Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The Gazette.

PHILADELPHIA,

SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 11.

CIRCUIT COURT

Of the United States.

Soon after the Jury delivered their verdict in the Case of John Fries, on Thursday evening last, Mr. RAWLE, attorney for the United States, observed, that in order to give the prisoner time, and every other indulgence consistent with his situation, he should not move for judgement to be passed on him before Monday next. In this humane disposition the Court coincided.

Yesterday came on the trial of the following persons, indicted for Conspiracy, Rescue, and Obstruction of Process, viz.

Christian Ruth
Daniel Schwartz, sen.
Daniel Schwartz, jun.
Henry Stahler,
Henry Schiffert,
George Shaeffer.

The Jury was impannelled, and four or five witnesses examined, when the Court adjourned.

The offence for which the above persons are indicted, is termed Misdemeanor, and consequently of less magnitude than that of which Fries was convicted, and with which five others of the Insurgents stand charged.

[Am. D. Adv.

THE circumstances attending the trial of the unhappy man, lately found guilty of High Treason, are of a nature to promote all that confidence and respect, in the highest degree, which should ever attend an institution justly prized by all enlightened men, as the most powerful safeguard of national liberty.

After hearing the most elaborate defence ever made for a criminal in this country, and the most candid and impartial exposition of the case on the part of the prosecution, the Jury, being about to retire, received the permission of the Court, to take whatever refreshments they might need. Having retired, the Foreman proceeded to take the sense of the Jury, by ballot, when it appeared, that, without any debate having been held, there was an entire unanimity.

It is an additional satisfaction to learn, that the unhappy prisoner himself, has expressed his complacency at the uniformly unexceptionable course of his whole trial, which occupied a space of eleven days.

Amidst so general an exasperation of parties, as unhappily prevails in our country, it is extremely gratifying, to find, on a review of this whole trial, that no motive foreign to the soundest principles of justice, has been suffered in the slightest degree to take operation: Even the envenomed tongue of malice has met no occasion whereon to found even a murmur against that government, and that particular branch of it, which have heretofore excited the objects of its ceaseless venom. Let us hope that this excessive rancour is awed into a temperance, which shall for the future restrain it from assailing an institution every where confessed to be the most precious result of human wisdom and experience; an institution by the pure or perverse state of which, every Republic must stand or fall.