Star.
London, England, 1820-10-23 00:00:00

CONSPIRACY:

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" The strtig or the conspirnioii iiiittlin ht io
car successful;A . the v* arions acts of subornation of
ZAiiota. and Saccit will not gplieaf on thE Minutes
of EvidenCe; but whit is the cOnclUsion which every
mak of commoh tense must cliaW from the manner
in which this evidence has been got rid of. ? No one
can suppose for a::moment that &tem, ZANGLA,
Riisirsszro Itioansi, and Co. entered on the task of
subornation without iustructions. /So one can sup-
pose that they were. oft.,, supplied with the money
they offered by son),
.Withe instruments employed
by the nominal or reatiiirty in these proceedings.
Every one knows the nature of their agency. They
were employed to pdrthase, in the different Italian and
Swiss markets, the quantity of evidence for which itsve .
was then a demand at Milan. In all nefarious pfe-
ceedings of this kind, the assistance of sub-agents is,
We should suppose, almost indispensably necessary.
Colonel BROWN OF VILSIACARTI could not conduct
an extensive concern like this, without the aid of a
number of understrappers. As well might it be sup-
posed, that a merchant could conduct an extensive
business without the aid of clerks and porters, vis that
these Gentlemen could, besides attending to the gene-
ral direction of affairs at Milan, run about the diffe-
rent villages of Lombardy, frequent tobacco-shops,
wine-houses, and conduct the numberless negocia-
tions which were necessary. Men possessed of the
necessary local knowledge, intimately acquainted
with the habits and pursuits of the individuals to
whom they addressed themselves, and moving in the
same, or nearly the same rank of life, were requi-
site; and such men were found in Swan, ZANOLA,
and Co. But you cannot prove that these men were
agents of the Milan Commission, in the correct ac-
ceptation of the word ! You cannot shew that they
had instructions from the Milan Commission to
suborn these witnesses. Ti ue ; but neither can
we shew that the Hanoverian Minister was employed
by the Milan Commission or the State, the Prosecu-
tor, to pay the money to BARBARA KRESS, and to
compel her to come to this country ; and yet it came
out accidentally, that this sort of agency was exer-
cised by the Hanoverian Minister. Connect all the
agents employed in this business! A modest demand
truly, considering the manner in which the Secret
Service Money of England has been employed. But
what are we to infer, when the operative agents (to
borrow a word from our Northern neighbcurs), the
men'by whom the subornation could alone be prac-
tised, ate withdrawn from all inquiry, because a re-
gular Commission to them from Messrs. PowELL,
BROWN, and Co. cannot be produced? How can tech-
nical objections in such a case be reconciled with sub-
stantial justice?
" But the rules of evidence must be rigidly adhered
to! Let us try our ingenuity against an unprotected
female—let us exert ourselves in squandering away
the immense funds at our disposal, in suborning evi-
dence against her, taking especial care ,to allow no
one to appear in the dirty part of the work, whom
she shall be able to connect with us—let us then stand
out for the strict rules of evidence. We shall deprive
her of all means of knowing what witnesses are to be
adduced against her, till they appear at the Bar of
the House, so that she shall be unable, by any cross-
questioning, to lay the foundation for future evidence
as to subornation; and thus, if some antoward acci-
dents do not frustrate our designs, she lies prostrate
at our feet, and nothing can save her from destruc-
tion. 0 magnanimous prosecutor! The Kato we
know has no personal wishes on the subject. The
State Is the prosecutor. the onty prosecutor. The
State, however, has wishes. The State—Government,
to which we arc all entitled to look for proteCtion, ap-
pears in a new character, plotting the destruction of
its own subjects, and claiming that the deans of de
struction it employs shall be shrouded in secrecy.—
The interest of the prosecutor (precious interest!) must
not be sacrificed by any disclosure which the strict
rules of evidence do not warrant !
" Well might Mr. BROUGHAM abandon this part
of his defence in disgust. But those who have forced
hitn to do so have admitted, in the fullest extent, the
base and infamous nature of the conspiracy."—(Morn-
lag Chronic:kJ.

The intended procession of the Glass-blowers, on
Wednesday nest, in going up with the Address to
her MAJZSTII at Brandenburgh House, will be one
of the most splendid sights eeer witnessed in the
metropolis, if the day proves favourable. The dif-
ffirent Societies of that trade will meet in New-street-
square,, at ten o'clock in the morning, each member
wearing white favours, and medals of her MAJUTY
suspended by a white ribbon from round their necks ;
'some with glass hats, and all with long staves bear-
ing some beautiful variegated coloured glass orna-
ment on the top, appropmate to the occasion.,
The Committee will proceed in open landaus, drawn
by four horses, the post boys in silk jackets, and. all
wearing white favours; two-trumpeters in rich uni-
forms on horseback : A large caravan, with a band
of music, on the front of which will be placed stand-
ing, two glass figures,-large as life L-one representing
her MAJIGStY and the other her, ' daughter the late
much-lamented Princess CHAULOTTE, eechcoloured
so as to represent the drapery, &c. and from a wooden
frame will be suspended a lafge banner, the figures
and motto on which will be of coloured glass; the
mottoes and figures on each flag will be also of cut
and stained glass. The number who intend to form
this procession will exceed 1000 persons.
Bow-aTaser.—A man, who stated himself to be a
fisherman, residing at Ramsgate, called at the Office
on Saturday, and gave the following information :
Friday se'nnight he was on the beach at Ramsgate,
when a man of gentlemanly appearance offered him
thirty guineas to take him immediately to France in
his boat. He refused, and the man went assay, much
raffled and disappointed. The informant soon after
saw in posting-bills, a description of Fletcher, alias
Franklin, from which he has no doubt it was him.