Buckingham Palace,
a person was observed to point a pistol to the royal carriage.
It was nor fired—what was the cause of that 1 cannot say.
It might be that the persona surrounding prevented him from
having the confidence then to discharge the pistol, or it might
be from sentiments operating upon his own mind; be that as it
may, the action was observed, and subsequently it turned out
beyond a doubt that the prisoner at the bar was the offender.
Gentlemen, of this transaction hers. Majesty was apprised the
neat
same evening. It was communicated to her Majesty by the
authorities, and every precaution was taken to guard her Ma-
jesty'st ltiofe from
immureh
dangerthe
erselffor thdeay
purposes of safety in; but her Majesty dis-
dained
her palace, or to conceal herself .from the view of
xt
her loyal subjects, or prevent them from paying that tribute of
loyalty aced affection which she had ever so deservedly received.
Her Majesty came forth as usual the next day to take her ordj-
nary ride, • but with that magnanimity which belongs to the
hiele minded courage of her Majesty, she refused to be accom-
pante • d by any of the Ladies of her Court, and singly, therefore,
exposed herself to the danger which sh
e thought it becoming in
her to meet. Her Majesty, on the day in question, proceeded
upon her usual excursion, and, on returning,
the prisoner
at the bar made that attempt which I have stated. The
news spread through the metropolis like wildfire. Excitement
followed it throughout the country, accompanied by sentiments
of shame anti indignation, that in a country like England, in
the metropolis
should become the object of so base an attack; and the
ques-
tion, Gentlemen, for you to decide is, what is the character of
that attack, and under what circumstances was it made?
I admit to you that the excitement that prevailed through-
out the country is not to sway your verdict. I men-
tion it onlz for the purpose of showing, that the loyal
reeple of England abhor
base an attempt. Gentle-
men, I will now call your attention to the few remaining
facts connected with the case. I shall conceal nothing
from you which the law officers of the Crown discovered. I
shall discharge my duty as it appears to mu to become me, and
I shall ultimately leave the case to sour deliberate and serious
consideration, simply asking you to draw your own conclusions,
and give no force to any remark I may make beyond that
which is naturally formed by your own sup.: i r and deliberate
judgment. Upon inquiry it appears, that on the Friday before
this event, the 07th of May, the prisoner at the bar
purchased a pistol at a pawnbroker's shop in Tothill-
street, Westminster, for which he paid three shillings in
very small coin, chiefly in half-pence. This you will
hear from the witnesses that will be brought forward, and from
the nature of the payment the conclusion must be, that the
prisoner was in a state of extreme poverty. on the same
evening, at another place, the prisoner purchased a flint adapted
to the pistol, and there was also reason to believe that he on
the same occasion purchased some coarse gunpowder. My
Learned Friend will probably ask where he got the ball or the
destructive materials ; to that I answer, that although there is
no evidence to show whether there was a ball in the pistol or
not, there were ingredients to be found equally as dan-
gerous as lead. There were a thousand hard substances that
might answer the purpose just as well—a child's marble, or
some of the gravel on which the prisoner waestanding, might
furnish him with the means of destruction. I will frankly ad-
mit, at this stage of the inquiry, that I have no direct evidence
where he got any of the destructive materials, or what it was

Tile first witness called was Colonel Arbuthnot, who we•
examined by tre SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Oil the 30th May I
was iii atttendance on her Majesty ; and the usual distance for
the equerry to ride is about five yards behind the Royal carriage,
but from what I had heard on the morning of Monday, I rode
as cio.e to the carriage as possible. Colonel NI
yld, Prince
:filbert's equerry, also rode by the side of the Royal carriage.
Between six and seven o'clock of the evening of the 30th May,
in passing down Constitution-hill, about halt way down the
h:1:, I ot.servect the prisoner take a pistol from his side,
and the it in the direction of the Queen ; as quickly
a, 1 could 1 pulled up my horse, and gave the prisoner
Iwo he charge of a policeman who was standing by his side.
The l runner Vas not quite so much as three yards nearer the
Palace than the pump on the Hill ; he was on the footpath,
an) about seven tcet from the carriage. The pistol was fired
as 1 was just in the act of passing by where the prisoner was.
'lle cat siege had been going at the rate of about eleven miles
an hour, but being apprehensive of an attack on the hill, 1
directed the postilions to drive even faster, and I should think
the pace was about twelve or thirteen miles an hour; the
horsey were going as fast as they could. I had received inti-
mation of danger before the carriage left the Palace,
and in consequence her Majesty would not allow
the ladies usually in attendance on her to ac-
company her. Her Majesty was on the off-side of the car-
riage, which was nearest to the prisoner; she was sitting
on the back side of the carriage, and I was close to the Queen.
The pistol appeared to me to be pointed as near as possible in
the direction of her Majesty. I heard the report of the pistol
plainly, and saw the smoke and the flash distinctly. There
were no persons except a policeman very near the prisoner at
the time; the policeman was about three feet from him, and
to that policeman I said " secure him," pointing to the pri-
soner. Ile was then taken into custody by the po-
liceman, and a soldier of the Guards who came
up. As quickly as I could I regained the place by the
side of her Majesty's carriage which had not stopped. The
pr seuer was taken to the Palace and searched by the police-
mai,. I saw the prisoner at the police-station in Gardener's-
lane, where he declined to state anything.
Chief Justice TINDAL—How long was that after the occur-
rence? Witness--About a quarter of an hour.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I have been in the
army since 1817. The carriage wasam open one. The horse
I rode was about 14 hands 3 inches high.
lien! y Allen examined by Mr.Aeosen vs--I am a private in the
f.'d battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards. I was in the park on the
30th May, from a quarter before to a quarter after six. I saw
the prisoner there about the centre of Constitution-hill. He
was leaning on the pump. I saw her Majesty's carriage come
up. I was between twelve and sixteen paces behind the car-
riage, when I saw the prisoner step about three paces from the
pump towards her Majesty's carriage, which was advancing.
He held h.s arm out, and directly I saw the flash of a pistol and
heard the report. His arm was directed towards her Majesty.
I have been in the army about eighteen months, and have had
experience in firing with ball and blank cartridge. From what
1 could judge I should say that the pistol was loaded with
ball, because the revolt of a piece fired with ball
is somewhat sharper than when fired with a blank cartridge.
The prisoner was about a yard from the carriage when he fired.
I was on the same side as the prisoner ; her Majesty sat on the
same side. When he fired the policeman took hold of him.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLA ItIESON.—I was recruited at
Abingdon, in lierkshise, last February twelve months. I was
in drill about three or four months. I was a tailor before I joined
the army.

(Lionel Arbuthnot recalled and examined by Chief Justice
TINDAL—The report of the pistol was sharp and loud, but I
did not hear the whiz of a ball in consequence of the noise of the
carriage and eight horses ; me opinion is that the pistol was
loaded with some matter, and 1 judge, from the sharpness and
loudness of the report. I cannot express that opinion with
certainty ; but I think the report was that of a pistol well
lammed down and charged. I will not take upon myself posi-
tively to swear that the pistol was loaded with anything more
than gunpowder and wadding, but it must have been well
rammed down, and such wadding well rammed down would have
produced injury to the Queen it it had hit her.
Patrick Fitzgerald examined by Mr. WAnozNuTox-1 have
served in the Spanish and Portuguese armies. I was on Con-
stitutior-hill on 30th May, near the pump. I saw the prisoner
at the bar there. I was near the wall of the Palace garden.
I observed the prisoner particularly ; he was walking about. I
was about five yards on the right of the prisoner when the
Royal carriage came up; as soon as the carriage came in line
with the prisoner I saw him raise his hasd, in which was a
pistol, point it at the carriage, and discharge it. I saw the
flash and heard the report. When he had fired the istol he
dripped his hand down by his side ; I cried out " Seize the
murderer," and rushed at him. Ile was immediately seized by
toe policeman on the left side, and by me on the right.
Cross-examined—The prisoner's left-hand appeared to be
down, resting upon the pump.
Colutel Wild examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I
am Equerry to Prince Albert. I accompanied the Queen on
the 30th of May. Her Majesty went out on that day in an
open carriage, and sat on the right hand side. In the road
from the Palace to Constitution-hill, there is a wall on the left
hand side, and there is a space of about six or eight yards be-
tween the wall and the road ; and on the other side the road
there are a footpath, iron railings, and then the Green-park.
I saw the prisoner at the bar after he had fired. He fired on the
Queen's side of the carriage--the right side, which is the side on
which she always sits. I was riding as nearly as possible abreast
of his Royal Highness on the near side. Some communication
had been made to toe which induced me to keep very near the
carriage on this drive. The first thing which attracted my
attention was the sharp report of a pistol. I wheeled round
directly, and saw the prisoner with his hand hanging down. A
policeman and guardsman seized him directly, and I gave in-
structions
to have him taken to the porter's lodge of the Palace.
I saw the pistol : this is it. It was taken from the prisoner
by the policeman in my presence. This pistol would carry 50
or 60 paces very well : it might carry further by al-
tering the elevation. It would be quite destructive at
a short distance ; as much so as a larger one.
I cannot exactly say how far the prisoner was from the carriage
when he fired. At the distance of 7 feet, the wadding from
such a pistol, if well rammed, would wound any exposed part
of the person, and withal very likely set fire to the dress. The
report was sharp and loud for such a pistol, front which I should
judge that there was something in it to compress the powder
very closely, either strong wadding or a bullet. The same
sound would be produced if the pistol had been loaded with a
stone or marble ; the wadding must have been well rammed
down with something. I saw the prisoner searched. There
was an empty pocket-book, some powder screwed up
very tight in paper, Id. or 2d., I think, in money,
and oneor two things of trifling importance found upon him.
He did not appear much excited; he appeared very firm, but I
observed some agi,ation about his mouth and nose. I
him his name, where he lived, and what he was, but he gave
no answer whatever. I took him through the Palace, and
gave Idm into the custody of Russell, the policeman, when he
was conveyed Gardener's-lane. I rode by his side there ; he
was then searched and stripped naked. lie said he had a
father and mother arid two sisters living, and that he lived about
two miles off.
Cross-examined —I don't know whether the barrel of the
pistol had been unscrewed. I just tried, but could nut un.
I screw it at the time with my lani. It should have a key to
unscrew it.

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puted to him (Mr. Clarkson) that he would reconcile the
act, perhaps, to a mark of respect to her Majesty, or as he
sail, he (Mr. Clarkson) must say he thought somewhat inad-
vertently, as a feu de joie. They would hear, too, from the
Learned Judges whether they were to convict men upon sus-
pieiou—suspicion was enough to warrant an inquiry, but not a
conviction. They must think how they had been solicited by
the Learned Attorney-General to arm themselves with manli-
, ness to discharge their duties, and not to permit any weakness
to operate in favour of the prisoner. Why should the
Attorney-General on the fifth day of the session
cal on them to arm themselves with manliness ?
Were they not supposed to he always armed with the
manliness necessary for the vindication of the rights of
the Crown, the public, and the prisoners who came before
them? or were they now to whip themselves into a degree of
resolution, and to arm themselves with the manliness necessary
for the discharge of their duties? These words conveyed
more than would at first appear. No doubt every person must
be bowed down with shame to think that any man should be
guilty of the crime which had been proved against the pri-
soner ; yet was that a very different thing from the
crime of high treason, with which the prisoner was charged.
lie thought he had obtained some little respect in the eyes of
the Attorney-General for common sense. Why, then, should
the Attorney-General say that it bad been intimated to him
that the defence meant to be set. up by him (Mr. Clarkson)
was, that the prisoner was only expressing his loyalty by means
of a:feu dejsic, and that defence was so contemptible. that he
would not insult the Jury by saying one word upon such a de-
fence ? Where was the person who gave the At-
torney-General :that intimation ? • Who could it be ?
Was not the ease bad enough, abominable, disgusting.
sickening, without any feu de joie being mixed up with it ?
lie felt the interests of the country were deeply involved in an
Learned
rraa,errenkoeel
attempt upon the life of her Majesty. He felt that the inter-
-04.1 of the country were deeply involved in the act which had
been doubtlessly proved against the prisoner. The circum-
stances out of which the indictment had arisen were supposed
to be considerably advanced by the fact that the prisoner had
presented a pistol at her Majesty the day before that on which
It was fired. If they should find that the act—the prisoner
poverty-stricken and obscure—committed on that day was
attended by no interruption, he thought that their eyes
would soon be opened to the motives which induced him to
act as he did, and they would not be left in the painful position
in which they must be at present. The pistol he bought
at a pawnbroker's shop, and it had been said by the excel-
lent officers who had been examined, to be able to
carry about fifty paces, if elevated so as to have its
full power. His Learned Friend said that a person in the
prisoner's situation would not purchase a bullet, but that he
would mould one himself. Where was the mould ? His loJg-
togs had been searched, and nothing of the kind had been
niscovei ed. But his Learned Friend said that they were to infer
that there was a bullet in the pistol ; not a bullet only ; they
were to infer that there was a bullet, or a piece of lead, or a
stone, which he might be able to pick up. Unless they came
to the conclueinn that the pistol was loaded with ball,
or s-urne other hard substance, they could not find
him guilty. He would submit, however, under the direction of
their Lordships, that if the prisoner had even levelled the pis-
tol, laden with nothing whatever, he had been guilty of an
offence, under a recent Act, which would render him liable to
a long term of imprisonment.

Lo-id Chief Justice TINDAL said that it would be competent
fur the Jury to acquit the prisoner of the treason, and find
him guilty of the assault.

CLARK SON continued—He would beg now to direct tine
attention of the Jury to the evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot.
The Colonel, cn this occasion, was riding close by the side
of her Majesty so as ~o cover her :Majesty's person, on a
horse fourteen hands seven itches high, and the prisoner was
about seven feet from the carriage. He did not appear to be
at all disturbed or excited when he was takers into custody.
Let him ask then whether it was not almost a matter of cer-
tainty that if the pistol had been loaded some damage would
Lave been done to the Colonel or his horse, or some,
part of the carriage. His Learned Friend -sad
asked Colonel Arbuthnot one question as to whetherh(et
thought there was a bullet in the
the whiz of a ball, and the reason for no such suggestion
ho
pistol, or whe'lhef he hse:t:roni
having been made must be, he ( Mr. Clarkson)
Colonel, who tea:t might assume, because up to this time the
an old officer, and had seen Live-and-twentytime long years in
the army, had never, up tosaid one word
about ball, bullet, lead, or stone. thatrhe
man,
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who
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which
time he was in drill, was as
said ttluegat the pistol contained Loy
witness, and the only one, who.sed the
him if he over heard ad wadding.; and his Learned
Friend had not even asked
pistol fired in his life. Ctcltito:.ll,Arkbaudthedno,,tistsh-oupli,dr,ndoetr and ad
gofurwther.
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than to say that thepo
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