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oil. [ challenge them to say that l was ; could also have proved that subsequent
fairly tried. I challenges them to say il l |to the fatal transaction, when we met in
am nut murdered, according to the eti- i flolborn, he endeavored to induce two
From tlic. London Ubscrotr of .lj'ril 30.
SENTENCE Of DEATH V \nSEU UPON
THE CONSl’IIlATOHS.
This morning at a quarter after nine,
Lord Clnel Justice Abbott, Lord Chief
Justice Dallas, the Chief Baron, Air.
Justice Richards, Air. Justice Best, and
the common sergeant, took their seats.
Mr. Brown, the jailor, was immedi
ately requested to bring the prisoners to
the har. In a few minutes the clank of'
chains was heard, and the eleven pri
soners entered the court. They were
all double ironed, with (he exception of
Ings, who has been much indisposed
since bis conviction. Thistlewood came
tirst, and advanced to the bar. There
tvas a melancholy* resignation in his coun
tenance. lie appeared considerably al
tered since the last time of his being in
court.
All being in readiness,
Mr. Shelton (the clerk of the arraigns)
addressing himself to Thistlewood said,
Arthur Thistlewood, you stand convict
ed of high treason, what have you to say
why you should not receive judgment to
die, according to law ?”
Thistlewood immediately drew forth
a manuscript address, w hich he proceed
ed to road in a mournful tone, and with
a strong provincial accent as follows -
“ Aly Lords—I am asked, mv lord,
what 1 have to say that judgment of death
should not be passed upon me according
to law. This to me is mockery—for
were the reasons I could offer incontro
vertible, and were they enforced even
by the eloquence of n Cicero, still would
the vengeance of my Lords Castlereagh
and Sidmouth he satiated only in the pur
ple stream which circulates through a
heart more enthusiastically vibrating to
every impulse of patriotism and honor,
than any of those priviledged * * * to
their country, who lord it over the lives
•and property of the sovereign people
with barefaced impunity. The reasons
which I have, however, I will now state
_not that l entertain the slightest hope
from yor sense of justice or from your
pity. The former is swallowed up in
your ambition, or rather by the servility
you descend to, to obtain the object of
that ambition—-the latter I despise. Jus
tice ( demand. If 1 am denied it, your
pity is too equivalent. In the first place,
*» { protest against the proceedings
upon my trial, which I conceive to he
grossly partial, and contrary to the very
spirit of justice—but, alas ! the judges
who have heretofore been considered
the counsel of the accused, arc now,
without exception, in all cases between
the crown and the people, the most im-
plicable enemies of the l itter. In every
instance, the^udges charge the jury to
find the subject guilty ; nay, in one in
stance, the jury received a reprimand,
and that not in the genteelest terms, tor
not strictlv obeying the imperious man
date from the bench.
“ The court decided upon my trial to
***** rather than depart in the slight
est degree from its usual foims. Nay,
it is with me a question, if the form is u-
eu.il which precluded me Irom examin
in''witnesses to prove the infamy of A-
dams; of lliden, and of Dwyer. ’Ere
the solicitor-general replied to the ad
dress of mv counsel, l applied to the.
court to hear mv witnesses. The court
inhumanly refused, and I am in conse
quence to he consigned to the scaflolJ.
Numerous have been the instances in
which this rule of court has been in
fringed ; hut to have infringed it in my
case would have been to incur the dis
pleasure of the court, and to forfeit evc-
ry aspiring hope ol promotion. A lew
hours hence and l shall be no more ; but
the nightly breeze which will whistle o-
ver the silent grave that shall protect
me from its keenness, will bear to your
restless pillow the memory of one who
lived but for his' louniry—and died
liberty and j .slice had beendriven from
its coniines by a set ol __
life as it respects myself, I care not; but
while yet l may, l would rescue my me
mory from the calumny which I doub
not will be industriously heaped upon il
when it will be no longer in my power
to protect it.
“ 1 would explain the motives winch
induced me to conspire against the Min
isters of his Majesty, and would con
trast them with those which these very
ministers have acted upon in leading me
to my ruin, To do tins, it will be ne
cessary to take a short review ot my hie
for a few months prior to my arrest, fur
the offence for which 1 am to be execut
ed without a trial—or at least, without
an impartial one, by a jury of my peers
“ Tis true, the Turin, the etiquette o
atrial has been gone through ; but 1
challenge any of the judges on the bench,
to tell me, to tell tny country, that justice
was not denied me in the very place
y here justice only should be atlauuu.cr
quette of .1 court, (falsely denominated)
ot justice. Iliad witnesses in court to
prove that Dwyer was a villain beyond
all example of atrocity. 1 had witnesses
in court to prove that Adams was a noto
rious swindler, and that lliden was no
better ; these were the three witnesses,
indeed, almost the only ones against me :
but the form and rules of court must not
he infringed upon to save an unfortunate
individual from the scaffold.
“ 1 called those witnesses at the close
of Mr, Adolphus's address to the jury,
and helore the Solicitor-General com
menced his reply, hut the court decided
that they could nut be heard. Some good
inen have thought, and I have thought so
too, that before the jury retired, all evi
dence was in time either for the prose
cutor or the accused, and more particu
larly for the latter : nay, even before
the verdict was given, that evidence
could not be considered too late. Alas !
such people drew their conclusion from
principles of justice only—they never
canvassed the rules of co irt which have
finally scaled mv unhappy doom !
“ Many people who are acquainted
with the barefaced manner in which I
was plundered by mv Lord Sidmouth,
will, perhaps, imagine that personal mo
tives instigated ine to the deed ; but I
disclaim them. Aly every principle was
for the prosperity of mv country. Aly
every feeling—the height of mv ambition
was the welfare i f m> starving country-'
men. I keenly felt far their miseries ;
but when their miseries were laughed at.
and when, because they dared to express
those miseries, thfiy were — —
feelings became too intense, too exces
sive for indurance, and 1 resolved on
vengeance—1 resolved that the lives »f
the instigators should lie the requiem to
the souls of the murdered innocents.
“ In this mood 1 mat with George Ed
wards. And if any doubt should remain
upon the minds of the public, whether
the deed I meditated was virtuous, nr
contrary, the tale 1 will now relate will
convince them, that in attempting to ex
ercise a power which the law had ceas
ed to have, 1 was only wreaking national
vengeance ou a set of wretches unwor
thy the name or character of men. This
Edwards, poor and pennyless, lived near
Picket-street, in the Strand, some tiin :
ago, without a bed to lie upon, or a chair
to sit in. Straw was his resting place ;
his only covering a blanket. Owing to
his bad character and his swindling con
duct, he was driven from thence by bis
landlord. It is not tny intention to trace
him through his immorality—suffice it to
say tliat lie was in every sense of the
word a villain of the deepest atrocity.—
I- s landlord refased to give him a cha
racter. Some short time after this lie
called upon his landlord again ; hut mark
change in Ids appearance—dressed
like a lord, in all the folly of the reigning
fashion, lie now described himself as
the right heir to a German baron, who
had been sometime dead ; that Lords
Castlereagh and Sidmouth had acknowl
edged his claims to the title and proper
ty, had interfered in his behalf to the
German government, ami supplied him
with money to support his rank in socie
ty. From this period I date his career
as a government spy.
“ He got himself an introduction to
the Spenceans—by what mentis l am not
aware of—and thus lie became acquaint
ed with the reformers in general. When
l met w ith Edwards after the massacre
at Manchester, he described himself as
very poor ; an
d after several interviews,
or three of my companions to set lire to
houses and buildings, in various parts of
the metropolis. 1 could prove that sub
sequent to that again, he endeavored to
induce men to throw hand grenades into
the carriages of ministers as they passed
through the streets ; and yet this man,
the contriver, the instigator, the entrap-
per, is screened from justice and from
exposure, by those very men who seek
vengeance against the victims of his and
their \ i11 tiny. To the attorney and so
licitor-general I cannot impute the clear-
st motives. Their object seems to me
to have been rather to obtain a verdict
against me than to obtain a full and fair
exposition of the whole a flail* from its
commencement. If their object was jus
tice alone, why not bring forward Ed
wards as a witness, it not as an accom
plice ; but no, they knew that by keep
ing Edwards in the back ground, my
proofs—ay e, my incontrovertible proofs
of his being a hired spy. the suggestor
and promoter, must, according to the
rules of court, also be excluded.
Edwards and his accomplices arran
ged matters in such a manner as that his
services might lie dispensed with on the
trial, and thus were the jury cut oil from
every chance of ascertaining the real
truth. Adam«, I liden, and Dwyer, were
the agents of Edwards, am! truly lie made
a most adtniriljle choice, for their in
ventions seems to he inexhaustible.—
With respect to the immorality of our
projects, I will just observe, that the as
sassination of a ty rant has always been
deemed a meritorious action. Brutus
and Cassius were applauded to the very
skies for slaving Cajsar ; indeed, when
any tnan, or set of men, place themselves
above the laws of their country , there is
no other means of bringing them to jus
tice tlun through the arm of a private
individual. If the laws are not strong e-
nough to prevent them from murdering
the community, it becomes the duty of
every member of th at community to lid
his country of its oppressors.
“ High treason was committed against
the people at Atanchester, hut j islico
was closed against the mutilated, tlit-
maimed, and the friends of those who
were upon that occasion indiscriminate
ly * *■ * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * t t Albion
is still in the chains of slavery—I quit ii
without regret—l shall soon he consign
ed to the grave—mv body will be immu
red beneath the soil w hereon 1 first drew
breath. Aly only sorrow is, that the soil
should he a theatre fur slaves, for cow
ards, for despots. M\ mollies, I doubt
not, will hereafter be ju-tiy appreciated
—1 will therefore now conclude by sta
ting, tl.at I shall consider myself as mur
dered, if I am to be executed on the ver
dict obtained against me, by the refusal
of the court to hear my evidence. 1
could lave proved Dwyer to have been
a villan of the blackest dye, for, since
my trill, au accomplice of his, named
Arnold, has been capitally convicted at
this ve*y bar, for obtaining money under
. circumstances of an infamous nature.
“ I seek not pity ; ! demand but jus
tice ; 1 have not had a fair trial, an 1 up
on that ground 1 protest that judgment
ought tot to be passed again-l Lie.”
Air. Shelton next addre-sed himself to
Davidsm, and put to him the same ques
tion wlicli he had put to TI: ulevvood.—
Davidsm advanced, and spoke to the fol
low iog effect
“ M; lords, \ <hi ask me what 1 have
to say vhy I should not receive j ulginent
to die or what has been said against me.
I answer that 1 protest against the pro*
ceedligs in this trial in toto In the
first place, I alway s thought that in a
courj of justice the balance of justice
was I.1J with an even hand. But this
lias iki be.on the case with me I I stand
hereliielpless am! friendless. 1 endea
vored in show that the evidenc" against
me iwi-contradictory and incredible ; and
I holt 1 1 had made an impression on the
gentlemen in the box ; but the moment
1 was i»ne, tin* attorney general got up.
and tod them that the evidence was
pure! tod unroiitaminated, and to this I
may pel. (hat Mr. Baron Carrow almost
insRfei (hat they should pronounce me
guilty. | would a-k. has any person
idenSfrd nie but the officers ! who,
evert i )c . knows, have at all times been
in-Urkni-ntat to the death of innocent
versons i do not new plead for my life ;
kmjw must fall a victim to the veu-
geande if mv enemies. But in what
manlier lave 1 been guiltv of high trea-
son ?l I would seem I was a silent spec
tator-; Due of the witnesses impute to
me a Suglo observation. Now is this
probnbl / l pad iilwavs got a great
deal to uiy for invself, consequently 1
w as not he person w ho would stand bv
withoutitteriug a word ; and yet such
has Beet the testimony of Adams Then,
with jre-wd to the blunderbuss, l have
already \pluined that this was not mine,
and tut( acted in that affair entirely a*
the .ijen of Edward*. I have also deelar-
hc> proposed a plan of blowing up the
House of Commons. This was not my
view I wished to punish the guiltv, S-
therefore I declined it. He next propo
sed that we should attack the ministers
at the fete given by the Spanish Ambas
sador/ This 1 resolutely opposed, be
cause the innocent would perish with the
guilly : besides, there were ladies mu
ted to the entertainment, and I, who am
shortly tu ascend the scaffold, shuddered
with horror at the idea of that, a sample
of which had previously been given by
the agents of government at M inehester,
and which the ministers of his .Majesty
applauded. Edwards was ever at inven
tion ; and at length he proposed attack
ing them at a cabinet dinner. I n-ked
where were the means to carry his iwo-
ject into effect ! He replied, if 1 would
accede, we should not want fur means.
He was as good as his word ; from him
came, notwithstanding his apparent pe
nury, the money provided for purchas
ing the stores, which your Lordships
have seen produced in court upon my
trial. He who was never possessed ot
money to pay for a pint of beer, had al
ways plenty to purchase arms or ammu
nition. Amongst the conspirators he was
ever the most active ; over inducing poo-
ple to join him, up to the last hour ere
the undertaking was discovered.
“1 had witnesses in court who could
prove they went to Cato-strcet, by ap
pointment with Edwards, with no other
knowledge or motive than that of pas- leilhwv came by the sword, and I now
sin" mi evening amongst his friends. 1 | decide ipon my soul, which will short
ly appear before its Maker, that I never
made any blow at any nmn, or discharg
ed any carbine.—As for Alunday, the
man who swore that 1 had a long sword,
with a pair of pistols in my girdle, who
is lie ! He is a poor laboring man who
conies here for his day’s pay and his
victuals, to swear away the life of a fel
low creature, and to support the un
founded charge against me, that I meant
to assassinate, his Alajesty’s -Ministers.—
I appeal to any man, whether it is upon
such evidence the life of an innocent
man is to he sacrificed ? But even for
the sake of argument, that the lives of
Ins Alajesty’s Ministers were threatened,
it did not follow that tins was to extend to
the king himself. In a passage of Mag
na Cliarta, it was ordained that twenty-
live barrons should be nominated to see
that the terms ol the charter were not
infringed ; and if it was found that his
majesty's ministers were guilty of such
infringement, then four barons were to
call upon them for redress. Iftliis were
not granted, then the four barons were
to return to their brethren, by whom
'he people were to lie called together
to take up arms, and assert their lights.
Such an act was not considered hi old
times as an act of treason towards the
king, however hostile it might he towards
his ministers. But Hus does not apply
to me. I had no intention of joining in
any scheme whatever, either to put down
my king or to murder his ministers. I
was entrapped by Goldvvorthv and Ed
wards, in order for some private purpose
cl their own, that they might have mv
lile sworn away. 1 have no objection
to tender my life in the service of uh
country ; hut let me at least for the sake
ot my children, save my character from
the disgrace of dying a traitor. For mv
children only do 1 feel, and when I think
of them I am deprived of utterance—1
can say no more.”
James Ings was next asked what he
had to say why he should not receive
judgment to die ? lie replied : “ I have
very little to say. Aly abilities will nut
allow me to speak. If Mr. E livards had
not got acquainted with me I should not
tie here ; he came tu me, unfortunately
when I had no business, nor no means
ofgetting a living, for mv family. I en
tered into the conspiracy only through
him, and it was only necessity and the
want of the means to support my wife
and family that brought me here. It is
only through Edwards that l shall lose
my life. 1 do not mind dying, if you
will let that man come forward, and di •
with me oil the scaffold, it was through
him that l was going to do that which, 1
must allow, was of a most disgraceful and
inhuman nature.—On the other hand,
his majesty’s ministers conspire together
and impose laws to starve me and mv
family and fellow-countrymen ; and if 1
was going to assassinate these ministers, 1
do not see that it is so had as starvation,
in toy opinion, mv lord.
Here Air. Shelton began to address
the prisoner Brunt, but,
Ings said : *■ I am not done. And there
is another tiling, my lord ; a meeting was
called at .Manchester, under the protcc-
lym ol the law of England, for win h our
forefathers died, and which king John
signed in the open air. T his meeting
was called under the protection of that
law, for the people to petition parlia
ment to give them their right ; hut, pre
vious to the business of the meeting, the
.Manchester yeomanry rode in among
thr-in, and cut down ni n, women aud
children, in a manner lb it iv.r* a disgrace
to the veiy r.aine of Englishmen. These
yeomen h id their swords ground before
hand, and I ha I a sivord ground al-o, but
I do not see any harm in that. I shall
suffer no doubt ; hut I hope my children
will live to seejuslice dnneto their bleed
ing country. 1 would rather die like a
man than live a slave. ! awi sorry 1
have not the power, gentlemen, to say
more ; 1 shall therefore withdraw.”
John T homas Brunt was next called
upon, and spoke as follows :—" AIv
Lords and Gentlemen. 1 in* precluded
from saving much: I hid intended to
have committed to writing inx defence,
but 1 have been denied pen, ink, and pa
per—Its such, whit 1 have to state will
lie very short. In the first place, what
ever impression 1 made on the jury yes
terday was knocked down by the Soli
citor General, who appears to me, by
his sophistical eloquence to he capable
ofmaking the worst of crimes appear a
virtue. And next, with regard to Ed
wards , to whom 1 alluded before, and to
whose machinations 1 have at last fallen
a dope ; he once before nearly entrap
ped me when a cabinet dinner u as given,
1 believe at the Earl of Westmoreland’s.
I In said he had part nflbe men mustered,
but there was not sufficient. He had like
to have hooked mein then but 1 happen
ed not to go to the house. No doubt i'
that lliden was in that plot for rue ; it
was held at the Scotch Arms. Of i^ll the I
infamous characters on earth, Edwards I
is the worst : and yet he has been kept
altogether out of the view of the court.
1 protest against the \inlict which hast
been pronounced against me. For mv I
life, if it was sacrificed in the cause of
liberty, l cure not a farthing ; but it is
lie ivas very willing to give up his life,
if it could save that of a fellow-creature,
lie had already tendered it to save one
of the poor men by his side. He never
thought of such a thing as to take any
man’s life.
The Crier of the Court now proclaims
ed silence in the usual manner, .w hile
sentence of death w as passing upon the
prisoners—
The lord chiefjustice then proceeded
to address the prisoners severally by
their respective names, making a dis
tinction between those who had with
drawn their pleas of “ not guilty” and
pleaded “ guilty” ami those who had
been convicted by Juries of their coun
try. If any of them should ultimately
have their lives spared, which he trust-
d would bo the case, lie hoped they
would always bear in mind that they ow
ed that life to the benignity and merci
ful disposition of their sovereign, .ided
aud seconded also by the merciful dis
positions of llioso very persons upon
whom they had contemplated tli f'il
crime ot' assassination. One of t e.n,
Arthur Thistlewood, had upon bis (rial
proposed to call certain witnesses, whom
the eourt had refused to hear. This re
fusal was according to the due course of
justice, as it was administered in ibis
country. The witnesses whom he pro
posed to call, were for the purpose of
impugning the testimony of a man of tile
name of Dwyer, ;(nd no other. Ilia learn-
edcoousel had previously called witness
es to the same effect. It could not he al
lowed to him according to the ordinary
course of proceeding to do more. In-
Iced, even if he had been allowed so to
do, it could have been productive of no
idvuntagc, because his case did not de
pend upon the evidence of that witness,
flu's observation was confirmed by the
fact, that in subsequent cases, where the '
evidence of Dwyer was altogether omit
ted, a similar verdict ofgoilty was return
ed. Some of them had thought fit to say
much of the character of a person who
had not appeared as a witness upon this
occasion. The court could proct
upon the ev idence which was h o. ^
before it. Of t ho persons therefii^*’/
whom they alluded or of the practice of
which lie had been guilty, they could
have no knowledge. Upon the te-tiino-
iiv, however, which had been addu, ed.
urainst them, tuere was abundant!* suffi
cient to induce a jury of tiieir country
to come to a conclusion that the whole
of them had taken an active part in the
rimes imputed in the indictment. Fiora
dl that had appeared in the con.-e of
these trials, as well as from much of that
which they had then heard, it was plain
to see, that they did not embark in i’fieir
w icked designs until they had first suf
fered their minds to be corrupted and
intiimed by those seditious and irreli
gious, publications, with which, unhap
pily for this country, the press had '» it
too long teemed. He did not make to • e
remarks to aggravate the guilt, or to n-
hancc the sufferings of persons in their
dilution.—lie made them as a warning
to ill who might hear of their unfortu
nate fate, that they might benefit by
their example, and avoid those- danger
ous instruments of sedition, by wui h
their hearts and minds were inflamed,
and by which they were drawn from
every feeling of morality—from every
sense of obligation towards the Creator,
and of justice towards society. The
ti ison of which they were charged and
found guilty, was that of compnssing and
imagining to levy war against his M ;jes-
G, for the purpose of inducing him to
change his measures and ministers ; the
first step towards affectinir which, was
to have been the assassination of the ca
binet ministers. They had endeavored
now to compl fin of the testimony of
those persons who had been examined
as witnesses on the p irt of the prosecu
tion. Some of them were accomplices
in their guilt.
It had here happened, as it had upon
other occasions, that the principal instru
ments iu tlie hands of justice, were the
partners of their wickedness ; and he
trusted that circumstance would ha* its
due weight and consideration with all
those who became acquainted with their
situation, and with the circumstances of
their trial. He hoped, for the sake of
their own personal safety, if they could
not be restrained by any other conside
ration, and from evil connexions, such aa
had brought th«f prisoners to the unhap
py position in which they stood. Some
of them had avowed their intention to
have taken away the Jives, and to have
steeped their hands in the blood of four- \
teen persons, to many of them unknown :
a crime of u character so black, that was j
hitherto without parallel in the history of |
this country, and he hoped it would're
main unparalleled hereafter. (His lord-
si.i|i here seemed considerably agitated.)
It now, he said, only remained fob him
to pass upon them the awful sentence of
the law ; but before he did so, he ex
horted them, he implored them, to em
ploy the time yet left to them in this life^
galling to have it sworn away by a set of
villians w ho lliursl after blood merely for
the sake of personal gain. Edwards is
far more worthy of punishment than any
of us. lie, it was that furnished the arms
—and lie it was that goaded us on to our
own ruin, lie always spoke well of me,
and said if he had a hundred such men us
me he would he satisfied. He knew I
was not a shuttle cock to he bandied a*
hout at pleasure, lie knew he could
put confidence in my word, aud that 1
would perish before 1 shrunk from what
I undertook. The prisoner then went
on in a strain of strong invective against
the witness Adams.—After which he re
ferred to the tuo .Monuments.“These
two persons had been described by the
Solicitor General as having had no com
munication with ea h other, and vet
having agreed in nil respects in their
testimony. Was this the fact t No, for
three w eeks previous to the trials, they
met twice a day at the Tower, rehearsed
their story, and Bins were enabled to
oine forward quite perfect in llieir re
spective parts. He next adverted to the
character ot his apprentice Hale, and
w as casting strong reflections on bis con
duct—u hen
I’lie Chief Justice said, he could not
utler such observations to be made un
der such circumstances.
Brunt begged pardon, but said be sta
ted nothing but filets, lie next adverted
to the conduct of Lords Castlereagh and
Sidmouth ; they, lie said, bad been the
uise of the death of millions, and altlio’
lie admitted lie had conspired to put such
men out of the world, still be did not
think that amounted to high treason, lie
was one of those who would have hern
atisfied with taking off the cabinet min-
isters ; but the verdict against him, of
intending to depose bis Majesty, he con
tended, was ullerlv at variance with truth
uul justice, lie had never contemplated
inv such consequence. He was neither
a traitor to Ids King nor to his country ;
nor would he suffer any man iu hi- pro-
nice to speak irreverently of his Sove-
eign. In undertaking to kill Lord Cas-
tloreagh and Lord Sidmouth, and their
fellow ministers, ho did not expect to
ave his life—he was del. rinined to die
a martyr iu his country’s cause, and to
ivengc the innocent blond shed at Man
chester.
In conclusion he said lie was willing to
suffer for the acts which lie hud contem
plated ; hut it grieved him to think that
lie was to suffer for a crime of w hich he
was innocent, namely ; high treason.—
Ou these grounds he protested against
ihe verdict oftlie jury as contrary tu law
and justice.”
The prisoner spoke with great Vehem
ence, and used throughout the most in
flammatory language.
Richard TiJd, was the next called up
on. lie spoke us follows: Aly Lords
md Gentlemen, being only found guiltv
so late last night, 1 have not had an op
portunity to make up any defence. All 1
can say is, and I positively swear i>, that
the evidence that has come before you,
with the exception of that of capt. Fitz-
clareuce, is utterly false.”
James Wilson, said, 11 1 am not gifted
with the power of talking much, but 1
mean to say that 1 was certainly drawn
into this by Edwards.
Johnson Harrison—“ 1 likovvi-o say 1
was brought into it by Edwards.”
John .Shaw Strange.—“ I have this
rnucli to say to the evidence of Air.
brunt's apprentice, likewise that of A-
lanis, 1 declare sulemi.lv to God they are
hath perjured , tli fins.”
Ernies Gilchrist.—" Whut 1 shall say
iu the prescii e of m . Go I and you, i-.
ttill live Wednesday ev ening at four
lock I knew nothing about this bnsi-
-. 1 <v:i-> going to look for work, and
id neither money nor bread. So I
went to what I was told was to lie a sup
per oftlie Radicals. (Here the prison
er was overcome by his feeling.) *At ti
o'clock, 1 met C. Cooper, who was the
only man I knew, and 1 borrowed a half
penny of him. with another, enabled me
to get a pennyworth of bread, and this 1
eat very sweet. 1 wish I may nev’er
come out of this place, if l tell false.—
We then went into tin* stable and up
stairs, win re there was some bread and
lieese. 1 took an old sword and hewed
lovvu tin* loaf, of which others who were
as hungry as me partook, 1 then asked
what all these arms were about, L when
I hoard, I was so shocked that I deter
mined to get away as fast as 1 could.—
Soon after the officers and soldiers came,
and I thought it rny duty to surrender.
I now stand here convicted of high trea
son, after I served my king and country
for 1 i years, and that is the recompense.
Oh, God !—1 have nothing more to say.
Here the prisoner stood back in an a-
gony of tears. He is a Scotchman, and
spoke with hi-native accent. His man
ner altogether was extremely impressive,
and his language seemed to be that of
simple truth.
Charles Cooper said lie bad much to
say, but his friends thought it would be , . „
imprudent. He could only declare th.it I in endeavoring, by prayer, to obtain mer
he was not guilty of the crime imputed) cy from that Almighty Lower, before
to him. whom thev would shortly appear. The
S Gilchrist agai" came forward,, and said! mercy ot Heaven ought be obtained bjr,