Clerk of Arraigns. How say you, are you Guilty, or Not Guilty?
Defendant. I am Not Guilty.
Clerk of Arraigns. If you object to any of the gentlemen who are called, you may make the objection before they are sworn; and it is my duty to inform you that you have a right to be tried, being a foreigner, either by a jury of half foreigners and half English, or by a jury entirely English.
Defendant. I have no wish; I am as safe in the hands of Englishmen as of any body.
The following Jurymen were called and sworn:—
1. John Foote.
2. William Jackson.
3. Robert Nagle.
4. Charles William Knight.
5. Michael Jones.
6. Richard Jessop.
7. William Hawksworth.
8. James Gillard.
9. Edward Findlay.
10. James Parker.
11. John Godfrey.
12. James Gordon.
(The Jury were charged with the Prisoner in the usual form.)
Mr. Serjeant Bompas. Before I make the address which it will be necessary to make to the jury, will your Lordship allow me to apply on behalf of a witness, a gentleman who took the notes in short-hand of what took place before the Committee of the House of Commons? I, of course, do it with the consent of the counsel on the other side; it is, that he may be now examined, which will remove all question as to the propriety of the proceeding; that he may be now sworn and state that this blue book contains a correct account of what took place: that will, of course, be subject to such objections as may be made by my learned friend.
Mr. Kelly. My Lord, I understand that Mr. Gurney’s presence is required, for the purpose of justice in Wales, under an order from the Home Office. I perfectly agree, that it shall be taken upon his evidence that this blue book contains a true account of what took place before the Committee, subject to any objections as to the admissibility of the evidence, the matter standing as if Mr. Gurney had given his evidence in its proper order.
Mr. Joseph Gurney, sworn. Examined by Mr. Serjeant Bompas.