C. Carpenter, B. Bricklayer, P. Plasterer, S. Slater, P. Plumber, and C. Carver, gave the prisoner a good character.

Demetrius Silversmith said, that he had made more shrines by order of the prisoner than ever were made for Diana of the Ephesians, and that he always thought the prisoner a very useful man. J. Jeweller and B. Beadmaker said the same.

R. Robe-maker, said that he had received many thousand orders from the prisoner, whom he always respected much. That he had made various sorts of robes for his Archbishops and all the orders of his clergy. That he took yearly some hundred thousands of pounds for Gowns, Surplices, Scarfs, Sashes, Cassocks, Bands, &c. and that in some countries, the bare washing of Surplices only among one order of Clergy amounted to more than 13,000 pounds a year.

Napoleon Buonaparte, being called, did not appear. The reason was that having lately been apprehended in France, by the Allied Sovereigns of Europe, he had been transported to the Isle of Elba.

Mr. Half Protestant said that he never knew any harm of the Prisoner. That he always thought more was said of him than was true.

That he respected the names of several witnesses examined, such as Luther, and others, but did not see the reason why they disagreed. He admitted that he had heard of murders committed by him, but thought he was much altered for the better, and was quite a different man. He thought that every one should keep to the religion they were brought up to, and if sincere it was all that God would require.

MR. SOLICITOR GENERAL.

My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jury, you need not be under any apprehensions of intruding too much on your time. If this was only an ordinary case, I should make no observations; but it is not only a question as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar, but of many thousands, who have been more or less concerned in his treasonable designs; and also of others who have connived at his awful rebellion.

Gentlemen of the Jury, with respect to the evidence which has been laid before you on the part of the Crown, I shall be very brief. I have little more than to call your attention to, and follow the statement of my able friend who first stated the case. Evidence has been laid before you, to prove that a conspiracy has existed for several hundred years to overthrow the Government of Heaven, and compass the death of our Sovereign Lord the King. Gentlemen, the question is, whether

the Prisoner was a participator of that guilt; you will determine by the evidences whether he was not the very life and soul of that awful conspiracy. You have heard it proved that the prisoner lived at Rome as the Universal Bishop, Head of the Church and God on Earth. That he committed numberless murders. The small specimen that has been laid before you must have made too great an impression on your minds to require me to repeat them; and these are few to the number that could have been produced.

Gentlemen of the Jury, you will draw your inferences from the testimony of the witnesses, and not from any statement of mine. There is one witness, Mr. Historical Truth, who from his knowledge of the prisoner's conduct for several centuries, is enabled to give much evidence. His testimony is confirmed by a considerable number of Emperors, Kings, and Queens. Martyrs, Reformers, and others have confirmed their united testimony, and inspired Apostles have satisfactorily proved that all his power was usurped.

Gentlemen of the Jury, it has been stated by the prisoner's counsel that the prisoner was not at several places where he is charged with committing murder. That he was not at Paris on the 24th of August, 1572, and other places. This the counsel must know is a mere quibble. He was in Paris, he was in England, and in Ireland, and wherever his government ex

tended; wherever his agents executed his laws. He has existed under a variety of names which marks his guilt. His arrogance and ambition have no example. It is a question if even Lucifer himself could vie with him. The prisoner has endeavored to storm the skies! To dethrone the Almighty Thunderer! To be Universal Lord and claim the stars of Heaven. Gentlemen, I shall not trespass further upon your feelings, believing that your verdict will be according to truth.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE REVELATION

Addressed the Jury; when every minutia of evidence was summed up with legal precision and ability. It would no doubt be gratifying to some readers to have his charge at length, but the limits of the trial will not admit. He concluded by observing that he left the determination of this case entirely to the consideration of the Jury; and that if they entertained a rational doubt in their minds of the guilt of the prisoner, they ought to acquit him.

The Jury did not retire from the box, but brought in their verdict Guilty.

The Clerk of the Crown called upon the prisoner at the bar in the usual form, to know what he had to say, why judgment of death should not be awarded against him; when the prisoner gave him a most expresive, sullen look, and remained silent.

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE addressed the prisoner in the most impressive manner. He told him that he had been charged with the awful crime of High Treason against the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. That he had a most patient trial, and that there was not a doubt in the mind of the Court or Jury but that he was guilty. He also said, that he was sure that his concience must frequently have told him that his rebellious conduct could not fail to bring down the vengeance of heaven upon his guilty head. He concluded thus, "I call

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upon you now to attend to the sentence of the "Court. You Antichrist, shall be taken from "the place where you now stand to the place "from whence you came, your irons are to "be struck off, and you stript of all your pon"tifical vestments, splendor, pomp and dignity. "From whence you shall be drawn upon a "hurdle to the place of execution, where you "shall be hung with the chain of restraint, "but not until you are dead; but while you are

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yet alive, your church, which is your body, "shall be taken down and you deprived of the "vitals of your religion. Then a mighty An

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gel shall proclaim from Heaven, louder than "the most tremendous peal of thunder, Babylon "the great is fallen, is fallen,* and that the "hour of your judgment is come. Your head "or dominion shall then be struck off with the sword of God's inflexible justice, when

* Rev. 18: 2.