The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

UNITED STATES

By the packet-ship George Washington, which left New
York on the 7th instant, we are in possession of intelligence
six days later than that received by the Caledonia. The
George Washington arrived at this port on Sunday evening,
after a rapid passage of only seventeen days. The papers are
principally occupied with the trial of M`Leod, and the affair
of Colonel Grogan.
On the 4th instant, as was announced by the papers brought
by the Caledonia, the trial of M`Leod commenced. The
Utica correspondent of the Herald thus describes the open-
ing of the court :
" A. few minutes past nine o'clock, Judge Gridley entered
the court, attended by the usual Common Pleas Judges (who,
however, take no part in this trial,) and the counsel engaged
in the case, followed by the bar generally. The Jurors were
next admitted ; and when they were seated, the witnesses
were accommodated with seats. The spectators were after-
wards admitted, in a very orderly manner, which reflects
credit on those who conceived and carried out the arrange-
ments and regulations of the court. There was no rushing
for the seats, but every one entered as demurely as though
the court were a parish church. No more were admitted
than could be comfortably seated ; and, indeed, no more ap-
peared desirous to be present. Persons at a distance, who
are wrought up to a feverish excitement on this subject, will
be astonished at the apathy felt here ; but so it is."
The accounts, therefore, of the great excitement existing
at Utica and the neighbourhood, which have appeared in the
American journals from time to time, must either have been
unfounded, or the parties interested in the affair have wil-
lingly absented themselves.
Mr. M`Leod was brought into court a few minutes before
ten, and walked deliberately to a seat within the bar near his
counsel. He was dressed in a suit of black, and was wrapped
as he entered in a blue cloak. His counsel shook him cor-
dially by the hand, and he gracefully returned the salutations
of others. He is a man of gentlemanly bearing and demeanor,
and he appeared respectful but not embarrassed.
The panel consisted of forty-eight persons, of whom eleven
had either excused themselves or failed to attend. A cor-
respondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer alleges,
that he had seen a list of fifty witnesses for the prosecution,
and that many more were in attendance. The evidence for
the defence was principally written, having been taken by
commission. It was very voluminous.

The clerk proceeded to call over the names of the jurymen.
Two of them were merchants, all the others farmers. On
the name of Mr. Thusher, one of the merchants, being called,
the Attorney-General, who conducted the prosecution, de-
manded, as a common law right, that he should be set aside
till the panel was exhausted. Mr. Spencer, the principal
advocate for Mr. M'Leod, said it was the first time he had
ever, in the course of his practice, heard of such a proposi-
tion being made and insisted upon by the prosecutors. This
sort of peremptory challenge belonged, by right, to the pri-
soner alone. Judge Grindley decided, that the Attorney-
General did not possess the right to have the juror set aside,
and that the juror must be sworn.
The Attorney-General detailed the case for the prosecu-
tion, first setting forth the offence ; next enumerating the
various counts in the indictment, amounting to seventeen in
number ; and then laying before the jury the circumstances
attending the attack on the Caroline. The learned gentle-
man proceeded to give a brief exposition of the law of the
case, laying down to the jury, that the only question for them
to decide was whether the prisoner was present or not.
The first witness called was Mr. Wells, the owner of the
Caroline, whose testimony occupied the remainder of the
day. His version of the affair added nothing to the stock of
information already known on the subject. He underwent a
searching cross-examination from Mr. Spencer, with the
view of ascertaining the object of the Caroline's visit to Navy
Island. Nothing very material was elicited o❑ this point.
Mr. Wells admitted that he had carried over a six-pound
cannon and a horse; that he saw some ten or eleven pieces
of cannon on the island ; and he said, that the object of those
who held the island was to invade Canada.

On the morning of the sth instant the court opened at
half-past seven o'clock. Several witnesses were examined
in the course of the day. Mr. Spencer directed much of his
cross-examination to inquiries into the state of Navy Island,
as 'regarded war equipment. It was elicited, that, at the
period of the Caroline's visit, there was cannonading from
Navy Island to the Canada shore, and vice versa, there being
an armed force on the Canada side. In the after part of the
day, the testimony of Gilman Appleby and Samuel Brown
pressed rather strongly against the prisoner. The first of
these swore to having seen M`Leod among the assailants of
the Caroline ; and the latter swore that he had heard M'Leod
boast afterwards of the act. The evidence of both these
individuals was considerably weakened by the cross-exami-
nation which ensued. The court concluded the second day's
proceeding about eight o'clock.
On the third day, the proceedings of which are reported in
a second edition of the Herald, the only witness examined
up to the time of the express leaving Utica, was a man of the
name of Charles Parke : at the time the judge took his seat,
there were but a few officers, lawyers, and reporters, and not
a single spectator present. When the prisoner was brought
in, only a dozen witnesses and idlers took possession of the
spectators seat. The Herald says that the testimony of the
witness Parke is " direct and positive to the fact of the pri-
soner's participation in the Caroline affair," and we therefore
give his evidence at length. It is, however, to say the least
of it, of a very questionable character. The statement of what
the witness " thinks " is put down as a matter of fact.
" I saw M‘Leod at Chippewa in the afternoon of the day
previous to the night ou which the 'Caroline was destroyed ;
I saw him pretty much that day, and almoat every day for
matter ; I saw him that day ; he went to bed at Mr. Davis's
pretty early—before dark ; I saw him again after dark ; a
gentleman came and asked for M'Leod, and he was shown
where he was ; Mr. AP Leod got up ; it was between eight
and ten o'clock ; he came down into the bar-room, and I
think he said to Mr. Davis if his brother should come to say
he had gone to Niagara ; I saw him after he had left the
house that night somewhere between Mr. Davis's house
and Chippewa Cut ; it was perhaps three quarters of an
hour after ; there were a good many people along the road ;
whether you could consider them in his company or not I
cannot say ; he went to some boats tied up at the side of
the river ; there were from 100 to 200 people there-100 at
all events ; he proceeded up the Niagara river with the boats;
I think he got into one of them ; he went, I should think,
three-quarters of a mile up the river with the boats ; they had
got out of the boats again and towed the boats up the river to
the point of embarkation, nearly opposite the lower end of
Navy Island ; the current is stiff, and they towed the boats
to get hem up earlier; they shoved off from shore, and
steered across the river as far as I could see ; I remained
there an hour, and then returned to Mr. Davis's, and went
to bed ; I left Mr. Johnson, the bar tender, with me up ; I
sun rise, or a Isaw
have understood. he is in Detroit ; I have not seen him since
the fall of M'Leod again next morning; about
village of Ch.
that time ;there w
little after, or a little before ; I saw him in the
Chippewa, either in front of Mr. Davis's house, or
ere were a great many people stirring at
in the square ; there
collect hearing himenone very close to him ; I do not re-
had a sword by his rayT:ling;
that day ; I think not apg;relatdewhiiflel
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Major Cockle of the dragoons ; them wera four or fir of
them ; he said he had killed a Yankee or something to 'that
purport ; they were conversing in reference to the ;
I speak with considerable certainty when I say that Al`teod
got into the boat opposite the lower part of Navy Island: I
have no doubt of it.

The trial was progressing but slowly, and the general im-
pression was that it would last upwards of a week longer.

The seizure and abduction of Grogan had, it is stated, been
made the subject of a communication by the American go-
vernment to the British Minister at Washington. The papers
do not contain any hints to enable us to form an opinion as
to what was likely to be the result of the communication.
They are unanimous, however, in the belief that the Colonial
Government would disavow the act, liberate Grogan, and
apologise for the violation of the United States territory.
On the subject of Grogan's seizure and abduction, the Mon-
treal Herald, which is violent against the American govern-
ment, has the following remarks :
" It is said that Grogan, who was lodged in gaol the other
day charged with arson, was kidnapped on the American
side of the line and carried into Canada. Whether true or
false, we are sure the 'American government will lose no
time in asserting its truth. He has fulfilled the secret
wishes of that government too well for it not to attempt de-
frauding justice of its due. If true, the hands of British
authority must be kept clean. No countenance ought to be
given to kidnapping, even of the greatest scoundrel, and
especially from a country which is so fond of such cattle."

In another number o(his paper, the editor says :
" The present relations between the governments of Great
Britain and the United States are quite bad enough, and it is
really distressing to think that young men will so far forget
their duty as Britons, as to commit an act of aggression
which may give the American government a handle against
our own, and reduce their own characters to a level with that
of the Americans. We admit the utter vileness of Grogan's
character, and the deep stain on the American escutcheon
by the harbouring and protection given to him and similar
miscreants who act as a moral pestilence in any community,
but, as respecters of international law, we cannot approve of
the violation of the territory of a neighbouring nation, unless
sanctioned by the authority of the government. The impru-
dence of the captors of Grogan cannot possibly serve a good
end, and may be productive of both a continuance and an in-
crease of the bad feeling which so unhappily exists along the
frontier. If Grogan was arrested, as it is confidently stated
-,he was, on American soil, he will assuredly be given up to
the American authorities, and thereby escape the punish-
ment which would have been awarded him, had he been
ar-
rested on British territory."

The new Cabinet is as follows :
Daniel Webster, of Mass., Secretary of State

Walter Forward, of Penn.,

the Treasury

Abel P. Upshur, of Va., 16 the Navy
John C. Spencer, of N. Y., " War.
Hugh S. Legare, of S. C. Attorney-General.
Charles S. Wickliffe, of Ky., Postmaster-General

The Prince de Joinville, son of the King of the French,
had been visiting Washington and Norfolk, and returned to
New York on the 6th. The arrival of the Acadia informed
him of the attempted assassination of one of his brothers.
He had been presented to the President, and had the honour
of dining with the chief magistrate of the republic.
A terrible catastrophe had happened on board the United
States friga, Fulton, whereby two men were killed and six
seriously wounded. The accident was owing to the bursting
of a gun during its trial. __ _ _ .

A person of the name of Monroe Edwards, said to be a
" Colonel," had been arrested in Philadelphia for forgery,
with 44,000 dollars of the stolen money found on his person.
The forgeries of this notorious individual had been perpetra-
ted upon Little and Co., Brown Brothers and Co., and on
ether firms, for upwards of 100,000 dollars.

MONEY MARKET.-OCTOBER 6,

At the stock board this morning, sales were large, and
prices were generally better. Harlem declined 1, Paterson
; Mohawk improved 1, Stonington 1, Delaware and Hud-
son a ; Indiana bonds declined 1, Illino is (i's 4. Sales of
bills on Philadelphia 2 to 3 ; Baliimore 2to 24.
A sale of Teas took place to-day, at prices nearly equal to
the last. The London market, it appears, has fallen heavily
under the latest advices, to the effect that 20,000,000 lbs. was
about to be shipped. This enormous quantity was to be
paid for in the precious metals.