the society of United Irishmen-and by written evidence it ap pears, the intent of that society was to overturn the Constitu tion of this kingdom by force.

Gentlemen of the Jury, upon the whole of this case, you will judge of the verdict you may give, by the evidences which have been adduced before you-you will judge of it, as men of sense, you are to determine on your consciences, whether you do believe that Oliver Bond the prisoner at the bar, was a mem ber of the society of United Irishmen, or not. You will deter mine on this question, by comparing all these papers that have been produced in evidence; and by the testimony of Reynolds. in one of these papers it says, County of Wicklow returned 12,095 Queen's County 1,689, Carlow 9,914, Meath 14,000, Kildare 10,863, and the County of Kilkenny 604 — Amount of money received 40l. 18s. 3d.-At the foot of this paper, produc ed in evidence, was written dated about the 19th of February 1798, Resolved, that we will pay no attention to any measure which the parliament of this kingdom may adopt to divert the public mind from the grand object we have in view, as nothing less than a complete emancipation of our country can satisfy us. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that if the other provinces be in the same state of forwardness, as to men, arms, &c. as Leinster, as soon as we can obtain information thereof, we will immediately proceed to act, and that the Executive be requested to take such measures, as shall bring about a union of the provinces.

Another resolution was, that a committee of five do propose a military test to be laid before the provincials at their next meeting.

Another resolution was, to recommend the appointment of an 'Adjutant General, from three officers of each regiment, whose names should be sent in to the Executive Directory by their respective Colonels, and the proper officer for that appointment, to be from thence selected by the Directory.

There was also another resolution entered into, viz. Resolv ed, that the sum of 16 guineas be allowed for the purchase of a horse for a Delegate to be sent with orders from the Executive, and when there should be no further use for him, to be sold, and the value deposited in the treasury.

Another resolution went to request the Executive to account for the sum of sixty guineas with which they were charge

able.

In a paper found in the room where the Delegates met in Mr. Bond's was written thus, a military test-" I A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will perform my duty, and obey all lawful commands of my officers, while they act in due subordination to the lawful committee."

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Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard these papers read in evidence, and you have heard the evidences on the part of the prosecution; and the evidences adduced to induce you to believe, that Mr. Reynolds the witness, is not worthy of credit. Mr. Valentine Conner did on his oath declare, he knew the witness Mr. Reynolds, and from his general character, says, that Mr. Reynolds does not deserve to be believed on his oath. I think, said his Lordship, that Mr.Conner's testimony ought not to have weight with you to destroy the credit of Mr. Reynolds, Mrs. Fitzgerald said, she was the sister of Mr. Fitzgerald now in custody; she told you that Reynolds did not deserve credit upon his oath- if you believe that her brother is the Mr. Fitzgerald now in custody, on a similar charge, and as you are sensible men and knowing the world, may not the sister of a perSon accused be brought to declare the very opposite to what she really believes about a witness, who is brought forward on the part of the prosecution?-It may be, that because Reynolds came forward to discover of these conspiracies, it was her motive for saying all she did, to imprach the credit of Reynolds. As to the witness Henry Withrington, he is a young man about 16 years old; he and his brother have given you evidence, that it was said Mrs. Withrington had been poisoned, but no proof of that was adduced; they also said, that Tartar Emetic had been administered by Mr. Reynolds, and by his orders the remains of Mrs. Withrington were wrapped up in a pitched sheet. You will judge whether these men deserve credit or not-Mr. Cope has told you, that he has known Mr. Reynolds many years, and says, he is a person worthy of credit upon his oath.

This is the whole of the evidence; if you gentlemen of the jury, have any reasonable doubt upon your minds, you must acquit the prisoner; you will determine according to the evidence in the verdict you on your consciences may decide-The whole is left to your judgment.

The Jury withdrew from the box to their room about 8 o'clock en the morning of the 24th of July, and returned in about 10 minutes with a verdict of Guilty.

Mr. Bond being asked, what he had to say why judgment of death should not be awarded, he tendered a paper purporting to be the dying declaration of M'Cann (who was lately executed), that he was innocent-The Court rejected the paper, as being contrary to known practice.

Mr. Justice Day then pronounced the usual sentence of death against him in cases of high treason, and the prisoner was conducted back to gaol.

Oliver

OLIVERBOND was the fon of a Diffenting Minister in the North of Ireland, and connected by blood not only with many of the middle claffes of the people, but also with fome of those who figure in the first file of rank and fashion. His value, however, did not arife from refpectable relationships, but from his own perfonal merits — his public and private worth as a member of fociety, as a merchant, a friend, a husband, and a parent; candid, generous, and charitable-no other individual in Dublin flood higher in the estimation of his fellow-citizens of every description and profeflion.

Such, in a few words, was the man who unfortunately became an U. Irishman-But Mr. Bond did not fuffer by the hands of the common executioner; fo highly were the public interested in his favour, that even thofe who were adverfe to his political opinions, joined in the most earneft folicitations to Government, to change or mitigate the sentence of death-fo powerful and fo general were the interceffions in his favour, that Govern ment did hesitate. Conferences were held, and negociations entered into between the Caftle agents and the leaders of the United Irishmen; the first were to put a stop to the cruel proceedings of the Courts Martial, the exe cutions, the burnings, the whippings, &c. that then covered the landthe latter, to ceafe all further efforts on their fide, and either to receive pardons, or to banish themselves from the country.*

During thefe negociations, Mr. Bond was refpited from time to time, when, on the morning of the 6th of September, he was found dead in his chamber. -n times of fufpicion and diftruft, the sudden death of a man who was fo univerfally beloved on one fide, and fo much feared on the other, it is not wonderful that it should be afcribed to "foul play”— that a wretch could be found in a Dublin gaol capable of murder, we readily believe; but, badly as we think of a certain class of European politicians, we cannot believe, that any member either of the English or Irif gvernment would defcend to fo vile an inftigation.

We are confirmed in this opinion, by what is related by Mr. S. Neilfon, a State prifoner at the fame time, a man not inclined to conceal any evil trait of his perfecutors, and who wrote his account in a country where it is not become high treason to speak the truth-He fays, "On a fudden, I met with one of the greateft calamities that can befall a man-In a moment, without the flightest previous illness, Bond,my intimate and much beloved friend, whofe fate hul been deeply interwoven in all these transactions, fell down and expired!-This fatal catastrophe happened on the morning of the 6th of September-I was overwhelmed with the moft profound griefIt was not a common acquaintance; it was not a patriot of a few months ftanding, whofe lofs I had to deplore-No; it was a man with whom the clofeft intimacy for feventeen years had grown into a friendship inexpreffible It was a Patriot, whose devotion to Liberty was coeval with his manhood; whofe understanding was found as his integrity was inflexible, and whofe early, ufeful, and active labours in the caufe, will be recounted with exultation by his children, and remembered with gratitude by his country."

By one of thefe negociations, a number of the prisoners had made an agreement with Government, to tranfport themselves to the United States - when they were informed by Mr. Marfden, (one of the Under Secretaries) "that the American Ambaffador at the Court of St. James, had objected to their going to that country." By this very unexpected interference, thefe gentlemen were prevented from making America the place of their afylum, and of bringing with them property to a very large amount,

THE

TRIA L

OF

James N. Tandy and Harvey Morris

ON AN

ACT of ATTAINDER.

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KING'S BENCH.

Y virtue of a Certiorari directed to the Clerk of Parliament,

the tenor of a certain statute to attaint James N. Tandy, Harvey Morris, and others, of high treason, having been retúrned into Chancery, was from thence transmitted into this Court by mittimus.-The prisoners, Tandy and Morris, on the 10th February 1800, were brought into Court, when, after having the act of Parliament read to them, they were called upon to say, why execution should not be awarded and done upon them according to the statute, of which the following is the

PENAL CLAUSE.

"Whereas the following persons have been notoriously engaged in the said rebellion, either by taking up arms or levying war against his Majesty, or by having corresponded with, or adhered with, his enemies; or by otherwise fomenting or promoting the same, or acting therein, and being conscious of their guilt have fled from justice; that is to say (here follow several names) James N. Tandy and Harvey Morris. Be it therefore enacted, that the said several persons, and each of them, shall stand attainted of high treason, and shall be liable to all the pains and penalties of law annexed to the crime of high treason, unless they, and each of them, shall severally, and respectively, surrender themselves to one of the judges of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench; or to some justice of the peace within this kingdom, before the first day of December, 1798, and shall respectively abide such charges as shall

be

be made against them respectively, for, and on account of the several treasons aforesaid, with which they have been charg ed."—

Further proceedings were then postponed for two days, to give the prisoners' Counsel time to consider of the proper defence to be made. On the 12th of February, the Court refus ing to grant any further delay, the following Plea and Repli cation were filed on the part of Tandy, the prisoners having severed in their pleadings :

THE PLEA.

"And the said James N. Tandy says, that before the first day of December, 1798, to wit, on the 24th day of November, 1798, in parts beyond the sea, to wit, at Hamburg, he was arrested and imprisoned, by the command, desire, and authority of his Majesty our said Lord the King; and has been ever since continually detained in prison, by the same command, desire, or authority, by reason of which arrest and continual detention,it became impossible for him, the saidJamesN.Tandy, from the time of said arrest, to surrender himself on or before the first day of December, 1798; and continued so impossible until after the first day of December, 1798; and this he is ready to verify, and soforth."

REPLICATION.

"And the said Right Hon. John Toler, Attorney General of our said Sovereign Lord the King, who for our present said Sovereign Lord the King in this behalf prosecuteth, as to the said plea of him the said James N. Tandy, by him above pleaded as aforesaid, for our said present Sovereign Lord the King, saith, that the said James N. Tandy did not surrender himself within the time in the said act of parliament mentioned, to wit, on or before the first day of December, 1798, without such cause as in the plea of the said James N. Tandy is by him alledged; and this he prays may be enquired by the country; and the said James N. Tandy likewise, and soforth."

The case was then continued on affidavit being made of the absence of a material witness, until

MONDAY, 19th May.

This day the prisoners being brought into Court, and a jury impannelled and sworn to try the issue joined between J. N. Tandy and Mr. Attorney General,

Mr. Ridgeway, Counsel for the prisoner-My Lords, and Gentlemen of the Jury, in this case of the King against James Napper Tandy, by an act of parliament passed in this kingdom in the 38th year of the King, it is enacted, that James Napper Tandy, among several others, shall stand attainted of high trea

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