Star. — London, England, 1820-08-08 00:00:00

Fi r -. .N. ill This day having been fixed for a Meeting of the industrious classes of the Metropolis, upon Holborn hill, togo up to her MAJESTY at Brandenburgh House .:" with an Address, the necessary arrangements of pre %, paring the Address, Bce. were Completed on Satur day; but, owing to the lamented. death of her Royal 4,t Highness the Duchess of Yens, it was announced ,:1. that the Quills could not , for- the present, receive . a ny Addresses. This notification was placarded in Smithfield this morning; .hta it bad net the effect of • p r eventing the assemblage of a considerable crowd, at t welve o'clock this day. in front of St. Andrew ' s Church . ... i t was chiefly composed of a number of the labour il ing classes in their working dresses, and the people 0 seeped evidently attracted to the,spot by idle curio ,ri ,ity. Soon after twelve o'clock a considerable bustle . : i took place at the Fleet-Market side, and the name ..i of little WADDINGTON, a Radical notoriety, was an 4'; nonnced with all the. becoming demonstrations ot. -,.., rr. popular respect which belonged to his -importance in h'• society. He was preceded, as is usual in.the moye -1.-i' I meats of great men, with a poll or flag-bearer, ',..1• who held up a printed placard attached to aboard,. +-. q which notified to:the apparently disappointed crowd, that the procession :with the Address was deferred : for a few days, in•conseqpence of the death of .the ,i, Duchess of Yons, andthat doe notice would be given ~ of the next day of minting. • Some attempt was made by a Policnofficer•ao.disarsa..the poll-bearer of his placard, but this was stoutly resisted by WAD- "1 , DINGTON, who came, as he said, as the harbinger of !. peace. to disperse the crowd aow unnecessarily i as sembled. The business of the dispersion of the crowd .I was therefore very properly left with W ADDINGTON, ' who, with the dignity of a Canute, but with more ,A success, made " the stormy wave" of the multitude 'il recede at his approach. He afterwards passed up 7f/ Holborn, followed by a parcel of boys, who shouted .1 .. - .., Waddington for ever!" .. The ciuttaN has taken the house in St. James's square, next door to Lord CAsTLEREAatt's. • .. Saturday, Mr. Alderman Wood presented to the = QUEEN an Addreis from Hesham. To which her t MAJESTY returned the following gracious Answer : i . " I receive this Address from f ham and its vicinity as a valuable testimony of their affectionate the loyal inhabitants of regard;Hex though have • erienced the cha sten ing ,intact, in a diversity of afflictions, yet the same over-ru li ng Power has inspired me with courage in the most arduous trials, 1 k., and endowed me with strength under the pressure of the most ~;"Ci overwhelming calamities. The future historian of the House of L i 4was runswick shall never have reason to complain that I a :., degenerate scion of that noble stock; or that I was un*orthy of ii i having my name mentioned in the same page with that of the h most magnanimous among my ancestors. England has been my 4 haven of refuge in the dark days of adversity; and the ties of 4 affection and of gratitude that bind me to this country, will never be torn asunder till death shall put an end to every earthly tie." • '1 ' 4 ship said, that his cculdutt dining Aim trials; ilt• ' though he never lost 'sight of :theinterists of his clients, had been that of a good subject, and a 'true fiver of his country. His Lordship said,• thidappli cation had been made to him by their masted itt favour of the prisoners, and now that they were As- .. charged, he looked to their employers for security ° that these men will behave well in future: - His ' Lordship concluded by delivering a handsome eulo gium on the Magistrates of this district. A Jury being sworn, M' Milian and Datoson plead ed Guilty, and the other prisoners, with the exception of James Burt, weredischarged in consequence of the Lord Advocate offering no proof. - M‘Millan and Dawson, found guilty on their own confes•ion this day,Aadersott from 9t. Ninian's, Craw ford from Nihon, and the people taken at Bonny muir, found guilty at the former • meeting of 'the Court, making in all 22, were now placed at the Bar. The LORD' ADVOCATE moved the sentence of the COurt. None of the prisoners had anything to say why - sentence of death should not be -pronounced against them. The Low, PRESIDENT then proceeded to pronounce sentence. Andrew Hardie, John Baird, James Cid land, Thomas M.Culloch, enjamin Moir, Allan Mur chie, AlexanderLatimer, Alexander Johndone, Andrew White, David Thomson, James Wright, William Clack eon or Clarkson, Thomas Pike or Pink, Robert Gray, Aleiander Hart, John Barr, William Smith, Thomas M‘Farletne, John Anderson, William Crawford, joke . M'Millan, and Andrew Dawson, you present a most melancholy spectacle. 1 believe, that to see twenty-two individuals sentenced to death at erne' ,time is unexampled in the history of this coon- try I have never before seen it, 'and i: trust In UM that I Shall never witness it' again. The crime of which You have been convicted is not only the highest known to our law,• but it is also the most atrocious known to a reflecting mind. In its consequences, it leads to unalterable misery and crime. Rapine and plunder are its natural offspring. lam well aware that some of you may not view your con- - duct in this light; for; instead of thinking that you have done wrong, you may suppose yourselves to be martyrs. But recollect, whatever may be your opi nions of the moral guilt of the crime for which you are about to receive sentence, you have many sins of which to repent; you have the sins of human nature still to account for. Look into your consciences, and look over yoUr lives, and ask repentance; but that is not su ffi cient, for the justice of GoD, bfore whom you must soon appear, is as inflexible as his mercy. Apply then to the merits of the blood of our SAVIOUR for atonement of your manifold sins. With regard to you, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, I can hold out little or no hopes of mercy. You were selected for trial as the leaders of that band in which you were associated. You were convicted, after a full and fair trial, and it is utterly impossible to sup pose, considering the convulsions into which this country was thrown, that the. Clown must not feel a necessity of - making some terrible etarnples, and, as you were The leaders, I am afraid that example must be given by you. With regard to the rest of -you, 1 hope and trust that mercy may be extended to the most, if not to all, of you ; but it is nut to this Court that mercy belongs, and we cannot guarantee it. It depends upon the mercy of the Crown alone, a mercy which is never and ought never to be exer cised capriciously. The Ministers of the Crown, standing in the elevated situations which they hold, ate bound to take into view the interests of the whole community, and not to extend mercy to individual cases, merely for the sake of mercy, if the interests of the country should in fact demand your punishment. I hope and trust, however, that the contrary may be the case, but let me warn you all, in the meantime, to avail yourselves of the short time that is granted to you and to prepare for the worst. The worst may come upon some of you, and I hope and trust you will be prepared for it, and at all events you will not live in future the worse men that you have prepared to die. - The sentence of the law is That you and each of you be taken to the place from whence you came, and that you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there be hung by the neck until you are dead, and afterwards your head severed from your body, and your body divided into four quar ters, to be disposed of as his Majesty may .direct— and may GOD, in his infinite goodness, have mercy . on your souls. I have only to - intimate now, that a warrant will be signed by the Court for your exe cution on Friday the Bth day of September."—The prisoners heard the sentence without shewing • any emotion; and at one o'clock they were conducted back to the Castle. Lo RD Pa ESIDZN T.— ~ Gentlemen of the Petit Jury, you are now discharged from further attendance. I am sire the country must be satisfied with your at tention, and I do trust that the proceedings of this Commission will have that beneficial effect upon ,the country which was intended. Great and abominable crimes undoubtedly were intended—of that we have had complete proof, by the convictions which have taken place of so many. I hope and trust that what has passed in the administration of justice here, and what has fallen from the Counsel on all sides, will have a most useful and beneficial effect, by satisfying the people, that whatever shades of differences there ' may be—whatever little petty grievances this or that order of the community may hue—whatever tri fling alterations any persons may think necessary in the Constitution—the great and important prin ciples of this Constitution are the best, the wisest, and the most free, that the sun ever yet 5aw.....;- ,We may think some of us that there may be some grievances, others may think the Constitution may yet be amended, but upon the whole we all live hap. pily, freely, and comfortably, under it as it stands; and although those who think reformation in nosh : degree necessary, do not obtain it, still they have ~ ' satisfaction of knowing - they enjoy a greater de g i l t of liberty as it stands, than any other nation, and u much, I believe, as human nature in thii world is. capable of enjoying; for of one thing be assured,. that - unless we continue a virtuous people, we are not fit for liberty-; and therefore it is that I say, that the degree of liberty which we at present enjoy is, I- am afraid, as much as we are capable of enjoying -with benefit to ourselves, and any attempt to give us a much greater degree of it (1 speak not of little. Altera- Lions or reformations) would, in -fact, end in the de struction of that which we have." The Court then adjourned to the 254150 f Novem ber at tea o'clock; . •.• • • : D ' 6l "U . . . . . Friday sennight, a most numerous and highly re spectable Meeting of the Freeholders of the County, was held atothe GeorgE Inn, in aziatingdon, to cele of Lord : Parliament. Inn - eie *ate the Return of ‘.loteti .. RUSSELL, as their 'Representative in' - .rent. 'Lord SONDES in the .Chair. After the cloth was *moved, the Noble Chairman propoied— " The Ring, and silty he saver thrget the prihdples that placed his family on the Thum This was received with- isenlamatfou r audthetand whioh was in attendance imreediately played siso National Anthem of GOD save the The next toast proposed from the Chair was,—. " The Queen ;And may that justice be extended to her which the laws do not deny the meanest of her subjects." This toast was received with long continued *bouts "of applause. " Lord John Russell, and the Cause of Indvendence, and Freedom of Election." - Shouts of• bravo and applause rung the tables for Bimetal minutes. -Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose, amid repeated cheers, and spoke as follows Gentlemen, the honour of meeting so numerous and respectable an assembly thus met together for the purpose of celebrating the return of an humble individual to Parliament; but still, however, connected with the great cause of freedom, revives that gratitude in my heart which I first felt when we before had met together (Applause). It is difficult for me to put forward any claim why I. am one of the Representatives on whom your choice should fall. But as thingi are only great and. !pall by comparison, can assure you your repre sentation is now not as it formerly was—prostituted fbr the official patronage of administration (Applause) —on condition of supporting measures at one time directed against the property, at anotherfime against the liberty of the subject—(Cheers)—and at almost all times in defiance of•those duties which your Re presentatives owe to the Constitution: In looking .ver the events of the last short . Session, the first thing that occurs to my mind, is the attempt—the unsuccessful attempt which was made to limit the penditure of the Crown. Another was the expo sure of one of those infamous jobs which the Mi nisters are too often detected in promoting—an oc casion on which I had the happiness of seeing the name of your other Representative, Mr. Fellowes, in the minority (Applause, and cries of the only cue). This is, Gentlemen, a conduct which shews you that no soil is so dry and unpromising. but-that, With proper care and industry, it may display itself where the springs of patriotism may be found. It would be useless for me to enter into a detail of the other measures that occurred, as they were all swallowed up in that attention which the Parliament and the country were called on to bestow—l mean the accu sation preferred against her Majesty the Queen-;- (Hear, hear!)—lt is to me, Gentlemen, • a matter of deep regret, that the question was ever brought be fore the consideration of Parliament—(Applause).— And I attribute its being brought before them at all to-that betrayal of their duty on the part of Minis ter% which, according to their own avowal, princi pidly originated with those reports which reached their Royal Master's ear from Italy. Ido not mean to say the Queen may not .have incurred some blame in giving rise to those reports; but still the natural feeling of all properly-organized minds is, to give most praise to those females of whom we hear the least that is 'calculated to affect their fame. Who knows, however, that the Queen may not have been watched by those who sought to gain a pecuniary ad vantage from their reports, and that, perhaps, in pro portion to the magnitude of the charges preferred? These reports, it appears were made, and when they had reached England, ;he duty of Ministers would have been to have said - to their Royal Master—first, if it were right to have the question brought forward as between private persons, to see if accommodation could not have been effected without a compromise of the dignity of one or the power of the other, and to press upon him, the treatment praitised towardsl her Majesty when she was first married, and pursued with the same spirit ever since—to urge the full re crimination, which public investigation might pro duce ;. and, under all these circumstances, to weigh well, whether it were prudent to Agitate in public so ,momentous a question.—(Hear, hear).—Even if Mi nisters had failed in this, they should still have ad dreised their Royal Mister, and said, g if your Ma-, jesty will enforce the question on us, as a question of State, we must confess, under its peculiar circum stances, we cannot see its interest in such a point of view. The Queen has gone to reside in foreign parts, whatever her conduct might have been there, suspected as it is, it cannot affect .the succession to the Throne; if her Majesty was neglected, arid if no sufficient care was takell to guide her in that path of conjugal duty, which, under happier circumstances, might have been practised—some pity is still due to her condition—some allowance should be made for' insulted feelings and wounded pride—but to sum up an—the conduct of her Majesty, as it is repre sented to us to be, should not be brought before the Parliament at all.' Did • Ministers thus address their Sovereign ? Did they abate, or endeavour to abate those feelings of their Royal Master, which _ previous reports embittered, and perhaps perplexed? No, the Ministers did no such thing—Opplaitse.), If the question were ono.of State necessity, why was no immediate accusation preferred ? One would have thought no other course could be adopted—one would have thought, refusing to give such advice as I have glanced at, that no middle course could have been followed ; but a middle course was taken—a course Which, contrary to the proverb that the middle course is best, was anything but the ,best. The Ministers advised her Majesty s name to be struck out of the Liturgy, which was of itself to disgrace her without a trial. Then, if she set her foot in England, she was threatened with criminal process ; but she did set her foot in England, and they thought fit to propose to piirthase her return to the Continent with a pension of £50,000 a year !—(Hear, hear). —The ,Queen, it has been stated, would hive been satisfied to receive this pension and retire ; but it appears to . me such an offer would have been as disgraceful to the country to propose, as it - would be in her Majesty to have accepted—Jitter, hear).--Her Majesty, hOwevii; came to England ; immediate denunciation ensuetao and the Patrliament was called 'upon to instituitiut be:inginformed that his Majesty had 40 other alternative left him: It hafpened, howciret, that droll . _ • .. • - ti ~ s,ti - • o, :.~.- ,- ~• .-1 ' ' ~-.-. P~ ". • who had put such expressions in the mouth of his Majesty, did find another altertuttieetlind,en t ined into [a negociation Which I need not now detail ; and it will be here sufficient for me to say an Address was sent to her Majesty from the House of Commons, praying 'her to yield the point of the Liturgy, to enter into some amicable arrangement, and not put herself in the way of effecting an accommodation, which was so highly desirable for many public and private reasons—( Flair). This was refused, and looking at the manner in which it was proffered, there appear to me to be tri'e faaltlin the Address. First, an accommodation wits proposed, in which the weaker party should yield . to the stronger. Secondly, she who h a d just c l a i ms to ,the insertion of her name in the Liturgy, was re ,quired to eye up those just claims; and thereby. such a proposition should never have been made tol her Majesty by the House of Commons, whose pro. vince it was constitutionally to advise the King... (Applause)—who was, in an equally constitutional manner, bound to listen to, if not to follow, such advice. However, you all know her Majesty refused to act. upon it—but whether right or wrong, I shall not pretend to say. The consequence, however, was, a species of trick not very 'unfrequently resorted to -the inquiry was stopped, and the green bag thrown under the table—( Laughter and applause).—This as far as regarded the House of Commons; but the House of - Lords, I presume, took a different view of the question ; and as they are generally supposed to be a more complying body, were requested to take it up—and they did so—(Laughter).—Taking it then for granted, that the only mode of proceeding left was by a Bill of Pains and Penalties, I can con- Iceive no measure more out of the ordinary course of law, nor one more objectionable and against all our notions of justice, than a sweeping Bill of Pains and Penalties for the punishment of a particular offence. The two most celebrated men of ancient and modern times have condemned it—Cicero and Paley. Ido not, however, deny_that such proceedings have been used in the course of . our history—in the course of the lag century; but if we look to the latest prece dents, and see on what occasion they took place, we can see how differently these - parties have been treated, when contrasted with her Majesty the Queen —(Hear, hear). When the Bill was - brought down against Bishop Atterbury, it was stated that persons of figure and family wanted to bring in a foreign force to assist the views of the Pretender, and if the fact was so, a case of state necessity was made out. But how different was that state necessity from the present? Then, when so great a danger threatened— then, when a foreign force was invited to our shores —then, when the British soil was to be made the arena for discord and for fight—then, vhen impu nity to the guilty might be revolution to the State (Applause), every charge against Bishop Atterbury was laid in the Report, to which an appendix, con taining' more than 200 pages of evidence, was added : —while in the present case her Majesty has to meet charges for a period of six years ; during which she made many journies to various countries, where spies beset her, or those who appeared as friends betrayed. her ; and has not been furnished either with a list of die witnesses against her, or the places in which they charge her with improper conduct—(Hear). — But extraordinary RS this proceeding is, having .been before the House of Lords, an investigation having already commenced, and every probability existing -that it will come before the House of Comniors; 1 shall - feel it my duty to attend to it with . all. the im partiality of one who is called upon to:act as a Judge, and not let my feelings as a man prevent my doing the State that justice which every national question demands from one of the Representatives of the people—(Cheers).—l say that justice demands, because if the charges are proved, however difficult the task, to decide on the particular hardihip of the case—however unfortunate it may be that the Queen should be degraded in the age in which we live, and throughout Europe,—still I hope I shall.do myduty . in this case as well as I should do it in any other that similarly comes before me—(Loud cheering).— Much has been said.at various timei . of her Majesty being made the tool of faction; but no such ,ii,po sition, Gentlemen, can be charged on you or me. It AO been also said that the friends of the Queen bade bar appeal to the people in the streets—but such i a calumny carries with it its own refutation. ,Thi', friends of her Majesty have acted I different pari.' But, Gentlemen, if there are persons existing who in-: cited her Majesty to this measure, or in former mem-..‘ sures, and so incited her for the purpose of promoting their own interests, and after that found it best to -become the panders to their own passsions for place ' or pension—if the defenders of the Queen became the accusers of the King—(Cheers)—an4 then talked of honour and of conscience—if one talks of never being a public accuser, while he is:one of the advisers of a public prosecution—and another talks of bringing the impartiality of a Judge to the decision of a ques tion in which he is one of the proiecutors—if some men who took up her cause are now - ready to con demn her, and preclude her from the common ad vantages necessary to a fair trial—if, I say, such men' exist, so far from approving of, or assimilating my line of conduct to theirs, I shall always consider them as the basest and vilest of mankind I—(Cheers).-1 am afraid, Gentlemen,' I have already troubled you too long, and therefore I shall now conclude by thank ing you most sincerely for the manner in which you . have been pleased to honour me. I shall 'propose— " Prosperity to the County of Huntingdon." After this toast, which was drank-with three times three, the band played Heads of Oak. Mr. I. B. ROOPER prOposed— • " The Noble Chairman; the determined Patriot acid the liberal Landlord." Lord SONDES returned thanks. The Rev. Mr. SAUNDERS gave-- " The Houses of Russell and Cavendhh, armi . ssay the Asi. -stocracy of the Kingdom ever be foremost is impart a tie Rights of the People"—(Applcusse). • • . • r Many other loyal and constitutionattaieetli wet ~. . ... given. ...., % . . We observe the Gazette of Saturday night- eameine the Scheme of the New Lottery, which - co:vista-4 only 5,600 Tickets, yet containing SO Capital:, in 'chiding Two Prizes of £2,000,' all in Sterling•Mii.:, ney, and all'to be dit'wn in One Day; •flOth of ?hie Month... The Gazette siys'it has the hearty co:Valet - b.:: dations of the CnaNcetLoa of the EXCH Elwin: and LOrds'Ltivirstei and G: H. SOtiEktakT ; and we have no doubt it will be a fiticiurite_v<ith the Public, as every Tioot ii to be drasfli Out statiii ekcAkaocidi,a, id ttWiffi& 'Mane dtbriil r ' 7. sl • - - • . , > 4.• i . • • •1. S , . '• r, - .. - „- .. THE 'QUEEN. r - 4 ship said, that Ms condttit ieurm'efioeieeteiihe a. Drograi lie CELEB ; ,' - 's ~. 'ai LORD 'JOHN who had put such expressions in the mouth of his • ' though he never lost - 'sight of' rEeinterista 1 of his • "RfeeSSELL's REMAIN 14' ' ARLIAM&VD. Majesty, did find another altertuttieFeeedemeeeed into • • This day having been fixed for a Meeting of the clients, had been that of a good subject, and a 'tree - . . . a negotiation which I need not now detail ; at,d it will ' • ' lever of his countr Priday semi y. His Lordship said,ithed apple . ght, a most numerous and highly re- be here su ffi cient for me to sae an Address was sent to e . ndustrious classes of the Metropolis, upon Holborn- cation had been made to him by their Misters ifs spectacle Meeting of the Freeholders of the County, her Majesty from die House of Commons, praeinglier -' till, logo up to her MAJESTY at Brandenburgh Houie favour of the prisoners, a n d now t h a t they w ere die. Was held atethe . George I nn , i n leiatingdon, to cele- to yield the point of the Liturgy, to enter into some skit an Address, the necessary arrangements of pre- i c h arge d, h e l oo k e d to t h e i r el e p l oyers f or secur i ty I rate t h e R eturn o f L ord Janet Russets., as their amicable arrangement, and not put herself in the way • . ,wring the Address, &C. were completed on Satur- ! that these men will behave well in future: - His Representative ' in Parliament . ' Lord SONDES tn the of effecting an accommodation, which was so highly lay; but, owing to the lamented. death of her Royal Lordship concluded by delivering a handsome eulo- Chair. After the cloth was removed, the Noble desirable for many public and privatereasons—(Hrar). Ugliness the Duchess of Yoilut, it was announced glumglumon the Magistrates of this district. Chairmen propoied— Ai ' • This was refused. and looking at the manner in A Jury being sworn, MiMillan and Datums plead- " The King, and- alai he aver Bullet the prificiples that which it was proffered, there appear to me to be tseci hat the Quills could not, 'for the present, receive kid Guilty, and the other prisoners, with the exception elatele.b" family en the Thla 4 " , &URI ill the Address. First, an accommodation Wm Lily Addresses. This notification was placarded in of James Burt, weretliseharged in consequence of the 'L as Was received witheetteleematelreeedthei 3 and proposed, in which the weaker party should yield to which was in attendance inneediately played the the stronger. Secondly, she who had just claims to • eehlifiehl this morning; but it bad net the effect of Lord Advocate offering no proof. - Itl‘Milkin and Dawson, found guilty on their own . National Anthem of GOD save the kin.. the insertion of her name in the Liturgy, was re- neventingehe assemblage of a considereble crowd, at The next toast proposed from the Chair was, quired to give up those just claims ; and thereby confeseon this dayeeaderson from 9t. Ninian's, Craw- „ The ,welve o'clock this day. in front of St. Andie W's Cluirch Queen ;and may that justice be extended to her which ford from Balfron, and the people ta k en at Bonny- the laws do not deny the meanest of her jects." such a proposition should never have been made to r t was chiefly composed of a number of the labour- f ormer ' . muir, found. guilty et the meeting of *the This (best was received with lon g • e d s h outs her Majesty by the House of Commons, whose pro- ngcoetinn classes in their working dresses, and the people Court, making in all 22, were now placed at the Bar. of applause. vine it was constitutionally to advise the Ki ng -- , . ecmed evidently attracted to- theepot by idle curio- The LORD . ADVOCATE moved the sentence of the " Lord John Russell, and the Cause of Independence, and (Applause)—who was, in an equally constitutional Court. None of the prisoners had anythinto sa Freedom of Election." manner, bound to listen to, if not to follow, such ity. Soon after twelve o'clock a considerable bustle_ why . sentence of death should not be -pro no unce d Shouts of . bravo and applause rung the tables for advice. However, you all know her Majesty refused • ook place ai the Fleet-Market sitie, and the name against them, smolt minutes. . to act upon it—but whether right or wrong, I shall If little WADDINGTON, a Radical notoriety, was an- The LURD PRESIDENT then proceeded to pronounce •Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose, amid repeated cheers, not pretend to say. The consequence, however, was, i oonced with all the becoming demonstrations of. sentence Andrew Hardie, _ and spoke as follows :---e Gentlemen, the honour of a s p e ci es o f tr i c k not ver y unfrequently resorted to popular respect which belonged to his. importance in l a nd , Thomas M.Culloch, d John Baird, James Clef- Moir, Allan Mur- meeting so numerous and re s pe c t a ble an assembly ._ the i nqu ie t , was stoppe d, an d t h e green b ag t h rown chie,.AlexanderLatimer, Alexander Johnd —thus met together for the purpose of one, Andrew celebrat in g under the table—( Laughter and applause ).—This as ociety. He preceded, as is usual in the moye- Whde, David Thomson, James Wright, William Clack- the return of an humble individual to Parliament ; far as regaided the House of Commons; but the ' nests of great men, with a poll or flag-bearer, son or Clarkson, Thomas Pike or-Pink, Robert (:ray, but still, however, connected with the great cause of House of Lords, I presume, took a different view of • ' freedom, revives hat gratitude elm) , heart which I the question ; and as rho held up a printed placard attached to aboard ,. Aleiander Hart, John Barr, William Smith, Thomas th ey are generally supposed to ' which notified to:the apparently disappointed crowd, M.Farlane, John Anderson, William Crawford, John first felt when we before had met together (Applause). - be a more complying body, were requested to take hat the procession :with the Address was deferred AP Millen, and Andrew Dawson, you present a lt is difficult for me to put forward any claim why it up—and they did so—(Laughter).—Taking it . most melancholy spectacle. I believe, that to see I - am one of the Representatives on whom your then for granted, that the only mode of proceedi ng • or a few days, ox•consecpsence of the death of-t he twenty-two individuals sentenced to death at one choice should fall. But as thingi are only great and, left was by a Bill of Pains and Penalties, I can con- )uchess of Yons, and ,that doe notice would be given ,time is unexampled in the history of this- *coin- small by comparison, I can assure you your repre- ceive no measure more out of the ordinary course of - pf the next day of minting. • Some attempt was tryi I have never before seen it, 'and i: trust in sentetion is now not as it formerly was—prostituted law, nor one more objectionable and against all our nade by a Police-officereto.disaret she poll-bearer Goo that I 'shall never witness it' again. The for the official patronage of administration (Applause) notions of justice, titan a sweeping Bill of Pains and • if his placard, but this sfss stoutly resisted by WAD- crime of which You have been convicted is not only —on condition of supporting measures at one time Penalties for the punishment of a particular offence. the highest known to our law,' but it is also the directed against the property, at another : time against The tw o most ce l e b rate d men o f anc i ent an d mo d ern rixoToe, who came, as he said, as the harbinger of most atrocious known toe reflecting mind. In its the liberty of the subject—(Cheers)—and at almost times have condemned it—Cicero and Paley. Ido peace. to disperse the crowd now unnecessarily as- consequences, it leads to unalterable misery and crime. all times in defiance of-those duties which your Re- not, however, deny_that such proceedings have been =bled. The business of the dispersion of the crowd Rapine and plunder are its natural offspring. lam Peesentatives owe to the Constitution; In looking used in the course of .our history—in the course of vas therefore very properly left with WADDINGTON, well aware that some of you may not view your con- - over the events ofethe last short . Session, the first the last century; but if we look to the latest prece- , vhce with the di nit of a Canute, but with more duct in th is light ; for; instead of thinking that you thing that occurs to my mind, is the attempt—the dents, an d see on w h at occas i on t h e y too k p l ace , we : g have done wrong, you may suppose yourselves to be unsuccessful attempt which was made to limit the can see how differently these - parties have been uccess, made " the stormy wave" of the multitude martyrs. But recollect, whatever may be your opt- expenditure of the Crown. Another was the expo- treated, when contrasted with her Majesty the Queen •.. ecede at his approach. He afterwards passed up nions of the moral guilt of the crime for which you sure -or one of those infamous. jobs which the Mis —(Hear, hear). When the Bill was - brought down lolborn, followed by a parcel of boys, who shouted are about to receive sentence, you have many sins of testers are too often detected in promoting—an oc- aga i nst Bi s h op A tter b ur y , i t was state d t h at persons s I Waddington for ever!" which to re p ent ; y ou have the sins of human nature casion on which I had the happiness of seeing the of figure and family wanted to bring in a foreign , still to account for. Look into your consciences, name of your other Representative, Mr. Fellowes, f orce t o ass i st t h e v i ews o f t h e P reten d e r, an d if t h e The Ouster has taken the house in St. James s- and look over yoer lives, and ask repentance; but in the minority (Applause, and cries V' the only oriel. fact was so, a case of state necessity was made out. quare, next door to Lord CASTLEREAGH's. ' that is not su ffi cient, for the justice of GOD, bfore This is, Gentlemen, a conduct which shews you that But how different was that state necessity from the Saturday, Mr. Alderman Wood presented to the whom you must soon appear, is as inflexible as his no soil is so dry and unpromising. but- that, With present? -Then, when so great a danger threatened— , ItlEas an Addreis from Hexham. To which her mercy. Apply then to the merits of the blood of proper care and industry, it may display itself where then, when a foreign force was invited to our shores . MAJESTY returned the following gracious Answer : our SAVIOUR for atonement of your manifold sins. - the springs of patriotism may be found. It sinned —then, when the British soil was to be made the . e• , . " I receive this Address from the loyal inhabitants of Hex- am and its vicinity as a valuable testimony of their affectionate With regard to you, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, be useless for me to enter into a detail of the other arena for discord and for fight—thenewhen impu- egard ; though I have experienced the chastening hand of Pao- I can hold out little or no hopes of mercy. You were measures that occurred, as they were all swallowed pity to the guilty might be revolution to the State e • - musts, in a diversity of afflictions, yet the same over-ruling selected for trial as the leaders of that band in which up in that attention which the Parliament and the (Applause), every charge against Bishop Atterbury 'ower has inspired me with courage in the most arduous trials, you were associated. You were convicted, after a country were .called on to bestow—l mean the ecru - was laid in the - red endowed me with strength undcr the pressure of the most full and fair trial, and it is utterly impossible to sup- sation preferred against her Majesty the Queen— raining" more than 200 pages of evidence, was added : vcrwhelming calamities. The future historian of the House of ;runswick shall never have reason to complain that I was a pose, considering the convulsions into which this (Hear, hear!)—lt is to me, Gentlemen, • a matter of —while in the present case her Majesty has to meet • - cgenerate scion of that noble stock; or that I was un*orthy of country was thrown, that the. Clown must not feel deep regret, xhat the question was ever brought be- charges for a period of six years; during which she . . lying my name mentioned in the same page with that of the a necessity of - making some terrible etarnples, and, fore the consideration of Parliament—(Applause).— made many journies to various countries, where spies lost magnanimous among my ancestors . England has been my as you were The leaders, lam afraid that example And I attribute its being brought before them at all beset her, or those who appeared as friends betrayed- ; aven of refuge in the dark days of adversity ; and the ties of Efection and of gratitude that bind me to this country, will never must be given by you. With regard to the rest of to-that betrayal of their duty on the part of Minis- her ; and has not been furnished either with a list of 'e• e torn asunder till death shall put an end to every earthly tie." you, 1 hope and trust that mercy may be extended ten, which,. according to their own avowal, princi- die witnesses against her,, or the places in which ' to the most, if not to all, of you ; but it is not to this ially originated with those reports whicb reached they charge her with improper conduct—(Hear).— ' HIGH TREASON. Court that mercy belongs, and we cannot guarantee their Royal Master's ear from Italy. Ido not mean But extraordinary RS this proceeding is, having.been ee ......--- it. It depends upon the mercy of the Crown alone, to say the Queen may not have incurred some blame before the House of Lords, an investigation having . e SPECIAL COMMISSION-STIRLING, AUGUST 4. a mercy which is never and ought never to be exer- in giving rise to those reports; but still the natural already commenced, and every probability existing e At half-past eleven o'clock, the LORD PRESIDENT, cited capriciously. The Ministers of the Crown, feelin g of all properly-organized minds is, to give that it will come 'before the House of Commons; 1 standing in the elevated situations which hold, they most praise to those females of whom we hear the shall - feel it my duty to attend to it with . all the irnL -I: he LORD CHIEF BARON, and Lord PITUILLT, took ate bound to take into view the interests of the whole. least that is celculated to affect their fame. Who partiality of one who is called upon to:act as a • • heir places on the Bench. _ community, and not to extend mercy to individual knows, however, that the Queen may not have been Judge, and not let my feelings as a man prevent my 'r c The following prisoners were then put to the bar; cases, merely for the sake of mercy, 'if the interests of watched by those who sought tagain a pecuniary ad- doing the State that justice which every national -f • John 31 , 11illan, Nailor in Camelon. - the country should in fact demand your punishment. vantage from their reports, and that, perhaps, in pro- question demands from one of the Representatives of James Aiken, Grocer in Falkirk. I hope and trust, however, that the contrary ma y b e portion to the magnitude of the charges preferred? the people—(Cheers).—l say that justice demands, ' James Burt, Nailer in Camelon. the case, but let me warn you all, in the meantime, to These reports, it appears, were made, and wheri they because if the charges are proved, however difficult Andrew Burt, junior, Nailor there. avail yourselves of the short time that is granted to had reached England, the duty of Ministers would the task, to decide on the particular hardihip of the James Aitken, Wright there. you and to prepare for the worst. The worst may come have been to have said - to their Royal Master—first, case—however unfortunate it may be that the Queen e . Daniel Turner, Nailer there. upon some of you, and I hope and trust you will be if it were right to have the question brought forward should be degraded in the age in which we live, and • Andrew Dawson, Nailor there. prepared for it, and at all events you will not live in as between private persons, to see if accommodation t h roug h out E uro p e ,— st ill I h o p e I shall•do my!dutyl John Johnstone, Shoemaker in Falkirk. fiiture the worse men that you have prepared to die. could not have been effected without a compromise in this case as well as I shoUld do it in any other Mr. J. P. GRANT, before a Jury was sworn, inti- 'The sentence of the law is That you and each of of the dignity of one or the power of the other, and that similarly comes before me—(Loud cheering).— you be taken to the place from whence you came, to press upon him, the treatment practised towards Much has been said.at various times'of her Majesty e sated that M‘Millan and Dawson wished to with- and that you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of her Majesty when she was first married, and pursued being made the tool of faction; but no such eispo- .. haw their plea of Nat Guilty; and by that means to execution, .brow themselves' on the teeter of their country. are dead, and a ft erwards your head severed from crimination, which public investigation might pro- •h as been also said that the friends of the Queen bade -e , Mr. GRANT then' hddressed the Coulee—ln these your body, and your body divided into four quer- duce ;.and, under all these circumstances, to weigh her appeal to the people in the streets—but such v prosecutions, Ms 'Right Bore and Learned Friend, tern, to be disposed of as his Majesty may .direct— well, whether it were prudent to Agitate in public so a calumny carries with it its own refutation. The -' '' the Lord Advocate, had conducted himself as his and may GOD, in his infinite goodness, have mercy momentous a question.—(Hear, hear).—Even if Mi- friends of her Majesty have acted I different part. _ duty to his King aa d to MI country required ; and on your souls. I have only to - intimate now, that a nisters had failed in this, they should- still have ad- But, Gentlemen, if there are persons existing who in-. e there was nothing in point of candour towards the warrant will be signed by the Court 'for your exe. dressed their Royal Mister, and said, gif your Ma- cited her Majesty to this measure, or in former men= ' unfortunate prisoners that had been wanting on the cution on Friday the Bth day of September."—The jesty will enforce the question on us, as a question sures, and so incited her for the purpose of promoting . part of his Right Hon. - aria • Learned Friend, who prisoners heard the sentence without shewing • any of State, we must confess, under its peculiar circum- their mein interests, and after that found it best to had united every consideration that had reference emotion; and at one o'clock they were conducted stances, we cannot see its interest in such a point of become the panders to their own passsions for place to the due administration of public justice. back to the Castle. view. The Queen has gone to reside in foreign or pension—if the defenders tithe Queen became the "In pleading guilty, the prisoners throw them- LORD PRESIDENT.—" Gentlemen of the Petit Jury, parts, whatever her conduct might have been there, accusers of the King—(Cheers)—ancl then talked of selves not only on the generosity, but the pru. you are now discharged from further attendance. I suspected as it is, it cannot affect.the succession to honour and of conscience—if one talks of never being deuce of the public prosecutor. lam satisfied the am sere the country must be satisfied with your at- the Throne; if her Majesty was neglected, aid if no a public accuser, while he is. one of the advisers of a Lord Advocate will think enough has been done for tention, and Ido trust that the proceedings of this sufficient care was taken to guide her in that path of public prosecution—and another talks of bringing i public justice here; and When these men, by their Commission will have that beneficial effect upon the conjugal duty, which, under happier circumstance', the impartiality of a Judge to the decision of a gees e plea, shall confess the guilt of which they are ace country which was intended. Great and abominable might have been practised—some pity is still due to tion in which he is one of the proiecutors--if some - cused, he will take it into his own favourable and crimes undoubtedly were intended—of that we have her condition—some allowance should be made for' men who took up her cause are now - ready to con- - candid consideration, he will represent it favourably had complete proof, by the convictions which have insulted feelings and 'wounded pride—but to sum denim her, and preclude her from the common ad- where mercy will be disposed to prevail, and he will taken place of so many. I hope and trust that what up all—the conduct of her Majesty, as it is repre- vantages necessary to a fair trial—if, I say, such men . trust to the returning good sense of the people that has passed in the administration of justice here, and salted to us to be, should not be brought before exist, so far from approving of, or assimilating my ' 1 they will take care how they themselves,- or any per- what has fallen from the Counsel on all sides, will the Parliament at all.' Did • Ministers thus address line of conduct to theirs, I shall always consider them son over whom they have an influence, will yield up have a most useful and beneficial effect, by satisfying their Sovereign ? Did they abate, or endeavour to as the basest and vilest of mankind I—(Cheers).—l am • themselves, and everything dear to them, to the ad- the people, that whatever shades of differences there abate those feelings of their Royal Master, which afraid, Gentlemen,' I have already troubled you too , vice and influence of such despicable persons as I may be—whatever little petty grievances this or that Previous reports embittered, and perhaps perplexed? long, and therefore I shall now conclude by thank- . have alluded to. Those base wretches who have order of the community may hate—whatever tri- No, the Ministers did no such thing—(Applause.)— ing you most sincerely for the - manner in which you been at the bottom of the business are as cowardly as fling -Alterations any persons may think necessary If the question were one.of State necessity, why was have been pleased to honour me. I shall•propose...- they are wicked ; for, after forming the conspiracy, in the Constitution—the great and important prin- no immediate accusation preferred ? One would have " Prosperity to the County of Huntingdon." . they have fled from justice." The address of the ciples of this Constitution are the best, the wisest, thought no other course could be adopted—one would After this toast, which was drank with three times - Honoutable arse Learned Gentleman did much ho. and the most free, that the sun ever yet saw...-e. have thought, refusing to give such advice as I have three, the band played Hearts of Oak. nour both to his head and his heart. We may think sonic of us that there may be some glanced at, that no - middle course could have been Mr. I. B. ROOFER preposed— • The LORD ADVOCATE followed Mr. Grant. He grievances, others may think the Constitution may followed ; but a middle course was taken—a course .. b " erai T h e n dl Noble ord . " Chain " a r 4 the determined Patsies ape the . 1 said, that it was doing no more than justice to say yet be amended, but upon the whole we all livehap- Which, contrary to the proverb that the middle course " Lord SONDES returned thanks. .. . - . I that the public prosecutor had not any other motive pily, freely, and comfortably, under it as it stands, is best, , was anything but the ,best. The -Ministers The Rev. Mr. SAUNDERS gate--• . '1- than a sense of public duty when he instituted the and although those who think reformation in some advised her Majesty s name to be struck out of the " The Houses of Russell and Cavendish, aitkesity . * do Ari. present trials. e I agree with the prisoners' Counsel degree necessary, do not obtain it, still they have ret Liturgy, which was of itself to disgrace her without attorney of the Kingdom ever be foremost in iopp st of he *. that enough has been done, and that justice will be satisfaction of knowing' they enjoy a greater degree a trial. Then, if she set her foot in England, she was Rohn of the People"—(Applause). • i. . • . : • • satisfied with the examples already made; and lam of liberty as it stands, than any other nation, and as threatened with criminal OFOCESS; but she did set her Many other loyal and constitutionallefiii* yip* . willing, therefore, to take the great responsibility of much, I believe, as human nature in this -world is foot in England, and they thought fit to propose to given. . •e, e . allowing the other prisoners the benefit of acquittal capable of enjoying; for of one thing be assured, ptirthase her return to die Continent with a pension We observe the Gazette of Saturday nlghteontains by the Jury, as I will not lead any . evidence against that - unless we continue a virtuous people, tee are not of £50,00 0 a year !—(Hear, hear)..- - The ,Queen, it the Scheme of the New Lottery, which - consists of them. No less than 22 persons have already been fit for liberty; and therefore it is that I say, that the has been stated, would hive been satisfied to receive only 5,600 Tickets, yet containing SO Capitals, in- i convicted in this County, and against all these indis dope .of liberty which we at present enjoy is, I- am Po o this pension and retire; but appears to, me such an chiding Two Prizes cif -..,000,' all in SterlineeMie it vieuAls the sentence of death must be pronounced': , eiraid, as much as we are capable of enjoying -with offer•w.ould have been as disgraceful to the country ney, and all'to be deawnin One Mee •Selth of Thi s . :If I were to do otherwise than act leniently, it might, benefit to ourselves, and any attempt to give us a to propose, as it - would be in her Majesty to have Month... The ,Gazette says it has the hearty core - teen- I give rise to a supposition' that their trials had been' much greater degree of it (1 speak not ofeitde Altera., accepted—[Hear, hear).--Her Majesty, hinvevio, dittions of the CHANCELLOR of the Eicnitituta, and I conducted in a spirit which I disclaim on my own tions or reforroations) would, in-fact, mid in the de- came to England ; immediate . denunciation ensued, Lords • Letiritin and MH. , Scitteaser ; and we have part and that of the Government:" The Lord Ad- struction of that which we have.a • . and the Parliament was called - upon to instituiten na doubt it will be tkvourizeAith the Public,- as , * • be do Out suriltie• -• • - eicate then paid a most handsome tom B ence[ to The Court then adjourned to the 25depf Novem- tke abilities and conduct of Mr. Grant. H it Lord. her at tea o'clock.' - . . inquiry, beinginformedthat his Majesty had no other vied 'ti et is to _„ 4 , iww !,,Ekk 01904 . alternative left him: It Intiipened, however, tint those it i Olviffix* 'nano tee& l' e' - sr . .• - .. ... • ,V" „.. : -',.,.,:, ~. . . . . ~... - r%''' ' " . • , * . . , . ' n ' ' ' • . ._... _ - • • HIGH TREASON. SPECIAL COMMISSION—STIRLING, AUGUST 4. At half-past eleven o'clock, the LORD PRESIDENT, the LORD CHIEF BARON, and Lord PITMILLY, took their places on the Bench. - The following prisoners were then put to the bar: John 31 , 11111 an, Nailer in Camelon. - James Aiken, Grocer in Falkirk. James Burt, Nailer in Cameton. Andrew Burt, junior, Nailor there. James Aitken, Wright there. Daniel Turner, Nailor there. Andrew Dawson, Nallor there. John Johnstone, Shoemaker in Falkirk. Mr. J. P. GRANT ) before a Jury was sworn, inti mated that M , Millan and Dawson wished to with draw their plea of Nat Guilty; and by that means to throw themselves' on the thetsTi of their country. Mr. GRANT then' hdd , ressed the ourt.--In these prosecutions, his Right Hod. and Learned Fiiend, the Lord Advocate, had conducted himself as his duty to his King and to hie country required ; and there was nothing in point of candour towards the unfortunate prisoners that had been wanting on the part of his Right Hob: arid Learned Friend, who had united every consideration that had reference to the due administration of public justice. . "In pleading guilty, the prisoners throw them- 1 selves not only on the generosity, but the pru- 1 derive of the public prosecutor. lam satisfied the Lord Advocate will think enough has been done for public justice here; and when these men, by their plea, shall confess the guilt of which they are ac cused, he will take it into his own favourable and candid consideration, he will represent it favourably where mercy will be disposed to prevail, and he will trust to the returning good sense of the people that they will take care how they themselves, or any per son over whom they have an influence, will yield up , themselves, and everything dear to them, to the ad vice and influence of such despicable persons as I have alluded to. Those base wretches who have been at the bottom of the business are as cowardly as they are wicked ; for, after forming the conspiracy, '• they have fled from justice." The address of the Honoutable an' Learned Gentleman did much ho. '`,, nour both to his head and his heart. The LORD ADVOCATE followed Mr. Grant. He said, that it was doing no more than justice to say that the public prosecutor had not any other motive r. ' than a sense of public duty when he instituted the . present trials. " I agree with the prisoners' Counsel that enough has been done, and that justice will be satisfied with the examples already made; and I ;m. willing, therefore, to take the great responsibility of ailowing the other prisoners the benefit of acquittal by the Jury, as I will not lead any evidence against them. No less than 22 persons have already been convicted in this County, and against all these indi T i victuals the sentence of death must be pronounced c ': , It I were to do otherwise than act leniently, it might ...- glee rise to a supposition that their trials had been A conducted in a spirit which I disclaim on my own 1 .' 4l part and that of the Government:" The Lord Ad , I.,,cate then paid a most handsome complirpent to , the abilities and conduct of Mr. Grant. His Lord. • InniiiiMMINIIIIMMINI I ' . 1 'r i ... 1 .~ r~ • ~.