Star.
London, England, 1803-09-24 00:00:00

COMMISSION INTELLIGENCE

The Court having refumed its fitting, according
to adjournment. Lord Notts oat' and Barons Groao
and DALY pretiding,

Robert Emmett, Efq. was put to the bar. The
loner challenged nineteen peremptorily nut of the
Pannel for a Petit Jury, and fix were fet afide for the
Crown. The following Jury were then fworn

John Gale Wm. Gamble Galway
John Warm Clarks Hart
Robert Turbot Benjamin Holmes
Daniel Kinahan John Lloyd
Bever Buchannan Walter Locke
William Davis Thomas Palmer.

The prifoner was indicted for High Treafon on the
claufes of compalling and imagining the depofition
and death of the King, levying war and infurredion
againft the King, and adhering to the King's enemies.
The overt ads were defcribed to be the afibciating
with ether traitors and rebels for thole parpofes tq
Thomas•areet, on the a3d July lall—collecting arms,
ammunition. &c. and compofing and writing the pro.
clamation of the Provifional Government, &c. &c.
The cafe was open td by Mr. O'Ciariv, and
The Arroairsi occupied near two;
hours in Rath* the cafe for the Crown. He took a
refpedive view of the public calamities incident to
the ipirit of iofurredion which ,has hitherto pervaded
the salads of the common People of this Country,
their weak fufceptibility to the artifices of the incen-
diaries in whole hands they unfortunately have beet%
hitherto found very pliable tools, as well as the wan•
tonnefs and abfurdity of their revolutionary experis.
ments, while they do not even make a pretext of
immediate or perfonal grievances. but in order to
offal Tome fpecies of conlitlency, muff ranfack an-
tionity, and retort to the imaginary evils which had"
afflided their anciaors at to remoti a period as fix
hundred fears ago. The prifoper at the bar, if Mr.
Aveoiriv was properly initrufted, would appear
by fubkantial evidence, together with variety of
corroborating circumllances, to have been the prime
fonrce, origin, and fpirit of the recent infurredion iq
this City, ib enormonfly wicked in the conception.
but fo truly contemptible and puerile both in tha
plan and execution.
For Tome time previous to the Chriffmas of 18os,
the prifoner had been out of this country, and during ;
his abfence had made; Continental tour of confider-
ahle exteitt, embracing. France ialis progrefs. Oq
the prifoner's arrival in this country inceinber
tall, he took up his refidence at the hour; of a Mrs. '
Palmer, near Harold's-crofs, the identical basal
wherein he was apprehended by Major Sirr. To his
hollers and her family he Abused the spnasi of Hew.
itt, and remained there distil a short time previous to
his his.tirsi taking taken a leaf; of the malt-ffores,
near all-alley, in which the principal depot of
pikes, arms and ammunition, had been fortunatelj
explored, on the night of the 53d of July, The leafix
of this place was taken about the 24th of March laff.
and poffefion enfued I certain other repofitories for
pikes and various traitorous implements of diffrac-
tion, had been alto fixed on and taken in other parts
of the city. He went to a place near'Rathfarnham;
called Butterfield-lane; bargained in the name of

Robert Ellis, Which for this 'iii-ecafion he adopted, for
a honk there, for which he gave 6o guineas fine,
When the Imre was ready to be executed, a Mr...
Tyrrell, who was employed as agent in the tranfac+
lion, went thither, where he raw the Filmier at tha
bar. A Mr. Frayne, one of the executors to a de:
ceafed perfon in Georges-Sreet, whole property thie ;"
lunife and concerns were, was the mai authorifed to:
make the lea to the fuppofed Mr. Elk; who hairs
taken up his refidesee in the honfe oat paying the fine:' •
and remained there for fame Weeks ore the leafs' '
was perfeaed. Mr. Tyrrell, the agent, on being
introduced to the parties, recognized Mr. Williams
;lairds% who attended to wittier' the hare, and who
thought proper, on recolleaing that Mr. Tyrrell malt
have known' him," to lay slide a fiaitious name be
had affumixl,and figned his real name as witnefs to tbo
!cafe. Mr. Tyrrell conibining a variety of odd drains-
Sanas together, communicated trufpicions to Mr:
Frayne, that there parties were riot there for a goe'
rupofe, and hinting the probability that they had
rose treafanable prop% or coufpiracies in view, Mr.'
Frayne affented to certain fufpicious appearances,.
which did not efeape his own obfervation, fuel as
the prifoner having 'elided in the hours without fur;
niture, not even abed, having nothing better to fleep
on than a palliafs. He alai mentioned other circlets.
fiances of fufpieion, Inch as befog 'elated by different
perfons who always conferred in Tweet with him, but
never more than one attending at any one time. The
firs idea, however, that feggefted Weir to Mr. Frayne
was, that there perfons were merely coiner. of bale
liver, not comers of politeal conftitations.
Among the peeress moll frequent in their virus to
this bode in Butterfield-lane, were a Mr. Nett, $
Mr. Quigley, once an eminent bricklayer, and Mr.
Do reQL The firs, under circurnflances of marked
fulpicion of having taken an arrive part in the rebel-
lion in .7911, was Sill permitted to remain unmolelled
in the country. gel,
bad been apprehended. but
afterwards difchargea, for alledged conneaions with
the traitors of the fame period ; and Mr. Dowdall,
once Secretary to the Whig Club, having with others
been committed to Fort George, bad a particular
indulgence extended to him, by permitting his re*
deuce in this country, on his elifeharge from confine.
mete in Scotland, after the concluion of the laft
peace. It would be found that about the latter end
of Jane, or beginning of July hie, the prifoner at
the Bar did change his temporary abode, and made
arrangements on a very large kale, at the depot of
pikes, in the malt Sores alluded to. Here was he fre-
quently found infpeaing the fabrication of pikes the
calling of bullets, the making of cartridges, in nor*
be was indefatigably employed, with very little in-
teratifrioo, in offices of this dercription t but at inter.
vela was equally baby writing at.a deft, which was
afterwards found In this depot. At night he repofed.
if revere he amid mks, on a pillars in the fame re-
ceptacle of treat= and traitorous implaneuts, and
k there preparatory occupations he might be
!heed to leading his =Arable tram of impotent T.-
' anent+, ea the night of the red of July, &eked 4r
iisus uniform, that of a Field °Seer. irk,
• the rank of a General Mr. Dowdall, w'
appear. had been alfo in =irons on
ales, sad as his Lieutenant General, as did'

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