Vlbe Vrobfrues.

The trial of the state-prisoners, confined in Monmouth Gaol, com- menced on Tuesday, the day to which the Special Commission was adjt urned. All the anticipations of disturbance were falsified by the peaceable behaviour of the people in and near Monmouth. The wit- nesses for the prosecution, who arrived on Monday, were not molested by word or deed. A strong body of foot and horse soldiers; with po- lice, paraded the streets. The crowd which -witnessed the removal of the prisoners from the Gaol to the Court-house made no secret of their sorrow for and sympathy with the accused, but otherwise there was no expression of public feeling. The prisoners generally, but particularly Frost and Zephaniah Williams, exhibited firmness and a manly bearing.

Tim Judges, Sir Nicholas Tindal, Baron Parke, and Justice

tools their seats on the bench about ten o'clock. 'file counsel for the prosecution were the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Ser- geants Ludlow and Talfourd, Mr. Wi,ghtman, and Mr. Talbot ; for John Frost, Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Thomas. Mr, Feargus O'Connor was present, and placed himself' at the table among the barristers.

The prisoners, against whom true bills for high treason had been found, were broit,lit into Court. Their names are John Frost, Charles Waters, John Lovell, Richard. Benficld, John Reece, George Turner u/i,,ns Cole, Zephattiali Williams, Edmond Edmonds, Jacob Morgan, Solomon Britton, William Jones, James Anst, John Reece, and David Jones.

The prisoners pleaded "Not Guilty,"—Frost and Zephaniah Willidms in a firm tone with resolute demeanour ; but some were hurried and, subdued, particularly Solomon Britton. Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr. Kelly said they appeared for Frost alone ; Mr. Thomas for Frost and several of the other prisoners,—on whose behalf he meant to claim the right of separately challenging the Jurors.

John Frost was then put upon his trial. The Jurors were called over. When the name of Thomas Jones was called, a person in court said Thomas Jones was dead: and being sworn by the Court, deposed that he had attended his funeral : but another Thomas Jones appeared, and said " I am not dead." It turned out that two men named Thomas Jones had been summoned, one of whom had died since.

The greater part of the day was occupied with an argument on the right of peremptory challenge, cluimed for the Crown by the Attorney- General ; and which the Court, after hearing both sides, allowed to the Crown. The following Jury were finally appointed and sworn in—

:lobo lfatticl, Janus Christopher Thomas Davies, Thaws Jones, IV ilUants, Edward Brit tie, John Iliclutrtts, Richard Lewis, Edward !ices,

Ednould Smith, John Opel Fmith. They. are 1,11...■pally tradesmen, of Frost's own rank of' life. It was hal f-tast five before the preliminaries were settled; and after rending the Ile-t, second, and third counts of the indictment, the Court adjourued to Vt. ...l The J (,11i vrcd the court soon after seven o'clock on Wednesday morning t and Frost was placed at the bar. Mr. Talbot having briefly stated the nature of the indictment, Sir Frederick Pollock said, that as he presumed the ttorney-General was about to open the facts of the case, he thought it best to state an objection which he should urge the moment a witness for the prosecu- tion was put into the box ; and he presumed that Sir John Campbell would not wish to make a statement which Sir Frederick felt certain could never be proved by evidence.

The Attorney-General oljeeted, that this course was irregular, and be would not waive his right to address the Jury. Sir Frede- rick Pollock stated his objection—" that the prisoner had not had a list of witnesses delivered to him pursuant to the statute." The Cr decided, that if the Attonley-General persisted in his right to address the Jury, they could not allow the point raised by Sir Frederick Pollock to be discussed until the first witness was called.

The Attorney-General then rose and laid the ease for the prosecu- tion Letitre the Court and Jury. He explained at length the law of high treason ; ond called attention particularly to those interpretationa of the lo iv by eminent Judges which brought riotous assemblages, for public, not private objects, within its scope. Ile then argued, that from the character and circumstances cf the insurrection in Shutouth- shire, the I arties to it were guilty of high treason. From his " outline of (bets" we make smite qtmtations- " 1 would beg to draw your attention to the geographical character of the country in which this insurrection took place. Gentlemen, 1 will beg to describe to you what is called the 1 1111 district, which may poimps he well known to many of you. This district, gentlemen, is of a inottntainous cha- racter, and trimmular form ; having for its apex a plali i it d Hisca, which is about five mile. from Newport, its base being about tit!,vii .v tiv, my mike from it. Centlemen, it is bounded on the west by places aro called Beaufort and Nant-y-fhlo, and 11111111 the east by Blanadon. This comot-y, gen- tlemen, is intersected lt.% deep glens, which are watered by the V:t1 hilts mountain- streams, the prihriptil of which prma.tal front Ithymney itt the w est, and 11-ont

Sirrhowev iii the Ayr which conies the Ebbw, Intl they procetol down

until Its join, it then it...a. Pontypool there is the Avon. Gentlemen, that country, os pm me anon., alammis in every part with mine, or coal and of iron, which have been of late years workcd to a very (4111-iiitl'ilhie \tellt, so Stint in a district where, fifty years shire, there were svareely :my inhabitants, save the sitered hilts it a int shepherds and mountaineers, thew. is now a dense population, amounting, according, I believe, to the nearest possible.00111-, putatinit, to opwards of forty thousand, almost all of whom are engawil m the mining and coal (list rlets. Centicmon, I am afraid that this population are not of the most pearealhe description : I am afraid, gentlemen, that their ignorance prevails to a vvry considerable extent, and that. the people, in conse- quence, are easily subject to be misled. and practised upon by evil and designing men, who, gentlemen, I am afraid, have, lty !mans 01 certain societies, organized tlw population into a considerable degree, and that the organization has ken so carried on that a command may he readily circulated oolong the population, and as speedily obeyed. This,. gentle- men, I believe, is an accurate view of the state of this population ; and 1 regret to find that it should be so. Gentlemen, it appears that the pn- antler, John Frost, has been for many years a linendraper,.and had °Named an influence upon tlte population which I have been describing, to a very con- siderable extent. Then, gentlemen, the town of Newport, as you are aware, is the outport to which the commodities from the hills arriee—a tOWII of con- siderable importance—the outport to Bristol, and the various parts of England and abroad—the high-road to Birmingham and the manufactories of the North. • previous to the rising which took place, it will ap- before a jury: Gentlemen, it is quite clear that treasonable consultations never Gentlemen, upon the week near that a general plan of insurrection was formed ; and that there were will be held in public. How, then, are they to be proved? It must be by the

- • • it tions and meetings at which the plans laid were discussed, at employment tit spies and informers, whose evidence has always been con- vano hich meetings and discussions Mr. Frost was present. These meetings were chiefly held, it appears, at Blackwood, at a public. house there, at which the lodge was held. Gentlemen, there was one of these meetings held at Black- wood, a most important one, upon the Friday preceding the day of the insur- rection; at which meeting various deputies attended, and a return of the num- bers of the armed force aid' could be mustered was made, and there the plan was laid- for the scheme which was afterwards to be carried into effect. Gen- tlemen, what was that scheme ? It was arranged that they should all assem- ble on the night of Sunday the 4th of November." Mr. Sergeant Ludlow—" Sunday the•lird of November."

The Attorney-General—" Gentlemen, I am very kindly and properly re- Minded by my learned friend, Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, that it was the 3rd of No- vember; for Monday, the day of the insurrection, was the 4th. Well, gentle- men, it was there arranged that they should assemble on the night of Sunday, the 3rd of November, in three principal divisiona first division, under the command of the prisoner joint Frost himself; was to assemble at Black- wood. Another division was to be under the command of a man named Ze- Phaniali \Villains, who lived much higher tip the country, and who kept a beer-shop nt a place called Coalbrook-vale, and who was to lead the men from Ilant-y-Clo and that neighbourhood ; while the third division MIS placed under the control "of a person who is named Williatn Jones, and who is, I be- lieve, a watchmaker, residin;; at Pontypool, and who lam; to collect all the men from the neighbourhood of Pontypool and from the North and the West ; and they were to meet the others at Risen or the Gelb about midnight on the Sun- day ; and having there all assembled together, they were to march upon the town of Newport, at which time it was intended that they should arrive at about two o'clock on the morning of l'ilunday the 4th—at a time who, it was supposed that no suspicions would be aroused, no preparations Ihr defence made —at the dead hour of the night, when the peaceful inhabitants, buried in sleep, Would be unprepared to offer the slightest opposition to their treasonable de- signs. Arriving there, they were to attack the troops, break down the bridge which, as is known to you gentlemen, crosses that splendid river the Usk ; and thus stopping her Majesty's mail, signal-rockets were to be thrown up upon the hills; and the stopping of the mail was to be a signal (lb) its non-arrival for an hour and a halt after its usual time at Birmingham) to those who, it was said, were there connected with these treasonable designs for a rising at Birmingham, and a general rising throughout the North of England ; and the law of the Charter was to be proclaimed at once throughout the laud."

Sir John proceeded to describe the part which Frost took at this stage Of the insurrection-

" Gentlemen, I 'Nye now, stated to you the manner ill which these treason- able plans were laid, and the mode in ss hich they were to he carried out ; and in pursuance of those intentions you will find that this L.V.;,4.011 under the com- mand and control of 31r. Frost did a:small:, hut much earlier than the other divisions. This division belie; so assendled, the prisoner gave the:n the word of command; and he march

w.ta fl „tem down by the way of llisea to the Vetch Oak, where the junction was to take place; but from the difficulties 'which the weather threw .11 the way of flu! march of the men from the upper districts, they did not arrive for a very lora.; time after the hour at which it was arranged that they should be there. Zephaniah Williams did not arrive

with his men from Nattt-y-Glo until daylight, and :holes or Ponty-

pool, with his men, did not arrive. A party, WIlielL 1 t 1Z11.1VaIll 11111lee the C011111141111 of a man named Brit ton, did arrive, it is tree ; but the main body of the men from the Pontypool district, it inter Jones, did not arrive. t fentlemen, it appears that the prisoner, John Frost, remailad with the body under his command until daylight, waiting the arrival of the other bodies. A s, however, they had not then arrived, he thought it necessary to muster Ilse forces which he then had there under his command, and march on with them upon Newport. There were then, with him, accmding to the best ealenlations which could be made, at least five thousand men; the most of whom were armed, sonic with guns, others with swords, a large number with pikes, and some with mandrils— which is, I believe, it sort of instruinent with which they cut coal—a kind of pickaxe ; anti others were armed with scathes fixed on stinks, and those who

t get arII1S of' this kind wers armed with sticks and bludgeons of various kinds. The prisoner John Frost told: the command, gave the order to march; and they did so ; they marched in military array—I believe live abreast. As I have said, the word of command was given by the prisoner; and they marshal on down though Trolegar Park, the seat of Sir Charles Morgan where they halted for a time. 'II icy then marched on till they came to Crossliands, about half a mile from ;Newport. Inquiries were then made by Frost with respect to the state of affairs in Newport." Here the preparations for the defeuee of Newport were described by the Attorney-General, and the principal ciremnst tutees of the attack. The insurgents having arrived before the Westgate En n,—Frost being with the men at the 1;111e, —the word to tire was given ; but Frost was not seen among theth after the time whep the tiring first began-- " Zephaniah 'Williams was about ten minutes too lalc. Ile did arrive at last with his Nant-y•Glo band—a band nearly its numerous as that led on by Frost himself: Winans shone., from Pontrpold, did not gia imarer than the neigh- bourhood of Nlalpas, when he heard of the disasters that had happened. Ile was proceeding .1,ml' tt lane to meet the other parts when he heard of the disaster that had taken place to his ti,,(wiates at Newport ; ansl he likewise fled, and his men dispersed. I should 'save mentioned to von, that all these three parties, its they came down, Se0111'ilt th0 e0111i1.1'1, and preS,Ca into their Service various persons who were mot Ill tig 1(1 attend .11ein but were compelled by than to march, at the same time seizing all the arm., Illey c■athl find. Frost himself was seen retreating in Commercial Street, and on the road leading to- wards the park, alter the artiest, as I may tilt il, was over. llo was Seel! atoll after in Tredegar yarls, alumt two mile, from Novp,,rt, toaki,lh his emilpe into wood. He was apprehended in the town of Newport, on the Monday even- ing, at the bona, it a permn named Partridge, with pistols and powder upon him Gentlemen, heave and tranquillity was thus restorrii; and, gentlemen, it will be for yon to say, if these filets are proved, whether there tam he any reasonable doule in your minds of the guilt of the prisom.r. Ibov are those facts, gentlemea, to be proved? With regard to the main eircuinstance of the ease, no douht cast possibly be entertained. I shall prove the facts by witnesses above all except iota wholly unconnected with these ills: radiances, who are try- ing to establish 11C711'0 :11111 restore tranratillity. With regard to particular de- elevations made by Mr. Frost, which fra; the present I avoid detailing to you, these, most undotratedly, will much depend upon the evidence of persons who were concerned with hini in that insurrection." He was aware of the objections which would be made against these Witnesses-

" My learned friend will, no doubt, make comments on their testimony, as be will be fully justified in doing, and he will call tIle111 aremnplices. Gentle- ?Pen, whether they were there voluntarily or by compulsion, there can be no doubt that their evidence is to be received with suspicion ; it is to be weighed With caution ; but if you do sift their evidence, and if you do sec no reason to quest' • veracity, then, gentlemen, you will not hesitate to believe the evidence they give. Such evidence, gentlemen, in such a ease, must be laid

deinned, and very otten disbelieved, or it must be by the evidence of those who were actually in sonic degree connected with them. Gentlemen, in this-case I propose to call before you no spy nor informer, for none such were employed; but I do propose to call before ■ott several who were employed more or less in this insurrection, and \sits, I ,u1nnit to you, ilmy be safely trusted if their evi- dence shell be consistent—if tiny shall he corroborated in the main facts to which they speak. Upon that evidence, as it holiday scents to me, no doubt at all can exist in your minds is•ith regard to illy guilt of the prisoner. Gen- tlemen, it gives me the most sincere satisfact loll 10 find that be is defended by counsel of the first eminence and the first talents at Bieber of England; every thing that zeal, teeny thing that learning, ever■• thin„.- that eloquence can do, will be accomplished in his case; so that the result Of this trial most be satis- factory to the public justice of the ceuntry. Geutleinee, I own, it seems to me, my learned upon the proof of these fhet 5, must It it's' a very difficult task to pert: am. I think they %illl harshly slimy the law of* high treason as it is la;.(l down I iv laerd (7olte, by Mr. Justice Forster, mill Lord Tenterden; and that there WilS here, aceswiling to es-islenee, all armed insurrection, very for- midable in numbers, siith a pallie purpose; and that there Ivas actually a conflict with tl t1.01/i•S, not accidental, not any sudden affray, but with Inc meditation and 'it' ill iuuy learoed frienul say tltat there WaS some private ehject which die prisoner sought to it Gentlemen, what that was I iou is holly at a loss to conjecture. I hi in nothitig of' Private e wrongs, I bear nothing of any private grievance. This was not a ineetitra for dieeme4on ; it was not a meeting fir petitioning the gaeen, or either of Parlianant ; it was lett a meeting arisiug out of any tli.-pute between mas- ters and :servants in the coal or iron trade; st was not. gentlemen, nny sudden outbreak from lit of employment, or lien want Or f(11111: for I believe. when the inquiry is issa.l.s., it will turn out that the coal and iron trade had seldom ileell 1111/1V p 1'4 ISIIV1'011S ; wages Wen: high; and those Islas engaged in this insurreetien had no private grievance which tisey ;visited to redress. Then, gentlemen, what is the conclusion to Ise drawn ? the witnesses whom I shall call before 3 ott speak the trutb—that theme was this public object—by armed force to change the law Iola constitution of the country."

At the conclusion of the Attorney-General's speech, Samuel Sim- monds was called by the Solicitor-General.

Sir Frederick Pollock requiret1 the counsel for the Crown to shove that " a Bat of witnesses had been delivered in imrsuance of the act, containing due mime of the Wit 1 Was prOpllSed to be examined." (.1(ee.a.a Fade, Solicitor to ths Treastu•y, proved, that on the

lath of I a. aiher he had delivered a copy of the indictment to the

pri.,;()11,31.; (El 11),.. 17111 of the Sam, month a 11.4 of the witnesses, in

Avhi,h tli.. lut;oe or S;tiowl :.1:,Inionds. On these thets Sir Frede-

i•lel. ' l le argued; that according to the 7th I, the list or witnesses tnitSt be deli- vered to ee'ifi the ropy the indictment- 'Plia • „e—.. .t uuth le it further enacted, that f•••.: , •• the pretended Prince of' Wales,• tura 1! 1,• , eirect as \VII Al ;!!! ••■!I if t reason, a list of the - ilea the said indict- ment, aod and pl,tees of abode

of the said •:ae time that the copy of the iiie;‘ toela the p By antela•r ch-e !re ,autue were to be given ten days list' 'v' trial, l'rederick q, precedents to prove, that althorq.;11 in ease, the pol 1 , aavinab had not been in-

sisted upon, ! A en t 11 ii sties an essential point ;

that the irregularia, a as 'it ii 1 a.eeeion ; and that this prisoner

was entitled to an ;lc W as equally good against

ail the witnesses.

Mr. Fit ,a.ey elly followed on the same side, amplifying Sir Frede-

rick 1;!2 rancid.

Sir .1,,11 • 111,;•' • .11 maintained, that the provisions of' the act had been with end that the prisoner had no cause of enng)hlint---- " All ilnit N,■!7■ 111 ! '.•\" 111.. I., 1111%• V.:L., 0:31- 111111eS of each (the indict.

ment and list of w prisoner ten days before the trial. IL. la e teri, s of each lad only

been ',reed t,, , there cieuf•l I • •■•.iection ; but they say that, h. reese . ,vas . F d Wits hall. The would

smite's,' that II., , i,sg ''file' I so, that each of the docu- imasts should Is • tell ..; list rislk I • • i•ris-e. ,• .1 least tura days Isidore the trinl : 11, . hefore, the prisoner could

t t!, t tbey had been re-served

with cacl. os, Pat

•• 1. 1: ..1 ',all the list of witnesses, it WOI1h1 .1 • 11.111Ie .1. God, IIIN' What obit•ct 711 service ? If I heir Lordships

granted tlo- • rob; hesseefortlt ? Why, that every

thing inao I I:, la, rail; until the list of witnesses was pre-

pared. 1- s hi • 's .ratv to the prisoners?"

The a r,;•.soiraists •••; • c; uschi•le.1 at half- past siv ; and the Jiulgee

twang r far a taw toilettes., t1:1.11..e Tindal said- " There appe.sr, • ,, • mdici•.•itt doubt to 11a. pent for further the prisolier ,epared to ,..ey the et.j• Nee, nettle on the part of

it a qe. -.tam up es si ball no direct decision consideration. I has taken plaee, di. “ay ■•mt,l ',lotion. It is the

impurtant, t hat t ubj....tion may apply to the several other eases in which the 'Jodie! ra• • - have l•.•rat roam! mid the prisoners arraigned. We pur-

pose to tette . pea, it cci asien which ti ill prevent the possibility

or an [Wei', II:1,1y ■rjlt rtroig to no• ilt-N■lvaittage or the pri-, sinter, and from cm, 11,II,,s oi. icol.11.. ost ice, \Vt. 'hail allow the trial to proceed, neat' htkp 1/, h, .fu, u' nit the trtlidity of the polo, in%wided sw!, 4,11 ,wc.,..isnefi. To-morrow morning we shall he' usual with the evidence."

The Court then rose.

()ii the r(eipleiitig id' the (fourt on Thursday, Sir Frederick Pollock asked whether, in ea,s; the point raised the day before respecting the delivery of Ile! list of with should be decided in the prisoner's favour, he \VOIllA let' placed in the same situation as if it had been so ruled at once ? Very early in his profeasional life his attention had been drawn to this point ; for he was counsel for It man named Walshe, who was convicted. and who, the Judges decided. ought not to have been convicted, hut who nevertheless remained under attainder for the rest of his life.

Samuel Simmonds was then put in the witness box. An objection to his description on the list of witnesses was made by the prisoner's counsel : he was described as residing in the parish of WooIlas, in the borough of Newport; whereas Sir Frederick Pollock contended that his proper description was in the borough of Newport within the parish of Woollas, because the borough was within the parish, and the parish not within the borough. It was also urged, that inasmuch as no street was named wherein the witness' house was situated, the description was insufficient as well as incorrect. The Court overruled both the objec- tions ; and the examination of the witness continued.

Besides Simmonds, Thomas Morris, a land-surveyor, Richard Waters, an attorney, Thomas Latch, son of a merchant, John Rees and James Coles, labourers, Thomas Bevan Oliver, printer, Henry Evans, saddler, Daniel Evans, tailor, William Adams, Sir Charles Morgan's park- keeper, and Sir Thomas Phillips, late Mayor of Newport, were exa- mined for the prosecntion. Their evidence consisted chiefly of cir- cumstances with which the reader is already familiar, relative to the gathering of the insurgents on the hills, and the attack upon the 'West- gate Hotel, Newport. Those portions of the evidence which particu- larly affected Frost may be briefly stated. It was proved that, early in the morning of Monday the 4th of No- vember, Frost was at the Court-y-Bella weighing-machine, about a mile from the Westgate Hotel, with a large number of armed men, some of whom he conversed with ; that he said to the men, " Let us go towards the town, and show ourselves towards the town ; " that he gave the word to "march," and was obeyed ; that he was seen with the in- surgents on the pavement close to the yard of the Westgate Hotel, and within a few feet of the house, immediately before the firing upon the hotel commenced ; that he then disappeared, and was not seen again till some time after, (the precise time is not mentioned,) when Adams, Sir Charles Morgan's park-keeper, saw hint walking quietly along the road from Newport, with his handkerchief to his face, as if crying. The witness asked hint " what was the matter ? " but got no distinct answer, and he afterwards saw Frost "turning off the road to a by- e/tee into Copswood." The witnesses differed as to the number of the insurgents who entered Newport—some reckoning them at five or six thousand, and ethers at ten thousand. They marched five abreast, most of them armed with pikes and pickaxes, one man to every ten carrying a gun.

From Sir Thomas Phillips's cross-examination by Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, as given in the Times, we take the following extract-

" I need hardly ask you, but about the Reform Bill was there a aood deal of excitement in Newport as in other places? "—" There were public meetings held at Newport on the subject."

" Was there a good deal of excitement? "—" There was a good deal of in- terest felt."

" Was there not a good deal of excitement at the time ? "—" I would say there was excitement."

" You say you attended public meetings about that time ? "—" I did." " Have you attended meetings at the same house as Mr. Frost ?"—" I have • seen him at meetings at which I have been present." " I believe from that time to this Mr. Frost has taken a prominent part in politics and at public meetings? "—" He has." " Have you yourself done so? "—" Not very prominent." " Did you at the time I have alluded to ? "—" I attended a few public meet- ing, and on two or three occasions took part."

" I must ask you. Sir Thomas, whether you yourself had not at public meetings, or at a public meeting, declared that the majority 0/37 in the Mouse of Lords, deserred to be guillotined, or to that tffect?"—" Certainly not." "And you say not to that effect ? "—" I have not."

" At a meeting at the Guildhall, at 'Usk ? Did you not attend such a meet- ing? "—" I did. The High Sheriff presided."

" We must go by steps. I ask you, if you did not then publicly make seine observation concerning that mejority in the House of Lords?"—' buoy have done 81."

"Did you not in fact ; I ask you on your oath? "—" I believe I did." "Have you any doubt you did ?"—" I believe I did." " Have you any doubt ?"—" I hare not."

"Now, will you tell me what you did say? "—" I cannot."

"Did you make any observations importing what that majority deserved ?"— " To my recollection I censured the majority.; but, so for as my recollection goes, I did it in no offensive terms whatever."

" Now I must ask you, did you say any thing as to their deserts? "—"1 be- lieve I did not."

" Or what you wished they might meet with ? "—" I believe not." 6 Now t ry and recollect yourself, and tell inc whether you did not say some- thing to tins effect, that you wished they might meet with the fate of certain parties in Fiance? "—" I believe not." " Did you make any allusion to any parties in France? "—"I lancet? I alluded to what had occurred in France.'

" Did you not allude to the predecessors of the present Ring of the French? "—" I may have done so, but I have no recollection whether I did or not."

" Did you not make an observation respecting this majority of 37, in con- nexion with the fitly of those persons? "—"1 believe not." 4, Will you undertake to swear you did not ?"—" I will not, having no re- eonection on the subject."

" Were you then a Magistrate ? "—" No." "Or a Mayor? "—" No."

"You have been present at public meetings with Frost ; did you see any thing reprehensible in his conduct ? "—" I have differed with him, but I saw nothing reprehensible in his conduct at such meetings." "Nothing?"—" Yes; I recollect a meeting where he showed a want of temper towards myself personally." • "Yes, towards yourself, but was there any thing tending to riot or disorder in his conduct? "—" I think not."

The next witness was Captain Gray, whose examination had just commenced when the report of Thursday's proceedings left Monmouth for London.