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266 ; there was a certain sternness in his countenance during the greater part of the trial. His behaviour was remarkably collected and composed. The Prisoner listened, with the greatest attention, to the indictment, which the reader will find in another part of our paper, charging him with the highway robbery of Lord Mauleverer, on the night of the of  last. He occasionally inclined his body forward, and turned his ear towards the Court; and he was observed, as the Jury were sworn, to look steadily in the face of each. He breathed thick and hard when the various aliases he had assumed, Howard, Cavendish, Jackson, &c. were read; but smiled, with an unaccountable expression, when the list was completed, as if exulting at the varieties of his ingenuity. At twenty-five minutes past ten, Mr. Dyebright, the Counsel for the Crown, stated the case to the Jury."

Mr. Dyebright was a lawyer of great eminence; he had been a Whig all his life, but had latterly become remarkable for his insincerity, and subservience to the wishes of the higher powers. His talents were peculiar and effective. If he had