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month of February last . One of these letters informed his friend there , that notwithstanding the severe prohibition of the French , he was determined to carry on his business at all events . It then spoke of sending troops to France . It was signed William Cloakson . , Jhe other letter was directed to a person at Amsterdam , and signed William Morris . The writer stated , . that he wished to be informed upon the same subjects relating io merchandize , as he was obliged to attend his duty as a military man . His partner , he said , had a quantity of goods ready to be shipped off—perhaps they would shi double quantity

p a . They were very uneasy about the safety of the last parcel that was sent over , & c . —Another part of the evidence that w-as to be laid before the Jury , would be that of the prisoners having been armed with a person at Margate to carry their luggage from thence to Deal . And he would venture to affirm , that there was not ° a witness to be brought forward who would not afford the most important evidence , to prove ihe truth of all the facts he had stated . After having given this general outline of these facts , he felt it his duty , in the next place , to say a word or two upon the law relating to this

question . What he bad "to state was this , that when several persons were acting in a conspiracy together , the act of any one of tlieni was the act of the whole ; and if any one act should make out this conspiracy , and it appeared that they all knew of it , though the act of only one person , it was then the duty of the jury to find them all guilty . But it was possible that there might be one or more out of several persons , against whom Ihe guilt of others could not be brought home : in that casesuch should be acquitted the

, persons . In course of the evidence there might be given some explanation of the contents of « ach paper . This , then , was the whole of the case which he had to state , and he would leave it to the jury to make a true deliverance , convinced , as he was , that they felt the great duty which they owed to the prisoners and to the country , and that they would discharge that duty satisfactorily .

EVIDENCE FOR . THE CROWS , John Revett apprehended the prisoners at Margate , on the 28 th of February . In the parlour he found Leary and Allen , and Binns at the bottom of the stairs ' He went up , and found guigley with the tea things before him , and secured him . In his lefthand pocket he found a dagger . At this time Mr . O'Connor came into the room , whom he searched , and found in his purse a bit of paper , containing a name written with a pencil . He found in the great coat pocket a pocket-book , and in itwhich he took down to the

a paper , parlour , where the luggage was : he asked the prisoners who tbe pocket-book belonged to ? Tljey refused to own it , and went up stairs , and found a small trunk ; asked O'Connor if he would own it i He said not . Revett found a great coat ( pointing to it ) . He asked the prisoners if they knew whose it was I They said not . In the pocket-book there were some other papers , which be marked . [ Here the papers ware produced , and the witness swore to them . ] He brought the prisoners after this to Bowstreetwhere

- , they were examined . Cress examined by Mr . Plomer . —At Margate be did net take any account of tbe papers , nor did be , nor any body else , mark them , nor take them before a magistrate , till he came to Bow-street . When he went up stairs he left O'Connor with two soldiers—lie asked if the great coat belonged to the prisoners ? When he examined it , the prisoners were in the room ; nobody was in the room when he took the great coat ; it was lying there . This house was a public inn , and a great many people in it

were . No papers were examined in the presence of the prisoners . The witness and others went into a room and examined the pocket-book , in the middle of which the paper was , but not in one of the pockets of this pocket-book . He did not recollect whether any of the papers were missing at Bow-street ; they all remained in the witness ' s possession from the time they were found till produced at Bow-street . The prisoners had desired at Margate that all the luggage might be sealed ; but it was not done . Fugion ' s evidence was very similar to lhat given by Revett . Theidentity of the papers could not be sworn to , anymore than the property of the great coat . AAfr . Twopenny said , the prisoners denied all knowledge of the great coat . 4 m Crickdt , I keep the King ' s-head at Margate : baggage came in a cart .