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Verdict

Mr Justice Chamberlain then told the jury that the present prosecution was the most unfounded and unsupported of any that had ever appeared. That there was not a tittle of evidence to support it; that on the contrary the very evidence produced by the Crown, proved the very reverse of the charge brought forward.

Summertime

The Mall is decked out for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting; Lancaster house is sealed off and has much tentage and Lord Lieutenants and their deputies are run ragged greeting delegates at airports.

Indictment IV

Mr Dobbs then on behalf of the traverser declared he hardly knew what he ought to say, after such a prosecution, acquittal was out of the question, for conviction was impossible. But in such a business it was necessary to say something that might go along with that acquittal, to satisfy the public of the… Continue reading Indictment IV

Indictment III

Mr William Bellew continues his Cross Examination of John Ruxton, of Dunleer, second Witness for the Crown: –

Indictment II

John Ruxton, of Dunleer, second Witness for the Crown, produced and sworn, examined as follows by Mr Saurin: –

Indictment I

Dundalk Spring Assizes, 1794. On Saturday , April 19th, the following Trial came on before the Honourable Justice Chamberlain: – The King against Francis Bellew Esq.

Speech to the Loriners

Every day next week there is going to be a post about a court case that took place in Dundalk in 1794. The posts are a contemporary transcription of a trial for treason concluding with the verdict delivered by the jury and my verdict.

Painting Theatre

Yesterday took the train to Chichester to go (again) to the Pallant House Gallery. I was surprised (in a good way).

The Loriners

The purpose of writing here is to enlighten, entertain and, perhaps, infuriate. What I don’t do is to share my irrational worries. For eight months I have been mighty worried.

Today

The Today Programme has changed a lot in its sixty years on air. Every tweak has been met with outrage from listeners allergic to change of any sort and then been accepted as the new normal.