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FEDERAL COURT.
TRIAL of COLONEL BURR.
Yesterday the Court was op ned
about one quarter p st twelve, ami tl e
names of the following gentlemen were
called as Grand Jurors, viz:
William B. Gilt *•, Jo&<fill Eggleston.
Edward Pegrani, John M'Rea. Mmn
ford Beverly, John Ambler, Wilson C.
Nicholas, L, W. Tazewell, Ja)ncs Pres
107i, William Daniel, John Brokenbrough,
Carter Thomas Brokenbrough,
James Phasants, J. C. Cabell, Thomas
Harrison, Alex: Shefiherd, John Mer
cer, James Garnett, John Taylor, Benja
min Hatcher. Richard Bwoofi, Carter Be
verly, h obt rt Taylor.
Col. Burr then rose and addressed
the Court—He apologised for some ob
servations which he proposed to offer
in reel'd (y tJi* lii vuTtttc w.w
Grand Joey, were summoned, and on
some irregular'tits which appeared td
have place in the part of sum
moning. He stated that under certain
acts of the state of Virginia, twentv
four jurymen were summoned—if
therefore it could be proved th.it more
than the number twciity-fum were sum
moned, the practice ought to he cor
rected, and all those above twenty-four
should be rtjecttd. He said that it
was not his intention by this motion,
to affix any censure dr blame to the
Conduct ot the public officer, whose du
ty it had bu n to summon the Grand
Jury, lie w s satisfied that gentlemen
li.ul actid from the purest motives, hut
it by mistake a misconception of the
law, all error had beeu committed, that
error ought to he rectified, and then
was thy proper time for the correction !
to be made.
j Mr- Bolts, of Fredericksburg!) ,as
- counsel for ToT. burr supported the pro- !
; pricty of the motion. He observed
! that it was the wish of Cos. Burr to
have a legal trial, an I it was necessary
to bigin with asking a strict scrutiny
ot p*st measures, equally as those
which afurw irds were to come before
tne Court. He Saul that toe law of
the st .te of Virginia required of the i
Marshal to summon twenty-four free- I
h. and wnen he had done this his j
functions wuc at an t nd. He knew
, tnat tue fact was as Col. liurr suggest
j ed—that than twenty-lour had
been summoned. He imputed no
blame to ihc Marshal. F< w men lie
believed were guided in t.icir actions
with greater impartiality than that of
ficer—but still he had reason for think- j
i. this error w.s committed. Toat
the court had a right to enquire how
its process bad been executed, anu if
an error had occurred, to correct the
Same. He believ d the panntl hud
been returned as it ought n X to have
been returned, and that this would he !
the case. He said Col* Burr had no
other object in view, but to go merely i
by law ; and he asked that this purga
tion should take place.
Mr. George Hay replied on the part
of the Commonwealth, “ The proposi
tion made by col. Burr and his counsel
appears to n\e to be of no kind of force.
I do not know whether it is strictly pro
per and agreeable to law that the Mar
shall should summon more than twen
ty-four. I have not been long cnougu
conversant with the practice usually
adopted in such cases to give a decided
opinion on the subject; but I iriust
confess this 13 the first time I ever
heard of such an objection being made,
and Col. Burr coming bqfore the court
at this stage of the business aUo ap
pears a little extraordinary.”
Mr. Wickham—•“ Any person In the
situation in which col. Burr at present
stands, has a right to come before the
Grand Jury, and in support of the pro
' position, Mr. W. referred to Hawkins
pleas of the crown, 2d vol. page 307",
; and to 3d Bacon, 725. He deciar
i ed it his wish that this Grand Jury
■ should pass before his face free of: all
exception.”
Mr. Hay said in reply, that the con
struction which had been put on the
, clause of the act of the state of V irgin- j
jiu seemed to hirn improper. The se- j
j lection was entrusted to the Marshal, j
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1807.
- -
md he therefore thought this officer
had in consequence, and was invested
with the discr, t onary p- wer of sum
moning more than twenty-four Jurors,
if it turned out tli.it some of those who
b d first been summoned could not af
terwards a'lMit!— fit* denied that there
Was «ny principal of sound sense which
required that the function of the Mar
shal should cease aft, r having summon
ed the twenty four Jurors.— “ Where
is the principal (said >lr. Hay) which
says his functions ceasts? I appc..l
then, sir; I t.sk tlum to inform m*,
why it should tie decided by this cuuit
that the Marshal has no power to go
beyond twenty-four. I ain informed
that some, perhaps those alluded to bv
col. Bucr, were hot summoned but only
asked. I shall certainly t.ot agree to
this enquiry.
Mr. Wickham said that as the au
uiKis.k lie k<nl Ui.lilivncilw*rii
extremely short, lie should read them.
In til : !6th section of the law, after
«numerating a variety of other points,
it seemed clear that even in a case such
as the present, any objection may be
taken at common lnw before he is in
dicted, (3 l Bacon, 725) and these ob
jections' must also be t ken before the
uu ictmt nt is found, lit* came next to
enquire into the merits whether it might
he proper to t.;ke tins obj aions
“ Mr. 11 ,y supposed (s id Mr. Wick
ham) that tue construction which we
Pt 'piriy put on the law was hi-re rigid
th m sound p lie y required—The rea
sons ot .< <und policy wdre out of the
question; for if v-.-r we are W winder
In till I gt IK of polio* in place of law,
we may uie..d tile unhappy consequen
ces which will necissti'iiy result.’* I
j do not mean to m k • any nil < tions m
i the character or official conduct of ti e
gentleman who is the public officer in
! question, q here is no one whose in*
t-grity st.nds high r in my regard.
But I w iso that it m y he perceived
how much danger there would be in
vesting Uu Marshal with the extraor
dinary power. lie might cither tam
per with tne Jury or he tampered with
himst 11. lie thus would hold in his
. hand the lito of every citizen whose lot
lit was to be arraigned at litis bar. The
j law declare., t si.all summon twenty
four free-no errs, which lwenty-1 uror
any sixteen of them may be Grand Ju
rors, but it docs not s-iy that after sum
moning any one of the twenty-four he
lias the power of erasing his name and
substituting ; not her 1111 is plate. The
lea* nul eouns. I has at kiv.iwledgtd that
| he has not attended to the law, and I
ah' not therefore astonished at the ex
planation Which he h,.s given of it. If
til, re are sixteen Jhiois attending, tie
M isluil cannot adri one more to the,
pan 11 I. Suppose that he is informed
■ that some one according to his idea
! Would be an improper Juror, then by
this argument lie imnudiatcly
j substitute another—l si ill supposean
oth-* sc t the inst nee 6f th .t indi -
'• 'hi 1 1 ..o prrhaps some oti. 1 ; (here
Ml', vl ickham wis r. p .citediy inter
rupted by Major Scott, and rt quested
to n m • tne persons to wh ,in lie allud
ed; but'lie xpresstd uimStlf again t
these interi updotis, to w> ich he s »id he
would not su unit) a gentleman excus
es himst'f te the M .rsi', I, if Inis ex
cuse was offered to the c< urthe prol.a*
My might be fin< d; but 11 tin M. rslnd
take no notice of it, but erases his nsuni
and substitutes aiiothc r, the court there
fore run ins ignorant < f the whole
transactions.” Mr. Wiikhatn con
eluded by miking several observations
in order to relieve the feelings of me
Marshal.
Mr. Imy ih reply offered a few rc*
marks simil r to those lie had already
made, tending to shew there were no
reasons or principles of sound policy in
the doctrine for which tile. counsel of
Col. Burr contended.
Mr. Edmund R udolph, another of
the counsel of Col. Burr said, there
was never a place that called so mu ch
far the right ot the accused as thepres-
Sellt.
Mr. Randolph said he had been f>r
i thirty years in practice, and never saw
j such a necessity for claiming those
rights winch were give;* by law us in