soner to be guilty, if you are satisfied that he is proved to Consider and decide. be so. The jury retired at a quarter past three, and returned into Court in a quarter of an hour, with a Verdict, finding the prisoner GUILTY; and that he had no lands, &c. to their knowledge at the time of the offence committed. - Lord Chief Baron Richards. The Court is very anxious to use all the expedition consistent with justice; whether it will be more convenient to proceed now, or to adjourn until to-morrow morning, must be pretty well left to you, Gentlemen. Mr. Attorney General.-My Lord, I am sure I am as anxious to save your Lordships time, and to expedite the proceedings, as your Lordships can possibly be. I do not know that your Lordships will save a great deal of time by proceeding on one of the trials now; a portion of time to be sure will be saved, namely, that of selecting the gentlemen of the jury; but only to do that, as your Lordships know, would be in fact confining the gentlemen of the jury without any thing to exercise their judgment upon, so far as the trial had gone. I doubt, myself, whether your Lordships would very much expedite the proceeding. Lord Chief Baron Richards.—I feel great doubt whether we should expedite. Mr. Attorney General.-When I say that I am quite in, your Lordships judgment. Lord Chief Baron Richards.-Does any thing occur to you, Mr. Cross. Mr. Cross.-My Lord, we are so sensible of the attention of your Lordships, that we would wish to leave the matter entirely in the discretion of the Court, as that in which we feel no interest. Mr. Justice Dallas.-The great objection will be, that the jury sworn will be locked up all night, with nothing upon which to exercise their judgment. One is only anxious that there should be no idea that time is wasted for a moment. Mr. Justice Abbott.-If we impanel a jury now, the consequence may be, that the jury will be impanelled two nights; whereas, if we adjourn till to-morrow morning, in all probability the trial will be over next day, and then again we shall come to confining the jury two nights again; we should be sorry to confine the jury more than is absolutely necessary. Lord Chief Baron Richards.—It would come to our confining a jury during the Sunday; perhaps we may as well adjourn to to-morrow morning. Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning. THE TRIAL OF ISAAC LUDLAM, the Elder. LORE SPECIAL ASSIZE, DERBY. Wednesday, 22d October, 1817. ORD Chief Baron Richards.-Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Denman, is there any objection to the jury being called from No. 84, to which the call has already proceeded. Mr. Denman.—I have none at all, my Lord. The Jurors returned by the Sheriff were called over. Francis Agard, merchant, not a freeholder of the county of Derby to the amount of 10l. a year. Mark Porter the younger, roper, challenged by the prisoner. Joseph Garner, farmer, excused on account of illness. George Poyser, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Abraham Harding Beale, woolstapler, challenged by the crown. James Sutton, gentleman, challenged by the prisoner. James Soresby, gentleman, challenged by the crown. Thomas Moore, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Philip Waterfield, gentleman, sworn. James Osborne, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. John Edensor, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. William Hayward, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Benjamin Stone, the elder, farmer, not properly described in the panel. Anthony Allsopp, bar master, sworn. James Northage James, gentleman, challenged by the prisoner. John Blackwall, esq. excused on account of illness. crown. Edward Mather, grocer, challenged by the prisoner. William Sutton, draper, challenged by the prisoner. Thomas Leedham, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Thomas Brown Dumelow, farmer, sworn. John Hunt, brickmaker, challenged by the prisoner. Thomas Cooper, farmer, sworn. John Lea, gentleman, challenged by the crown. Thomas Hassall, gentleman, excused, having been sent for home on particular business. Thomas Brown, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. John Needham, farmer, not summoned, residing out of the county. William Burton, farmer, challenged by the crown. Edward Stevenson, grazier, sworn. Hemsworth Newton, farmer, challenged by the pri soner. John Clarke Ward, maltster, challenged by the pri soner. William Wayte, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Richard Marbrow, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. Henry Wayte, farmer, sworn. John Somers, miller, challenged by the prisoner. Thomas Hawksworth, farmer, challenged by the pri soner. Thomas Whittingham, farmer, challenged by the pri soner. Humphrey Trafford Nadin, gentleman, challenged by the crown. William Bodill, farmer, not a freeholder, &c. John Garner, farmer, challenged by the prisoner. crown. Daniel Sellors, cooper, challenged by the crown. The Jury were charged with the prisoner in the usu al form. The Indictment was opened by Mr. Balguy. Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL. May it please your Lordship, Gentlemen of the Jury, GENTLEMEN, you have heard from my friend, Mr. Lowndes, who read this indictment to you, and from |