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Tss STAR Of YESTERDAY.
SATURDAY. SEPT. /. •
74. Litz ftdod ttial on an Indictment for High
Treafon on the two branches of the Statute 25th Ed-
ward 111. recited in the former cafes.
Mr. Arroamee Guinea' informed the Jury, that
the Prifoner at the Bar, from the .nature of his trade
and occupation, being a carpenter, flood within the
influence of a fpecies of public prejudice which has
pervaded the minds of very intelligent men (ince the
breaking out of the late Infurreaion. This proba-
bly arote from the many implements of deftraaion
Which were found, and which bad been fo often de-
tailed hi esicienee, requiring the affiduous operations
of men belonging to that trade or craft.
Of this prepoffeffion. as well as all others, the Gen.
ileinen of the Jury were to endeavour molt complete.
ly to divea their minds, and weigh the evidence
which Mould be adduced to prove the fags laid in
the India...lent; on their fpeeifie merits. • •
The preliminary evidence of a traitorous infurrec-
eon breaking out an the City of Dublin on the night
of the aid July, having been previonfly gone through,
Lieutenant Coltman, of the sith regiment of foot,
war called to prove the particular charges againft
the Prifontr at the Bar. On the night of the 23d
July, having proceeded atlthe head of but four men
of his Gym regiment, and fome yeomanry of the
Barrack Divifion, in coloured clothes, in all amount-
ing to twenty-eight, to the fpot contiguous to the
depot of arms, ammunition, &c. fo often defcribed,
be arrived it Banham-greet, a (tree which he de-
fcribed as running parallel to the lane, viz. Mail-
lane, Where the depot of pikes were, and only Cepa-
rated from thit lane by three tin:bet-yards and a
dairy yard. In•Bonham-flreet he met with a large
fquare piece rf timber, mounted on a carriage a• 1,.
out wheels. This timber was throughout perforated
in the middle, and a plug made of harder timber
than Will. adapted to the month or muzzle of the
tincture. Nearly in the sniddle there was a fpecies
of touch-hole, adapted to receive a priming of pow-
der to cotamnnicate by the application of a quick-
snatch, or roc!:et, to a charge of powder deftined
to have been within; and with a great explasen to
fct the machine in fplinters, and thereby to .coutri•
butt to dcftroy either infantry or Cavalry which
lisonld come before theM, betides oppo:ing a fermi-
aiatre hurter to their progrefs in narrow lines or paf-
faes. A fimilar machine the Wien& difcovered in
Dirtylane, limn its pofition calculated to upp the
paffige of any of the Kinn's troops from tither's
Idand. On she left hand of an iron founder', in
Doldsaratireet, the Witnefs, accompanied by his
party, at the head t f whom was a private of'his own
regiment, by name Gallagher, difcovered the pri.
finer at the bar concealed among a number of coarfe
u shewed timber, which he conceived to have been
the roots of trees. Witnefs trailed him from his
place of concealment, tied Lim, and had Lim cian-
th;:ted to the cu Cody of a Scrjeant and party of the
38th regiment, by whom he had been re:roomed.—
Previous to the future of the Ptifhner, the Witnef%
took up one pike within about a yard of his hiding.
place. Contiguous to the tn.:chincs which WiLnefs
defcribed as calculated by an esplofion to do much
damage, Prifoner had but to fiep to a pile of timber,
a d from thence to the place where lie fought refuge.
ismnng Other engines of deli tOtion v the V,"it.
n-fs ditcovered in the depot at NIA-Line, ra.ar
pl .cc from whence the pi iloner at the bar was un-
kennelled, were planks of timl•cr Budded
with large fpikes, the th.irp ends upwards, let in a
diamond like form in different comps:am:lw, and
C.e whole confirmed molt 4401u:411y, as V.. iii.efs be.
lived, to annoy and oisdrua either infantry EA
fairy in their refpedive paifa;.,es.
_ On crofs.tzatuination—Witncfs admowledged that

tine wm.leo tubes wh.d he defctibed were not
c:large.. kith pow der Is he ch:Covered tl.em. The
of detcaing the r, witnefs defcrib-
ed t., I, tve tmcotted about to else o'clock, when the
-!re was clearinz: fr(,in thit extieroe darknefs
s‘! p:evailed ;be commencement of the infor-
reClion....ii.. nbotit bait. after Mit: o'clock. Witnefs
hash. interrogated the prifoner when difenvered,
wh,:t bad been doing there ? The other replied.
111.4 t Ire lair away for hi, life front pikemen. Witnefs
Lim; ir!errog:tted by a Juror as follows ;
Did you, wilco y,,u diccovered the prifoner, in
his place of concealment, or afterwards, while in
your eitflociy, if'-; him where he lived?
A. I did ; ai:d as n?ar as I can recollea, he Paid
he lodged fomen here near Dirty-lane, and had Leen
at Adolor's for a pair if breeches.
Serjeant Rice, of the Oth regiment, depnfed, that
nn the night td the inforreetion he was in Bonham-
-1 (beet, under the command of the laft witnefs, when
he faw the priiimer at the bar, whom he identified,
t iken from out of a timber yard in Bonham-flreet,
where he found him concealed linger a heap of tim-
ber. When witnefs took the prifoner from his con-
cealment, the latter bad nothing in his hand. This
occurrence was about the hour of twelve, or rather
between twelve and one o'clock. Witnefs was ac-
companied by a private of the the name ajohn Gal-
lagher, Elting the firtl man who directed the attention
of the party to the prifoner in his concealment.
John Gallagher being (worn, depot-ed. that be law
the prifoner at the bar run acrofs Bonham-ftreet at
the time alledged by the former witneffes. He was
the firs man of the party commanded by Lieutenant
Coltman: and within a few yards of the prifoner at
the bar when he defcried him near the timber ma-
chine in Bonham•fireet, alluded t 9 in the teftimony
of Lieut. Coltman. Saw the prifoner run towards the
large beam above mentioned, which he afcended, and
flepped to a heap of timber, near a yard, into which
he leaped over a wall. This the wand's dillin*ly
law, and immediately cried to his Officer, Lien.
tenant Coltman, alluding to the man he faw, whom
he afterwards had reafon to conclude was the prifo-
ner, "there is .n rebel armed with a pike gone over the
wall ;" on which he refalved instantly to purfue him.
His comrades interpofed, and warned him of the dan-
ger of advancing alone on the other fide, left there
might be other armed rebels to affociate with him.—
Witnefs Rill perfevered in following him; when wit-
, nets called to his officer to remark the man with the
pike, he faw him inftantly drop the pike, and fink
under a heap of timber. Witnefs then had no arms
bat the bayonet about him. Witnefs defcribed the
prifaner to have been dreffed in a grey coat, with a
linen or sicken apron before him. He depofed. that
fo eiafperated were the party when they deteBed the
prifoner, that they would have inflantly put him to
death, were it not for his, the witnefs's interpofition,
who alledged. that the watch. meaning the
.prifoner,
bad good get:, and if they fpared his life, might give
acrid itfermatLe ; on which they were appeared,
(cued on him, and'committed him to Lieut. Colt-
man, who handed him over either to a ferjeant of the
33th or 32c1 regiment.
Mr. M'Nes.tv, for the prifemer, was by the Court
confined merely to Rate his client's cafe, without ob-
fervatiobs on the evidence fur the Crown, unlefa he
wished to combine both, in which cafe his colleague
would be prevented from (peaking particularly to
evidence. and the oppolite Counfel would ;lave the right
of reply to Mr. M'Nally ;—who affented in limiting
hitnielf to the Simple fratement of bis client's cafe,
and leave the pi ivilege of (peaking to evidence to Mr.
C. BALL his affiftant.•
The defence confined merely fit a ftatement that
the prifoner was an indnarions tradefman, returning
from his work on Saturday night, after receiving his
• •eekly wages; that he lived in the vicinity where the
infurreetion raged ;—had been at his 'stylist's, in the
fame neighbourhood, to get a pair of breeches, when,
on his return to his lodgings, In the midi of the
traitorous tumult. he was kized on by the inforgents;
and forced into the rebel ranks.

A woman with whom the *Hedged to had
lodged, in the reighbourhnod where the pr emer was
apprehended, depofed to his calling at the taylor's
lodgings iii her hook, for the-breeches. The taylor
was not at home. The prifoner remained there from
half after nine o'clock until ten o'clock. This time
and the prifoner's omitting to bring any evidence
how he had (pent the interval between ten o'clock
and twdre, the hour he was detected with the pike,
tiutoed a itrong hold for the S3LICITOR, Genertec in
his tcp'y to Mr. BALL'S fpeech to evidence. which,
however, Lord Nos guar, in an admirable Charge to
the Jul y, obviated, by Slating, that in the configion
of the niAlit, an honeft llmple man like him, which
charafter Ite bore from the tellimony of his employer,
might will be conceived.to wander, not knowing
where, without the poffthility of his being able to of.
fir teflimony on that point.
The Jury were moll folemnly exhorted by the Court
to retire, and weigh all the merits of the cafe. They
did Co, and after a few minutes returned a verdia—
Guilty ; at the fame time recommending the prifoner
to mercy, on account of the favourable daaradcr
whirls his employer gave him.