Star.
London, England, 1820-03-29 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND PROSECUTIONS.

The twenty-five unhappy.bein. s who sta d clurge'd
with uttering forged Bank of England noes hav-
ing been. arraigned, sixteea of them chose to plead
guilty to the minor offence cl knowingly having in
possession, and were severally sentenced to fourteea
years' transport*ion. The remainder elected to take
their trials for the capital offence.
It lliqm Womtdd was indicted for fclonlouslv ut-
tering a forged Bank of England note to 'Nos.
Cakbidge, at Epsom, oa the `29111 ci Augrst
Guilty—Death.
&mad Gotward was next found pailty upon the
clearest evidence, of uttering a f.irged note in
Southwark, oa the I 2th of February, to one Sarah
Matthews.--D a!/

John Warren wi:s capitally convic:cd upon the
most satisfactory evidence.—Dcath.
Themes Hubbard, upon brig brought to the bar,
retracted his plea of " not guilt)" to the capital
charge, and was allowed to plead guilty to rile minor
charge, and was sentenced to for.rteea years' trans-
portaion. • .
Janes Pen:iingten was tried and actrittal on a
capital charge of uttering, it appearing that the wit-
nesses were mistaken as to his identity, there lwing
another man in the gaol so like him, a.: to rei:der it
difficult to distinguish the cne from tlie -cthe2r. The
prisoner was prored to be •a malt Of irreproa.:ll:6le
character.

The Bank Solicitor gave the poor fellow £5.
George Gilbert was also tried, •and acquitted upon
the clearest evidence of his innocence.
Thomas Castles was also acquitted under the like
circumstances, both he and the last-mentioned pri-
soner being men of excellent characters.
William Wyatt, a waterman, was tried and a.6quit7
ted also upon the metst satisfactory evidence of inno-
cence. The Bank prosecutions lasted the whole day.

TRIAL OF MR. nt.;# AND OTHERS.

TENTH DAY.

YORK, 310NO:tY NIOHT.•
The Court met this morning at nine o'clock, and
the natoes of the Jury having been called over, hii
Lordship proceeded to detail the evidence to them.
He had stopped on Saturday with the evidence of
Shawcross, which he now continued; and went on to
that of the last witness for the prosecution. The prin-
cipal observation that arose out of this was grounded
on the Resolution, which were proposed and adopted
at the Smithfield Meeting in• July last ; which, ac-
cording to Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Hunt produced from
his pocket on .that occasion. Ills Lordship would
read them to the Jury, in order that they might
judge of the feeling and temper of the individual by
whom they were proposed. He would make no
comment on them, fo; the Jury would see how far
they were or were not respectful to the Government,
and how far they were calculated to excite discon-
tent in the minds of those to whom they were ad-
dressed. His Lordship now came to the evidence
for the defence. On the part of Moorhouse and
Jones, it had been stated, that their attendance at
the Meeting, so near the hustings, was merely acci,
dental ; and it was observed, that if the object of
the Meeting was legal, and its conduct peaceable,
numbers would not make it illegal. In this he con-
curred. Numbers did not make a Meeting illegal,
unless they were such as to excite a terror in the
minds of others, 'or to be 'a probable cause of terror.
Healey, in his defence, expressed a hope that his case
would be judged without any party feelings. His
Lordship hoped so too. He trusted the Jury would
. dismiss from their minds every feeling which was not
excited by the evidence before them. He would do
his duty faithfully to the Crown and the People cm
the one hand ; and if he did not do it to the de-
fendants on the other, there was•ONE above him,
under whose eye he was acting, and to whom he
was responsible. He sincerely hoped and trusted,
that that BEING would guide him in the observations
which he had to make, and the Jury 'in- Weighing
well what he should submit to thein.---Cfhis obser-
vation was delivered in so impressive a manner as tor
affect several persons in Court even to tears].—It
was true, as had been stated by one of the defendants,
" that where there was no law, there could be no
transgression :" and it the Jury found that, at the
time of this Meeting, there was no law against it,
they would give the defendants the benefit of it.—
Certainly the carrying of sticks or banners in the
procession were not in themselyes illegal, and could
not be so, unless carried or borne with a bad inten-
tion. In the address of Mr. Hunt, it was observed
by him, that his intentions on this occasion were ia-
nocent, anal that the whole of his observations were
addressed for the preservation of the peace, and that
the object of their meeting Wits lawful—circum-

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