PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from 1889. Price Ten Shillings. THE STATE TRIALS COMMITTEE. Lord ACTON. Lord COLERIDGE, Lord Chief Justice of England. Lord BRAMWELL. *Lord LINGEN, K.C.B. Lord ESHER, Master of the Rolls. *Lord THRING, K.C.B. Rt. Hon. LORD JUSTICE GENERAL OF SCOTLAND. *Rt. Hon. Sir CHARLES S. C. BOWEN, Lord Justice of Appeal. Rt. Hon. ANDrew Marshall PORTER, Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Rt. Hon. LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND. Hon. GEORGE DENMAN, one of Her Majesty's Judges. Hon. Sir JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN, K.C.S.I., one of Her Majesty's Judges. Sir REGINALD EARLE WELBY, K.C.B. *Mr. HENRY JENKYNS, C.B. Mr. GODFREY LUSHINGTON, C.B. *Mr. KENNETH MUIR MACKENZIE, Q.C. *Mr. HARRY BODKIN POLAND, Q.C. *Mr. FREDERIC HARRISON. *Mr. THOMAS DIGBY PIGOTT. *Mr. ROBERT SAMUEL WRIGHT. Mr. JOHN MACDONELL, Editor and Secretary. * The members whose names are marked with an asterisk act as a sub-committee. PREFACE. This volume contains reports of the most important State Trials, as defined in the first volume of the new series of State Trials Reports, between the years 1823 and 1831. Appendix A. contains a list of other trials submitted to the State Trials Committee, but not deemed by them proper to be reported in full. In the other Appendices are documents and extracts illustrative of the cases reported, and taken for the most part from papers in the possession of the Solicitor of the Treasury, in the India Office, and in Dublin Castle. The following is an extract from the Preface to the first volume :-"The Committee are in no way responsible for the statements of law contained in any of the cases; and they were not, in their choice of trials to be printed in full, guided by any opinion which they might entertain as to the conclusion arrived at by either judge or jury on any occasion "; a statement which applies to the second volume. July, 1889. |