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prosecutors , that the prisoners at the bar should be brought to tiial under the prejudice which had been raised in the minds of ( hose who were to try them ; and he therefore trusted the Court would co-operate in endeavouring to prevent the Jurors who had been so prejudiced from constituting a part of the Jury . He added , that itwas his duty to accompany these observations with an application personally against Mr . Young . Mr . Justice Buller -aid , it was an offence that ought not to go unpunished ; but he feared the power of the Court to punish would cease with the commission .

Mr . Young was called , but did not make his appearance . Mr . Attorney-General said , he was perfect !' . ' persuaded he should be believed by a !) present , when be stated , in ihe name of God and his country , that he had heard , with great affliction , the circumstance just mentioned ; and he had no difficulty in saying , if , upon enquiry , he should have reason to be satisfied the charge was true , he should think he deserved lo he immediately dismissed from bis office , if he hesitated one moment in using . bis power to the utmost , in order to bring that man to justice who had dared lo prejudice the minds of persons

exercising the office of" Jurors . The Atiomcy-Gvner-al then not only pledged himself to bring Mr . Young to justice , if he was guilty , but he desired the names of all the Jurors summoned from the hundred of Blackburn should be shuck out of tbe panne ! . The Clerk of the Arraigns proceeded to call the Jurors . — There were several challenges for cause on behalf of ihe prisoner ? . —Among the latter , Thomas Raikes , Esq . of Bromley , was challenged , n the oath of Mr . Folkes , w-lto . staled , that on a former occasionwhen the prisoners were in courtMr . Kaikes

en-, , quired of the deponent their names ; and upon being informed , he looked sternly and savagely at ' them , clenched his fist , and exclaimed ' damned rascals I' His eligibility was tried by two Jurors , who determined he should be rejected . The Jurv was at length formed , and consisted ot the following persons : — Charles Haskins , West Wickham , Foreman ; William Small , farmer , Shoreham ; William Cronk , fanner , Seal ; Richard Rav . farmer , Sevcnoaks ; James

Chappie , distiller , Sevenoaks ; Michael Saxby , farmer , Penshursl ; Silas Newman , farmer , Wrotham ; Isaac Tom . 'in , Esq . Wrotham ; Thomas Henham , farmer , East 1 ' eckham ; Waller Barion , farmer , East Beckham ; John Miller , Gentleman , Yalrfing ; and John Simmons , farmer , Yalding . The indictment having been briefly s'ate'd , The Attorney-General said , that in discharge of the duties of the office he held , he had been most imperiously called on to lay befori a Grand Jury of the county the charge contained in the indictment , which the Jury were now

solemnly sworn 10 try . ' The charge made by this indictment was , in the language ofthe ' law , first , that of compassing the King ' s death ; secondly , adhering to his enemies , giving them aid and comfort ; and thirdly , inviting strangers and foreigners to invade this land . With reference to each of these charges , the indictment staled various overt acts , the meaning of which he would explain . In order that persons might know the nature of a charge brought against them in courts of justice , and be prepared for their defence , the law not only required it should be imputed they were gniity of compassing the King ' s death , adhering to his

enemies , or imitifig strangers and foreigners lo invade ihe land , but it also required that the indictment should detail those facts and circumstances which proved such compassing , adhering , or inviting to invasion ; and itwas necessary that the over ! act should be proved by two witnesses . "With respect to those facts or overt acts , he would proceed to detail them with as few observations of his own as possible . On ihe 27 th of February last , three of the prisoners at the bar , namely , Quigley , Allen , and Learv , ' came from V / hitstable to the King's Head , at Margate Ouigleyunder tbe name and character of Captain Jones ; Allen in

; . the character of his servant , though he really was not so ; and Leary , the servant of O'Connor , who waited on his master . They had not been at ihe King's Head a quarter of an hour , when Mr . O'Connor , who went In- ( he name of Colonel Morris , and Binns , who assumed the name of Mr . Williams , arrived . Thev remained at the King ' s Head that evening , and part of the next morning . The ' nexi morning , while ihev were meditating the removal of their baggage , for a purpose of which there could be no doubt , they were arrested by Revet and .