Litchfield enquirer., 1830-11-25

counterfeit money. Frank told me several tiahes, had better let it alone, Itold him ! had weighed the matter and would run tho risk of it.-(FOrmally signed and eeFtihed.l
 Mr. Cslnnan identified the club as before.
 The Attorney General then said all ahe eVi-a dence on the part of the Government was be- fore the jury unless some further occasion should arise.
 Dexter closed the defence. He argued, that the defence consisted Of two branches, and it was to be inquired, first, if John FFan- cis Knapp was principal-that is, did he aid and abet for that is charged in the indict- ment. If he was not a principal, the prisoner must be acquitted, for he IS on trial only as accessory to him as principal, and not as ac- cessory to any other principal. He eXam'n- ed the evidence touching the presence m Brown street, with gI eat ability. and contend ed, that there was not even presumption that he was there for the purpose of aiding the rnurderers; but that he was there tO learn the result. which involved hts life, or perhaps to partake of the plumber which Richard said he should get. ms-.g The other branch of the inquiry is, if Frank was principal, is it proved thai Jo- srph hired and procured hin He said the evidence of Layton was wholly incredible |; | and that the confessions. notwithstanding the l opinion of the court, that they were properly introduced did not stand on good ground, and could not be credited. This he said was all the evidence to prove that he was accessory at all, and this did not show that he was not accessory to Frank Knapp, but to Richard Crowninshield, ,for which he was not on trial- that the evidence went tO show, that he hired and procured Richard and not Frank, and on any or all these grounds he ought to be ae- quilted.
 Friday.-Mr. Webster closed his argument for the government at l2 o'clock this day, in a perrOratiOn of surpassing pathos. We know not an instance, when eloquence has been more powerful. The thought, language and manner. equally combined to produce the highest effect upon human mind and hu- man sympathies.
 He said the jury should feel compassion l for the prisOnrr-5nt compassion for bis in ternal, rather than his external cOndtion.- It is his grcates: misfortune :o be what he l is, and not to be where he is.'' He said 1t was time for him and for his friends to give up tue idle pretence of maintaining his innocence and that it was not not the least horrible part of the transaction, that he had given no evi- dence of repentance,-that his confessions contain no word of penitrnce.
 | NIT NrUStGE WuS CuUuUCUS al' most exclusively, tU close examination, and
 application of the law and the evidence. Il was the eloquence of reason, not of fancy or passion, and the close cOntrasted effectively with the previous manner of the argument. Knapp has been calm and collected through. out, not like an obdurate man, hut like one ] who had come to the conclusion that he had no hope, and could not be affected by the chances of the game, because the result was clearly foreknown. He display neither hard heartedness nor imbeciity, but simple qui- etness of feeling and demeanor.
 l MT. Webster closed his argument at 19 o'clock when Judge Putnam immediately proceeded to charge the Jury. The Salem Observer, of Saturday says, that is was full, clear and impartial. The Jury went out at about two o'clock on Friday afternoon. and came into Court at half past nine on Satur- day morning, with verdict of Guilty.