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 naeht of 4nsericoa settlers 9 fyNadaaeasko! We have received the St. John Con. Irief of the 2.ssd, which contains an ae- count of the Trial and Conviction al tue Supreme Court, at Fredericktai q Barnabas Hannawell, Jesse Wetloeb, and Dauiel Savage, for certain ..sed tious acts, Gas they are called by the Provincials) at the Madawaska settle ment,p which seditions acts, our read. CTS have before been apprsed, consist ed in chooslas9 tozun officers in Abe ueari4 Incorporated tozon of .NadazoasAQ. The

 Trial took place on the 18th inst. The defendants appeared without Counsel. One of them, Hannaweh, in his defence. said, ''that having received the warrant. they were obliged under the law of the State of Maine to act, they would have been liable to punishment under their laws if they had declined. That Tn the situation of the country there was a difficulty on both sides. and of two evils they thought they Lad chosen the least, as they were led to suppose from what the two officers hfessrs. Maclauch- Ian and Coobes, had said. they would not be interfered with, so long as they confined themselves to the west side of the river.p

 The Jury, after short consnltation. returned verdict of Guihg, when the defendants were asked whether they had any thing to offer to the Court, an- swered in the negative. His Honor. MT. Justice Chipman then addressed them and observed

 sThat it was sufficient merely to state the charge of which lhef had hcc;. found guilty, to show its aggravated character, withoutadiing word ofcom. ment. 1t was no less than a direct a;. tempt to subvert the authority of the government, and to introduce the iuris- |diction of a foreign State. That the defendants had to say in their extenua- ton thai they were not the original au. thors of these proceedings, they appear ed certainly to be instruments in the hands of others. They also set LID in their defence a color of justification whlchthey ycontended was given to their proceedings by the acts ard declaration of a person in the character of Bri- tlsh Officer. These acts and declara- tions, however went no further thap to abstain from preventing bj force, pro-