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today. A jury was duly impanelled, and a plea of not
guilty made.

Elias Glenn,‘ Distriet Attorney, for the Government.

William Pinkney; Thomas Jenyngs,? Upton 8. Heath’ and
John E. Hall! for the Prisoner.

Mr. Glenn, District Attorney, opened the case by stating
that treason was a crime of the deepest dye, which all nations
had punished with exemplary severity. In the United States,
he said, it had been limited to two species, viz: levying war,
and adhering to the enemy, giving him aid and comfort.
Laws U. §., April, 1790, Sec. 1.

Tt was the second species of treazon of which the prisoner
stood aceused ; and it had been committed under the following
circumstances;

While the British army was on the retreat from the city
of Washington last summer, as they passed through Prince

County, Md. Clerk Colonial Legislature; Member of Congress,
1704; Presidential Elector, 1796-1800; Judge Maryland Supreme
Court, 1796; Controller U. 8. Treasury, 1802-1811; Associate Jus-
tice Supreme Court of the United States, 1811-1835, .

®Hoveton, James. (1767-1819.) Born Chestertown, Md.; Ad-
mitted to Bar, 1806; United States District Judge, District of Mary-
land, 1806-1819.

4@uzyy, Entas, (1770-1846.) Born Elkton, Md; United
States District Attorney, 1812-1820; United States District. Indge,
District of Maryland, 1824-1836; Died in Baltimore.

SPrngney, WiutaM, (1764-1822,) Born Annapolis, Md;
Member Convention which ratified the Constitution; Envoy
ordinary (1806) and Minister Plenipotentiary (1808) to Emgiand;
Settled in Baltimore, 1811; State Senator, 1812; Attorney General,
1842-1814; Member of Congreso, 1791-1703, 1815-1817; Minister to
Russia and Envoy to Naples; United States Senator, 1819-1822;
Died in Washington.

*Probably Tuomas Jennrnas, though the name is spelt Jenyngs
in the original report. In the Baltimore directory (1814-15) the
only man of this name is a “Thomas Jennings, ati’y at law.” Up
to 1833 the name continues to appear in the Baltimore directories,
Scharf’s Chronicles of Baltimore (1874), p. 163, mentions a “Thomas
Jennings,” who in 1778 declined an appointment as Attorney Gen-
eral, Hall’s Baltimore, Its History and Its People (Vol. 1, p. 622)
mentions among the men prominent in the pre-revolutionary times
a “Thomas Jennings.”

‘Heat, Urron 8, (1785-1852.) Born Maryland. A leader of
the Maryland Ber and though never married, was the head and sup=