Star.
London, England, 1824-01-07 00:00:00

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but oh, to raise his arm against the life of his friend and
fellow-creature, it was terrible, it waiappalling, it was
most horrible. His mind shuddered at such a thought,
t was one which he could" not -dwell upon. He had
been represented as a sporting man—he had been
so, but he ha( only followed in that the example
of many thousands of persons of the first rank and dis-
tinction in the country ; but etis he declared, and could
prove, he had never entered a gaming-house for the last
three years; and when he had unfortunately addicted
himself to this course, who were the sufferers? why, his
unfortur rte father and family ; and it was unneces-
sary for him to say, no fortune could sustain the
shocks of a man addicted to gaming, and no one
could now describe what his feelings were for his past
misconduct and its effects. He had, as before stated,
served his King and his country, and when peace shed
its lustre over the land, his services, like those of thou-
sands of others, was considered as no longer neces,
sary : on his return to his native country, be engaged inl
commercial pnrsuits ; but in these, like other indi..l
viduals, be had been unsuccessful —le had. failed ;
but his' a,signees had thought well of him, though
he had found bitter enemies where he had hoped to
find. the sincerest friendship—his confidential solicitor
had deceived him, and he had been ruined. •He had
not obtained his certificate, and svby had he not? his
principal creditor had demanded a bonus of 300/. above
the proportion paid to his creditors generally, before he
woul.l sign ii, and in resisting what he considered an
attempt at fraud, he had been made the sacrifice. lie had
Afterwards. become a partner in a concern with his bro_
ther ; they had the misbirtune to have their house burnt
down ;he afterwards brought his action against the Fire
Office, and in that action, tried before the Learned Judge
who now presided, his claim had been allowed. He
had, however, been charged by Mr. Barber Beaumont
with a conspiracy, and if he were so inclined, he could
soon skew that he was not the conspirator—that he was
not the suborner of evidence. He, the defender of his
King and Country, had been charged with conspi-
racy by that amass who had dared to raise the
standard of rebellion in the very front of his Sove-
reign's Palace. The Newspapers—the Public Press,
which ought to be the defenders of public liberty
and private individuals, had charged- him with at-
tempting to inveigle an individual, named Woods, to
a house in Manchester-buildings, with an intention of
having him assassinated. If he thought it right to
take up the time of the Court and Jury, and if it were
not in consideration of the happiness of an amiable
woman, he would prove, by the evidence of many
most respectable inhabitants oi Norwich, that he was
not at that time in London, but was in his native city
The public papers had also charged bins, most cruelly.
and calumniously, with. having, after the rage of
battle was over—(llere the prisOner's feelings.were so
much overpowered that he was obliged to pause to re•
cover himself ; after a few moments he recovered so far
- as to be able to proceed)—He had been. charged with
having, after the rage of the battle, was over, cruelly,
basely, and savagely slaughtered a defeated, wounded,
arid ur.at med enemy in ccol blood. ; Had there ever
been a case in which calumnies' so base had been
Leaped on any individual, 0r in which a man had been
sent to be tried by his Peers for his life, with such a load
of prejudice heaped on his devoted head? Ile would
tic.w i teceed to call the attention of the Jury to the
facts of his case, and the evidence produced in sup-
port nf it: bui first, he must beg leave to return his
most sincere and hean.felt thanks to the High Sheriff
for his kindness and attention to /sins during his
imprisonment ; he must also beg leave to express the
same sentiments of the
.Magistrates of the cupnty, for
their uniform attention; and. greatly did Le lament
that any misunderstanding or misconception had arisen-
between some of them and the Reverend Mr. Lloyd
to whom he was under great obligations; and lastly:
though not least in the list, he must acknowledge ehe
unremitting kindness of Mr. Wilson, the governor d
the prison. To the Reverend Mr. Franklin his obligation
was indeed great—to his instructions it was owing that
his religious and moral feelings were in such a state
as bad enabled him to meet his present awful situation
without shrinking from it. Ile would now, to the best
of his abilities, proceed to point Out to the Jury those
variances in the evidence berme the Jury and the Co-'
tuner, and the differences of facts as stated by the
several witnesses; and first, he must beg the Jury
to keep in their recollection, that the piincipal ana
only evidence who proved the murder was the in-
dividual whose motive for giving evidence was to
save his own life. Thobert alone proved the mur-
der ; and vtliat weie the facts he swore to? How did
it appear that the body ens en! placed in the Poed
where it was found immediately atter the murder was
committed? Prebert alone was tie witne-s to speak to
its being deposited in the pond in Nobel is ga: den ; so,
also, he was the only evidence to !stove the remove)
from that pond to the 'other; or from the la..e to I'm o-
bstres pond. He knew not whether he was right or riot,
but Isis opinion was, that the body never was in Pro-
beres portd,•or on his premises at all. What proof, in
fact, was there of the murder ever having been known
to him ? According to Probert's evidence, and accord-
ing to what had been stated its What was called Hunt's
confession, Hunt bought the pistols,Hunt bought the
sack Hunt brought the
:cords Hunt hired the
chaise, and Hunt. did everything until probert was
called into action t and front Probert's evidence N-
ikko appeared, that on coming from town on the night
of the alleged murder, in company with Hunt, they
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frequently at pthilic-houses, and took large
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of Arica spirits, as if for the purpose of
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