Star. — London, England, 1819-09-11 00:00:00

C ROSS ABUSE. •••••••• •.•••Mm. : vs he uncandid to consider abuses detailed in the subjoined letter, as ifs , n ut of what has been called " The -int." It is our duty however to give that a remedy may be the sooner from such misconduct on the part of at public measures, however salutary may be conve: ted into a cu: se ; and :ver fail to bring unmerited odium aliment. I? A MSG ATE, SEPTEMBER 10. lig, about half-past six o'clock, as a nea, in t i,, and on horseback, were a from Sdnilwich, witero they had been duty as ,;or) men at the General Ses ice and Delivery, they were much rd onc of the SEVERN'S crew, belong :.out Station at sladines, in a drunken tir a cutlass in one iland, and a Lvov rid c tked) in the other, un:a fully .e King's highway a foot passenger, •hould go hack with him (a distance miles) to his Officer, for no other o inform the Officer ssho he was . at threatening the man he would blew it he offered to pursue his road to :c party, on coming up, remonstrated is on the impropriety of his proceed red him to suffer the man to depart, pistol (which he several times pre ...rd of the person Ems stopped) ; but , :suasion having no effect, a Gentle to he nearest Preventive Station, at ironght an Officer and some men, the fellow and took him to their Prior to the detention of the passenger is rascal liad detained, on a similar pre .ear, a trade man belonging to Rams :rived to evade him, much alarmed for .al safety. :1. Magistrate (the Rev. Mr. HARvrvl ;atioa of the affair, has very properly ....int, to king tLis man to Civil Justice, Lin:self to transmit a statement of the cuals..ance to the Lords of the Adrni- ‘, hoped will take this scandalous trans it- molt serious consideration, and cause )n in a %yqem big with so much rnis 'ajesty's liege subjects, both in person indeed if such fellows, ' dressed up with tutlierity,' arc allowed to go about with sands, no person will be able to travel this part of the country, from one town 'en in open day. _ _ .e interference is loudly called for on ich great disgrace to our laws and li ; trusted Government will immediately :ntion to an evil of this gross nature." 'CHESTER, SEPTEMBER 7. ,SSIZES-CROWN COURT. aged 25, Patrick M'Donald, aged APColi, aged 26, Jeremiah Curran, agei cyan Yl , Manus, aged 26, were charged - burgla-iously entered the dwelling-house iv-et at Manchester, with intent to steal, intent to murder. !gin and Dynnis Nl‘Coy, were found ling the abscnc of the Jury for half an )\%ing preceedir.gs took place as to the TILINSACTIONS. INS-11ving up Saxton and the others alicted with Mr. Bunt. leis v..cre removed, and Saxton and his ;nciatcs were ra;tpect in the dock. Hunt, %ight, and MoJrhouse, were admitted la•.•.t, you have been indicted :or a misden:eanour at Manclicster. Do to the Leit Assizes, or di, you submit? traverse. My Lord, 1 beg to ob r Lordship, that 1 am not properly de ie indictment. My name is Henry Hunt, 1: answer to the description therein given am therein called Henry Hunt, late a lland,e , ter ; Goy forbid I should be so! .01D-I'oti n.av make that a plea in abate may plead to it, but it is certainly a very !ttion to make on your part. r (v:ith a very respectful look)—Well, perhaps I had better not make it. .gilt, just:ph Johnson, and James Moor 're then severally informed by the Clerk of t:lat there were also ii,dictmcnts against iidemeanours, and asked if they traversed? cte.Aiion they severally answered in the Nr renewed his objection to the description `',:azat;ces, and contended that the descry might be correcte3. ` o oo —Mow, is that of any consequence means Lot Ling. 'NT—I only object to my being called a '! . . ,o D—You may, rerh4ps, deem yoarsell Out designation. I don't know if tha %!t.ig or not. I .:!.r—Certaiuly, my Lord ; but if your thwic it of no consequence, I %yin waive t'..en bound by recognizance to ap T hist day of the neit Session of Oyer and to have die nasdemcanottr, to which he pro , ecate.l, himself in E4OO, and his Sir Charles Wolselev, Wolseley Park, ar.d Mr. Thomas Chapman, of Vale -I.lnclie•ter, merchant, in 4:200 each. h 3,-„,,,! 4 Johnson, Were WV ith the same sureties to the same amount. was bt,und for a like 5t1271 of, X4OO, and his =retie, Peter Turner Candlett and James Swindells, in £2OO each. The followin; defendants, who were still in cus- I tody, were then put to the Bar, and with their sure ties justified in the usual manner, themselves in £2OO, i and their resp ctive sureties in £lOO each: John Thac :er Saxton. Sureties—James Scott, of Pendleton, la ti-surveyor, and William Smith, of Parliament•st ect, Manchester, pipe-maker. Joseph Ile tle). Sureties—The same James Scott and William Smith. Samuel Waif - ord. Sureties—Sir Charles \Volseley and Mr. ThJmas Chapman. Robert Jones. Sureties—John Dracup, of George lee -street, Manchester, linen•draper, and Peter Tur ner Candlett. George Swift. Sureties—James Scott and Wil iam Smith. Robert Wild. Sureties—Thomas Cheetham, of Stockport, surgeon, and James Swindle, of Stock port, manufacturer. - . JOHN THACKER SAXTON then addressed his Lord ship thus :-1 beg to ask your Lordship a question: As bail is now put in for my fellow-prisoners and myself, will your. Lordship now allow us to be dischar,..ed ? Bai on WOOD—To be sure ; that follows of course. T•er is no objection to your immediate discharge at all ; yo t are entitled to it at present, as you have entered i .no recognizances. JOHN fHACKER SAXTON—I only wished to know it for c Ttain, my Lord, as we have suffered impri sonme it for a long period. Baron Woon—l can say nothing as to that, but you are at liberty now. Huwr—My Lord, as to this bail, I wish to she v the situation in which these prisoners and my self were placed :* we were told it was necessary to proc are bail; each sent to their separate friends, and they came, and fortunately others accompanied them. Those, for instance, who were to be bail for Barn ford, were not allowed to be bail, but oilers were taken whom he never saw nor heard of; for he was told unless he could say that the bail proposed by him had never been seen by him, and was net con nected with the charge, he should not be allowed his liberty. This is the most extraordinary sort of accommodation I ever heard of, and yet such was the sort of accommodation offered by the Solicitor of the Treasury, when it was said, g , we won't take that bail which you brought for yourself, but we will take that bail for you which was brought for another." I only mention this to shew the sort of disposition which prevails to accommodate us. The Clerk of the Court.—Perhaps in justification of the Prosecutor, and in the absence of the Solicitor of the Treasury, I should state— Baron Woop—(interposing)—l cannot help it. Mr. Huwr—The Solicitor may have made a very handsome thing of it, as some of them offered pre miums of £5 elch. It is not necessary, I suppose, to read over the Indictment. Baron Woo's—There is no occasion. Mr. HUNT—Unless your Lordship wishes it there s certainly no occasion, as it is a compound of false- hood. Mr. Pzastsox—There is a person of the name of Adamson still in custody, against whom no Bill has been found ! I suppose he may be now discharged. Baron WOOD—Let him be discharged. Mr. HUNT—No Bill was found against him, and he has now paid his fees, for the non-payment of which he has been detained. The Clerk of the Court—Mr. Hunt is mistaken when he says he has only been detained on account of the non-payment of fees; nut a halfpenny was re quired of him. Mr. HUNT—The man stated that his Bill was thrown out yesterday; he has been kept in solitary confinement ever since, and he said the reason was the non-payment of his fees. Baron WOOD—Yod will find that not to be the fact. If he does not apply for his discharge he cannot be dischaiged. The Grand Jury are discharged, and he too may be now discharged. All these parties now left the Court, and after aj short interval Sir Charles Wolseley and 4r. Johnson rAurned, and became bail for John Knight and Wil liam Fuel upon other Indictments, to the amount of £5O each. Before the bail for William Fitten was received, the Clerk observed, that it was necessary he should first traverse the Indictment ; but Fitten was absent. Mr. Jormsox—lf the bail be taken now he may afterwards come himself. Baron WOOD—He must come during the Assizes. The regular course is to plead first, and then to enter into recognizances ; but we will take it de bent csse, upon the footing that he will come. The Clerk of the Court—He must appear person ally, for he and all the other persons in similar situa tions are liable to be taken on Bench Warrants, un less they appear personally and traverse to the next Session. The parties then withdrew. We understand that there were no less than sixteen other persons in attendance, who were all freeholders of the county, and willing to offer themselves as bail for these defendants. Most of them were from Pres ton, Stockport, and Manchester ; and two from Liver. poul. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 9. CONTINUATION OF TILT INQUEST AT OLDITANt. Soon after three o'clock yesterday Mr. I3ATTYE, the Coroner's Clerk, returned to Oldhaln, according to appointment, and stated to the Jury impanneled for the Inquest upon John Lees, that he had been to this town to look for a Coroner; that he found Mr. Milne, who said that he could not attend yesterday or to-day, in consequence of other engagements; but that he would come to preside at the Inquest on Fri day morning, if Mr. Farrell should not return before then. Under these circumstances he proposed to ad journ the Inquest until Frii . ty morning. Mr. limitaiiEß pressed the propriety of taking the depositions of the several witnesses v ho were present, And who had come several miles to attend the Inquest, and that after those depositions were recorded, the Inquest ni:ght be adjourned until a Coroner should attend. This he submitted would be the more conve nient mode pf proceeding fur the accommodation of the Jury, as well as fur the purposes of justice. BATrYE.-1 cannot submit to the fatigue of going into the case to-day ; 1 have had no dinner, and lam engaged to dine at seven o'clock this evening with a friend at Rochdale. Besides, we (la; want your evidence ; vcu might bring half Manchester here; the Crown has plenty of evidence without your's. Mr. HARMER.—What do you mean, Sir, by the Crown having plenty of evidence ? BATTYE.—I won't answer any questions. I think I have said enongh. I will not hear your evidence. Mr. HAnNtEn.—lt is the province of the Jury, Sir, to decide, and not that of the Coroner ; and it is for the Jury then to determiae with what evidence they will be satisfied. BATTI E.—When Mr. Farren comes here, he will do what he pleases; ha I shan't take any evidence. Mr. HA RM ER.—llave you not before attended here for the Coroner, and taken depositions? BATTYE.—I have taken depositions, but I have always adjourned the Inqinst till Mr. Farren was present. Mr. HARMER.—WeII then, all I require of you in this case, is to take the depositions of the witnesses who come from distance, whom it may be difficult to bring - here again, and the Jury thus lose the be nefit of their testimony. BATTYE. —I will adjourn the Court. Mr. HARM r. R.—l again request you not to adjourn without putting the Jury in possession of evidence which they may not again be able to obtain, and which may be most material to enable them to form a correct judgment of the cause of the death of a fellow-creature, which has evidently been occasioned by violence, and upon which they are bound to deter mine. BATTYL—What time, please, do you propose to occupy in your mode of inquiry ? Why, we may be kept here all night. • Mr. HARM ER.—The evidence which I have now to adduce would not occupy much time. But no time would be misspent in inquiring into and ascer taining the real cause of such a melancholy event. BATTYE.-0 yes; I know we are not to look to time. Once Mr. Darren, I remember, had an Inquest for five weeks. But I did not know of your attend ance, or I would not come at all. It was when I came here this morning, a woman came and told me that three or four coaches had come with a number of persons from Manchester, and some people from London. We supposed that they were witnesses, and then I determined not to go into the case ; and now I tell you I am resolved that no one shall entrap me into the Inquest. JURYMAN.—Why not proceed with the Inquest? Has any thing uncommon happened since morning, that prevents you from proceeding as you intended ? BATTYE.—Yes, tomething has happened which I do not here think proper to explain. Mr. HARMER.—It appears to me, that if you came here prepared to take the evidence, and the Jury now desire to hear it, it is your duty to comply with their desire. BATTYE.—It was my intention, when I left home, to hear the evidence ; but when I came here I thought differently. I heard here something about a sabre wound ; but I heard at Rochdale that the man died of a crush, which was neither murder nor manslaugh ter, but accidental death. Mr. HARMER.—Although the death might be oc casioned by a crush, circumstances might still make it murder. Another JURYMAN expressed a desire to go into the evidence at once. Mr. HARMER noticed this expression, and stated that he had the evidence at hand ready to adduce if the Jury desired to hear it. BATTYE.—The Jury all agree with me that the Inquest should be adjourned. Some of the JURYMEN dissented. A JURYMAN expressed a wish to know whether, according to law, it was in the power of the Coroner to adjourn the Court against the wish of the Jury? BATTYE.--I know you of old ; I remember you ; you have an enmity to me, and I won't answer any of your questions. I choose to adjourn the Court be cause I don't feel myself competent. Three or four Jurymen expressed a wish that the evidence should be gone into, and the Foreman de clared himself of the same opinion. BATTYE, rising from his Chair, exclaimed—" I adjourn the Court !" A JURYMAN asked Mr. Battye, if he felt himself competent to conduct the Inquest, when he under stood that the deceased came by his death through a crush, why should he feel himself incompetent be. cause he heard that death was the consequence of a sabre-wound? BATTYE made no answer to this question; but observed, addressing himself to Mr. Harmer—" I think I have had trouble enough upon this business. I have rode fourteen miles and gone to Manchester, to oblige you, and you are not satisfied. You have all behaved very ill to me. I don't know what you would have!" Mr. 1-laustEn.—l appeal to the Jury, whether I have said or done any thing offensive or exception able. If I have, I should be ready to make an apo logy. But I am sorry to be compelled to observe, that I have witnessed a levity of conduct, on this oc casion, very unsuited to the solemnity of suck an in vestigation, and extremely unbecoming the consider ation that is due from common humanity to the death of a fellow being. BATTYE.—Things, I have no doubt, will be con ducted differently on Friday. Mr. HARMER.—I hope so. But while I disclaim any intention to offend you, Sir, I must call to your recollection the language you used this morning— that if Mr. Farren were here, he would not allow us to be in the room. BATTYE.-011! I now know that you have a right, by law to be in the room; but you are not en titled to meddle with the Inquest. Mr. DENISON expressed a wish to know the names of the Jury; not from any diffidence whatever in their integrity, but from a desire to be assured that the same persons should attend on. Friday. Ba will not give their names. Mr. Dituraorc—The Jury will, I doubt not, have themselves no hesitation to give their names. Burr - vs.—l forbid them to do so. The FOREMAN stated that his name was Jackson. Barrvx asked, " What keeps you all here now?— The Court is adjourned; Do you want to,fi'sh out any thing more?" Mr. I-laaman.—We have addressed you as a Gen tleman, and hope you will treat us in the same man. er, .nosing that we are here in the performance of our professional duty, as you are yourself. Braris —Oh! them that can't tarn can't spin ! Mr. HARMER.—That is a ♦ery classical expression: BArryg.—lt's very well understood in Lancashire,: JURYMAN.—Are the Gentlemen of the Jury satis fied that an adjournment shall take place? Another JURYMAN.—This is a Coroner's Inqne it, and I think the Coroner competent to adjourn it. BATTYL—I do adjourn it. Mr. DENISON requested him to recori the ad- I journment. BATTYP.—.WiII you keep questioning niehere all night? I shall do as I like. Mr. HARMER.—It is Ylecessary, Sir, that the ad journment should be recorded, in order that we mai ,r -know when to attend, and that no investigation mai take 'place in our absence. BATTYE.—What! do you think us so mean he e? Thai's a very ungentlemaa-like observation. Mr. HARNIER.--I will not say what I think; but I have said nothing ungentlernan-like. A JURYMAN, addressing himself to !r. Battye, ob served—" I must take leave to say, Sir, that you have shewn yourself very irritable upon this occasion, and that you have mode offensive observations to these Gentlemen, which I have heard will pain." Barrye.—What's that to you?—lf you thought me what you say, you should w. it, and say so to me in private.—The Court then broke up. I have been thus minute in detailing the particu lars of fells Preliminary to an loquest, in oraer that you should understand the character of the,system which prevails here, and the description of persons selected to administer that system. It was quite evi dent to me, even before his confession, that this Co roner's Clerk was sent to hold the Inquest, an] actu ally intended to do se, until he saw the witnesses brought to the Court by the Professional Gcnlemen, who attended with a view to probe this extraordinary affair to the bottom. It was calculated that this, like the other Inquests which have taken place upon th victims at Peter's Field, might he managed slily and snugly, without the intervention of any persons de termined to ascertain the whole truth, and that a verdict of " Accidental Death," or "Death from tI e Pressure of a Crowd," would be the result; but the calculation was found to be erroneous. Upon the appearance of those who disappointed this calcula tion, Mr. BATTYE was quite confounded, and that confusion was manifest in every step of his progress. After the Court broke up at Oldham yesterday, application was made to Mr. BATTYg for summonses to compel the attendance of witnesses on the Ad journed Inquest, which summonses Mr. BATTYEpTO mised to send by this morning's post; but none wriv ing, Mr. DENISON applied for them this day to Mr. MUNE, the Coroner here, who is to attend to-mor row at Oldham, in the place of Mr. FARREN, the proper Coroner of that district, should the latter not arrive from Lancaster; but was told by Mr. MILNE that there was no occasion to takeover any witneset, as he should merely re-swear the Jury, and then ad, journ the Inquest, probably for a fortnight. Thus it seems in contemplation to postpone this Inquest until Mr. HARMER shall have proceeded to London, and Mr. DENISON to Liverpool; and it is supposed that no resident Attorney would dare to undertake an in vestigation so disagreeable to the Magistrates. Mr. HUNT being expected to arrive here this day at twelve o'clock, the road between this and Bolton was literally crowded from an e sly hour in the morning. About one o'clock Mr.lluNT entered tills town in a carriage drawn by the people. He was ace companied by Messrs.JonNsoN, Moontiousa, and the other Gentlemen indicted with him for the conspi racy. The carriage was preceded by a multitude of people • marching six a-breast, precisely as I un derstand they did in their procession to Peter's-field. The procession passed through the principal streets in its way to Smedley Cottage, but on the arrival of the carriage at the Exchange the procession stopped, and Mr. HUNT, addressing the multitude, said—" It h:s been usual for us on former occasions to give the Gentlemen of this place three cheers, but I think it will be now more appropriate to give the Yeomen cf the town three groans for the they have come mitted."—The groans were accordingly given, and the procession then proceeded. The cheering of the multitude was universal, their enthusiasm of the most glowing character. These people are evidently not to be coerced; they must be conciliated. Private Letters, addressed to us, frlm Manchester, convey a dreadful picture of the condition of society in that town. Every man appears to sit like a ma lignant spy on his neighbour. It is expected thatthe Corps of Yeomanry will be broken up. Lists of the Corps, containing the exact names and residences of all the Members of it, with their rank, are printed, and hawked about, at one haYpenny each ! Trade has become a perfect compiracy, in favour 'of par. ticular persons, and to the prejudice of others.— Litchfield Mercury/. M . R. HUNT'S ENTRY INTO LONDON.—The following Programme has been published of the intended Pro cession on Monday next, in honour of Mr. HUNT'S return to London : Public Procession on Monday, Sept . 13, 1819, to intr o . duce that Heroic Champion of Free •presentation and the People's Rights, HTN F.Y HUNT, Esq. after his providential escape from the hlanchester Massacre, trintriphantly into London. " The Procession will commence at Islington, at twelve o'clock, and proteecl to Finsbury-square, Sun-street, brthopsgate-street, Cheapside, roend St. Paul s, Ludgate-hu., Fle.et-street, to the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, where a Dinner will be provided at Sit o'Clock, for Subscribers at 7s. a Ticket. " The People are requested by their Friends to convince their Enemies, by their Unity and Harmony, that they are the real Advocates of Peace, Goodwill, and Order; and are particularly desired to attend to the directions of the Committee, who will appear with White Wands and Scarlet Favours." Nlinisters, it is suspected, have relinquished tb, idea of prosecuting Sir FRANCIS Bunntar, for his alleged libellous Letter. On the opening of the Chester Assize Court on Monday morning,- the CHIEF-JUSTICE observed, that complaint had been made to him, that one of the Javelin-men had refused to admit two Ladies into the Court, unless they gave him some money. He wishes! it to be understood, by all employed in that Court, that every body had a RIGHT to enter it, and he rep gretted that any one could have had the audacity t• refuse admission, unless he was paid for it, as a rc. ward. It was a most disgraceful and scanclalosti proceeding. And he requested the Under Sheriff to take steps to discover the offender, Monier drat ZM might be immediately discharged.. ~i l A i. 1 ; . 1 k s.c, ' l4 perh: . to ti'"'' Srstei I ;l;)iicity , :iej. It '1; iti - • tha • o!..,:rei, ill s nes . (,;over L.cs eveniii rl (lentlen • 1 . 4 hyme • their d , Vt . 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