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teaman T.Cole, brewer Peter Taylor, Cha. Minier, block-maker feedsman W. Weft,brewer Dan. Dyfon, efq. | I. Dimsdale, T. Burnett, efq. coach-maker.

Mr. Barlow read the indictment which confifted of two counts, including fourteen overt acts of treafon; charging the prifoner with traitorously confpiring with his brother John Hurford Stone (then in France) to deftroy the life of the king, and to raise rebellion in his realms; with holding correfpondence with the perfons in power in France, and collecting the fenfe of the people of this country, in order to afcertain whether an invafion might be fuccefsfully at temped, and with fending fuch information to the enemy. He was further charged with traitoroufly "correfponding with the rev. Mr. Jackfon (fome time fince capitally convicted of high treafon, who died before the day of execution), in learning the probable fuccefs of invading Ireland; and with having fent intelligence and various useful articles to the enemy.

The attorney general then fiated the circumftances of the cafe at full length; the leading features

of which appeared to be, that Stone had a brother, J. H. Stone, settled at Paris, who confidered himself, in fact, as a Frenchman; which appeared particularly from one of his letters, in which he said " We have declared war against you, Holland will foon be in our poffeffion, and England will afterwards follow." With this brother, by means of Jackfon lately convicted of high treafon in Ireland, Stone kept up a correfpondence, and gave him all the information he could procure, to be communicated to the French government, as to the probability of fuccefs which might attend an invafion of England by France. In the course of this enquiry it appeared that Stone had communications with Mr. Sheridan, lord Lauderdale, William Smith, efq. M. P. and others; and that from the information he obtained he be come fatisfied that from the general loyalty of the people here an invafion was by no means likely to fucceed. But that in Ireland fuccefs was more probable. Jackfon was accordingly fent there, and fupplied with money by Stone to obtain fuch intelligence, and to lay fuch plains as might tend to affift the views of the French. It appeared that Stone communicated to his brother the little profpect of the fuccefs of an invafion here, in order to diffuade thofe exercifing the powers of government in France from undertaking a fcheme likely to be fo fatal to their interests.

The attorney-general alluded to feveral letters between the prifoner under the fictitious name of Enots (Stone reverfed), his brother, Jackfon (in the name of Popkins), Horne Tooke, and others; all tending to thew the criminality of

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the prifoner; concluding a very able and argumentative fpeech by obferving, that the counfel for the prifoner might fay, that he had acted for the intereft of England, inafiuch as, instead of promoting, he had prevented an invafion! But how could that be faid? for if he knew of an intention of invation, and had not communicated his knowledge to those most bound and moft competent to counteract it, he prevented his country from gaining a decifive advantage, by the lofs that would accrue to the enemy from their failure; and by forewarning them, he proved himtelf equally their friend, and the enemy of England: if he had been for England, the way was very thort; but his conduct clearly thewed he had been for France. It therefore remained with the defendant to make his innocence appear. His property, his honour, and his life, depended now on his conviction or his acquittal. The jury were invefted with a very folemn and very important duty. They were called upon to grant equal justice to the defendant and to ociety. As they must guard themfelves against any impreffions which the mifreprefentations of the profecutors might make upon their minds fo muft they have an equal guard against any falfe impreffions made by the counfel for the defendant. In the deliverance they were to make, if the evidence was inconclufive, they would readily acquit him; but if the proofs were fatisfactory, the country called for his conviction,

William Smith, efq. M. P. Mr. Sheridan, and lord Lauderdale, were called as witneffes to relate fome converfations they had with

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Stone on the fubject of the fiate of this country; the general result of which appeared to be, that they confidered him as a weak enthufiaft, who was defirous of bringing about a peace, for the fake of favouring what he confidered principles of freedom.

Having proved the confpiracy between Jackfon and Stone, several letters of the former were produced, particularly one which pointed out the particular parts of Ireland moft favourable to an invafion by the French; and Mr. Cockayne, the evidence against Jackfon in Ireland, was called, and ftated the whole of his connection with Jackson, nearly the fame as he did on that trial.

At half paft ten the courts with confent of counfel, adjourned to nine o'clock the next day. And at nine on Friday morning, the court proceeded on the trial.

The firft evidence produced was a parcel of letters from the prifoner to Mr. Pitt; in which Stone pretended to make fome difcoveries, as to the defigns of the French, by garbled extracts from his brother's letters, which were themselves produced, to fhew the unfairness of the prifoner's conduct in this particular. Aletter from Mr. Pitt was read expreffing his doubts as to the authenticity of the prifoner's information.

The counfel for the crown then proved the correfpondence between the prifoner and Jackfon in Ireland; which being read, closed the evidence for the profecution.

Mr. ferjeant Adair then rofe to open the evidence for the prisoner, and to observe on that for the profecution. The former confifted only of evidence to character-on

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