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Monthly Chronicle.
Mnisters to exert the authority entrusted in them , and shew themselves worthy , by their spirit and justice , of the trust reposed in them . His lordship here lamented , that persons of the best and purest intentions , associating legally for the legal purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform ,. tnight , by the enlargement of their numbers , and the consequent danger of the admission of criminal and perturbed spirits , be misled , if not into the commission of actual crime , at least to the very verge of the most dangerous precipice .
Upon the whole , his lordship observed to the gentlemen of the grand jury , ' that if on the one hand it should appear to them thatthere was no ground for . the imputation of guilt against the persons charged , they would feel themselves happy in such an opportunity of throwing out the bills ; if , on the other , their , guilt should be apparent , or even any reasonable doubts should arise in their , minds , they would best discharge their duty to their country in sending the matter to be discussed where it would meet more ample and full discussion . His lordship statedhe had omitted laying down to them the law on the mis- '
, prision of treason , because , as no charge had as yet been made of that kind , he trusted there would be no occasion for the exercise of their judgments upon the subject . Misprision of treason is the concealment of treason , and subject to the most severe penalties . His lordship hoped the necessities of the times would not call for the infliction of them .
His lordship concluded with recommending to the grand jury the faithful and impartial discharge of their duty , and dismissed them . The following is a list of the counsel who appeared for the crowu : Sir John Scott , Attorney General ; Sir John Mitfprd , Solicitor General ; Mr . Serjeant Adair , King's Serjeant ; Messrs . Bower , Law , and Garrow , King's counsel j Mr . Wood , Mr . Baldwin , & c . & c .
LIST OF THE GRAND JUP . Y : . . Benjamin Winthrop , foreman , George Warde , . John Snider , . ¦ ' Thomas Boddam , Edward Ironsides , Joseph Lancaster , Benjamin Kenton , Robert Wilkinson , Robert H . Boddam , Thomas Cole , John Eyres , George Galway Mills > WHBoddam Wright
. . , Henry , John Perry , John Hatchett , John Hankey , Robert Stephenson , Samuel Cuff , John Campbell , Thomas Winslowe , and Samuel Hawkins , - Thomss Everett , Esqrs , True bills have been found against
Thomas Hardy , John Richter , - John Home Tooke , Matthew Moore , John Augustus Bonney ,- John TheKvall , Stewart Kydd , Richard Hodgson , Jeremiah Joyce , John Baxter , Thomas Wardell , Philip Franklowe ; and Thomas Holcrpft , John Spence , bookseller . Not found against John Lpvatt . .
II .- William Biggins , journeyman to Mr . Barclay , chymist in Fleet-market ; John Peter Vemaitre , a watchcase-maker in Denmark-street , St . Giles's ; — Smith , a booksellerin Portsmouth-street , Lincoln's-inn-fields ; and Upton , a watchmaker , were fully committed by the Privy Council to different prisons lor trial , on a charge of having conspired against the life of our most gracious Sovereign . Many reports concerning this business have been detailed in the Newspapers of
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Monthly Chronicle.
Mnisters to exert the authority entrusted in them , and shew themselves worthy , by their spirit and justice , of the trust reposed in them . His lordship here lamented , that persons of the best and purest intentions , associating legally for the legal purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform ,. tnight , by the enlargement of their numbers , and the consequent danger of the admission of criminal and perturbed spirits , be misled , if not into the commission of actual crime , at least to the very verge of the most dangerous precipice .
Upon the whole , his lordship observed to the gentlemen of the grand jury , ' that if on the one hand it should appear to them thatthere was no ground for . the imputation of guilt against the persons charged , they would feel themselves happy in such an opportunity of throwing out the bills ; if , on the other , their , guilt should be apparent , or even any reasonable doubts should arise in their , minds , they would best discharge their duty to their country in sending the matter to be discussed where it would meet more ample and full discussion . His lordship statedhe had omitted laying down to them the law on the mis- '
, prision of treason , because , as no charge had as yet been made of that kind , he trusted there would be no occasion for the exercise of their judgments upon the subject . Misprision of treason is the concealment of treason , and subject to the most severe penalties . His lordship hoped the necessities of the times would not call for the infliction of them .
His lordship concluded with recommending to the grand jury the faithful and impartial discharge of their duty , and dismissed them . The following is a list of the counsel who appeared for the crowu : Sir John Scott , Attorney General ; Sir John Mitfprd , Solicitor General ; Mr . Serjeant Adair , King's Serjeant ; Messrs . Bower , Law , and Garrow , King's counsel j Mr . Wood , Mr . Baldwin , & c . & c .
LIST OF THE GRAND JUP . Y : . . Benjamin Winthrop , foreman , George Warde , . John Snider , . ¦ ' Thomas Boddam , Edward Ironsides , Joseph Lancaster , Benjamin Kenton , Robert Wilkinson , Robert H . Boddam , Thomas Cole , John Eyres , George Galway Mills > WHBoddam Wright
. . , Henry , John Perry , John Hatchett , John Hankey , Robert Stephenson , Samuel Cuff , John Campbell , Thomas Winslowe , and Samuel Hawkins , - Thomss Everett , Esqrs , True bills have been found against
Thomas Hardy , John Richter , - John Home Tooke , Matthew Moore , John Augustus Bonney ,- John TheKvall , Stewart Kydd , Richard Hodgson , Jeremiah Joyce , John Baxter , Thomas Wardell , Philip Franklowe ; and Thomas Holcrpft , John Spence , bookseller . Not found against John Lpvatt . .
II .- William Biggins , journeyman to Mr . Barclay , chymist in Fleet-market ; John Peter Vemaitre , a watchcase-maker in Denmark-street , St . Giles's ; — Smith , a booksellerin Portsmouth-street , Lincoln's-inn-fields ; and Upton , a watchmaker , were fully committed by the Privy Council to different prisons lor trial , on a charge of having conspired against the life of our most gracious Sovereign . Many reports concerning this business have been detailed in the Newspapers of