The Sun. — 1820-04-29 (London, England)

USE TURNER'S BLACKING.  tempting to justify the foul crime of assassination.  Thistlewood said he bad finished the sentence ; and continued to invaigh against the partial mode in which his own trial had been conducted, and to express his sorrow that the people of Albion still groaned in slavery under the iron hand of despots : he considered himself murdered by the verdict which had been pronounced against him. Wittiam Davidson was then called, and addressed by the officer in the same fortis of words. This prisoner had no written speech, but addressed the Court with great earnestness of voice and manner, and occasional violence of gesture and action, for several minutes. The general character of his declamation was similar to that of Thistlewood. He asserted that no proof had been offered that he had been acquainted with the design of assassinating the Ministers—repeated the charges against some of the witnesses, and declared that he had been entrapped into the plot; 14e. could die but once, and should meet. death fear. lessly. The thought of leaving a large family of small children was the only thing which unmanned him. Tl.is prisoner martin steel the 'woos' degree of firmness, or rut '.cr reckless jntrt pidit dugs was he next called upon. lie was dressed hi a butcher's jacket, and appeared as composed as al the time of Isis trial. He declared he should not have been in his present situation- but for Edwards, who betrayed him into it. He had no fears of death ; but only desired that Edwards s:iould die with him. He was ready to acknowledge that the plot for the assassination of Minis• ters was disgraceful to human nature; but those Ministers met and conspired to pass laws which in his opinion was much blacker than assassination. Hr was a bad orator, and would trouble their Lordships no longer than to declare, that he would rather die like a man than lice Lice a slave. Brunt was then called on, and addressed the Court at considerable length. His conduct and manner displayed all that determined spirit of rerocity which has characterized him through the whole of his proceedings. He complained of having been dehied the use of pen, ink, and paper, in order to compof.e sotnet):ng in his juititication. lie declared cost appe(' him, an.. ,vished to do so was proceeding itr loading him with abusive epithets and heinous charges, when The Cum? JusTice pronounced that he couldnot suffer 11): character of a person examined as. a witness to be taken away in that manner without any object ; it there was ai",v impeachment of his character, it should have been mentioned, on the trial. The prisoner afterwards threw out aspersions on Lord Castlereagh and Lord Sidmouth,.and asked if conspiracy to take away the lives or such men could be high treason He then endeavonred to ustify the design of the conspirators; but insisted that the only high treason of which he had been guilty was resisting some police-officers. rio asserted that none of the witnesses had sworn the truth, except Capt. Fitzclarence (who was sitting in the Sheriff's box.) . James Wilson, John Harrison, Richard, Bradburn, John Shaw Strange, and Charles Cooper, each addressed a few words, the tendency Of which was to impugn the evidence of the witnesses for the Crown.  Gilchrist (a wretched looking man), who seemed to sink under the horrors of his situation, declared that he had met Adams, for the first time, at four o'clock of the dry when the Conspirators wereapprenended—that in going into the loft he was wholly ignorant of rue purpose tor which they had assembled—that lie wished to retire, but was prevented on pain of -his life ; and that on tlir first appearance of an officer be surrendered himsell.—" I have served my King and my country," cried the prisoner, " twelve years, and, Oh, Gml this is my recompense." The LORD UHIEF JUSTICE then pathetically addresqed the Prisoners (see yesterday's