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swim, trait, tbt intifi it, hiving isteived
lege% Muir me on, the day he -enclosing two
franke,:, iiihich litter, *canon as ihir report of my ab•
sense nins'etinffr_ pied, Mr. Cochrane himself took and
sheweinct the Marshal, hi order to evince that I had
sot nuttle him acquainted with the transaction. But
:the Matsifill immediately perceived that that letter
loigb, feasibly answer another purpose, namely, that.
raising a belief that I was actually in the prison
'on the day it bore date, and therefore, in all probis•
bpJ y, was'still concealed within the walls; for be
hnutediately entiwated Mr. Cochrane to allow him tn.
thew that *letter to the Chairman of the Cow:gust
of the House of Commons then sitting. And•having
;o done, he begged Mr. Cochrane.to communicate to
ins, that if I would immediately return, I shield be
deceived in the middle of the night by himself and
tote confidential turnkey, and that no other person
should be in attendance, or know any thing of the,
inatti.r I so that I might be found in my room the
nett morning, and it would appear that I had merely
toncealed myself in the prison. Then, upon Mr.
Coshrane's a ce that he would use.every exec..
lion to effect the proposed, and would, if pos.
sib* accomplish it immediately, observing, tbat the
Marshal would thereby save his 300 guineas, the
reward he bad held out for my apprehension ; he
seized Mr. Cochrane's hand, and thanked him for
his kind considtration for his interest, and the trouble
be took in the matter ; and on the next day he wrote
to mr.coobroos a letter, r
ichwhch is as follows
sts-as earaesetines el the vsation that penal be-
tweenosysitenhy snatched, i Was led to hope that I should
have the *ware el owing yea in the course of the night, se.
cording to an arraogwanat that was, in a manner, wade hews=
. but haying haw *appointed in that pleasure, and having
aloady qtly harassed. I shook! not like to sit up the
whole .of this night, as I did. the last, unneces.arily. I have,
thesefort, sant the bearer with this, in a confidential way, to
stqsat shat yen will let me know whether you have any avec-
Wes et accoinplishiag se desirable an event fur all the parties as
ire had caotanplated.-1 ant, Or, your very obedient bumble
sawn, *Piped) " Wm. Jones, Marshal.
Ktag's Bench, Tuesday evening, s4th Much, this.
ti Basil Cochnae, &c.

Hence it appears that the Marshal was most anzi.
on: to compromise an act which he has since visited
with the Severest punishment, and still represents as
a great and ssiseend crime, and railing tor further
castigation. Mr. Basil Cochrane took the earliest
.opportunity of conveying.to me by letter the Mar.
she: proposition, stating, that he would receive me
privately at any hour of any night I would appoint,
and that the Marshal was rejoiced at the idea of such
an arrangement; upon which I immediately wrote
ti Mr. Cochrane, informing him that I had quitted
die custody of the Marshal for the purpose of endea-
vouring to bring the conduct of Lord Etlenborough
before the House of Commons. and that i should act
accordingly at an early day, probably the Tuesday
fallowing, audit was precisely on the Tuesday follow-
log that I did so act; and Mr. Cochrane had, in the
EMI time, communitated my intention to the Mar-
'dial, and had actuallf recommended him to have
persons. in readiness to take me in charge on my re.
.turn Irom the House ; and it was under the appre-

bunion that such persons would be in attendance
that I went st an early hour, in order that my en •
Wince might not be obstructed ; not anticipating any
'WOW* within the walls, and being indifftrenrat to
what Might occur at • my egress,' provided I could
lineeeed rn tity purpose Of being heard in the lions&
The Marshal, therefore, had an opportunity afforded
Mc of effeeting the arrest by his own officers. and .
of avoiding the advertised pay tient of 500.ksialm;
'and tbereinyescif he has totally' sustained that, cos
nay otber.zapsisherable expense (which is most impris.
table), it hen faith. I also announced my in-
tantioa Hbuse, And for whit pur-
pose. byw to' the Right Hon. the Speakr an
the very day my. absence from tbe prison was disco.
*tied ; and 1 am assured that the Marshal himself,
through the medium of that communication, had al-
Most immediate intelligence of my intention ; so that
in effect be had all along been apprised of the cause
and object of my departure, and where I might ulti-
mately'be found ; end, through Mr. Cochrane he '
Was made acquainted with the precise day : that
it is niosteiriaent that nothing could be farther from
my intention than to elude the sentence of the Couri,
however conscibus I was of the injustice of that sen-
tence. I avoided it for the moment, because I had
no tither hope of ff.:ctttilly remonstrating against it ;
but resnoestrance, and nut evasion. Was most deci
dedly my object. The intention of thepertoncletrged
6 the gist of every criminal act; my departure from
trison, therefore, was not an escape in any criminal
sense, which, as before observed. is contemplated in
law as an act done with intent wholly to abscond
front and evade justice. It is rink an intention car.
tied ant° effect which constitutes the offence with
Maids I 'am charged; whereas it has been demon.
Mated, that no such intention existed, and it is well
flown that no such effect ensued. It is 'but too true
that I have sutered the. full term of the imprison-
ment decreed, with the aggiivation 'of
_much wan-
ton claming' and unnestetiary restraint. The dun-
pirs, 'for such it is, in ivilidh the Marshal thought
pro 4 to incarcerate Me, after my reception; is
twiallrealled the strong but it has also ann.
tter name. 1.1 the orders for the better government
14 Om prison, made and signed by the udges inthe year
1729, is called the hole—the 6 hole or room, com-
monly called the stroll It it nearly 100 3ears
tiuce thejudges recognised itbithat name, and length
of time hat net entitled it to a better. The recent
Committee of Inquiry, treating Of this hole, and of my
cootnentent therein, tepnrt as follows p—gs The places
of cue finer Within the walls of thi prison art
titled the strong rooms : there are two of theni, and
Vta both of the same size, one floored With stone, the
Othei with wood bur both without fire-places, and
,riktinzt glass to the windows, which open in a small
tows about 6 feet wide. In these miserable places
e!sorrs hate beta shut up for months. Those who
Lave beds are perMitted* in bring them, but to those.
'hh.i have. nona straw is furnished. It is as this .
that Lord Cochrane bat been confined for above
weeks; the windtki were. however, sashed
Wiled on tjte third day after be crane into it, eaditte
r"Ne clifiefed f yet the cold, and &die, and olfrbsive
I"nelig'sOtlftt4sd his heislth, as to retail'. hie. rat..
l'°vaktieri:tiy." The Committee rOortithit per.
oti
I luitt • icenfined in the str‘ng room for !recta1
init that one person wart so scut up not;
43.1411144,401 his offerings were Witt considerable.
IlevlT*ll4ll the Marshal had the colifidente to tell'
avaiiaillige that be never kept peapk there above

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a tidy or tio,iipan wie6 the aortinslitee .
enough remark, le they tonna suppose he strilfdlly
concealed from them the fact abovenneationed ; and
they mast therefore consider this circumstance as fur-
nishingonother instance (if hit entire ignorince of 01
that is trattucted within the walls of the prison."—
yhe Committee further declare their opinion (page
15) that the strong rooms are hot fit places of con-
finement. and strongly recommend the selection 01
tome other Apartment; and suggest, that wheneier
the necessity of punishing any prisoner -occurs, the
Marshal should immediately report the reasons thereof.
to the visitors, and that the period Of confinement
should not be extended beyond a week, without their
special authOrity. Oa the subject of my contiaement
in the strong room, which occurred in the inclement
month of March, the Committee addressed some ques-
tions to Mr: BroOshoft, clerk to the Marshal, who stated
that Lord Cochrane was confined in the swing rood;
nearly a month, that it was two or three days before
the windows were glated ; that during the first 'part
of the time he was not permitted to walk out into
the little yard, except for the occasions of nature ;
.that owing to the darkness of the rum, he had ire-
.quently seen him with a cundle in the day time; that
there was no m Ide of warming the strong room ;
that Lord Cochrane made use of charcoal, till he

(Brooshoft) begged he would do so ne leager ; that
he complained of the cold and damp, and that offen-
sive smells arose, and that there was a cess-pool at
the bottom, and a large butt underneath fur the re-
ception of the urine; meaning a considerable propor.
don of the urine of the whole popplation of the
prison, for the exterior of the wall, from its vicinity
to the tap-room, and to the entrance of the prism,
is rendered the place of most frequent resort for that
purpose : and although Mr. B►ooshoft conceived that
the place for making water was below the room, it
is, in fact, immediately opposite. The Committee
report that urine is suffered to accumulate for sale,
in receptacles that are never washed, and the smell
of it 1. gerierally.cornplained of. In the strong vim
it may well be conceived to be intolerable, as well
from the exhalation from the receptacles underneath,
as from the soaking of :the water itself through the
wall, to say nothing of the effluvia of the privies,
which are situated close to the strong room, and of
the adjoining piles of dirt which the Committee re-
port as offensive and unwholesoine. Such was the
situation to which I WAS consigned by the Marshal
for 26 days, and yet he calls for further inflictiuns.
He wiU have it that his pestilent hole is not quite so
bad as a ctll in the New Gaol in Horsemonger-lane,
in which he asserts I should have been conatted, had
he exercised his power of committing me to that
prison on his own warrant for that escape, as he could
have done, for the space of one:mouth : that there-
fore I have not had my Lull tv►easure of punishment,
and the Marshal 'will make no abatement. He must
have an equivalent for the difference between the
hole and the cell, and for the two odd days. To the
odd days in particular he is especially entitled, ar
remitted them at the moment out of pure humanity : they
could not thea have been added without endangering
my life. He admits he was aware that my health
would inevitably decline in th:t Situation : for he has
made it his boast that he 46 requested two medical
Gentlemen to attend, with *view to receive their
super:sive reports as to the progressive state of my
health ;" and that when they reported that it WAS *ei
much impaired that a longer :continuance might be
attended with " djahreraili c seq uen ceb." he deter-
miued to become my friend, and remove me to ann.'
thee apartment i teat is to say, he ascertained, by
surgical inspection, the extent to which he could tor-
cure me without absolute danger of death, and that,
critically interposed jest in time to save my life, ark!
preserve mc for further inflictions. The present pi o-
secution is the best comment on the 'iarsl►al's boasted
humanity : but, in fact, it was not till alter the urgent
certificate which I received from one of the Gentle.
men sent by the Marshal, as well as that of my own
physician, Dr. Buchan, pointing out the absolute
necessity of an immediate change of abode, .had been
transmitted to the linn. Mr. Bennet, Chairman of the
Committee of Inquiry inw the state of Prisons, and
by him laid before one iif the Secretaries of State;
and until Messrs. Bennet and Lamborn (Members of
that Committee) had renionstratea with the Marshal,
that he reluctantly determined to liberate me troth
the dungeon. These certificates were as follow

-14 Thie is to certify, that I have this day %lilted Lord Cochrane,
who is aff:cted with a severe pant in the brea.t ; his pulse is low,
his hand. cold and he has many symptoms of a person about to
have a typhus or putrid lever. 1 hest eyneptimis are, in my opi-
nion, produced by the stagnant air of the strongroom in which
he is now confined, which has no ventilation, and is rendered
es rctui.ly daub and unpleasant by the exudation of urine coming
through the wail.
" 18th April, IdIS. ALts. B. Bccuete."
441 hereby certify that I have visited Lord Cochrane, and am
of opinion, from the state of his health it this time, that it is
essentially necessary that. he should be removed from the room
which be now inhabits to one which is better veodiated, and in
which iltere is a lire plat.. His Lordship complains of pain in,'
the chest, wi.h difficulty of respiration accompanied with great
coldness of die hands and from the general state of his health,
there is gr.at reason to fear that fever of a low typhus may come
ou. " RICIIAILD liachusata."
'6 Newington, Surrey, April 14, lei 6."
[ln reading these certificates, his Lordship was so
mush affected as to be almost incapable of proceeding.
Mr. Justice Boaanyou begged his Lordship not to
hurry himself, but to take his own time. Lord
Cochrane apologized for the interruption, and said it
was wholly tattributable to the painful recollections'
'which reading those certificates had produced. His
Lordship thin proceeded.].
. By an order of the Court for the better government
of the King's Beach Prison, .Isearing date the 19th
day of Mays.l26o, and which in forcer and is
inserted is the Appendix to the-recent Report of the
COlUalitlBll of Inquiry (page 245), it appears, that in
ease eery prisoner shalt either actually escape. or at.
tempt ta swam the Marshal is empowered to remove
him to the gaol for the county, of Surrey, for such,
time es be shall adjudge- and think eliminate to the
Whoa. netexceeding the space of one month. New,
if the Marshal,- in the present instance, had exercised
atligh authority by ',Moving. me to that, prisiin, he
could have had Do misuse. &ad eon:eive ne power,
of bringing the present prosecution, because the terms
el fits authority are; be shall cneemit the offender fof
such time, not exceediag one mentb, as be shall
eigidge and think eeirlesfeln: the 4sare. - The static
of each authority, thereloge, implies the ineloties et
a -and sdefasia peobbreeotr and mint be -an
bar to olarinr-proreettioltu-- loollealge
I of his watery will adroit of nu Cher comuu ;

Oa the Get 4 kilts* dear frost' the rola* of the
• tbitig ;Rai though. lie- niay pottibly possess the option
either to punish by virtue of his °ern Warrant, or to
proceed by indictment, it can never be held that he
is first to punish, and then to prosecute ; he is not to
adjudge and intik'', an a adequate punishment," and
then to apply to the Court .for additional penalties.
If, therefore, the Marshal had thotight fit to rethoire
-.ne to the county gaol for the greatest length of
time in 114 power, instead ot incarceretinz me in
his own dungeon for nearly the sortie period, he
could not hare promoted the present indictment.
Here then is a reasonable motive toe the boasted
forbearance of the Marshal. The rigorous cell
would have peeeluded him from the exercise of
further barbaxtry ; but the mereifid hee still left
him a pretence for continue' persecution.—
.But when it is considered that the Marshal, on com-
mittal of a prisoner to the County Gaol. has no au-
thority to dictate to the keeper of that pristia upon the
mode of confinement, but merely to require him to
receive and safely keep him in custody. it may fairly
be doubted, that if he had so acted by me, whether
the keeper of that prison would hive attempted greater.
rigour than the Marshal himself did actually exercise.
He might not have deemed it necessary to have had
recourse to a cell, but tameless obnoxious place of 'a-
cuity. Bat cell or not, it could not have been more
gloomy. damp, filthy. or injurious to health than the
Marshal's own dungeon. Again, the punishment In-
flicted• was not limited to close confinement for six
and twenty days io the hole or strong room, but the
apartment to which I was then removed, namely, the
grated chamber over the lobby, was also a place. ot
dare confinement; and the Marshal did there retain me
closely confined from the day of my removal from
the strung room, to the expiration of the twelve
months for which I was sentenced by the Court, be-
mg a period of nearly ten weeks, not to mention the
additional fortnight which I endured in resistance to
the pecuiii try part of that unjust sentence—with
which, if I had not found that my liberty was be-
come essential to my life. and felt the duty of op-
posing another flagrant attempt at plunder in another
place, I never could have complied. The escape,
therefore. Has already been visited by the privation
(4 air and exercise for the space of more. than three ca-
lendar mouths, by an iitchvidual whose legal power of
punishment is limited to one month (.I,ly, and repre-
sented to be adequate to the offence; and yet his malig-
nity (if he is.really the principatin this business) is still
nosated. and he still calls for additional vengeance.—
Will any man say that close confinement in a dun-
geon her one mend), and in a garret fir three, is no
punishment Or is any MAO to be punished twice or
thrice for one past uffence, because the firs of those
punishments may have operated as a preventtive ? Is
there any law which audio' izes punislinseut by antici-
uation ? or which enjoins execution on suspicion of a
crime being in contemplation ? Is not death itself a
punishment for the past, bedause it is also a preven-
tive for the future? Does reason, justice, or even
law itself, know aa.y such distinction ? No, nut even
the rule of court, the Marshal's own law, which ex
Press!), declares that his power of committal for one
month is as well for the safe custody as the punish.
tent of the offending party. It does not say that he
is to coerce for precaution, and to prosecute for punish.
meat t but he is emproetut &Au do that which is
'deemed 'to be. at once equal- to both purposes. His
authority runs thus;—" That, as well for the safe
custody of the prisoners within rie said prison, as for
the Punishment ot such prigoners 'as shall be guilty of
any misdemeanours within the said prison, it is here-
by ordered, that in case any -prisoner, or prisoners, in
custody of the Marshal of the said prison. shall eszape,
or attempt to escape, out of the said prison, .or shall
be aiding, abetting, or assisting, any. prisoner to pri.
sinters to bake their escape out of the said prison,
(Scc. &c.) that then it shall and may be lawful for
the Marshal of the said prison for the 'time being to
remove all or any such prisoner or prisoners so of.
fending to the gaol for the county of Surrey, in the
Borough of Southwark, or to the prison of the Mar-
shalsett there, or to the Btidewell within the said Bos
rough, at the discretion of the said Marshal, for such.
time as the said Marshal shall adjudge and think ads.'
(pate to the offence or offences tor whiei such priso-
ner or prisoners shall he so removed as aforesaid, not
exceeding one calendar month for the first offence."-7
It then. goes on to say, that 6... if any of the said prix'
sailers shall offend a second time, it shall and may be
lawful fur the said Marshal to remove the offending
party to any of the above-mentioned 'prisons for such
time as he shall adjudge and think adequate for the
offence, not exceeding the space of three-months."
So that, notwithstanding the Court of King's Bench
conceived that three months' close confinement was a
punishment fully adequate even for a repetition of
the. offence with which I am charged, and have in-
structed their Offizer so to consider it. he not only
has had the audacity to exceed that indiction fur the
first offence, but now implores that Court, whose
servant he is. and whose authority he has thus ex-
ceeded, to impose additional penalties. Is it then
to be endured, that the Marshal should extend such
punishment to more than three times that period;
and then proceed by indictment for an act which he
.himself hats so unlawfully, inhumanly, and excessively
overpuaished He has either the incredible effron-
tery to require the Court to encourage and imitase
him is the vindictive violation of its own public ordi.
nance, made for his governance, or he acts in obedi-
ence to secret instructions. Another proof of the
motives of the Marshal was, be asserted, this second
indictment, after the first had been set aside, upon
the ground that he was not properly designated, in
being deprived of his title of Knight. An objection
~of the same nature would apply to the present in-
dictment, in which he was described as a Knight
simply—whereas, he apprehended, he had still a
title to the distinctioh of Knight of the Bath.—
He was not aware that he could be divested of that
.honor, which he might perhaps be allowed to say he
deserved quite as Well as many of those who still re..
tainted it, unless he had forfeited the. conditions or
violated the rules of the institutions Now, the only
crimes which could justify the degradation were,
by thi statutes of the Order, heresy and cowardice •
and.be.had not yet heard that these offences had been
imputed to him. He wasted, therefore, that the Jury
vreu*sot be disposed to become the instruments of
the. protecuter's vengeoce._, If as offence bad been
committed, it bad been /greedy ptinisbed s but be
had-madeavosired, be hoped.sticemsfully, to prove that
no offence bad been committed. It was an act ac-

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front jtislice.. The Jury' itould ant; ihetifori; Ipro.
flounce hint guilty of this Charge, if her silt, to
retain the highest of all rewards, that *lnch had sip.
ported him in his adversity—a tonsciutisness.of inno-
cence. Before he sac down, he lei-shed to refer to a
few of the circumstances attending two forttier
in which he 11.14 been a part, With I Vie* of ex:
*:,y he had hot availed himself of any legal
assistance on the prtsent octasion. In a late proieco.
tion Which he hinitelt kid undertaken for the purpose
of convicting an inJitidual of gross perjury on hit
o.vn trill for an alleged fraud, when he had the he.
nefit of Cotinsel, lie hall Ilviettheleis been Uniticcessful;
On the tormei %motion, his instructions had been
disobeyed—lrons what motive he was at a loss to
discover, for it could lint fur a moment be supposed .
that an additional fee of SO g nineal for doing .nothing
could have produced any effect on the !ninth; ni Gen.
tlemen at the bar. He hsd all to remark, that the
Cnuneel who had appeared against him on that oc.
cation, and whom he did not then see in Court (Mr:
Mr. Gonxer rose and said, I am here.

Lord COCHRANI4 iu centinuatioa, observed, that
th it Gentleman had actually received retaining tees
from him, had attended consultations on hit case, and
yet, to hii astonishment, appeared in the lists
against him.
Mr. Justice Buitttovon.—Such imputations streets
treniely improper.
Mr. GUIINEY.—My Lord, they are nut titre t I
never was retained by the Noble Lord in the case to
which.he Alludes s I was, indeed, consulted on the
part of the Noble Lard, tespecting a prosecution for
a Ilbeleand I wrote my opinion on it. I was offered
a retaining tee for his Lordship in the prosecution
Against him, but 1 of course rehired it, ha4ing been
already engaged against him three weeks betote, and
it was not .tor six months afterwards cleat 1 heard a
doubt suggested of the propriety of my' c,,nduct. •
Mr.. Justice Buititotion.—No one believes. Mt.
Gurneys that yott could have lane any thing ince&
sistent with your character •as a barrister and a ge.Aa

Lord COMIRAWEi....I can only say such charges
were made in my attorney's bill to me.
Mr. MAIIIIYAT..-4 hope if e N ble Lord will call
some evidence after the extraordinary speech he has
thought proper to make.
This, however, Lord Cochrane declined doing.
Mr. Justice Mammals then proceeded to charge
the Jury. lie said lie had been most anxious that
the defendant should he fully heard, bee 'use, if he
had met with inter' uption, it aright have been alleged,
by evil designing men out of &ore, that justice had
been denied to the Noble Lord. He had listened with
the utmost attention to all that the Noble Lord had
said in his defence ; but he must declare that he had
heard nothing from him, either in point of haw or' f
fact, that was in the least applicable to the purpose.
We had heard, indeed, a long attack upon she Mars
shal of the K.eg's bench Prison :, but this, besides
being unsupported by facts, was most irtelevant and
unfair towards that officer, who had no opportunity
affoided hies of rebutting the chargf Weed
ought never to have been made. 4.4 You, Gantlemen
of the Joey," said his' Lordseip, must feet the
justice of the attack ; and though an attempt had
been made to inflict injury, it was to be hoped, that
it would is no respect answer its object:: Let vs
attend to the gist of the defendant's answer. He say*
that he escaped from prison in order to do justice to
himself in person, in time Elduse of Commons. Th
odence hiders! had Leen admitted tbroughoht the
whole of the speech which they had heard, but it was
evident that no release from that imprisonment. to
which he had been Senteneed by the justice of his
country, could be justifiable, unless it was in due and
legal form, and iu an orderly and legal course of
proceeding. Our laws would be a there dead-letter
if any individnal*coold persinitted; for 3ni intent; to
get out of prison, horn any view Of expedienCy to him-
self. For an individual, of whatever rink, to escape
from thattonfiaement to which he had been sentenced
in due course of law, was an offence of the most serious
nature, threatening the most injurious eonsett".ences
to every thing that was valuable to us in society..
end. of justice, however it might be set forwardi
as a pretence, could never be promoted io this way.
It was his duty to tell the Jury, that the defendant
both by the evidence produced, and by his own ads
mission, had been guilty of an offence, and thin of
very considerable magnitude." Here Mr. Justice
BLIRROi/Gll Shortly recapitulated• the evidence which
had been produced. Lord Cochrane hal made hie
escape from prison before the whole of the term to
which he was adjudged had been completed. He was
lunnd out, and the Marshal of the King's Bench
pi ison, from whose custody he had fled, had a right
to find and lay hold of him wherever he could perceive
him, even in the House of Commons itself, though
it did not appear that the House was actually sitting,
or that the Speaker.was in the chair at the time when
his Lordship was retaken: li4t, even from the Noble
Lord's own statement, it appeared that the Marshal
had acted • towards him with the utmost humanity.
Even in the instance where the defendant had charged
him with corrupt motives, and with compromising
"his character, what was there in it, but that the
Marshal merely wanted him to come back privately,
without noise ?..-and yet, now, this act of kindness
I proposed to the Noble Lord was most ungenerously
I called an act of corruption. Generally, he Mast ob.
serve, that the attacks on the character of the Marshal
were most irrelevant to the point at issue, and most
unfair, as that individual had. no opportunity of de.
fending himself. He trusted, hoWever, they would
make no impression on the minds of the Jury, nor on
those of any who heard him. . All that the' Jury had
to consider, and all that they had before them, will
the fact of the Noble Lard'sinsprisonment on a legal
commitment, together wits the fact of his being
found oat of prison, and retaken before the term of
his imprisonment bad expiredirlitt it was for the
Jury, on their oaths, to 64' r the defendant
had not been guilty of thia offinsee.. They could not
go into the merits of any** other topics which
the defendant had brought (oevlsr4 80 he thou
dt
it was hardly possible foe Otte draw any ot:W
eonclUsion,but that. d. vflel
The Jiry *OW consider.ie their verdict,
after ai few minutes' eptisideyaion, Mr. W. Hay.
don, dietitian:sof begged to ask, !linker the Jury

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