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SATURDAY.
The examination of witnesses for the Crown against Zephaniah Wil- liams was continued yesterday, and was not concluded when the Court rose. The prisoner's active participation in the insurrection was clearly proved. lle was prepared for and resolved upon a fight. The wit- nesses generally appeared to have very confused notions about "the Charter." One said, " He knew nothing about Chartism, or about the Ballot, except balloting for a good name; and that pensions were to be paid: he was a Chartist, and he took his pint of beer, but the only speech he made was to answer to his name." Another said he because a Chartist and signed a Chartist petition, " that the people might have a little more money, as he believed they had not enough." Others avowed their ignorance that Annual Parliaments and the Ballot had any thing to do with Chartism. James Bodge, a principal witness against Frost, said, that a person dressed like a gentleman, and whom he believed to be a Delegate, had told him that " the men would come down from the hills and sweep the vallies like moths before the sun." James Emery, a Pontypool cabinetmaker, was told that on the 5th November a " pro- clamation" would be posted up in Newport, beginning " We the Exe- cutive Government of England," and signed "John Frost, President." The Morning Chronicle's reporter says, that Frost has been removed to a separate cell ; refuses to see his family ; has sent for his Bible and Prayer-book, and " desires that his whole time may be devoted to pre- pare himself for that awful change to which his mind is noterfidla made up." [Stuff. How can his " mind be fully made up," when Ise knows he has chances of escape from execution, in the legal objection reserved for the Judges' decision, in the Jury's recommendation to mercy, and in the general m ish that no capital punishment should be inflicted ? The decision of the Judges on the reserved point will probably not be given till April.]
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