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London, England, 1803-02-10 00:00:00

would have been cut up by the roots, or an inquiry
would have been let on foot why pet tons had been
deprived of their liberty without caute, and Go-
vernment mull have ag.tin retorted to the unplea-
rant expedient of a Bill of Indemnity. But when
click Ichemes were fo near their accnmpli(hment
that ordinary caution could not provide for the
fare), of the Sovereign and the State, mearures of
vigour became indifpenfible. Such a body of
deuce has been colleted at, without laying open
any fecret fources of intelligence, will he fulficient
to prove the guilt of the prifuners. About thirty
were :melted At the Oakley Arms of the lowelt
people—da rlabourers, journeymen, and common
fiddlers. There was one exception—the pritoner
at the har. After a long examination feveral were
dircharged. Whether all were implicated I do
not pretend to fay; but it was judged expedient
not to detain more. *ihdfor came to the beige
(non After the arrek attd on hearing_ what Ind
happened, offered to deliver bintrelf up, declaring
that he was ready to communicate all the inform-
ation in his power. Next day he was br?ught
before the Magiftrates, and upon his teftimony
ftveral others were taken into euttody. If I fatisfy
you, Gentlemen, that Colonel Defpard was a con.
fpirator with Francis, with Wood, with Brough-
ton, there three overt ads are evidence againft ham.
If you have no reafon to clabelieve the witnefes,
the charge mutt be brought home to the prironer.
.1 do not, Gentlemen, fie any polEbili:y of anfwetv
ing the cafe which will be laid before you. Lean
anticipate no defence. There will in this cafe
as well as in every other, be a geld Ihr.v!arttia-
tion and fora difplay of ingenuity. Dist yen will
not permit any thing to efface the jolt impreSvn
made by the evidence on your minds. lean pm-
ccire an argument or two, which maykoelrod
npbn, and It will not be improper if It tintetat
stn now. The two grand topics
dwelt upon, I imagine are, the improbabilttioribe
charge and the credibility of the witnetes.—t. It
will be Paid that this play is fo extravagant that it
is imp Able for any man in his fettles to embark
in it. Ido nr"

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of any Rory than
it is probable ;
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place rourfelvo
Concove that . _ -.- uses fauna the
loyalty and law; that your heath me WesitE
rub the mad doerines publlthed by the
Revolution ; that you have tent telofiflaued"riee.
fon as no crime; that rut regard reitelPan ass
.11 field for the exertion of a virtuout patriot; this
you have kept company with esthufialti and de-
magogues; that you have animated acid enfikatall.
each other b muted eithortations and mystifies.
Under this deplorable (Murton, and in your eMi-
'min fbund Rate of mind, would your inspreignos,
would your eflimate of things be the Ante ? Go
ill farther : Imagine that you are roared by the
world; that you have met *with difappointoickyi
that you art involved in difficulties; that yott,are
vexed and irritated by inconveniences brought
down upon yon by your own indlkretion. Now,
might nu not eager in defperate attempts, in
the hope of bettering your fortunes ?
You will,. perhaps, be told that as one half of
' thofe who were taken up were difcharged. it as ve-
ry unlikely that the other half is guilty. On *
eve of rebellion it will be talked, would grangers to
the confpitacy be allowed to mix in the remit
councils of the coofpirators t If the Gentleman as
the other fide Maintain that enough did not at.
pear againft thefe men to pet thrill npret diem
trial. fo far they will fay true. A very muesli dif-
crimination was made in their reverel digress of
goat. If it is affirmed that they are all innoseest,
ibis will be &We. The cleareft proof has been ob-
tained of the guilt of tome of tam fine *y were
difclutrged. They were not taken up again. that
it may be teen what ace may be produced by
clemency. If they had all been detained, Govern.
'merit would not have been blamed for &verity ;
but the Tallinn was not how much Grefty world
have been jellified. but bow much was abfolutely
neceffary.
With regard to the witnelres. they can only be
objeflctl to cas the (core of crelsl4. It will not
be contended that an accomplice is ammtaisw. By
use it will readily be granted that he ought to be
cnc.Rrmed by collateral evidence. Not that every
word that he otters mull be (worn tnby another
whoa % for this would make the teßimony of an
secomOiee of no are, Ludes perhaps in a cafe of
High Treafon. Hot parts of his Rory mull coilr
cide with what is depoled by witnelres of undoubt-
ed credit, Co as, upon the whole, to render it more
probe.' le that be has been (peaking the truth. than
that ht bas been fabricating lies. As the previous
chars/ter of an accomplice may weigh much with
the :.td y, I know nit whether it will be attempted
Cola* shit theft men had been guilty of area

not quarrel with this mode of reafoh.
cannot be a better reR of the k
than whether in all its cireumlbr
whether the parts an 4 aßinui it
articular indietclolds agree Will
1 with their views. Mt I leoulit,
:riflemen, to Wake an albwahte
e between /on and them. rif 4iti.te.
ngaged. Your minds are we
peregti
on hoe die bibits of Virtu
' a healed thiazinatiop •
then prof who had coat .
e the ohj'ed Cif their parfaits. i I:-
wl awd bati; there are riligin**ll
political enthnfialls—a-but al Of *Op
very nature of triefr diftielkgi 41
e of their ale& and undie-ilisi
ids oppolk their fuceefs. Yon tit
t how you would behave, but h4r
behave whole minds were to Cot:M-
I 4
t you look upon With abhorrence d
sable, they might confider as big :
eafily within their reach. Yon lhoii
tees, if entEble, in their fitnatlotter
I you an freed from the relirainti Of
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