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

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Priun or BELLINGHAM;

profession. He left if under a detiberateeonvietien,
thi4 he `was sacrificing the interests of his family ma
sense of duty. It was the decided conviction of his,
Own mind, that b'y complying with a desire which he
,cenceived to be mandatory on him. he els sacrificing ,
the interests of his family: The House-might recol-
SESSIONS HoUrt,. OLD BAILEY.
lect that !hortlyailter the period when bit Right Ho- nasal., mat 1.54
pourable Friend- accepted his -tituation, his Majesty
.0 sia
aLtillGitA at eat his dinner yesterday at two o'clock
did intended, by a Grant, to mitigate that sacrifice;
with seemingly a good Appetite, and was soon after
bin his
etw 'Righeen t Honourable Friend stept in on that oc-
visited by Mr. Under Sheriff Smarm, and other Gen-
casiort b the intention of that Grant and the ex-
ecution of it This virtuous sacifice of his late Right denten, and desired to prepare for, his trial. Be-
nonauraole Friend, was a feature in his 'character tween tour and five o'clock; Mr4.Hinstre, the Soli-
ivhice ought to c:411 forth the liberality of ei Parliament • tor, appointed to conduct his defence, waited upon
toward/ his family. At the period when.he left his
in-
profession, it would be admittec) he left it with a high hint, but he would have nothing to say to him ; in-
-degree of professional character. He had the future siting that he needed neither Attorney nor Counsel,
prospect of great professional emoluments, and his but was competent to manage his own business !
profits at the time were actually very liberal. He At
after which he six o'clock he drank
some tea, immediately:
had to state from Mr. Perceval's family, that they en- • began to draw up his
&twee.—
rtained the deepest sense of the liberality of l'ailta-
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Leeta. He would not be instrumental in advancing the , He continued writing till about twelve at night,
Vote which mighobagiven that night; but if the Re-' when he Went to bed and requested silence that he
solution should be adopted, and afterwards approved might repose is qrtiet—waked at. three this morning,
of on the Report, he should certainly afterwards vote wrote a few lines and then lay down again and slept
in favour of the Bill. He 'could not we-the advantage
cf postpottement. till seven, when he got rip, washed himself, and
Mr. LUSHINGTON contended that theft was rm. breakfasted at eight o'clock. He eat. sparingly, be-
&fidelity in point of form in the proceedings. It gar so be much agitated, expressedszreat concern for
had beenitmi•auced or the Flosise by a Message from his'fan,ily, and was sick. His hair being dressed, he
the Threw) brought by a Minister of the Crown..— began to • • express impatience for the hour of trial.—
. It was nut necessary. that this Message should be
'brought by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The ••
At a tarter before ten this morning, Mr. Nowtour
liouoirible Member ct ncladed his 'speech In'the'tig. : tookiihttlown to the Court. •
losing words t—o I will mention a circumstanon :
.At an'early hour the
populace
had already.colleco
deeply4calcela tcd to impress the feellogs of the Ii nuat "fed in It •
uragnse numbers, and every avenue to the
—I saw Lord Arden, the brother ofitr. Pe+ceeftle'
'eetererhelmed with grief, and his hatei. placedneinn: . • d hts :Conn was oecupie . By nine o'Clock the Court was
' Body, near the part where •the fatal wound Was in:, cro*ded in every corner. The Marquis WELLESLEY
flicted : 'My bt-o.her l' he exclaimed,' you are gout I took .bis seat. on the Beech, beside the . RECORDER.
lug are gone to Heaven ! but your children—." Mr. Alderman Comer, who was .seated on the same
, His children,' replied an Honourable Merfiber bench .
in
virtue of )iis office, rose,and, in a polite
standing by, ' aie his country's !' —1 hope this decla- .
ration will be verified, and that the liberality of Par- .manner, desired his Lordship to rerno;m from that
liana at will pr.•tect them in at manner adequate to seat. His Lordship answered that he sat there by
the occasion." . ;permission from the Sheriffs. Alderman COMAE then ,
Mr. MARTIN, of :Galway, rose amid LAW-cries said, that
the Sheriffs could only accommodate his
of Question! Question! He )601 not wish the present ~ i Lordship n their own box. Here the R in•
.41i:cession -to be conduLted 'by tho impulses of feel- I Ravi-omit -
'fag; but by the abstract priare3tles of -equitys For his ~terfered, and stated that the Marquis was named in
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Tin part, in giving his vote In favour of the adds.-the Special Commission for trying the criminal.
, aional sum,, be believed he should only be perform-! Besides the Marquis Wettescev, we observed the
•inga told-U.o4es! act of justice. At the same time Duke of CLARENCE on the Bench 9 who entered with
. bit wshed distinc state, that if the vote sup.
posed tiS involvetl anYto y aperobation tithe politkalwas mei. the LORD MAYOR.: A great number of Members of i
sera of the Right Houeurable Gentleman dreamed, Parliament, and among others Sir FRANCIS BunzErr;
he, for one; should protest against it. From that were in the body of the Court.
Right Honourable Gentleman during his life-time,' The Judges who took their seats on the Bench,
lie hid often differed, and indeed lie
e did not believe Sirwere JAMES MANSFIELD, Barons GRAHAM and
be ever had die honour of pulling bis hat off twice to
lint in his life ; but, the present question bi conceived Ssttru, and Mr. Justice HEATII. As soon as the
10 be one Which implied the ptrformance of merely Judges had taken their seats, the prisoner was brought
tit act of duty. . .. in. He was heavily ironed on each leg, and ad-
After some COEWerSatitll betWEEIOIT. WHITBREAD
vanced firmly up to the front of the Lir, where he
•er d the Sttaisa, it was agreed that the Resolution
doom bi
recommitted 41.21 Committee of the whole , bowed respectfully to the Court. He was dressed in
Boole to-morrow. • • ' '
shabby brown dufflegreat coat, buttoned 1 a
, .
ORDERS IN COUNCIL. I to his chin, so as to render his neckcloth, which was
NE MiiitttYAlT, In the absence of an Ifooduraile Alder. I
dirty, scarcely perceptible. He placed his hands upon
ote,montier far the City of Leftism, vol. nit& a Petition frog( •
untie ?Aeretants, ilihip-oviat.rs,•and TraCiers• of the City at the bar, and stooped forward as if to listen with great
I urdon, lo hitter of the Orders In Council, praying that the ' •
tattenuon ko what was passing:
erne mare's.' b‘erposiesit bat be eotaisood, as a istaluitort Wei -. . . - . , .
tint aping the energy,; utaiL the Orders of the Ctiellir 1111140.
...A Special Commotion from his Royal 'Highness
ws.a. abe Petition was laid oh the' table. REGENT, for his trial, in which the above.
'the iiouselhen resolved itself into a Committee to etemine the Pluscr
Vitnesses upon the Peltions against the Orders in Council; , Judges were named, was then read:*
afar which examination the other Orders of the Day were dis- 1 Mr. ALLEY,
his
Counsel, here stated to the Court,
-.1 of, when the I toile Atljourtted. - 1
that he intended to move for the postponement of the
trial, and was prepared with afild'lvits for that pur-
pose, which he requested might be read.
Mr. Gastitow, for the Crown, in reply, denied that
any instance had eon occurred in practice of any
'motion being made for postponing trial, until the
prisoner had first pleaded guilty or not guilty.
' • The Court having decided in favour of Mr. GAR-
-now% suggestion, the indictment was read by the
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The Mori-aura packet has arrived at Falniouth, Clerk of Arraigns. It was, as usual, a technical de-
Wish Mails from Cadiz, after a passage of eight days, scription of the circumstances attending the murder.
by ‘ihich are have received Journals and Letters to The Prisoner was then informed by the RitittlDEß
the ewe of her sailing. I that now was. the time to plead to his indietment ;
. The Journals are filled %kith accounts of the result ; upon which he bowed respectfully to the Court, and
of the various movements of the Spanish parties `addressed them as follows, in a distinct aeid Articulate
against the common en:4tily, in all,vhich our Allies manner: . . .
save bad the advantage. In a late affair, Generali 5' Mr Loans—Before I ciii plead *lbis indict-
litudistatos captured a convoy of die enemy, valued • ment, I Must state to the Court that I am peculiarli
at two millions of reals, with i..omc hundred prisoners. situated, and placed under extraordinary eircurn-
Abe brace GASPAR has also been successful in inter- • stances. It so happens that my prosecutors are the
ceating 600 sheep, and liberating many persons who witnesses 'against me. All the documents necessary
'etre held as hostages for contributions. for my defence were taken from me when I was first
The French appear to have but few troops left in committed. It is only two dayS since I got notice
the Kingdom of Valeatia ; and 'their attention is dis- `from Mr. Lichfield, of the Treasury, to prepare for my
touted by tf.e successes gained by • the Patriots in trial, and, when I asked from him the documentswhich
NAvarre• Airagon and Catalonia, where theS iardttaken from he told me that they would be
, pan were me, ,
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have been very successfula indeed the enemy seem, delivered up to me after the trial ; now, my Lords,
frogs the accorsp_ts before as, to have 4 noaafety or rest i that would be a time when they would be wholly
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bl't motet. the gins' °£A* fortified poSti. ' . unnecessary for my justificatiOn., - I am, therefore,
;•144!5!,telligericia., of the- eairtures'of ' Brdajoz, as not ready to go.to' trial."—ljere.the prisoner, once
litlt be exprkted, ewited .great joy at Cadiz, and. more bowed to the Court.

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MURDER OF MR. PERCEVAL.

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etial iihrniy in tEe eheznyie jinn...before that place,
Aiztre =icy are in great wat of maw! necessaa iesy
t't•lgh'th.j, hate twt yet Ova tip the bhew:ef some.
:Lnit like .t siege.

Sir JAMES Ktessrtecn, after the Prisoner had eon-
chided, desired the RECORDER lo ask the Prisoner
ihisply whether he was guilty of not guilty of the crime
ebizsell ? The prisoner then said, in a firm tone,
" Not guilty." To the other usual question—" How
will you be tried%?" he answered in an equally distinct
manner—" By GOD and my Country."
The Jury were about to be called over, when Mr.
ALLEY rose, and moved the Court to postpone the
trial, upon the ground that 'the pris ner's friends,
who resided at a distance, had not been made ac'
quainted with his present melancholy situation, and.
who could unquestionably prove the insanity of the pri-
soner. The Learned Coultsel then proceeded to sate-
the substance of wo affidavits which he held in his
hand.

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itittto received from Bristol this morning; dated
May 13, says,
*Arrived at this port this morning, the Edward, in
34dayr hum New York : tie embargo was laid on
as she was sailing; and was chaced Ave hours to
king her hack. About twenty' British vessels were
detained that were ready to sail: The embargo was
laid
on only for 60 days. " his with pleasure (adds
tit Bristol Paper), we learn by this ship that the ein-
bug° rs not put on with any hostile view towards
this country, but on an account of two French frigates
kovcring on the coast, and who had burnt two Ame-
Acan vessels,- laden with flew—ose of *sin of 700
tons) hound to Lisbon."

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The first affidavit was from Meat Rvsszt, a female
relation of the Prisoner, who bad come suddenly io