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That, the evidence of these two witnesses, coupled with the

documents of their discovering that would be produced, would show

the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty's

forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and

land, and would leave no doubt that he had habitually conveyed

such information to a hostile power. That, these lists could not

be proved to be in the prisoner's handwriting; but that it was

all the same; that, indeed, it was rather the better for the

prosecution, as showing the prisoner to be artful in his

precautions. That, the proof would go back five years, and would

show the prisoner already engaged in these pernicious missions,

within a few weeks before the date of the very first action

fought between the British troops and the Americans.