On  the  19th  of  July,  his  solicitors  gave
written  notices  to  the  rev.  John  Griffith,  and
his  clerk,  and  also  to  the  agents  to  the  solici-
tor for  the  prosecution,  that  this  defendant
would  attend  at  the  following  assizes,  to  meet
any  charse  that  misht  be  broudit  against
him;  ana  on  the  7th  of  August  his  brother
gave  another  notice  in  writins;  to  Mr.  Griffith
to  inform  him,  that  he  (the  defendant)  would
be  in  Manchester  the  next  day,  and  the  day
following. — On  the  8th  of  Ausust,  Mr.  Jack-
son came  to  Manchester,  and  the  next  day
sent  a  messaee  to  the  magistrate,  to  let  him
know  where  ne  was;  but  not  being  appre-
hended, he  accompanied  Mr.  Walker  to  the
assizes  at  Lancaster  on  the  following  day;
when  the  charge  of  high  treason  being  aban-
doned, and  a  bill  for  a  conspiracy  found  by
the  grand  jury,  he  gave  bail  with  the  other
defendants,  to  try  the  same  at  the  following
assizes,  and  was  with  them  honourably  ac-
quitted,

^  To  the  assertion  which  the  attorney-general
for  the  county  palatine  of  Lancaster  was  in-
structed to  make  in  his  opening  on  the  trial
and  which  was  afterwards  attempted  to  be
substantiated  by  Dunn,  in  his  evidence  that
the  works  of  Paine,  and  many  other  works
of  a  similar  tendency  were  read  by  this  de-
fendant to  the  societies ;  he  has  only  to  ob-
serve, that  the  whole  is  untrue.
