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The prisoner listened with the greatest attention to the indictment , which the reader will find in another part of our paper , charging him with the highway robbery of Lord Mauleverer , on the night of the ------ of ------ last . He occasionally inclined his body forward , and turned his ear towards the court ; and he was observed , as the jury were sworn , to look steadily in the face of each . He breathed thick and hard when the various aliases he had assumed -- Howard , Cavendish , Jackson , etc. , -- were read ; but smiled with an unaccountable expression when the list was completed , as if exulting at the varieties of his ingenuity . At twenty-five minutes past ten Mr. Dyebright , the counsel for the crown , stated the case to the jury . '' Mr. Dyebright was a lawyer of great eminence ; he had been a Whig all his life , but had latterly become remarkable for his insincerity , and subservience to the wishes of the higher powers . His talents were peculiar and effective . If he had little eloquence , he had much power ; and his legal knowledge , was sound and extensive .