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. and from the several papers found in their possession , and which were to be given in evidence , it must appear most clearly that the prisoners had been engaged in one common transaction . Now , with respect to their dspying luggage , which he should prove they had had in their care , he could not form any conception bow persons should feel a desire to shake off all knowledge of property which had been in their , possession , unless they had been apprehensive that the owning of it would bring home guilt lo them . Nor could he conceive how it was possible to shew that they had not an intention to go to France . With respect

to Mr . O'Connor , there was one circumstance to which he should beg leave to call , the most serious attention of the Jury . This was a letter lhat had been jfound in his possession at the time he was taken . The letter was to the following effect : 'My dear friend , I have had a letter ready to send you these ten days , and could ' get no opportunity of conveying it . You cannot think how that circumstance has vexed me . Maxwell is anxious to go away from his creditors , and t had no way of getting him off , for this embargo prevents him . It is said that

Lord Fiizwilliam intends going over to Ireland ; and great hopes are entertained ' of separating the Catholics from the union . This would be a thing much to be lamented , and which you and every good man must endeavour to prevent . But the people are too honest , and are not to be misled any more bv courtiers . £ nave received your letter by the young man ; and I will do all I can for him . 1 will make it a point wilh Maxwell lhat he shall go by ihe wav of Hamburgh . The man of consideration told me he had heard that Government had intercepted a letter from France to Irelandwhich promised assistance to the latter country

, . The Government here are pur to great straits . ;—The taxes are very low . The fi ' nci Terrier , arid his little brother , are sorry curs . The Little Priest has lost all credit . Chevalier was the person who wrote to me ; and he said he would have nothing to do with Nicholson , or any of his set , as they were fallen into contempt . I wish to have an edition of my pamphlet printed in Ireland ; the price shall be 3 ' J . 6 d . and n ' o copy must be sold to any except persons who are known . I must

go to Williams as soon as I can , where I must be very active . When I am at this place you shall hear more from me . " The Attorney-General , after reading the above letter , said , he should be able to shew what was meant by certain words in it , from another paper found in Mr . O'Connor's possession , and which was a kind of key to those words—tbe words being placed in one column , and an explanatory word immediately opposite to each , in a corresponding column . The corresponding word to Williams , for instancewas France ; this placesignified ParisSecThis ietter was directed to

, , , . Lord Edward Fitzgerald ; and , from every circumstance attending it , it was impossible that Mr . O'Connor could say he . had not been privy to the design of going to France , especially when it should be proved lhat be bad held the sort of connexion he did hold . It would also appear that he had had a connection with Ouigley , and carried on a correspondence with him . The Jury would find that , among the quantity of goods found in the possession of the prisoners , there was money to the amount of goo ] , or 1000 I . Then he would ask '

, whether this property was of such little valuethat it was not worth owning by any , hut abandoned by all the prisoners ? The box which contained the money would prove the connexion that existed between Quigley and O'Connor , from the circumstance of a part of the money being tbe property of the former . For , attire time that box was opened , there was found in it a parcel or a rouleau , containing 75 guineas , and having written upon it , by wav of memorandum , ' this is Captain Jones ' s money . ' He would next state to the jury other circumstances to shew the

connexion which Quigley had with the prisoners and others . The prisoner Binns had left his box at the house of Evans , in Plough-court , from which it had been removed by some friend of his . It was traced , however , to the place to which it had been conveyed ; and in it were found no less than the very clothes in which Quigley had , in the year 1797 , travelled through France ; and in the pockets were found several papers , containing tbe names of the places where he stopped , & c . there were two other papers in his hand-writing , which would shew that this person had a connexion with the people of Manchester in ihe VOL . x . u u