Trying To Change A Sovereign.

cabriolet— -sighing at the idea of the degradation involved in that vulgar modern substitute for the barge with the halberdiers and the rowers in the Queen ' s livery , ancl the pursuivant with the silver greyhound embroidered on his sleeve — "Take him , Topham ! " *—and the Clerk of the Council , bearing the parchment warrant with the great dangling seal , ancl the procession clown the Thames , and the reception by Mr . Lieutenant and the scarlet-clad warders on

the slimy steps of Traitors' Gate . " The result of the examination was , " as I have above indicated , " the prisoner ' s committal to Newgate , to be tried for High Treason . He met his sister in a passage of the Home Office , and she embraced him . affectionately . " - y Poor girl ! Perharjs she had not ascended to the requisite degree of patriotic enthusiasm to contemplate unmoved the euthanasia of eight o ' clock on Monday morning outside the debtors' door . The trial is so thoroughl y a matter of general contemporaneous history that it is not worth while here to indicate more than one or two of its leadline' features .

The importance of the inquiry warranted the presidency of three judges , the senior being the Lord Chief Justice of England ; and , accordingly , on the morning of Thursday , the 9 th of July , Lord Denman , Baron Alderson , ancl Mr . Justice Patteson took their seats on the Bench at the Central Criminal Court , and the Attorney-General , Sir John Campbell ( afterwards Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor ) , with the Solicitor-General , Sir Thomas Wilde ( afterwards Lord Chancellor as Lord Truro ) , Sir Frederick Pollock ( afterwards

Lord Chief Baron ) , and Mr . —afterwards Mr . Justice—Wightman , appeared as counsel for the Crown . Poor Witless , who had for legal assistants a bright young advocate , cut off shortl y after—all too early— -Mr . Sidney Taylor , ancl the Mr . Bodkin who subsequently , as Sir W . H . Bodkin , sat for so many years as the Rhadamanthus , the terror of strumpets and rogues in Hicks ' s Hall—Witless , on being placed at the bar , giggled with much gratification at

seeing the array of wigs thought necessary to prosecute him . Furthermore , he had been told that the bench , crowded with gentlemen in plain clothes almost hustling the three judges , afforded accommodation to certain illustrious —even royal—personages , native and foreign , curious to witness the proceedings ; and the accused was hilariously eager to have them pointed out by name , ancl worried the assistant warders to that end , until , wearied by his importunities ,

they bade him be quiet ancl listen to the indictment . Poor Witless grinned ! again when that document appeared framed under the great Statute of Treasons of Plantagenet Edward , ancl , doubtlessly , felt much inward gratification in anticipating- how well the whole affair would read in next Sunday ' s Weekly Dispatch , ancl what a grand engraving of the scene would adorn the front page of Lloyd ' s Penny Police News . But the complacent smile of satisfaction changed into a grin of disappointed vanity when it appeared , after all , that a statute of George III . ( suggested , probably , by the numerous attempts , attacks , and assaults , of which onl y two ever came on for trial , $ made during his long reign upon that