Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-12-02

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TWAS necessary for the prosecution before their case
was made out to prove four thngs-Ist, that Ame,ly
was owner of the ship Pacic--2d that the vessel was
insured-3d, that she wfuily aud corruptly cast
'"ay-A, that she was cast away with the express in
tent of deraudng the underwriters on the yesseli,seC
All this must be proved, not by competent merely but
credible witnesses, and if the U. S. failed in any one
INK the prisoner must be acquitted Mr.. Johnson CON
Guided oy feeling address 70 the Jury the situation
of the prisoner, and their own responsibility
MIR Stanard then offered as evidence, policy OF in
surance effected at the Office oEhe Boston Insurance
Company, sgnedby Lemucl Pope, President, and coun
tersIgned Geo. w Armstrong, Secretary. Messrs
Leigh aud Johnson objected to its going TO tie Jury.
on the ground GIat there was no proof of the cxis
teacc of such body the Boston Insurance Cornpa
n.y. After argument, and before the Coart had decid-
ed upon the molten, MIR. Sanard who had resisted the
motion, on the ground of its nsuiuicncy offered Ger
tilted copy of the act of Incorporation from the rolls in
Massachusetts. The certificate of the Secretary of
State of Massachusetts, certified the copy to be true
printed copy at the time of the certificate An inter
i'ncaton with pen being discovered in the printed
Statute, it contendud that that could not be the M
per certified b. the Secretary as that was alleged TO be
printed copy. But this objection was overruled b,
the Court, and the document admitted to be received as
evidence.
The evidence on The part of the prosecution was then
detailed II of the most particular and irresistible
character; beginning at The FIRST conception of the de-
sign by the ''arch demon" FIoding late Swedish Con-
sui at Boston, to IFS ccDsunmation by Amcdy in tie
English channel, and concluding with the confession of
ms guilt to Capt. Mix mot Dix stated in our las0
who arrested him in the Yves, Indies, and TO Mr. Pat
ton OF Boston, with whom hmedy travelled in the Stage
when he returned 10 the u States in state of conceal
ncnt The testimony absolutely conclusive and
as it was strongly remarked bv the District Attorney it
was almost impossible 10 conceive how it could be more
conclusive Arnedy's ownership of the Pacifc was
proved by Jesse Lewis, from whom he purchased her
the Insurance of the Pacific at the Boston insurance
Company. by Fitzhenry Homer, Amedy's agent for
that purpose, who proved the hand writing of the
prisoner--he real and fictitious cargo and the in
suranCe each at Boston aud New York by diff.
iereot wiincsses--tAe voluntary destruction of the
Pacific hy Amedy, by Enoch Hincllcy, the mate and
sub-ngent Of the conspiracy, by several seamen,
aud by Anedy's confession to Capt. Mix and cir.
Patton. OF Aaiy ; wilfu! destruction Of The Pacific
no man donbtedbut as il obvious, that the ogin-
al moving intent in doing So was 10 clauI the under
writers the cargo, and not the underwriters on the
oessei Itself, and tile law under which he was indic
ed, construed b. the Court, 70 comprehend the
first oencc, Though quite as heinous it was sap?oscl
possible that the Jury might acqu him. This poiat
and the doubt thrown upon the claim of some of ,he
witnesses to be believed presented almost the solitary
grounds upon which Messrs johnson aud Icioh couLl
rest the defcnce-a defence, notwithstanding which,
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