lald at the parish of Silkstone, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the time the 11th of last April. The prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty; among them was one (Flowers), who appeared so deaf as to be unable to hear a word of the indictment, until read in his ear. The plea having been recorded, the Court ordered the prisoners to be removed from the bar. Comstive, one of the prisoners, a smart looking young fellow, requested of their lordships to allow the prisoners the privilege of seeing their fathers, mothers, wives, sisters, and brothers, while in prison. Mr. Justice Bayley said, that the Court would consider the application, and make such order as would be right. The bar having been cleared, the following persons, charged under the same indictment, were brought forward, viz. John Frith, aged 20; John Vallance, aged 24; John Ferreymond, 25; Abraham Ingram, 27; George Brian, 36; John Hobson, 20; George Burkenshaw (brother to the other prisoner of that name), 25: Wm. Holland, 20; and Michael Downing, 48. The indictment was again read by the officer of the court, and the prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty. The whole of the prisoners, when asked, "how will you be tried ?" answered, " by God and my Country." The officer of the court replying to each, in the usual form, "God grant you a good deliverance." After a few words from the Bench, the following persons were placed at the bar, viz. John Lindley, 50; William Burkley, 50; Thomas Blackburn, 33; John Peacock, 45; there was also the name of John Smith, but this person is not in custody. The indictment found against the above five persons was read; it charged them with various acts of high treason, and the venue was laid in the parish of Huddersfield generally, on the 30th of March. Mr. Starkie took an objection to this, as the parish was divided into several townships, and hoped time would be allowed him to put in, if he should deem fit, a plea in abatement. After some discussion on both sides, it was arranged, at the suggestion of the Court, that the prisoners should plead now, leav ing it open to the counsel for the prisoners to make application to the Court on Monday, proper affidavits being produced. The last mentioned prisoners immediately pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Justice Bayley desired that the prisoner prisoner Comstive should stand forward. The pri soner appearing at the bar, Mr. Justice Bayley said, you applied to the Court just now on behalf of yourself and fellow-prisoners, for permission to have your mo thers, wives, fathers, and other relatives call upon you. The Court did not then answer you, because we were not aware that we had any power to grant your request. We have inquired, and the result is, that we are restrained from granting any such indulgence. Your counsel and attorneys may have free access to you, we cannot go further. The prisoners all appeared to be of the labouring classes, for the greater part, journeymen weavers or spinners. They were com fortably clothed, and appeared in good spirits. In the course of the day, several cart loads of witnesses for the defence entered the town, from the neighbourhood of Barnsley, from which place the greater part of the prisoners have come. ADDRESS OF THE LEICESTER MILITIA. The following correspondence has passed upon the above subject. Leicester, August 27. Sir;-As lieutenant-colonel of the Leicester Regiment of Militia, I request the favour of you to send me the names of the two individuals whose signatures were to the Address purporting to be the Address of the privates of that regiment to the Queen, and also to mention from whom you received it, and by whom it was presented. I ask these questions, as it appears, that the privates of the regiment never even heard of the Address during the time they were embodied, and I observe it bears date three days previous to their dismissal.-I have the honour to be, &c. M. HULSE. To Alderman Wood, London, August 30, 1820. Sir;-I am honoured with your letter of the 26th, requesting me to send you the names of the two individuals whose signatures were to the Address lately sent to me, purporting to be an Address from the privates of the regiment under your command; also to mention from whom I received it, and by whom it was presented; and I should undoubtedly at once give you the information desired, were I not induced to infer, from the particularity and frame of your questioning, that the Address is considered by the commandants of the Leicester Militia of an improper character; and that some proceeding may be in contemplation against the individuals of the regiment by whom the Address was signed. Your omitting to assign the ultimate object of the inquiry fortifies me in this supposition; and I shall not therefore feel myself at liberty to send you the names of the parties without their previous concurrence, unless it should appear, that the Address was not intended by the privates of the regiment to have been presented to her majesty. If the Address, purporting to be an Address from the privates of your regiment, was not, in truth, authorized by them, I shall not be found backward in exposing the deception; but shall be most anxious to give you all the information in my power. For the present, however, I must decline doing more than referring you to the sergeant-major, who, I am informed, was dispatched by the officers of the regiment to repress the shouts of the privates of the Leicester Militia in favour of her majesty; from whom I should apprehend you will be able to obtain much more satisfactory information than it is in my power to give. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) MATTHEW WOOD. To Lieut.-Col. Hulse. His grace the duke of Rutland wrote to alderman Wood in consequence of this letter, assuring him that it was not for any vindictive purpose he wished to obtain the names of the men said to have been concerned in preparing the Address, but merely to expose the fabrication of that instrument. And as a challenge, to the communication, his grace inclosed a statement made by QuarterMaster Deakins, and vouched by 42 non-commissioned officers, to the effect that 420 privates of the regiment had solemnly disclaimed any participation in the Address. His grace's letter was dated the 5th, and called forth the following reply from alderman Wood: quainted with the nature of the powers of such persons over the men to pay the smallest attention to such reports. The account which you are pleased to give me of designing persons even now engaged to entrap some of the privates into an avowal of the Address, induces me to inform your lordship, that I have this morning received an address signed by 300 of the privates, accompanied with a letter, stating, that a much larger number would have signed it, if they could have obtained the Address at their residence. Brandenburgh House, Sept. 7. My Lord;-In answer to your letter of the 5th inst., I have first to observe on the extraordinary circumstance, that an Address from the privates of a regiment to their lawful and persecuted Queen should be deemed by their colonel an insult to the honours of the regiment. This idea, if it have no other merit, has at least that of novelty. The soldier To his Grace the Duke does indeed assume this military garb, but in cheerfully performing this part of the duty of a good subject, he does not forfeit his civil rights, much less does he forfeit the right of exercising his judgment, and of acting agreeable to his feelings as a man. By one reflection, however, I am consoled, and that is, that the private soldier has at last come to be considered as a being whose feelings and wishes are worthy of attention.-I have the honour to be, &c. That the men had a right to express their attachment to her majesty, and their abhorrence of the treatment that she had experienced, I know full well. I am convinced, that the Address contained the real sentiments of this regiment; and I know that it was agreeable to her majesty to receive the same. As to the inquiries said to have been made of the men individually, and reported by the ser. jeant-major, adjutant, and quarter-master, I am too well ac MATTHEW WOOD. of Rutland. Arlington-street, Sept. 9. Sir; I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant. With respect to the Address which you state yourself to have received on that day, signed by 300 privates of the Leicestershire militia (which regiment, it should be remarked, has been disembodied more than six weeks), it is singular, that it should have been thought necessary to obtain additional signatures to an address which three weeks since you published to the world as having proceeded from the whole of the privates of the regiment. It is impossible, that a more striking presumption can be afforded to the public of the truth of the charge of gross and infa REMARKABLE BIRTH.-A woman, residing at Bolton-le-Moors, was lately delivered of a child with two heads, which lived for half an hour. It is preserved in spirits, and the parents are making a rapid fortune by the exhibition of it. John Lax, jun. esq. shot on his manor at Horrington, on the 6th inst. a woodcock, which weighed of a pound. mous imposition and forgery try seats. Sunday the streets which attaches to the Address presented a solitude. presented by you to her Majesty the 17th August, than the facts, that the Address which purports to be from "the Privates of the Leicestershire Regiment," had, according to your own admission, only two names subscribed, and that, except by the two persons whose names were so subscribed, the Address had never been seen or heard of. As to the additional signatures, to which you appear to attach so much importance, I will only transcribe a sentence in the letter which I yesterday received from my adjutant, dated on the 6th inst. "I have this morning been informed, that an Address to the Queen, with upwards of 200 signatures, was yesterday forwarded; but I have no doubt, were it possible to see the list of the names, it would be found that many are down, who never did belong to the regiment, others are affixed with the decided dissent of the parties, and some have been obtained by false representations." There is nothing in the remaining parts of your letter which appears to me to require any comment or reply.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble servant, RUTLAND, Colonel Leicestershire To Alderman Wood. 10. Never was there a more rapid change in the appearance of town than that of Saturday and Sunday. On the former day, equipages, brilliant and numerous, were rolling in every direction, to bear the members of the House of Lords to their respective coun 11. YORK ADJOURNED ASSIZES. At a quarter before nine o'clock this day, the prisoners (22 in number) whose names we have already given, were placed at the bar. bar. Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Justice Park having taken their seats on the bench, Mr. Williams (after speaking with the prisoners for a few minutes) addressed the Court.-My Lords, since the prisoners were arraigned on Saturday, they have considered the subject, and are now desirous of withdrawing their pleas of Not Guilty, and of pleading Guilty. Mr. Justice Bayley.-I take it for granted, that all the prisoners are within hearing, and that they all concur in this. Mr. Williams answered in the affirmative. Mr. Justice Bayley.-There is no objection on the part of the Crown? Mr. Raine.-None whatever, my lord. The names of the prisoners in both indictments were then called over, and they successively withdrew their pleas, and pleaded Guilty. Mr. Justice Bayley observed, that the prisoners having pleaded Guilty, the persons summoned as jurors would not be required to serve, but they must remain in Court to hear their names called over, to ascertain who did and did not attend, as those who at tended would be entitled to exemptions. William Comstive, the first prisoner on the list, was called upon, and the following question was put to him by the clerk of the court:-"You have been indicted for high treason, to which in dictment you have pleaded Guilty; have you any thing more to say for yourself why the Court should not give judgment against you to die according to law?" The prisoner replied, "I have nothing to say." This question was put to the other prisoners, and they all answered in the same manner, with the exception of James Flower. This man was so deaf, that the question was repeated to him by one of the prisoners, but he did not at first seem to understand. He at length said, "I wish to agree with the rest of my comrades." Mr. Justice Bayley then stood up, and in a most solemn and impressive manner addressed the prisoners: Prisoners at the bar; The thankfulness I feel at being able to announce to you, that your lives are to be spared, is more almost than I am able to express." [The learned judge was here so much affected, that he shed tears.] "So many of you, many of you in the prime of life and in the full enjoyment of health, to have committed an offence which might have made it the duty of those who dispense the administration of justice, to have consigned you to an un timely end. It is most fortunate, in the case which you have been called on to answer, that no blood has been shed. At least, as far as I have been informed, in your offence you have stopped short; no life has been sacrificed. This has laid the foundation on which the Crown has, with justice to the people, extended that mercy which, under different circumstances, it might have been its duty to withhold. What were the causes by which you were induced, or I will say, drawn or deluded to the commission of this offence, I cannot state; but I will say, that if, by reading seditious and blasphemous publications, you were thus deluded, how much more have they to answer for who have sent forth such publications? We cannot go through the world without seeing the extent to which seditious and blasphemous publications have gone hand in hand. This has been done with worldly wisdom. The best security for the public peace is the fear of God, and the best way to train a man to sedition, is to make him forget his Maker, and to obliterate from his mind all sense of duty. If a man should, in the vigour of health, forget him from whom all health and strength come, I hope that delusion will be but of short duration. The situation in which you now stand, will, I trust, be, as it ought to be, a warning to deter others from entering into any wild practices or schemes against the govern ment, by which the lives and properties, as well as the peace and security of the country, would be endangered. You may have felt the distresses of the times, and may perhaps have been drawn |