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VOL. I. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1320. 1 ■ - •••m No 20. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (on tuksdays) IiY S. GRA.VTLA.VD if It. .If. ORATE, arr three dollars, in advance, ou KOLMl DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OP THE YEAR. (py* Advertisements conspicuously inser ted at the customary rates. 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,