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corsairs, with a view to the report 

 to be made to the Courts and con- 

 stituents of the members of the 

 Diet. 



17. Court of King's Bench. — 

 The King. v. Preston, Thistlewood, 

 and Hooper, for High Treason. — 



At half past 12 the Attorney 

 and Solicitor-General entered the 

 Court . 



The three prisoners above-nam- 

 ed were soon afterwards intro- 

 duced by the warders of the 

 Tower. 



They were then informed by 

 the officer, in the usual form, 

 that they must challenge the jury- 

 men as they came to the book to 

 be sworn, and a jury was imme- 

 diately called over and placed in 

 the box. 



The prisoners, holding up their 

 hands, were arraigned for high- 

 treason by the master of the 

 Crown Office, and the jury was 

 charged with their trial. Procla- 

 mation was likewise made, after 

 which 



The Attorney-General, address- 

 ing their lordships, said, I rise 

 for the purpose of informing the 

 Court that it is not my intention 

 to call any evidence in support of 

 the charges against the prisoners 

 at the bar. 



Lord EUenborough. — Gentle- 

 men of the Jury, as no evidence 

 is brought forward against the 

 prisoners, it will be your duty to 

 find them not guilty, that they may 

 be discharged. 



The prisoners again held up 

 their hands, and Mr. Barlow put 

 the question separately to the 

 Jury, whether they found the de- 

 fendants guilty or not guilty, and 

 whether they had fled for it, 



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The answer was, that they were 

 not guilty, and tliat they had not 

 lied for it. 



Lord EUenborough. — Mr. At- 

 torney General, as there is no fur- 

 ther charge against the prisoners, 

 I shall order that they be dis- 

 charged. 



Thistlewood, Hooper, and Pres- 

 ton, were discharged accordingly, 

 and retired from the Court by a 

 private way through the jury box. 



A foreigner, attended by a per- 

 son whom he styled his interpreter, 

 called at Messrs. Rundell and 

 Bridge's, Ludgate-hill, as he sta- 

 ted, to look out an assortment of 

 valuable diamonds, and other ar- 

 ticles, in order to juake a consi- 

 derable purchase for a foreign 

 market. He gave it to be under- 

 stood, that it would not be con- 

 venient to pay for them till the 

 folio wing week; but, to saAC trou- 

 ble when he came for them, he 

 wished to have the articles pre- 

 viously selected and agreed for. 

 For the satisfaction of both par- 

 ties the interpreter signified that 

 Mr. Simon Blaum, the Geneva 

 merchant, as he styled him, was 

 desirous that the valuables, as 

 they were bargained for, should 

 be ])ut into a paper box which 

 he had brought for that purpose, 

 and then sealed up with his seal, 

 and that of the house. The box 

 was proposed, of course, to be de- 

 posited with Messrs. Rundell aiid 

 Bridge. Much time was consumed 

 in selecting the articles, and in 

 making out the bill of parcels, 

 which presented altogether a sum. 

 of no less amount than 24,OOGi. 

 Every thing being arranged, the 

 foreigner and his interpreter took 

 leave, with the assurance that 

 fi they 



