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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
Trialof Mr. William Stone, for 
High Trecson. 
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, came on 
in the court of king’s bench ‘the 
trial of Mr. W. Stone, who has 
been under confinement for two 
years, on a charge of high treason: 
About eighty names were called 
over before the jury was formed as 
follows : 
J. Leader, gent. | W. Summer, sil- 
J. Mayhew, esq. versmith 
J. Etherington, | J- Larkin, oil- 
teaman man 
_ T. Cole, brewer | Peter Taylor, 
Cha. Minier, block-maker 
seedsman W. West, brewer 
Dan. Dyson,esq. | I. Dimsdale, 
T. Burnett, esq. coach-maker. 
Mr, Barlow read the indictment, 
which consisted of two counts, in- 
cluding fourteen overtacts of trea- 
son; charging the prisoner with 
traitorously conspiring with his 
brother John Hurford Stone (then 
in France) to destroy the life of the 
king, and to raise rebellion in his 
realms; with holding correspon- 
dence with the persons in power 
in France, and collecting the sense 
of the people of this country, in 
order to ascertain whether an in- 
yasion might be successfully at- 
tempted, and with sending such in- 
formation to the enemy. He was 
further charged with traitorously 
Corresponding with the rev. Mr. 
Jackson (some time since capitally 
convicted of high treason, who 
died before the day of execution), 
in learning the probable success of 
invading Ireland ; and with having 
sent intelligence and various useful 
articles to the enemy. 
The attorney general then stated 
the circumstances of the case at 
full length; the leading features 
f11i 
of which appeared to be, that Stone 
had a brother, J. H. Stone, settled 
at Paris, who considered himself, 
in fact, as a Frenchman ; which ap- 
peared particularly from one of his 
letters, in which he said ** We have 
declared war against you. Holland 
willsoon be in our possession, and 
England will afterwards follow.” 
With this brother, by means of 
Jackson lately convicted of high 
treason in Ireland, Stonekept up a 
correspondence, and gave him all 
the information he could procure, 
to be communicated to the Frenck 
government, as to the probability 
of success which might attend an 
invasion of England by France. In 
the course of this enquiry it ap- 
peared that Stone had communi- 
cations with Mr. Sheridan, lord 
Lauderdale, William Smith, esq. 
M. P. and others; and that from 
the information he obtained he be- 
came satisfied that from the general 
loyalty of the people here an inyae 
sion was by no means likely to suc- 
ceed. But that in Ireland success 
was more probable. Jackson was 
accordingly sent there, and supplied 
with money by Stone to obtain such 
intelligence; and to lay such plans 
as might tend to assist the views 
of the French, It appeared that 
Stone communicated to his bro- 
ther the litle prospect of the success 
of an invasion here, in order to 
dissuade those exercising the powers 
of government in France from un- 
dertaking a scheme likely to be so 
fatal to their interests. 
The attorney-general alluded to 
several letters between the prisoner 
under the fictitious name of Enots 
(Stone reversed) his brother, Jack- 
son (in the name of Popkins), 
Horne Tooke, and others; all 
tending to shew the criminality of 
the 
