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Rh in the clothes and sleeping apartment of the robber, the articles stolen from Lord Mauleverer were found, and that the purse containing the notes for three hundred pounds, the only thing the Prisoner could probably have obtained time to carry off with him on the morning in which the cave was entered by the policemen, was found on his person on the day in which he had attempted the rescue of his comrades, and had been apprehended in that attempt. He stated moreover, that the dress found in the cavern, and sworn to by one witness he should produce, as belonging to the Prisoner, answered exactly to the description of the clothes worn by the principal robber, and sworn to by Mauleverer, his servant, and the postilions. In like manner, the colour of one of the horses found in the cavern, corresponded with that rode by the highwayman. On these circumstantial proofs, aided by the immediate testimony of the King's evidence, (that witness whom he should produce,) he rested a case which could, he averred, leave no doubt on the minds of any impartial jury. Such, briefly and plainly alleged, made the substance of the details entered into by the learned