A

COMPLETE COLLECTION

OF

State Trials

AND

PROCEEDINGS FOR HIGH TREASON AND OTHER
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

FROM THE

EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1783,

WITH NOTES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS:

COMPILED BY

T. B. HOWELL, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A.

AND

CONTINUED

FROM THE YEAR 1783 TO THE PRESENT TIME:

BY

THOMAS JONES HOWELL, Esq.

VOL. XXVI.

[BEING VOL. V. OF THE CONTINUATION]
36-38 GEORGE III.......A. D. 1796-1798.

LONDON:

Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street :

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. M. RICHARDSON;
BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK,
AND JOY; E. JEFFERY; J. HATCHARD; R. H. EVANS; J. BOOKER;
J. BOOTH; BUDD AND CALKIN; AND T. C. HANSARD.

1819.

28 JAN

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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VOLUME XXVI.

GEORGE THE THIRD, A. D. 1796-1798.

611. PROCEEDINGS on the Trial of ROBERT THOMAS CROSS-

FIELD for High Treason; at the Sessions House in the Old

Bailey, on Wednesday the 11th and Thursday the 12th Days of

May: 36 GEORge III. a. d. 1796 .....

PROCEEDINGS ON THE TRIALS OF THE DEFENDers.

612. Trial of JAMES WELDON for High Treason, before the Court

holden under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer and General

Gaol Delivery in and for the County of the City of Dublin, in the

Kingdom of Ireland, on Monday December 21st and Tuesday

December 22nd: 36 GEORGE III. A. d. 1795

......

Page

....... 225

613. Proceedings on the Trial of MICHAEL MAGUIRE for High

Treason, before the Court holden under a Commission of Oyer

and Terminer at Dublin, on Thursday December 24: 36 GEORGE

III. A. D. 1795..........

293

614. Proceedings on the Trial of JOHN LEARY for High Treason,

before the Court holden under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer

at Dublin, on Monday December 28th: 36 GEORGE III. A. D. 1795 295

615. Proceedings on the Trial of THOMAS KENNEDY for High

Treason; before the Court holden at Dublin under a Commission

of Oyer and Terminer, on Monday February 22: 36 GEORGE III.

A. D. 1796..........

353

616. Proceedings on the Trial of PATRICK HART, for High Treason,

before the Court holden under a Commission of Oyer and Termi-

ner at Dublin, on Wednesday February 24th: 36 George III.

A. D. 1796 .....

Page

387

617. Proceedings on the Trial of ANDREW GLENNAN, PHILIP

KANE, OWEN REILY, CHARLES SORAGHAN, PA-

TRICK KINSHELA, MICHAEL SLEAVEN, JOHN CON-

NOR, HUGH BYRNE, MICHAEL WALSH, JOHN RATI-

CAN, JAMES CARMICHAEL, JAMES CONNOR, and

JAMES DEMPSEY, for a Conspiracy, before the Court

holden under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer at Dublin, on

Monday February 22nd: 36 GEORGE III. A. D. 1796............... 437

618. Proceedings on the Trial of the Right Reverend Father in God,

JOHN [Warren] LORD BISHOP OF BANGOR; HUGH

OWEN, D. D. JOHN ROBERTS, and John WILLIAMS,

Clerks; and THOMAS JONES, Gentleman, for a Riot: tried

by a Special Jury, before the Honourable John Heath, Esq. one

of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, at the Assizes

holden at Shrewsbury on the 26th day of July: 36 GEORGE III.

A. D. 1796

619. Proceedings on the Trial of an Information exhibited Ex-Officio by

his Majesty's Attorney General (in pursuance of an Address pre-

sented to his Majesty by the House of Commons) against JOHN

REEVES, Esquire, for a Seditious Libel; tried at Guildhall, by

a Special Jury, before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Lord

Chief Justice of the Court of King's-Bench, May 20th: 36 GEO.

III. A. D. 1796 [Now first published]

....

463

529

620. Trial of JOHN BINNS on an Indictment for Seditious Words;

tried at Warwick before the Honourable Sir William Henry Ash-

hurst, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's-

Bench, on Tuesday, August 15th: 37 GEORGE III. A. D. 1797... 595

621. Proceedings against THOMAS WILLIAMS for publishing Paine's

"Age of Reason;" tried by a Special Jury in the Court of King's-

Bench at Westminster, before the Right Honourable Lloyd Lord

Kenyon on the 24th day of June: 37 GEORGE III. a. d. 1797

[Now first published]

...........

653

622. Trial of DAVID MACLANE for High Treason; before the Court

holden under a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, at the

City of Quebec in the Province of Lower Canada, on Friday the

7th day of July: 37 GEORGE III. A. D. 1797

623. Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh against

ALISON DUNCAN, NEIL REIDPATH, and ROBERT

MITCHELL, on an Indictment charging them with Mobbing

and Rioting in resistance of the execution of the Militia Act, 11th

and 12th of October: 37 GEORGE III. a. D. 1797 [Now first

published]

624. Proceedings on the Trial of JAMES DUNN for conspiring to

Murder the Right Honourable Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of

Carhampton; tried before the Court holden under a Commission

of Oyer and Terminer at Dublin, on Monday October 23rd:

37 GEORGE III. A. D. 1797.......

624.* Proceedings on the Trial of PATRICK CARTY for conspiring to

Murder the Right Honourable Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of

Carhampton; tried before the Court holden under a Commission

of Oyer and Terminer at Dublin, on Wednesday October 25th:

38 GEORGE III. A. D. 1797...........

625. Proceedings on the Trial of PETER FINERTY, upon an Indict-

ment for a Seditious Libel; tried at Dublin before the Honourable

William Downes, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of

King's Bench in Ireland, on Friday December 22nd: 38 GEO. III

A. D. 1797

626. Proceedings on the Trial of PATRICK FINNEY for High Trea-

son; tried at Dublin before the Right Honourable Tankerville

Chamberlain, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench,

and the Honourable Michael Smith, one of the Barons of the

Court of Exchequer of the Kingdom of Ireland, on Tuesday

January 16th: 38 GEORGE III. A. D. 1798

627. Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, against

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721

827

839

877

901

1019

GEORGE MEALMAKER, on an Indictment charging him with

Sedition and administering unlawful Oaths, 10th, 11th, and 12th

of January: 38 GEORGE III. A. d. 1798 [Now first published]... 1135