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received a black rye. He was poslthe as to the identity of
the prisoner. although he had never seen him but once. and
.hen only for a few minutes.
W. Shearwood, a tailor, was called to mend the prisoner's
which was torn in the senile, at the Rose and Crown.
"II the 4th of January.
J. tireenway. landlord of a public house in Leather-lane.
4a ore. tsntt on the nth of January he saw the prisoner at hie
Dodging, between 10 and II in the morning, and again at
night ; when he observed that he had got a black eye.
Mrs. Marnoch lives at in, Leather-lane. The prigoner
!odged at her house from Christmas until the latter end of
January. when he was taken into custody : and she verily
I),.lionetl that he was not absent from home two nights toge-
ther during the whole of that time.
The Common Serjeant summed up the evidence, and the
.Itirv. after retiring for nearly an hour, returned a verdict of
The Common Nerjeant then sentenced M. to transports-
tioa for seven years.

HIGH TRSASON.

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Is I.ET, JULY I. MO.—The Court of Oyer and Ter.
mince was opened here this morning at ten o'clock.
Alter the Grand Jury had been chosen, and the Lord
President had delivered his charge, a bill was laid before
the Jury, charging seven individuals with high treason.
The Jury, after examining witnesses, returned a true
bill against the whole defendants, viz.—
I v t vSTODY.—James Speirs, John Lang.
NOT IN CUSTODY James Walker, Robert Parker,
.14,!.n Young, John Smellie, James Nixon.
Lang and Speirs were served with their indictments in
1 ',art. They named Messrs. (leant and Jeffrey u their
I ()tinsel. The Court was ikon' adjoaraed.

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TnnumAT ['MX', JULY 6, 1920.

We know not by what impulse the prosecutors of
the Welts' are impelled, but they seem to proceed
front *oil yetreordinary step to another, equally sur-
prisioeZtehh a precipitation that would appear as if
intended' to snake amends for their late delay. The
111111 founded on the Report of the Secret Committee
wa. brought into the House of Lords last night. It
is of a nature which every one, who dispassionately re-
rect. on the subject, and upon its probable conse-
gurney", most witness with pain and regret. It ex-
tend. not only to the degradation of her MAJESTY
from the style, title, and prerogatives of Wes,/
eo,rseetr, but to a divorce r rimer& ntetrimoaii, and
thi Lords are to be her prosecutors, judges, and le-
gislators in the cause! Previous to the introduction of
the Bill, a petition was presented from the QUEEN,
..raylfg to be keerd by Counsel against the charges,
hut the prayer of the petition was rejected.
Thus then the charges that have lain so long in am-
buscade in the Green Bag, have been embodied into a
tanp,ible shape, and thus the Ministers of the King
114% r openly dared to impeach the virtue of their Royal
Matter's Consort. But upon what sort of evidence
have they bonded their Report? and on what credible
tt:stiniony is the Legislature now called to sanction a
11111 of Pains and Penalties against the very person
whom her impeachers were a few days ago willing to
• endow ln the character of a blameless Qvcee—
whein tlare acknowledged to, be so worthy of respect,
auto ithstantling the allegations had recourse to, that
they would notheeireditgements for her introduction to
a fneign Cou oil allow her fifty thousand pounds
a-year. The 011110 e will sot fail to remark the incon-
itistoney of these proceedings, and to demand a strict
sc. utiny into the characters and conduct of thepersons
on whose depositions the people of Britain are required
to condemn their Qualm. Is it upon Italian evidence,
upon the allegations of wretches gathered from all
parts of the Continent, who hold themselves absolved
fr lin the sanctity of out oaths, and the jurisdiction of
our laws, that we are asked to inflict degradation and
the worst of punishmeut on a female, who has nobly
put her trust in her own innocence, and theohield of
British justice ? Never may the stern feelings of in-
tl./neat virtue be so relaxed—never may we see the
treed forms of justice so violate 1. The Orend Juries
of this country, who decide on the apparmat grounds of
crimiLat an, before they find a hill of indictment, exa-
minepersons sad hear evidence !detract. The accusers
of her MAJESTY have assumed all the powers of a
Grand Jury, and brought in their bill of accusation ;
hut can it be said that they have performed the salutary
duties of Grand Jurors ?—bave they interrogated such
witnesses as an impartial Jury might be expected
to examine before they sanctioned sue/. accusations ;
and can it be said that Ministers, after having pre-
judged the case of the Illustrious Defendant, can come
to the consideration of the charges with minds fitted
for an Impartial inquiry? Let the public but look at
the names of the Select Committee who have reported
her Matter( guilty, accvding to the contents of
-their bag, and perhaps some part of the cause of thins
moustrous birth may be explained. Was it thus that
the Duke of Toss was dealt with ? Were any mea-
sures pursued by the Government, or by Secret Com-
mittees, calculated to prejudice both Houses of Per-
Mamma and the public against that Illustrious Indi-
vidual, though the chirps against biro were of a
serious Mature? We recollect the expression of
bisect iesilgiestlest cad diarist in which a Minister
se the time (Mt. Wrsonabs) indulged, whoa the mod*
which the seminary deesateitte bad bees obtained