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in the face of your God and your country, according to law, and agreeably to the evidence.

The jury retired at five minutes past ten o'clock, and returned into Court at half-past ten with their verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty; and that he had not, to their knowledge, at the time of the High Treason committed, or at any time since, any lands, tenements, goods, chattels, &c.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Mr. Attorney General, how do you propose to proceed? The day is now somewhat consumed; and if you are not likely to finish the next trial in the course of to-day, the commencing of it would subject the Jury to the very great inconvenience of being locked up to-night, the whole of to-morrow and tomorrow night, and possibly Monday night.-Is there any probability of your being able to finish the next trial tonight?

Mr. Attorney General. My Lord, I feel very reluctant that the Jury should be unnecessarily inconvenienced. I cannot undertake to say that I shall be able to bring the next trial within the compass of this evening, even if your Lordships went far into the evening. It is desirable for the Prisoner that his Counsel should have the fullest latitude in conducting his defence; and, consistently with that, I think it would be impossible to finish at any hour tonight.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Mr. Cross and Mr. Denman, I should think it would be better to adjourn to eight o'clock on Monday morning.

Mr. Cross. If your Lordship pleases. Lord Chief Baron Richards. Were we to commence another trial to-day, it would be attended with infinite inconvenience to the Jury, to whom the country is under the greatest obligations; therefore, if you please, we will adjourn until eight o'clock on Monday morning.

Mr. Attorney General. It should be signified to the Jury that they must attend on Monday morning.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Gentlemen of the Jury, I feel it necessary to inform you, that, though you have performed the service you have, it is possible you may be called upon to perform the same service on Monday. You must, therefore, be here by eight o'clock; it is with a view to permitting you to go home, if you are within such a distance as to allow of it, that the Court do not sit any longer this day; but in that case you must return.

Adjourned to Monday Morning, Eight o'Clock.

THE

TRIAL

OF

WILLIAM TURNER.

SPECIAL ASSIZE, DERBY,
Monday, 20th October, 1817.

The Prisoner was set to the Bar.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Cross, the Jury, in the former case, having given a verdict, probably objected to by the Prisoner's Counsel if it is desired by the Prisoner, we will direct that they should not be called at all unless it becomes necessary.

Mr. Attorney General. I cannot have any objection to that, my Lord, in case there is a sufficient number. I have myself proposed that, in order that the Prisoner's Counsel might not unnecessarily throw away challenges.

Mr. Denman. I understand that the Prisoner does not wish, generally speaking, to object to the Jury who served; if they wish to be excused that is another consideration; but I wish it to be understood that we do not object, generally speaking, to the Jury who have served.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Very well.

Mr. Denman. My Lords, I feel it to be my duty, before the trial proceeds, to complain of a most gross violation, as well as a scandalous contempt, of the order which has now been twice issued by this Court, calculated, in my mind, to interfere with the due adminis tration of justice, and most certainly a barefaced insult to the authority by which that prohibition was enforced. At the commencement of these proceedings it was, by your Lordship, most distinctly stated, that no pub

lication of any part of these proceedings was to take place till the whole was concluded; and on the following day, when the first trial commenced, your Lordship repeated that in still stronger terms. Notwithstanding what your Lordship has said, a partial and garbled account has been issued from the public press, under circumstances which appear to me to call for the highest visitation of any Court of Justice which does not choose to be made a party to its own degradation. It is not a fair statement; to that, perhaps, we should not object, but it is a partial extract of part of the Attorney General's opening; reflecting not only on the Prisoner who has been tried, but on the other persons to come forward for trial, which trials they cannot, by possibility, fairly take, unless the Jurors should come unprejudiced by such garbled statement. My Lord, I hold in my hand the only paper I have (though I understand that the others have an account also), the Morning Chronicle, which states that the Courier having published, under mask and disguise, the opening of the Attorney General, they will state what the Attorney General did say. Now, nothing can be more easy than to elude and laugh at the authority of the Court, if any two newspapers are to treat a Court in this way; the one to publish an imperfect account which never ought to be given, and then the other to give another imperfect account for the purpose of correcting that: and what makes this infinitely more dangerous, is, that the first blow appears to have been struck on the part of a paper under the known influence of Government.

Mr. Justice Abbott. I do not know that any paper is under the known influence of Government; the Court can have no knowledge of such a fact.

Mr. Denman. I was wrong certainly, my Lord, as I could not bring that before the Court on affidavit; but it is put forward as an exparte statement on both sides: the one assures us that Mr. Oliver is at the bottom of all this, and then the other, that the Ministers are taking a very proper part in the prosecution of these proceedings. My Lord, I can do no more than lay before the Court the

newspaper in which this very imperfect account of the Attorney General's speech is inserted, calculated to prejudice the case in the minds of those who may read this exparte statement, and then I shall leave it to your Lordships to do what you think proper.

Mr. Attorney General. I assure your Lordship that I lament as much as my learned Friend can possibly do.--Lord Chief Baron Richards, Do you follow this with any motion against any particular person?

Mr. Denman. No, my Lord; all I can do is to shew that this has been done. If nothing is to be done with regard to what has passed, I hope the Court will re-enforce the order.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. I do not know that the Court can make an order in stronger terms than that which they have made.

Mr. Denman. Your Lordship was pleased to say you would visit the conduct of such persons with severe repre hension.

Lord Chief Baron Richards. Yes, but we must know who they are.

Mr. Denman. I have thought it my duty to lay it before the court,

Mr. Attorney General. My Lord, I will not trouble the Court, at any length, on that which has been stated by my learned Friend, Mr. Denman, not followed by any motion to your Lordship against any individual who has com mitted that breach of your Lordship's order; but, after that which has been stated by my learned Friend, Mr. Denman, I do think it incumbent upon me, standing in the situation I do, to say a word or two to your Lordship upon the subject. I assure your Lordships, that till within the last ten minutes, I have not seen any account that had been professed to be given by any body of what has been passing at Derby, for it does so happen, that with respect to that newspaper to which my learned Friend has alluded, though I apprehend it was to be had yesterday in the village in which I was, yet it being in one hand or the other, I did not see it. About

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