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London, England, 1812-05-15 00:00:00

the horrid circumstance of the mars*, Width vie fd.
ready before the public, and proceeded to call wit•
nesse; to prove the fatts stated In the indictment.
The ATTOKNEt-GEKERAL then proceeded-4. With
respect to the prisoner's former rite and charaCter,
we have no concern this day, but notwithstanding, I
wilt state to you as much as I do know respecting
him. He was educated as i merchant, and through.
out the whole of his mercantile life, he was not only
regarded as a man of sound anderstanding, in the
conduct of his own affairs, but he was even selected
to manage the affairs of others. He went to Russia
to execute an extensive commission with which lie
had been entrusted by merchants sif respectability.—
While there he was arrested and thrown into prison,
for what cause or by what authority it is not onr
business to enquire. He applied to Lord Levison
(lower to intercede for his liberati:n with the gut-
sian Government, hut his Lordship, it would stem,
rejected bis application. He returned to this country
after being set free. and was again. engaged in busi-
ness, found plenty ofpers-ins willingto enter inso
cantile transactions with him ; hut he seemed to
ne
that this Government was bound to give him•
for the alledged injustice of the Russian
towards him. Gcm.eirlaril
o The grounds of his application for entsrierivatile
were carefully examined by his hlaiesty's Ministers.,
They were found to have no foundation, and his apt
plication was accordingly rejected. He then had re.
I course to another contrivance. He wished total Ms
!case before Parliiment, and with that view circulated
a printed memorial among the Members of the
House, but none would support his application. He
then made application to Mr. PEKCEVAL towonn'e-
nance his Petition, as Chancellos of the
it being necessary for him, as such, to recommend
all aPplicitions to Parliament for money. 24t.
Perceval accordingly paid that attention to hie
case which it seemed to demand, and decided that
his claims could not be listened to. From that mo.
ment the desire of revenge arose in his mind. He
provided himself with pistols and ammunition. • He
informed himself of the time at which Mr. Perceval
usually visited the House. He got a pocket male
inside of his Coat to contain the instruments of de.
struction. He placed himself at the entrance, and
waited the time when the victim of his malignity was
expected to pass into the house, and discharged his
pistol the instant he presented himself. Mr. Per...
ceval died instantaneously. I will not distress you
with more of the particulars—you will hear them
from the witnesses.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to argue
at considerable length that the prisoner was perfectly
sane at the time of committing, and long previously
to ity; He then cited the case of Arnold, who'slrot at
Lard Onslaw is 1722, and whose plea of insanitrwas
rejected: It was proved in this case that there was an
insufficiency of understanding Manifested since thepe.
riod of childhood, but it was also proved that theorem.
der entertained a causelessground of complaintagainst
Lord Onslow, that he used larger shot than usual in
his gun, and that he lay in wait for his victitp.-Frons
these circumstances the leatned jOdge who fried the
cause held that, at the time, Arnold was capable of
right and wrong. and was therefore criminally. an.
swcrable. The ATtORPIET-G2TiERAL next detailed;
at great length, the celebrated case of tote Earl of
IFerrers, who was executed. for the death of-Mr. John.
son, hie Steward, and inferred from the decision of
the Judges in that instance, that the present case was
precisely similar ; and that iruaairy could not b* sue-
, cessfully pleaded.
The evidence was precisely what has already been
laid. before the public in the
,proceedings before the
House of Commons and before tbe Coroner.
At two o'clock the prisoner proceeded to his de.
fence in person. He-began with mooh gesticulation.'
add prefaced his observation: with a remark, that he
would probably be obliged to occupy the time of the
Court for two or three hours.—" EntbarraSged K his
situation was, he said, he could not be expected to
give a very collected statement of what he should
later, but he trusted the Jury would look more to
the substance than the manner of his address..
—Before he began. he clitelaimed all supposition of
his being insane, and this he confessed was the first
time he ever heard. of it in his I;fe. He thanked-the
Attorney General for the handsome and indulgent
(manner Ir had 'conducted the prosecution. He thin:
entered into a, detail of 'the conduot of the Govern.
meet of Russia towards him, and imputed the neglect
of redress to the conduct of Lord G. L: Cower and
Sir S. Shairpe. He expressed himself that he alrould
have been happy had the fatal hall lodged •in any.
other' man's breast hut. that of Mr. Yereevat, for wha.m.
fate, from the bottom of his soul, he feltanore grief
than even the members °falls own family."
The prisoner spoke fully two hours. Mrs. Russel?.
and Mr. Clarke were then examined as to his mentat
derangement. •.•
At Tour o'clock, the Prisoner was still speakiao2.,
He had' entered upon the reading of the documei ••
upon which his pretended claims upon Governm-
'were fotioded. They are voluminous, and altogether
inapplicable for the purposes of justification. -
The prisoner having finished his defence, thii
Judges were summing usi.the- evidence when our' Re.
porter came away.
A post chaise and four has this
tnstant arrived in
the Old Bailey, with two *i!nisses front Liverpool,
reprove the prisoner's...insanity. One Of 'them is tad
to be a Medical man of great respectability. He
isow.under examination. The trial. is now expected
Ins last seareral hours longer.
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SECOND F,DITION,
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• . • HALF-PAST SIX
THE PRISONER FOUND GUILTY...—AND
.BT.NT:ENCED TO BE EXECUTED.
At etric'. tly a quaiter past Six o'clock, having my.
viously retired for a few minutes, the In returned •
into Court with a VERDICT of.GUILT Y.
The RECORDICA immediately passed sentence .elr.
death upon the prisoner —..10.,be "Muted on Mead"
next, and his body to be given .to the Sorrels
dissection.

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