Monthly Chronicle.

against , had requested their Attornies lo be present at the examination . of ( he witnesses , it would not have been complied , with . How then could they admit the Attorney-General , or the Solicitor ofthe Treasury , without perjuring themselves ? If our wise ancestors had thought it fitting and ' necessary that Attornies should have access at such conjunctures . , ihe law would hav / e provided for it accordingly . The Jurors then exhorted each other to arm themselves with firm , sound , and well-grounded consciences , with clear minds , free from fear , hope , or favour , lest binconsiderately laying the basis which others to be thev worked

y on are . judged , , their own condemnation , and stand in the sightof God , the Creator and ' Judge of . all men , as unworthy of his protection . .. The Jury then sent for the Clerk ofthe Arraigns , who was desired to inform the Solicitor , that they conceived themselves competent and duly authorised ( let the indictment contain what it may ) to examine the witnesses , and therefore his ' attendance would not be admitted . ' The Clerk of the Arraigns replied , "That the Attorney General had been admitted in cases of the like ' natureand if the

, Jury had any doubts about the matter , the Court ; if applied to , would readily give their opinion . " The Foreman of the Jury , therefore / on delivering into Court the bills of indictment which had been before them , requested the opinion ofthe Lord Chief Baron , whether the Solicitor of thc Treasury , who demanded admit- ' tance during the examination of witnesses to this indictment , demanded it as a matter of right ? His Lordship replied" that the Attorney General had an undoubted riht tp

, g be admitted during such examination , and which had lately been the case on some recent indictments ; and the Solicitor may be admitted for the Attorney General , whose time was perhaps occupied by other matters ' of importance ' : " The Jury respectfully left the Court and retired to their . chamber , not at all reconciling the opinion of his Lordship to their consciences . On Thursday ' thcy entered on the indictment , which having been read , they proceeded to call the witnesseswhen , they were interrupted bthe Solicitor requesting to be admitted

, y ; which being granted , he desired the indictment , to be put off till next day , as he wished to consult the Attorney General . " - . . " ¦ The Foreman of the Jury observed , " that his request could not be complied with ; they had taken up the indictment in the usual regular manner , and should proceed to investigate the truth of the allegations contained in it . " They did so for ' some hours , and returned it to the Court a true bill . ••¦ - ' .

Feb . t . As the Royal Family were returning through Pall-mall , to Buckingham-house , from Drury-lane Theatre , some evil-disposed person thing a stone at the coach , in which were their Majesties and the Lady in waiting , with such violence as to break the window , and enter the carriage , where , after striking the Queen on the check , it fell iato-Lady Harrington ' s hip . The King took it up , aiKfcarried it with liim to Buckingham-house . A deposition on ihe above business was taken at the Secretary of . State's Office , Whitehall , before his Grace the Duke of Portlandand some ofthe Magistrates from Bowstreetwhen the stone

, - , was produced , and four of the King and Queen ' s footmen were examined as to the fact and Ihe circumstances . A rewardof ioool . has been offered for the discovery of the offenders , but hitherto ( we are sorry to say ) without effect . The Prince of Wales , the Duchess of York , and several Nob ' ilitv , paid their respects to the Royal Family on the occasion . 4 . At night , a most horrid murder was committed at Luttrelstown , in Ireland , the particulars of which are nearly as follow : two brothers of the name of M'Cormickwho bound to

, were give evidence against a principal Defender , had been lodged by Lord Carhampton in a mill-house at the corner of his Lordship's domain , in order to prevent them from being seduced or terrified' from giving their testimony ; at the hour of midnight , twenty men armed , and habited in lirown clothes , brpke into the house , and meeting a woman who resided in it . and whose fear upon their appearance acted so forcibly as to ' produce Ills , they assured her that she had no cause to be alarmed , that thev meant not in the least degree to injure her , but desired that they should " be shewn to the chamber of the M'Cormicks ; they then proceeded to the room in which those unfortunate brothers lay ,.