The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

By Lord Denman.—Her lqajesty sat on the left hand side
of the carriage, Prince Albert on the right. The Prince was
consequently the nearest to Oxford. The back part of the
carriage was about half-way up her Majesty's back.
Joshua Lowe and Albert Lowe corroborated this witness.

Elizabeth Stokeley examined by Mr. Wightman.—] am
housekeeper to Lord Bexley. I was on Constitution-hill on
Wednesday, the 10th of June. I was next the wall. I saw
the prisoner• present the pistol and fire at her Malesty. I
was nearer the prisoner when he fired the second time. I
saw him change his hand, and immediately present a second
pistol, and fire towards her Majesty. The Queen and Prince
Albert rather crouched, or stooped down. The Prince ap-
peared to me to press her Majesty down after the first pistol
was fired. I heard a whizzing noise in the air after the dis-
charge of the pistols. When the second pistol was fired I
was close to the carriage. The prisoner then dropped his
arms by his side and stood upright ; he was soon surrounded
by several persons.
William Clayton, examined by the Attorney-General.—l
am a cabinet-maker, residing in Princes-street, Leicester-
square. I was on Constitution-hill on Wednesday, the 10th
of June. I was about 200 yards from the marble entrance
of Buckingham Palace. • I was on the garden side of the
road. I heard a pistol fired ; at that time I was about 25
yards from the carriage. I saw two young men near the
railings, when a female said, " There is the man who did it."
I at first thought it was Albert Lowe, whom I seized and
said, " You confounded rascal, how dare you shoot at our
Qneen." The prisoner heard what I said, and he replied,
" I did it ; I will give myself up, and go quietly." 1 then
seized the prisoner ;he was given into custody. I was very
roughly handled myself, and taken into custody. I was
taken to the station-house and searched. I afterwards save
the prisoner there. I asked fora draught of cold water. He
then asked me if the Queen was hurt. I said, " What did
you put in the barrels ?" He replied, "To that I have an-
swered a dozen questions that have been asked me by a dozen
persons, and I shall answer no more." I examined the
pistols at the station-house and marked them. The pistols
were never out of my sight from the time I took them from
the prisoner until after I had marked them. Albert Lowe
and his uncle had both bold of the pistol when I first seized
it. It was the prisoner said, "I am the man who did it."
The pistol now produced is the same.
By Mr, Baron Alderson.—lt was about 15 or 16 yards
from the carriage when I seized the prisoner and Lowe. The
carriage immediately drew up after the second pistol was
fired. I should say the second pistol was fired full Bor 10
yards from the carriage.
CharleS Brown, examined by Mr. Gurney.—l am a police-
man. On the tOth of June I was on duty at Buckingham
Palace. I took hold of the prisoner's collar, when lie said,
" I did it ; don't use violence ; I will go quietly." The pri-
soner was then taken to the station-house. On arriving op-
posite 'Wellington Barracks some one said, " Was there any
ball in the pistols ?" Prisoner replied, "If it had come into
contact with your head you would have known it." On
searching the prisoner a piece of wadding was found, which
he said he put over the cap of the lock, as he did not want
the pistol to go off so as to hurt himself. I remember some
persons coming to the station-house ; they asked the prisoner
if there were any balls in the pistols ; he replied that there

' was.
Cross-examined by Mr. S. Taylor.—l will swear positively
that the prisoner said the pistols were loaded with balls. I
assisted a serjeant of police and three or four men in search-
ing the spot where the pistols had been fired, in order, if pos-
sible, to find the balls. No ball was found.
Charles Smith examined by the Solicitor-General.—l am
a policeman, and assisted in taking the prisoner Oxford to
the station-house. On the way, some one asked if the pis-
tols were loaded with balls. The prisoner replied, "If you
had come in contact with them, you'would have known there
were balls in them."
-Cross-examined.-1 am sure these were the words used by
the prisoner.
William Smith, another policeman, gave similar testimony.
Frederick Barry, examined by Mr. Adolphus.—l am in the
employ of Mr. Hayes. He has twrishops;one in Blackfriars-
road, and one in Farringdon-street. I remember the rumour
of the Queen being fired at, I remember seeing the prisoner
as my master's shop in Blackfriars-road about three weeks
or a month since. He 'bargained for a pair of pistols and a
powder-flask. The pistols now producedare the same as my
master generally sells, and they have his private mark upon
them. I asked the prisoner two guineas for the pistols. He
asked me how far they would carry. I. told him about 20 or
30 yards. He then said if I would taked two sovereigns for
them he would have them. I said if you won't give more
I must take it. He then bought them, and also a powder •
flask, for which he gave 2s. The prisoner had two bags with
the pistols. I had not seen the prisoner before the time he
purchased the pistols. I then' talked to him fur about ten
minutes. lam confident he is the same person. I saw him
again three days after the Queen was shot at.
By Mr. Bodkin.—lt was about one o'clock in the day when
the prisoner bought the pistols. No one besides him and
myself was in the shop at the time.
John Gray said, his father kept a shop in Bridge-road,
South Lambeth. The Monday or Tuesday before the Queen
was shot at the prisoner bought half a hundred percussion
caps at his shop.
Sir H. Wheatley said, the prisoner, when in custody, asked
him if the Queen was hurt.
The Earl of Uxbridge said, the prisoner put a similar
question to him, and added, that he had been practising
shooting lately.
Samuel Taylor proved, that about a week before the Queen
was fired at the prisoner showed him a loaded pistol.
The Hon. John Augustus Murray, and the Hon. William
Owen Stanley, said they had seen the mark on the wall in
the park, and that it appeared to have been produced by a
pistol bullet.
At this period of the trial the jury retired for refreshment.
After an absence of half an hour the trial was resumed.
John Wm. Leaton, a butcher's son, proved that the week
before the attempt on the Queen's life he had been with the
prisoner to a shooting gallery, where he showed him a pair of
pistols. Witness thought those now produced were the same.
Mrs. Stammers said, the prisoner lodged with her six or
seven weeks before the Queen was fired at. She recollected
the police taking his box away.
Inspector Hughes proved the contents of the box to be a
sword, a black crape cap, a bullet-mould, and four papers,
also some percussion caps. The bullet that was cast in that
mould fitted the pistols. There were some loose bullets in
the box ; they would roll easily into the pistol, for they were
smaller than the barrel of the pistol. I took the box and con-
tents to the station-house, and showed them to the prisoner;
he said they were his, and that he had attempted to destroy
the papers in the morning; the papers were folded up in a
sheet of foolscap paper. (The prisoner here laughed, and
took a few notes.)
The Clerk of the Court read the rules and regulations
found in the prisoner's box, which have already appeared.
The paper was headed " Young England," and signed " A
NV. Smith, Secretary."
During the reading the document the prisoner laughed re-
peatedly.
The other documents were read, which occasioned nearly
all present to laugh, including the Bench.
The lion. Fox Maule, examined by the Attorney-General.
—I am the Under Secretary of State, and was present when
the prisoner was examined before the Privy Council. After
he had been examined, the Secretary of State informed the
prisoner that he was at liberty to state what he thought pro-
per, but that it would be taken down and made use of against
him• The prisoner then made a voluntary confession, which
he signed. (The confession was here read.)
Cross-examined by Mr. Bodkin.—There were other per-
sons examined by the Secretary of State besides those who
have been called by the government. I have seen the pri-
soner twice in Newgate. Ido not recollect asking him any
questions.
Mr. Bodkin.—l don't know whether it will be improper to
ask you, Mr. Maule, whether the government has made any
inquiries as to the existence of the society called " Young
England ? "
Lord Denman.—That can have nothing to do with the case.
The Attorney-Generale—This is. the case for the prosecu-
tion.
Mr. Sydney Taylor then addressed the court for the
prisoner, and said he should be able to establish his in-
sanity beyond all doubt. The learned gentleman made
some remarks upon the nature of hereditary insanity,
18 ; insanity in those cases generally developed
y ages ofits 1
e If4oaTrlical
sudden, and there could be no doubt that this dreadful
development took place in the case of the prisoner at the
very time he fired. He should be able to show that the
between the
prisoner's family were mad: his grandfather died in a
lunatic asylum—his father generally laboured under the
same dreadful calamity; and he was 'of opinion that
the disease had descended to the prisoner at the bar, who
had committed the act for which he was arraigned in a
paroxysm of insanity ; and if they held him responsible for
that act they would realise the words of a celebrated P h si-
clan, " That mans vengeance followed God's visitations."
He (Mr. Taylor) was satisfied that her Majesty entertained
the same opinion, for on the following day she entertained a
dinner party ; indeed he felt satisfied that her Majesty enter-
tained a similar opinion to that which actuated one of her il-
lustrious predecessors—Queen Elizabeth, who, on being told
that a plot had been formed against__ her life, said she would
not believe it, for she would riot entertain an opinion of
her subjects which was degrading to the feelings of a mo-
what he had so
on behalf of the prisoner would be
inadequately advanced
ther towards her children. He trusted that.
,as well as that
that the prisoner deserved more of their
taken into their consideration, and that they woulk.how
of the court and and her Majesty, than of punishment.
Mr. Taylor then sat down, having addressed the jury for
two hours and three-quarters.
The learned counsel-then, at six o'clock, proceeded to call
witnesses for the defence.