The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

cmccir COCRT OF JUSTICI.IIIr.

istouvrwu, Slept. 13..
The Court was opened here on the 12th. by tire
nigh: Lo ii t:illies. When the fire
prisoner was put
_to the bits Messrs. Cram and'
Ivory :in oli;ection to the following erre:
That the copy of the list of *vier; screed on the
smog', Imre the original to he signed by a quorum:l
of the Jimmi4es of the lligh Court of Justitiary,
wi.e.e..% the principal list itself in Court only bad thr
signature e.f two of the Judges ; and as lay lair it is
„cer.sary that the list of assize, in other work the
I warrant for summoning the Jury. a amid be the art
ot the whale Court, or its legal quorum, there was
herr no 'e► a! warrant for summoning, anti rtitiSe-
quently no legal Jury
assembled for the trial of the
prisoners indict:4 in the forteons roll. After bear-
ing the Advocate-Depute, Lord Billies sustained the
ohjection, in commseqnence of whirim none of the I.ri-
' comets arrai!inmil oo indiettnents, of which there were
eight. and among them the persons scram) of kid-
napping Mr. Taylor, our of th.• Itailies.r Elgin, could
be tried at this Circuit. 'I he Commit hiljonrnrd till the
thirteenth.

Writs EAl,lv.—The Cann met this day at ton
o'clock, and vuereded with the trials on criminal
letters. limits F.,raph was first brought to the bar,
accus,ll of forgery, by adhibiting counterfeited sub-
scriptions to, or uttering three hills, knowing the se-
ceptanres to be forged—one dated 224 Jane,
fur 291. ; one dated 234 June, for 431. 12..: one
dated Nth July, for fi7l. Lis. addressed to Messrs.
Fraser and Smith, smiths, Inverness. The chars e, in
so far as regarded the bill of -151. 125., was given up
by the I,roseentor. in consequence of the absence of a
neceas try witness, whom we understand to be Mr.
Jahn Jameson, late agent for the Perth Bank, with
of the bill Mi.! slineounted.
After hearing evidence, and the charge of tae public
proseetstor, Mr. Grant, of Itothimsurcus, addressed
the Jury for th.. :saline!, and Lord liillies summed up ;
the Jury having been enclosed for a considerable
time, returned a verdict, finding, by a plurality of,
voices, the libel Nut VcrePt.
We nosierstasol that the prisoner made a hair-breadth
escape, a inaisorty of the Jury having, in the first in-
s:lance, divided against him. be verdict .Wils no
sooner reword, tiros a warrant was granted fur the
re-comnsittal of the unfortunate mats on other forgeries.
It is said that hr will be iuunedia,ely removed tu Edin-
burgh, to be tried by the nigh Court of Justiciary.
Third° Macdonald, tnailer in LealelernielLparish
of Dingwall, and Janet Macdonald, his wife, were
put to the bar, accused of theft, or reset of theft.
Several witnesses proved that two welders, the pro-
perty of James Mackenzie, mailer in Leadchruich, and
a year old wedder, the property of Watler Crquehart;
mailer in the Height of Daharty, were stolen from the
cowman; bill pastarage 'of the mailers of these plates,
on the .':4th July last; and, .that, af.er some search,.
the heads and skim, with the offal*, and some fresh
mutton, were tonna the following' day conceded in the
partners dwelling. lat their declarations, the pri•
miners attempted fu show that the sheep had beeu car-
ried to their liziase, and slaughtered during the sight,
while they were in bed. by their sun-is-low. who has
since almeended and expressed their reel* thst the
property of poor men bad been meddled wiftb. 'The