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upon loan, without interest, sev-
eval considerable sums of money
for the preservation of his
majesty’s interest and govern-
ment in New York, of which up-
wards of 2001. money in specie
lent, is atill unpaid. I desire,

clerk of the conneil) may be
sworn,

‘Arwoon, C, J. Mr. Jamison
has refused to purge himself of
signing those addrewes and ix
particeps oriminis, for whieh
reason he cannot be allowed to
be an evidence.

Mr. Jamison (who was then

The Cem Justice charged the jury. The indictment he
said was founded upon the act of the assembly of New York,
confirmed by his majesty, which had power to make acts of
treason as well as Parliament. The right of petitioning the
king was not in dispute, but the manner of doing it made it
eriminal. It was perfectly plain, that the addresses of the
prisoner was a disowning of the present authority, and a
casting off his majesty’s government as it was then estab-
lished. The drawing in of soldiers to sign petitions was
mutiny and sedition by the law; and drawing them in on
false pretenses, in hopes of freedom in the city, and sub-
scribing their names on blank lists, was enlisting soldiers,
and might be applied to invite in any foreign power. In con-
clusion, he strencusly insisted that the facts laid in the in-
dictment were abundantly proved, and constituted the of-
fense of high treason, and therefore, the jury could do no
otherwise than find the prisoner guilty.

THE VERDICT.

The Jury retired, but had not agreed at 9 o’clock in the

evening.
March 9.

The Jury had not then agreed upon a verdict, but requested
further instructions. The Camr Justice proceeded to give
them, and said he had received letters from the jury, and
answered them, which answers were only his private opinion.
He sad if they were under any difficulty, whether the mat-
tere of fact alleged in the indictment, and which were proved
to them, were treason or not, they might find the prisoner